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by apeescape 2y ago
I'm not sure I share your optimism. If kids don't trust institutions, who do they trust? The answer is friends and celebrities (=influencers). Maybe they don't trust Big Tech companies per se, but you still need them to facil
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by apeescape 2y ago
>Lots of FAANGs with deep pockets started to invest in their own hardware, and it got good enough to start beating Nvidia. It's not just hardware though: you can't run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware, which in my understanding is a
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by apeescape 2y ago
I'm a native Finn and went to a public school here in Finland in the 00s. My overall experience was good, though of course I didn't always enjoy it. I liked some teachers more than others. I learned a lot and was bored a lot. I wa
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by apeescape 2y ago
I think Russians hinted at something like that being in the works over there. Might not be a bad idea for a rapidly aging country to do something like that.
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by apeescape 2y ago
This kinda reminds me of the anime Silver Fang (Ginga Nagareboshi Gin), which is hugely popular in Finland (well, at least among the millenials), but apparently quite unknown anywhere else, even in Japan where it originated from.
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by apeescape 2y ago
Greece cheated their way into EUR. They didn't meet the requirements, so they cooked the numbers with the help of GS. This later on blew up into everybody's faces (well, everyone except GS's).
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by apeescape 2y ago
I absolutely hate having to say stuff in between the lines or trying to interpret veiled intentions. There's def no need to be pointlessly rude when giving criticism, but to me, beating around the bush is exhausting and often frustrati
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by apeescape 2y ago
It's not guaranteed that you get more money back from an index fund (unless you've found an arbitrage, but that's a corner case). Even the bigger and stabler indexes like the S&P500 have their ups and downs, both on a dai
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by apeescape 2y ago
Could it be that the body adapts to an active lifestyle over time, and that's why _intense_ exercise acts as a shock that burns calories (it won't be intense anymore after you're used to it)?
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by apeescape 2y ago
Hey Peter, I have two questions: 1. How bad is the H1B situation now? I've read there are companies that flood the system with duplicate requests, which decrease the probability for the others. 2. Is it possible to get a visa and work
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by apeescape 2y ago
Doesn't seem to work on iOS 17.6.1 (can't hear anything when I press a key).
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by apeescape 2y ago
I'm sure there's a sensible middleground between never using big words vs. using them only to add complexity.
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by apeescape 2y ago
Maybe no form of _non-fiction_ writing benefits from it, but that's not the only type of writing there is. Let me link a clip from Dead Poets Society regarding this: https://youtu.be/WfZu-Um9PV0?feature=shared
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by apeescape 2y ago
I agree with you, but just wanted to point out that the author is (from what I gather) a teenager, so perhaps a degree of naivete is expected in his writing.
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by apeescape 2y ago
I mean, recreational programming and creating a side project for fun is nice and all, but a peach pie is something you can consume and is thus of interest to anyone who likes peach pies, whereas software that does nothing differently or bet
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by apeescape 2y ago
Video games with characters looking this good would be amazing.
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by apeescape 2y ago
I think it's called a toast because it (usually) appears by jumping from one of the edges, like a piece of toast jumps from the toaster.
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by apeescape 2y ago
Alain Prost* Marcel Proust is the famous writer. But yes, it would be interesting to learn about the origin of this phrase.
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by apeescape 2y ago
Yep, and also takes up a lot of area, requires a lot of water, and produces CO2 (the ruminants, that is). In other words, it's not sustainable after a certain point. But you probably knew this already and wanted to give a provocative t
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by apeescape 2y ago
No, it's the mozzarella cheese made with Italian buffalo milk.
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by apeescape 2y ago
Yep, this is called Jevons paradox. When technology increases the efficiency with which a resource (be it energy, computational power, or programmer's time) is used, the demand increases too.
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by apeescape 3y ago
I loved this book when I read it the first time, really touching. The theme most personal to me was that the brainier you are, the lonelier you get.
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by apeescape 3y ago
Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? The Japanese way to pronounce it could actually be a lot easier for many non-English speakers (I'd anyway argue it's a co
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by apeescape 3y ago
I found the original Fallout games 15 years ago or so, and got interested in post-apocalyptic worlds and wanted to watch a movie about one. Threads was the first movie I saw, and after watching it I didn't want to watch another one.
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by apeescape 3y ago
I've always hated the social porn aspect of altruism. On one hand, you're doing a good thing by giving something of your own to someone in need, but on the other hand, you're using the publicity to boost your public image. I
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by apeescape 3y ago
Well, there is Tree That Owns Itself, and Son of the Tree That Owns Itself. See the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself
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by apeescape 4y ago
>Technology is one of the best indicators of power, progress, societal dynamism and hope for the future. Do you think people in Europe don't get to use American technology, and vice versa? In a globalized world, it doesn't matt
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by apeescape 4y ago
A toilet is a place where people go take a shit or piss.
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by apeescape 4y ago
Not a comprehensive magazine/paper, but I really like Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter; mentioning it in case you haven't checked it out yet.
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by apeescape 4y ago
It's Press Start 2P, see https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P

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