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by adriand 4y ago
Agreed that this is very cool, this is a massive unsolved niche in the language learning market. Execute effectively on this and you've got it made. So I noticed that on MacOS Firefox, the app never asked me for microphone permission
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That’s not true (e.g Hinduism), but even if it were, the fact your views align with the views of other people alive or dead does not make them correct, nor does it absolve you of the moral and ethical responsibility to consider their conseq
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> because they are food That’s purely subjective. It’s just how you’re choosing to view animals and thus doesn’t absolve you of moral responsibility for how they are treated or for their killing. The same species of animal may be viewed
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Good question. Probably both, depending on the country you live in.
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Although I find the prospect disturbing, I think at some point (assuming we manage this dangerous transition) we will produce children in a technological way that is decoupled from human mothers. I could also see a social movement developin
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The problem is that you feel like a chump if you don’t negotiate. No one wants to feel like they didn’t get a deal especially on a used car. But the last time I bought one it was from a dealership that didn’t negotiate, a fact I discovered
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by adriand 4y ago
I'm sure this is a stupid question, but I'm going to go for it anyway: isn't Bitcoin also proof-of-work? Why isn't that where ETH miners are going?
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> But when they instructed microorganisms to make their creations in the labs, none of the 150 designs worked. “They didn’t fold at all: they were just gunk at the bottom of the test tube,” says Baker. When it works properly (when they f
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by adriand 4y ago
Stedi is so good and their new features with guides, mappings and so on, are incredible. Their on-boarding is also second to none, hands down the best experience I’ve had with a vendor in twenty years of professional development. Highly rec
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> But the point is, I can't draw. We are very quickly going to reach a point where anybody can produce basically the exact illustration they want in 15 min. I’m curious about the economic impact to illustrators, artists and designer
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by adriand 4y ago
I’m not sure you’ll ever get to cooking with no oil on cast iron. I have very well seasoned pans and I cook with oil, even then eggs will stick a little occasionally. My advice is to cook regularly and whenever you see the surface dry out a
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by adriand 4y ago
Every oven I’ve ever had goes to 500 degrees. I have no idea why you are making this claim. Anecdotally I know I can get pans hotter than this on my gas stovetop, just judging on searing and smoke production, and a quick google for how hot
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by adriand 4y ago
Can you do anything with "your" land? Like plant something or erect something on it (I know you're not going to, but if you wanted to, could you)? What about access, is it possible to go see "your" plot? And do they
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by adriand 4y ago
After working from home since March 2020 I recently leased an office in a beautiful building that is mainly occupied by a nonprofit focused on musical education, which is delightful to be around (and I keep finding musical instruments that
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It’s also so incredibly cynical. They aren’t supporting these organizations because it’s the right thing to do. It’s just a means to an end, namely preventing workers from organizing. I wonder how many people who called out Amazon’s suppose
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by adriand 4y ago
I really appreciate your optimistic perspective — thank you for posting it. I think it's very easy to be cynical and just assume that things will get worse than they are now, and when you do that, you get to be a wise, world-weary and
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> You'd get conquered and your conqueror would have more money to spend on their military? [...] So the fantasy is really one about a science-enthusiast world-dictator securely protected by his secret police. I think that's a f
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I’m not sure who the intended audience of this upcoming book is, but if it is laypeople, I feel as though the level of explanation is too advanced. Eg: > Just like a ball doesn’t change if you rotate one direction of space into another,
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What if you simply reduced the flow (usually there’s an external valve) as much as possible without disturbing your son’s enjoyment, and then measured the hourly volume used, and then ran the numbers on the cost per hour? We have a temporar
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> It was great having a hobby that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. Totally agree. I’m also learning guitar and I started with an acoustic and have continued with it because, even though I borrowed a friends electric, there i
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Finger drumming, guitar, track making, and how to educate children to make electronic music too.
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> insert an element into a double-linked list I’ve been programming professionally for 20+ years and I had to look this data structure up. Granted, once I reviewed it, node insertion is trivial, but I hope you gave applicants that opport
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> Canada has made some progress since legalisation in 2018, but through a regionally varied patchwork of free-market and state-controlled supply systems that makes it hard to draw broad lessons This strikes me as an odd claim. Each provi
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Couldn’t even watch this video - I had to skip to the end. Way too stressful! The frank admissions of fear at the outset really set the tone and it just gets more intense from there. Insane.
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I feel like the need to continuously learn new things is a feature of the profession, not a bug. It is certainly a difficult challenge, but I've always felt that the most important trait in a software developer is an eagerness to learn
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More like a tiny crater or pockmark, although they don’t say exactly how large the meteoroid was or how much damage it caused. Apparently “micrometeoroid” refers to objects with less than a gram of mass, although I assume that this one was
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And isn’t reading about interesting exploratory research one of the reasons many people come to HN? I know I enjoy these articles.
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A related issue is when autocorrect “corrects” things that I’ve spelled correctly, which drives me absolutely nuts. The other day I was texting someone about music and I wrote “melodies” which was “corrected” to “Melodie’s”. In fact on iOS
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We lived for a couple weeks in Nicaragua and we hired the sister of the guy who maintained the property to cook for us (an optional service we were quick to agree to). On the first day she cooked a big batch of black beans in a pot. She lef
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My daughter is 12, she has been taking piano lessons for several years now. About a year-and-a-half ago she started saying that she didn’t want to continue. Hated her lessons, didn’t like her teacher any more, etc. We of course weren’t happ

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