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by abirch 24d ago
Not to mention the microplastics. Plus the Solo cups are transported over a great distance as well, between the fuel and packaging it could easily triple their carbon costs.
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by abirch 24d ago
Is it worth a human reading it or not? There are many, insipid human-writers (me included). Historically I got a lot of value of reading info posted on HN.
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by abirch 25d ago
Or a future president renaming Mar-a-lago as Epstein's Resort... this opens the door to all kinds of petty behavior.
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by abirch 25d ago
This is Idiocracy the movie IRL. I can't wait for plants to need electrolytes.
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by abirch 26d ago
Unfortunately for me, when I hear music it's from the horrible audio of a cell phone speaker.
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by abirch 1mo ago
Vanguard does get some support right as they tier their support based on how much you're worth. Businesses need to focus on Lifetime Value of their customers and realize that some of their marketing budget would be better spent in supp
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by abirch 1mo ago
Buy a copy of Careless People to read between the tears.
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by abirch 1mo ago
This is why it's important for us to show up and do jury duty even if it's not sexy. You can make a difference.
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by abirch 1mo ago
DuckDB out of the box may not be great. But you have DuckLake, Quack, and even DeepSeek made their own distributed DB based on DuckDB: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond
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by abirch 1mo ago
It's not in the current providers' interest to help people avoid the current providers' advertisement or avoid paying the providers to host the customers' email.
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by abirch 1mo ago
I completely agree with you. Data quality is the most important. One thing that's sad is how much academic data that's not reproducible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by abirch 1mo ago
Thank you so much. I love DuckDB!
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by abirch 1mo ago
Jason Fung has preached against modern processed foods that destroy insulin sensitivity. Even artificial sweeteners can raise Insulin levels. His book "The Obesity Code" is a must read and discusses some of the pathways that link
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by abirch 1mo ago
A pet peeve of mine is that Google doesn't let you search all the options like Apple or Microsoft E.g., I have flashbacks to trying to turn off or on bells in Google Home. A simple search bar would help people trying find API keys, etc
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by abirch 1mo ago
I see it as analogous to people are frequently rewarded for putting out the fire instead of preventing the fire.
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by abirch 1mo ago
I meant practically the right to privacy is wrong: I should have the right but I don't expect it. Similar to not being robbed is a right, but I don't expect it at times and in all locations.
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by abirch 1mo ago
I would say that the right to privacy is wrong but it's not bad. Mass surveillance is dangerous. It back fired spectacularly in like what happened in Iran: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/middleeast/
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by abirch 1mo ago
please remember to start locally. If your city/town is using it, please build a coalition and show up to meetings.
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by abirch 1mo ago
Unfortunately we've experienced the basic economics of spam. It costs virtually nothing to spam emails and so the spammers exploited that. Now it costs virtually nothing to spam markets with AI slop. Platforms need anti-slop filters an
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by abirch 1mo ago
The difficult thing is people don't want to pay for things. Ads are a way to mitigate that so that people/companies can capture some value that they create.
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by abirch 2mo ago
If we simply mandated that everyone install an app on their phone so that the government can track them scales very well. The people without the app would probably be criminals,
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by abirch 2mo ago
When I heard that story, I couldn't help but thing of Steve Jobs "Real Artists Ship." The device was good but the inventor was a perfectionist instead of an entrepreneur.
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by abirch 2mo ago
The difference is the quantity. Meta has already had a face logging feature in its glasses https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognit... So it'd be less likely that someone would film me and uplo
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by abirch 2mo ago
If someone signs in and gives up their privacy, I don't care. Where I do care is when someone with their pervert glasses captures an image of me at my kid's little league game and now I'm getting ads based on that.
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by abirch 2mo ago
Probably different concerns. If you had a home video and I was in the background I wouldn't care. The odds of anyone recognizing me would be low. If you upload it to anyone using mass AI (YouTube, Meta, etc.) then I care a lot.
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by abirch 2mo ago
I spun up an extension to open links in incognito, something that wasn't possible with the native desktop webpage that would always refer you back to a linkedin link to redirect.
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by abirch 2mo ago
My biggest question is why isn't there something better than Linked In? I get the network effect but Linked in is crap.
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by abirch 2mo ago
Yes there are companies such as Streak. It's possible to pay back early funders so it's a win-win.
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by abirch 2mo ago
Are there any other incredibily generous offerings out there for computer resources? What are the best things that I'm not using?
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by abirch 2mo ago
I give it a 51% chance of Discovery Loop being acquired by Google

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