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by alwa 2y ago
Lightly ironic indeed! Though I’m not sure “broken” is exactly the word I’d choose. I can only speak for myself, but I imagine myself as a candidate approaching a “couple of hours” project or relationship differently than I would a “few min
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by alwa 2y ago
My goodness! I’d make a special trip. I don’t suppose you’d be willing to blow the cover of their anonymity…
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by alwa 2y ago
What gives you that confidence? I know that I wouldn’t trust 19-year-old me anywhere near a mature, nation-scale system that lives depend on.
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by alwa 2y ago
Depends how they’re raised… impressionable creatures. Though IME some roosters especially are just plumb mean. A mean rooster has a surprisingly high terror-to-size ratio, and can easily draw blood with its spurs. And they carry grudges, an
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by alwa 2y ago
I certainly got a laugh! And I agree about the /s. Chalk it up to this reader’s slow mind on a slow day! In a forum where people credulously propose orbital platforms to “sell sunlight at night” [0], I find myself erring on the side of
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by alwa 2y ago
I’d note that the Washington DC vote totals mainly reflect people who live in the District proper, most of whom are not federal civil servants. Plenty of those seem to live in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, or closer to their federal wo
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by alwa 2y ago
While it seems to be true that it’s not open-source, they claim (in strong terms) that they use techniques other than reading the message to make that assessment: https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/ T
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by alwa 2y ago
I see a link to a forum where an anonymous participant says “Since a recent version of Signal data of all Signal users is uploaded to Signal’s servers. This includes your profile name and photo, and a list of all your Signal-contacts.” They
609.
by alwa 2y ago
…is this an elaborate joke about solar power? And by extension, virtually all the energy that’s accumulated on the earth over the eons? It took me a minute :)
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by alwa 2y ago
What do you think of them?
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by alwa 2y ago
I sincerely hope (and assume) “make” was a type for “made” there. That the front desk staffer, not the aggrieved customer, “made” somebody respond to the customer’s original ticket.
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by alwa 2y ago
See also the submission of the paper itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987646 (6 days ago, 92 points, 41 comments)
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by alwa 2y ago
Why, if I didn’t know better, I’d imagine the gp might have been thinking about noted political theorist and agitator Karl Marx, writing briefly in Wage Labor and Capital (1847) [0] or later in his heftier Das Kapital (1867-1894) [1]. Offer
614.
by alwa 2y ago
I felt that the headline was poorly chosen. He’s digging much further back—to the second half of the 19th century, when apparently 30% of Americans would move house in any given year. The “progressives” in this equation were those of decade
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m reminded of Eero Saarinen’s “mobile lounges” at Washington’s Dulles Airport https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dulles-airport-mobile-lo...
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by alwa 2y ago
Since headlined “How Progressives Froze The American Dream,” which seems less apt. It primarily examines how often Americans moved house for much of the nation’s history, and how that’s recently tailed off, to an estimated $2trn dent in GDP
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American Geographic Social Mobility(theatlantic.com)
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by alwa 2y ago
Related: Yoni Applebaum’s feature today in the Atlantic, recounting the decline of Americans’ geographical mobility: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/america...
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by alwa 2y ago
True! Consistency and representativeness matter, in soup samples as in social samples! Is the soup smooth or lumpy? Striated or uniform? For that matter a soup could (and often does) involve huge soup bones that give it important parts of i
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by alwa 2y ago
It’s uncommon for it to be true—but patio does go on to supply third-party blurbs to support the idea, and as far as I understand his reputation, I believe his claim is probably accurate. In context it strikes me less as stroking his own eg
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by alwa 2y ago
A mentor I respect memorably explained to young me that “it doesn’t matter how big the pot of soup, you can use the same size spoon to taste it.”
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by alwa 2y ago
What cool work! I wish I had this transformative sensation more often: of the quick, clear shift in my thinking after someone’s careful study of a familiar problem results in convincing models simple enough for a non-expert to wrap their mi
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by alwa 2y ago
Is there anything to the notion that you might prefer to be batted around in the “soft body” portion of the dense-crowd “fluid” rather than pinned between several tons of soft bodies in motion and a hard limit? You seem rather more crushabl
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by alwa 2y ago
I read it kind of quickly, but didn’t their analysis suggest that the 18s period in question may have been specific to the Plaza Consistorial—that is, that the specific oscillation period may depend on the size (and possibly shape) of the c
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by alwa 2y ago
I have to thank you. I did as you suggested, for concerns similar to those you described, and the difference has been night and day. I went into it skeptical, and your recommendation has been super helpful already. I’m very grateful.
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by alwa 2y ago
Interesting! Does the same interface expose you to people’s responses, if any? That is, if I receive one of your campaign texts, am I indeed “texting with a person” both directions? Or does that route to a call center somewhere? I note in T
627.
by alwa 2y ago
Oh man. I’d go higher. Especially compared to vocalizing at “storytelling pace.” I remember a while back being surprised to learn that there are readers who process language phonographically as opposed to orthographically, even when silent-
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by alwa 2y ago
That’s correct! Nothing punitive, just “admin fees,” I guess to cover the cost of a kennel for the afternoon and of reading his microchip to confirm his vaccination status. They’re really big on “user fees” around there—they even charge pri
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by alwa 2y ago
I have friends in the countryside in North America, and I can corroborate that: as development has encroached, the new subdivisions have filled with former city-dwellers. Three times in a single month, do-gooder passers-by trespassed past a
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by alwa 2y ago
I don’t have the legal background to assess the accuracy of this response. Assuming it came from ChatGPT, how did you go about validating its correctness (and its relevance to the unprecedented new state of affairs) before posting?

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