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by alwa 1y ago
I imagine it depends on which country makes that request, its legal basis, and how their gag order is written. I find it hard to imagine a federal US order wouldn’t proscribe this cute “wink” payment. (Although who knows? If a state or loca
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by alwa 1y ago
I don’t know if it’s a counterpoint or not, but I both know and appreciate a lot about coffee and enjoy instant or—especially—that black tarry sludge at the bottom of the gas station carafe, the sort that’s getting ever harder to find. On
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by alwa 1y ago
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers,” said Truman…
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by alwa 1y ago
It feels that way to me, too—starting to feel closer to maturity. Like Mr. Saffron here, saying “go ham with the AI for prototyping, just communicate that as a demo/branch/video instead of a PR.” It feels like people and projects
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by alwa 1y ago
Being convicted and jailed can be pretty bad. Didn’t Robert Hanssen end up in Florence ADMAX until he died [0]? And, maybe a more direct comparison, Wikileaker Joshua Schulte [1]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_F
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by alwa 1y ago
In that case—and in re-reading the comment you were responding to—I think I’m agreeing with you and that I should have read more carefully before getting my dander up :) It sounds like we’re agreeing that you’ve given a good example of why
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by alwa 1y ago
Yes, they could and most definitely would be. The case you describe is one of the reasons it’s that way. For what exactly would this fly-by-night nurse be telling me to “watch out,” in relation to my partner who’s living with and being trea
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by alwa 1y ago
That description feels relatable to me. Maybe buffered more than buttered, in my case ;) It seems to me that would be a tick in the “pro” column for this idea of using pixels (or contours, a la JPEG) as the models’ fundamental stimulus to t
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by alwa 1y ago
I do this too. I suspect it may involve a subtly different mechanism from the saccade itself though? If the saccade is the behavior, and per the eyewiki link skimming is a voluntary type of saccade, there’s still the question of what leads
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by alwa 1y ago
It seems like all of those things can be true independently of whether or not a traumatic experience, in and of itself, effects permanent neurological/endocrine changes, though, right? It sounded to me like his issue was with the claim
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by alwa 1y ago
That’s a tremendously clarifying framework, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you. I wonder, though—at the risk of overextending the metaphor—what if I don’t have a kitchen, but I need the lunch meeting to be fed? Wouldn’t (relativel
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by alwa 1y ago
$16 for a 50 pound sack right now https://postmates.com/store/restaurant-depot-4538-s-sheridan... I blush to admit that I do from time to time pay $21 for a single sourdough loaf. It’s exquisite, it’s vastly superior t
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by alwa 1y ago
Flour, salt, and water are exceedingly cheap. I have to imagine the loaf of bread I buy from my baker reflects considerably more than a 50x markup compared to baking my own. It’s a lot cheaper than me learning to bake as well as he does—not
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by alwa 1y ago
From the FAQ: > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Th
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by alwa 1y ago
I was gratified by the last little tidbit: a nod to the Ohio “tinkerer” whose 2019 experiment in home automation interfered with neighbors’ 315MHz-band devices to the point that the power company shut off the whole block in an attempt to is
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by alwa 1y ago
Do all content-spam “journalists” use the same LLM prompt to dial up the faux drama? > Picture this: You're tucked in, ready for a night of optimized REM cycles, when your app pings an error. No more tweaking the chill to a crisp 5
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by alwa 1y ago
What was the reasoning behind omitting outliers for the purpose of the press release? I appreciate the transparency, but why leave out the 8 countries where your figures resulted in more than 220 hours of labor a month (and still ranking th
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by alwa 1y ago
I did not know that. Pine rosin is such lovely and versatile stuff. And sure enough: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpxawdUb4I&t=30m18s …plus it smells much better; and, as you mention, it’s useful for potatoes too! ht
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by alwa 1y ago
I feel like I hear people referring to Wayne Ma’s reporting for The Information to that effect. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-fumbled-siris-... > Distrust between the two groups got so bad that earl
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by alwa 1y ago
And to their credit, a healthy chunk of those practitioners seem to hold true to their oaths. The swelling ranks of administrators “optimizing their productivity” for the shareholders, on the other hand…
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by alwa 1y ago
True. To avoid searching as many of the wrong people as possible, and search all of the right people. Of course, those categories are fluid. Today you’re among the people to avoid searching; tomorrow, well… maybe you’ll have a reason to
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by alwa 1y ago
James C Scott, a Yale political scientist with an interest in agrarian societies, wrote a book Seeing Like A State in 1998. He was interested in why state-scale, “scientific” and “rational” schemes often fail to improve the outcomes they
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by alwa 1y ago
Ben Thompson bopped around doing engineer things at Apple, Microsoft, and Automattic, until more than a decade ago he started this subscription newsletter with business-of-tech kind of analysis. The success of his paid newsletter gave Subst
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by alwa 1y ago
(1) The turbofan category of jet engine seems to inspire a lot of very pretty animated technical diagrams—here’s one set from a German manufacturer [0]. Now if only we could convince Bartozs Ciechanowski to take on such a subject… [1] (2)
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by alwa 1y ago
It’s generous of the classifying authority to send to the ICAO meeting somebody both appropriately credentialed to know about the information in question, and willing to talk coyly about it. Did these additional incidents inform the policy
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by alwa 1y ago
Today’s “The Western Journal,” that august organ of journalism which you cite here, also features such headlines as “Demonic Compulsion: School Ran Weekly Witchcraft Address, Shut It Down Once They Couldn't Force It on Christians Anymo
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by alwa 1y ago
Not sure “sane backup strategy” and “park your whole government in a private company under American jurisdiction” are mutually exclusive. I feel like I can think of a bunch of things that a nation would be sad to lose, but would be even sad
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by alwa 1y ago
I mean… at the risk of misinterpreting sarcasm— Except for the backup strategy said consumers apply to their data themselves, right? If I use a service called “it is stored in a datacenter in Virginia” then I will not be surprised when the
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by alwa 1y ago
In other words, a farm is a megafauna version of a nice fishing lure? One way to stop them is to eat them :)
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by alwa 1y ago
> This investigation took a while, and I waited a while before publishing this disclosure (life circumstances and giving 1Password time to fix the issue). Sounds like the person really came from a supportive place and hoped things woul

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