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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Theyre incentivized to serve any and all ads, if they are scammy illegal or otherwise google doesnt care because theyre insulated from any potential consequences. I marvel every time I see people on HN talking about being served ads on yout
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Thats a good point the knives he was familiar with were probably case hardened! So you would get to mild steel just like you said if you kept removing steel. Nowadays though, knives are generally homogenous or some other composition like sa
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I was being silly and pedantic but thats an interesting distinction! I imagine Laozi probably knew how to have sharp knives so I defer to his wisdom as far as 4th century chinese knives go anyways. Perhaps they used a different technique th
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ok yeah but the thing about the knife is just not true, a knifes not sharp until you de-burr it and if you just continue to grind the edge youre going to just be building a bigger burr and removing metal, eventually the knife will be ground
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Its not as hard to recognize good craftsmanship in furniture as in other types of products. https://www.thosmoser.com/
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Just gotta get some Gomer Bolstrood. In all honesty I have no desire for furniture not made by someone I know or alternately made by some New England craftsman who gets paid more than I do and either way I want furniture that will last at l
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
It would be great if this thing ever left the ground with people in it but frankly I think we desperately need a third option. Crew Dragon is great and Starliner might be someday as well but I dont think thats enough redundancy for national
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Interesting findings but is a sample size of 30 particularly useful? I dont know much about statistics or how studies like this are usually done. Does someone more educated want to chime in on the results particularly in context to the smal
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
woof, The conspiracy theories abound in this thread.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
This is what I was trying to say above but much more detailed an eloquent. Theres a lot dislikes in this thread but not many folks addressing the points. The thing about high density places with a ton of infrastructure is that wired will al
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah land based networking just makes less and less sense when you look at it from first principles, wireless is fast enough for most connections it has enough bandwidth if distributed and being in orbit makes widely distributed networks tr
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I think the big problem with historical anarchist discourse is that it ignores bad actors, edge cases and economics and where it does deal with those things its solutions usually look a lot more like totalitarianism or mob rule than some an
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Actually yeah I do think a global democratically elected constitutional government might be fine save for the issues of scaling that come with that much size. Probably something that various technological innovations could help with Access
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
No because I dont use nitrogen salt fertilizer and dont have a lawn.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
The nice thing about centralized democratic governments is that they can be changed based on the desires of the constituents. This doesnt always work perfectly but it does work more and more if broader sections of the populace spend more ti
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah this was definitely an important shift. Before these changes the US wasnt really a country in the same way it is now. Antisocial elements in many states was dragging the rest of the country down and due to increasing federal power we w
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
"pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain" is the natural state of living things. It is an invaluable drive that has brought about the vast wealth of this society we live in. It has driven people to explore the secrets of the uni
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ive long held that buddhism and related philosophies are a total cop-out. Instead of dealing realistically with the realities of desire and personhood it seeks a way out. Instead of coming to an understanding that happiness is a state to be
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
This is pretty terrifying to me. As someone who messed around a fair bit with altered states in my younger years I can remember feeling very similar to whats described here and being stuck like that is terrifying.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
There is in fact a line between using discretion and critical thinking and falling prey to paranoid superstition. This is important because there are people who prey specifically on people who are vulnurable to conspiratorial thinking and t
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Privacy concerns mean Ill not be using VS Code any time soon. JetBrains gets my business for that reason alone
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ok I can see that teachers cant tell if a student has written an essay or used ChatGPT but how is that materially different from students paying for other people to write their essays? Its cheaper and easier? I knew students who payed for e
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Wait whos lives are made worse by ChatGPT? I have not yet seen a claim like this
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Somehow the least interesting part of GPT4o is the most talked about. Its certainly exciting, machine vision and natural language interfaces are getting a huge push forward. I can imagine some great products built on the next generation of
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I have a pretty low opinion of Bukele in general. I think the tactics used for the seemingly miraculous suppression of gangs actually weaken the rule of law in an abstract way. I think law and order rest on a contract with the governed. Rob
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah its pretty gross that the left is against ranked choice and it also somewhat validates the whole Trumpist "uniparty" conspiracy theory. I do think its coming in the future as most younger people I know are totally supportive
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes this is true mostly because we as a country have become more and more disengaged from policy discussions and active participation in politics in general. This combined with older people being much more likely to vote and to vote conserv
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Well theres a couple ways to come at this first theres the idea that as you put it N fewer incidents of cops murdering people is proportionate to some decrease in crime deterrence. Then theres my preferred perspective which is that the stre
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Personally it means taking their long guns and any type of armored vehicles away. I dont want to see cops with SBRs, APCs, night vision equipment, kitted out rifles or any of the other trappings of military special forces or death squads. I
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I have been in the boonies, lived in the "hood" and seen plenty of illegal activity in younger days. Throughout all that crime and poverty the most dangerous people I encountered were the boys in blue. Holding cops accountable for

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