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by adriand 3y ago
Thanks for the reco! I would also like to make one, which is the book “Assyria: the rise and fall of the world’s first empire” by Eckart Frahm. An absolutely fascinating read which leverages modern scholarship and archaeological discoveries
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Honestly, I have no idea, like I said it's really old. It's waterproof, so maybe an H2O? I don't think you can really go wrong, although take a look at online reviews before purchase. Mine is fairly small (like small paperbac
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I love my Kobo as well. It’s pretty old now but durable and still works fine. Here in Canada it works with my local public library using Overdrive. I also use the Libby app on my iPhone. Libby is great for discovering stuff, it’s fast and b
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This might go beyond how you feel and into direct biological impacts. I don’t listen to the Huberman Lab podcast much these days but I did listen to the episode with David Linden, which I found quite interesting. [1] At one point, they are
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Put a bell on your cat! Outdoor cats are responsible for a huge amount of ecological devastation, the least you can do, if you insist on your predator roaming freely outdoors, is put a bell on it to try and give local species a warning.
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My wife also says this, but I’m fond of pointing out that she didn’t create our children, they created themselves!
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National Lab results support LK-99 as a room-temperature superconductor(twitter.com)
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Of course you want to work with people who are "pleasant" and "friendly" but these are not synonyms for "charismatic", defined as having "special magnetic charm or appeal". [1] Would you disagree that
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> I would imagine the most important qualities to have in an interview are going to be charisma and an ability to reason through technical problems. As someone who has interviewed many software developers, I can assure you that charisma
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Tell HN: Duolingo's “resurrection nudge” goes beyond dark patterns
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> Majority of us do not have the motivation to actualize our visions even after we know and believe that they are feasible. Much of the time the decision not to pursue the vision is the right one, because so much sacrifice is required. A
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The best method is to put a bit of fruit peel and some beer or wine or vinegar at the bottom of a glass (e.g. a pint glass) and then fashion a cone out of paper, where the wide end of the cone is the same size as the mouth of the glass. Cut
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I believe he has mentioned it more than once, but one podcast that includes that discussion IIRC, and many other AI-related topics, is the April 7 episode “Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy”. If you’re on iOS: ht
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What you’re missing is that with LLMs the chief obstacle with voice assistants changed overnight from “how do we develop a system that can easily interact in natural language” (at the time, a very hard and possibly unsolvable problem) to “h
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Another explanation that I find persuasive, put forward by Ezra Klein, is that productivity-sapping uses of technology grew along with the productivity-boosting ones: social media, for example, is a powerful mechanism for distracting people
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You don't need to read a book. I think you can get away with three steps: 1) This maxim from Michael Pollan: "Eat food [1]. Mostly plants. Not too much." (I personally follow an adjusted version of this: "Eat food. Only
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I understood intellectually the problems with memory but I never felt them viscerally until I listened to The Coldest Case in Laramie, which is a podcast series about what it sounds like. There are interviews with various people who are utt
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by adriand 3y ago
Thank you for linking to that interview. I listened to most of it when it came out. I was already skeptical but willing to have an open mind, but I came away from it feeling very assured in my skepticism. These claims are utter nonsense! Gi
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This sounds interesting, can you detail this data flow a bit more and maybe provide an example?
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This is a fantastic insight!
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> Shifting focus to local in-person interactions and creating solid and sustainable relationships that don’t depend on the whims of the latest social media platform seems increasingly important. I agree with this completely. I have forme
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If you think about the numbers as 12% died vs 22% died, then the 51% intuitively makes more sense, although I don’t know if this is the correct explanation. My guess is that 12 and 22 are rounded numbers.
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Let’s also recognize that if you are a home owner and especially if you also have a mortgage, you are already benefiting from massive government subsidies and “handouts”. An enormously valuable one is the exemption for capital gains taxes o
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There are other, more charitable interpretations. For example: 1. Those who are part of major corporations are concerned about the race dynamic that is unfolding (which in many respects was kicked off or at least accelerated by Microsoft&#x
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A keyboard and a mouse might be faster in some instances, but they are also far less musically expressive. When it comes to putting emotion into music, I think it is a lot easier to do so with an expressive, physically embodied musical inst
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It's a fair point, but it's not a completely barren landscape. Melodics ( https://melodics.com/ ) is one platform aimed at developing pad controller skills. For a much more rigorous and far less marketing-driven app
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I was startled to recently discover that a local gastroenterologist has numerous excellent reviews on Google Maps by people talking about what a lovely colonoscopy they had, some of whom related the specific medical condition that brought t
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Are there solutions to this problem? It seems like a major issue for a lot of valuable use cases. Systems for automating bureaucratic tasks in business and government won’t work well if it’s trivial to make them leak this type of informatio
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I’ll admit that this comment struck me as strange too (and the thought it might be generated also crossed my mind) but I try to keep an open mind and after considering it, I think the point about white supremacy is worth considering. Note
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You either have to arrange for someone else to do it, or, the city will do it and issue a fine / charge. In practice, enforcement is complaint-driven, so the city won’t generally do anything until someone takes the time to report it. R

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