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>How do you manage to drive, without your thoughts blocking your view? They don't block the view, in the same way that the image from your left eye doesn't block the image from your right eye, even though they're overlai
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>No. ahem. yes we do. we really, really do.
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Yeah it's not a figure of speech, there's LITERALLY another framebuffer (or whatever you want to call it) in my mind in addition to the ones from left eye and right eye. I don't need to close my eyes to do see it (but it he
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I keep warning Hackernews not to trust fungi, and people downvoted me for it. But I keep getting proved right. Don't trust those spores. They're everywhere: in the trees, in the breeze, even our cheese.
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It's not that I'm against an in-depth accident investigation like this. Go for it, by all means. But this kind of thing is practically never done for the thousands of children and teenagers that die each year from being hit by car
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>one of the never-ending headaches I always have on Linux is updating config files when a package updates. There's no automatic file merge in general (hence .pacnew and such) so you gotta do it by hand (and not everything is availa
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well yes eventually we'll reach a regime where growth must become cubic rather than exponential, because we run up against the speed of light. but we are nowhere near that yet and it is silly to worry about it.
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there's a whole solar system out there
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this is robin hanson we're talking about. the guy who wrote "age of em" where quadrillions of simulated people work in cubicle farms for subsistence wages and this is good because their lives are slightly better than nothing
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black mirror episode: evilcorp turns off the lights until you install their app, but you can't find your phone in the dark
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> Men's ratings of women follow the same principle. Practically everything does. The OKCupid data doesn't bear this out. Men's ratings of women's attractiveness is fairly symmetric. Women's ratings of men'
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it's explained in the article; when there's an age gap it tends to be older man, younger woman rather than the reverse, and there are more out gay/bi women now who are dating each other. and not mentioned but likely a factor:
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>I think millennials and younger people should continue to hold out and have fewer (preferably zero) children until we get a more favorable deal from society. Your gametes are accumulating mutations every year you get older. If you actua
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maybe, but it's a hell of a lot easier to get rich when you don't spend your 20s on a phd working for peanuts
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The land on which car storage is built is suitable for housing to be built on it instead.
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The better solution to this is to use nested functions that are immediately called, rather than top level functions. That lets you cordon off chunks of state while still keeping a linear order of definition and execution. And you don't
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because it would slow down the unjust concentration of land ownership into fewer and fewer hands.
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Yeah but that makes it worse, doesn't it? The benefits to being under-assessed compound year on year, as do the costs of being over-assessed.
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Birmingham just declared itself bankrupt, as discussed in a sibling thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408139 . I thought this might be interesting for the broader historical context.
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The Plot Against Mercia(unherd.com)
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Both are true. Property taxes haven't been re-assessed since the 90s. A minority of wealthy landowners are subsidized by a much larger group of salaried renters.
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Census: the estimated return rate of the last census was 97%, i.e. 3% of the population didn't give it back. That's millions of people even by the official numbers. Yet there are only ever a few hundred people who get convicted fo
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we don't even know it for modern countries either. i think it's plausible that the UK government undercounts the population by 5-10%. https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1682676824420253697
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people gotta eat
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+1 "it's not walkable, so let's not build any walking infrastructure" is there anything more perfectly self-defeating?
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>4.3 The Swivel Chair Attack >If we assume whoever integrates the payload into an IHSM has done adequate work and prevented all contactless attacks, we are left with attacks that aim at mechanically bypassing the IHSM’s security m
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Glad I could help!
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Are you familiar with the idea of "making illegal states unrepresentable", and "parse, don't validate"? https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va... You brough
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> I literally cannot meet my performance goal if I take more than 1 day of sick/vacation day PER YEAR. why not get another job?
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>To be specific, 5280 feet = 1 mile didn't happen until 1959 and the United States needed higher precision and remove all the fuzziness out of the units. It might be inconvenient on some aspects, but it was also "close enough&q

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