Yawrehto

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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Oh it very much has been. Things like forced assimilation were very much employed against Sami, as well as (in the UK) Celtic peoples, (Ireland) the Irish, France (Bretons) and others, seemingly mostly in Eastern Europe. And, while not indi
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
The discovery that the basic things underlying it, like the structure of the blockchain, have been compromised, perhaps? So far it's been resilient. Of course, it depends what you mean by fail.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
It sounds like it could be super helpful, actually. A big part of the problem for me is ADHD--I get sucked into something and the next thing I know it's been three hours and I have read Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions an
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Apart from you being a transphobe, there's also Musk's antisemitism, racism, censorship, and many other things, so this doesn't invalidate my main point at all.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Quite simply, hallucinations, costs, and physical limits. Hallucinations, so far intractable, will of course impede AGI. On the physical side, cooling the chips gets difficult and could slow things down. And costwise, if OpenAI or any of th
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
If you have a friend you can use them. If you find a search engine that still has a cache, they often allow search engine crawlers to view the whole thing for indexing purposes. Similarly other web archives.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I wouldn't use Grok. Google is a big company that has to be reasonably objective, but Elon seems to be the sort of guy who would pettily include jabs at people he doesn't like into the data. Also he's a horrible human for man
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
ProtonMail? I hear Zoho Mail is ridiculously good for being free (it's aimed at businesses), but it requires a phone number, which I don't have.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
How cheap storage is getting. Given the Internet Archive's legal troubles, the ability of anyone to have a (admittedly comparatively small) web archive might be important. (I think all the books have been mirrored to piracy websites
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
In short, nothing good. The AI bubble will crash. Prices of…everything will rise in the US. Trump will do bad things and make America an embarrassment to humanity again. The year will be in the top ten hottest years ever recorded. The globa
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Have a merry Christmas, wonderful Hannukah, and, if you're atheist, a wonderful…birthday of Isaac Newton?
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Ask HN: Dreidel Expected Value?
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Write things worth reading, in theory. In reality, have friends at Google.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Why flashcards and memorizing vocabulary? I'd think more customization settings would be best, so you could learn in a way that works well for you, gaining the skills you need. Personally, I often find myself wishing I could read untra
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Apparently 12,000 dollars in 1959 even is over $100,000 today: https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=12000&fr...
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
If you're getting a ton of irrelevant results, it's helpful to find a word common to them and exclude it from results; I don't have an easy way of measuring how many relevant results are excluded but if you choose it well it&
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. If you're into Jewish history/legend, Baba Yaga, intergenerational trauma, or just good books , I would find it difficult to recommend it more. It's well-told and well-paced (note: do n
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
uBlock Origin, hands down. Non-shitty, non-corporate adblocker that both works out of the box and offers great customization options? Amazing! UBlock Origin Lite is the best Manifest V3 compatible adblocker, and it's okay (when som
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I recently read Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf, which makes many similar arguments, and found myself agreeing with this. I've been finding it harder and harder to lose myself in a book, to finish books, to read as I used to read.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I was going to say that I use Windows 11 and it hasn't been too bad about pushing Edge, but I'm mentally going through it and it does push Edge pretty hard, I just have workarounds for it that are now integrated into what I do.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Honestly, at this point, it feels like the whole US insurance system is run by and for the insurance companies. People, of course, never got much out of it - and it would be cheaper for the government to adopt Sweden's system. I did so
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Chrome; as I've said, I don't use it because I enjoy it, but because it's the default, I procrastinate, and they make a very good walled garden.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I always have trouble with claims that our time is unique,because I can quickly construct arguments for just about any other time. So yes, our era is unique, but is it uniquely unique?
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I wonder what the cleansing element of it in Finland was, given that they voted to join the Axis.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
And they conquered Crimea in 2014--partially, if I remember right, to get a port that doesn't freeze over in the winter, something they have wanted for literally hundreds of years.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
One climate related news outlet, Grist, has a short story competition (Imagine 2200? I'm not sure I'm getting the name right) that's explicitly limited to utopian fiction.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
What I'm seeing is that instead of making a product for the sake of making a product, like it feels like a ton of startups are doing, you tried to make something people want. By the way, congratulations!
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I believe it was on YouTube that it was shown watching some videos on traditionally masculine activites (cars, football…) would quite quickly lead you into a misogynistic rabbit hole.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Chrome. Yes, I know all about how it invades my privacy, but Google makes a very good walled garden (especially when you procrastinate).
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I've heard the idea tossed around - I forget where, I think a Mastodon instance - of limiting the number of users to keep the flood of new people from appearing.

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