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by aeonfox 10mo ago
I just took them on their word. > I didn't do a quantative analysis And these seem like single data points, one each for 3 different countries, not really giving a sense of frequency. So I'm not sure what you mean.
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by aeonfox 10mo ago
Basically a repeat of the sibling comment, so I won't repeat my reply.
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by aeonfox 10mo ago
Right. One instance of metal theft in any country is enough to discredit the argument. As someone who lives in Australia, I've seen it show up in the news here just once. And I've spent time in other first world countries inclu
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by aeonfox 10mo ago
America needs to reflect on why it's unique amongst first world countries at having third world problems.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
It's sloppy writing but they do make the distinction over the rest of the paragraph.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
I play the NYT connections pretty regularly. Today's (#25332) purple group was slightly more tenuous than real NYT games. Often good purple groups are both difficult to infer, but also the grouping makes more sense. Good connections
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
It's pretty nuts. I want to know where that money went. Something like this needs a full post-mortem, or a Royal Commission as they call it
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
First I've heard of it. Might have helped to not just listen, but to actively advertise the beta via a link on the main website. Pretty standard practice.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
I think the lesson here is to get feedback early and often. Do an open beta from the start, or at least focus groups where regular members of the public can give opinions on the product as it evolves.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
> Isn't that an accurate definition of what "loser" generally means? "Loser" is a catch-all taunt that bypasses empathy. But certainly they might be 'in a losing situation', which is an important disti
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
They could also just be people with bills to pay who are maybe faced with—by some accounts—a very challenging employment market. Or maybe due to disabilities they find the process of finding new work difficult or impossible.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
I'm inclined to agree. But occasionally, someone is so dead set on talking past every point made and or is just posting flame-bait. Engaging with them doesn't help. I think at least one chance for them to clarify their position,
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Yep. All the graphs are mysteriously cut off at 2020. I think the headline is one big nothingburger
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Presumably you can iterate on and manually tweak the design first, which is much quicker and less cumbersome than iterating on and tweaking the design when it's in clunky HTML/CSS/JS form and all the non-vector graphical asse
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
A crime with all the usual... er
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
> but their standard of living hasn't caught up yet, but soon will? I'm not so sure they are living as badly as people imagine. https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-reduced-extre... But China do
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
It seems the choice of regression analysis is highly biased by prior beliefs and profit motives. Here's another prediction that's been wrong time and time again: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/
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30k watt light bulb experiments(youtube.com)
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Getting a 404. I think the link is supposed to be: https://www.empirical.health/blog/apple-watch-sleep-apnea/
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
People who are categorically against government intervention get weird when such an intervention shown to be An Undeniably Good Thing™. In contrast, for such people the idea that libertarianism might have Bad Consequences™ for personal lib
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
I enjoy the visuals to this, but the discordant synth tones in the default mode are quite eerie, and maybe not-so-relaxing.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
There's no article here.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
He also highlighted an interesting take on vibe-coding: > And the other thing of course that's the difference and this is the the heart of the article that Unmesh wrote that we published yesterday is when you're using vibe codi
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
My flag history is basically only these arseholes. I wonder how the automated anti-spam isn't catching these. https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=aeonfox
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
The next question is how did someone with an account from the very inception of this forum sail through to now without incidentally finding this out?
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
I'm a sucker these gravity/thrust style games, but I'm not sure about the controls or the gameplay.
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Competent people do pass the filter, but what Leetcode interviews do filter out are people with a shred of creativity who just won't submit themselves to the drudgery of studying useless crap for an interview – the kind of people who n
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Literally just got yoinked up from rank 199 to 2. https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45888620&t=1762939537 It arrived at rank 86: https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45888620&t=1762876085
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by aeonfox 11mo ago
Shouldn't entire cities of skyscrapers with no inhabitants never be built then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_... China tends to build things they don't use or are under utilised

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