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by asimpletune 1y ago
Honestly one of the biggest and most important differences is cars, city planning, and how they effect one’s community. I saw the other day a show hn for making friends and thought that so much of that need comes from not being surrounded b
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by asimpletune 1y ago
Does anyone know if something like this already exists for the heavy duty, built-in shutters they have in Italy? The kind that close and form a barrier over the window and are operated with a flat roll of fabric from inside.
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by asimpletune 1y ago
Parts of Poland were annexed by the soviets and became part of Ukraine and Belarus.
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by asimpletune 1y ago
We used hocon at a place that I once worked at and I more or less liked it. It did get a lot of abuse though. I think apple released a configuration language that seemed pretty good for the same things that we used hocon. I think it was pkl
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by asimpletune 1y ago
The purpose of this evil is to spread fear, provoke a response and get publicity, push and prod the system for weakness/loyalty, condition their supporters to accept these atrocities as normal and necessary, and to communicate the blue
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by asimpletune 1y ago
If lawmakers regulated data retention to make targeted advertising unprofitable, then businesses would have no choice but to compete for customer’s money directly by providing value.
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by asimpletune 1y ago
Honestly, everything would be much better if either a.) people just paid for stuff or b.) governments decided ad-tech in its present form should not be a thing, and regulated the retention of personal data as a liability, to make targeted a
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by asimpletune 1y ago
Part of the value may be in how exclusive the font seems. So in that view 1 sale of $1000 is more valuable because it’s more exclusive. Basically, one potential attribute of fonts is they’re a luxury not a commodity.
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Because to reason about things becomes harder as the stakes are raised. We had to implement paxos for distributed systems in college and my partner I started over probably about three times trying to code it normally. Then we switched to ju
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by asimpletune 2y ago
If you have the space the best way to learn how to sail is just buy a cheap dinghy and take it out as much as you can. While you’re looking for a dinghy just read a book on theory. Something like a laser is the ideal platform to learn on an
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by asimpletune 2y ago
From a rhetorical point of view, yeah it may have a better chance to change their mind. Start out the idiot, assume they're right, but then ask sincerely why. After they've explained why then go back to trying to understand how th
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Sabine Hossenfelder: How I Became Particle Physicists' Enemy #1 [video](youtube.com)
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Targeted tariffs don’t have an effect because products are reimported from china via other countries like Mexico.
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by asimpletune 2y ago
That is a great question. In the original trilogy, without prequel context, he often makes overtures to Luke about them ruling the galaxy together. Otherwise I don’t think we see a lot about what Vader wants until later when he’s dying. I t
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by asimpletune 2y ago
It needs to be said that Darth Vader is not simply a villain who believes in the force but uses it for evil. He sincerely wants peace for the galaxy. In terms of goals Darth Vader and the Jedi ultimately want the same thing, or at least nei
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Better would be to make targeted advertising unprofitable. This could be done by requiring data retention to be accounted for as a liability on the balance sheet. E.g. If a business want to run an ad in the newspaper, go for it. But if they
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Didn’t Raymond Kurzweil predict like 30 years ago that AGI would be achieved in 2028?
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It is simply because the USA consumes more.
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People from the area we call Ukraine are mentioned throughout Herodotus' Histories. It is an extremely old and important region.
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Hey I enjoyed reading part 1. Would you add a media query though to the left and right margins? It’s impossible to read vertically on mobile.
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by asimpletune 2y ago
The post made some points and you’ve said it was wrong to make them. Who am I supposed to believe? I would like to understand more about your position, but you’ve chosen not to actually address any of their points. Sorry, don’t mistake my t
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Yeah, good points. Definitely not my intention to say China's perfect, and I'm probably reading too much into the wisdom of this vs. good ol' preservation of power.
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by asimpletune 2y ago
The moment I realized this was going to be the truth was when the Chinese government essentially purged a bunch of unicorn social media companies overnight, erasing billions of wealth on paper. It seemed like the motive was to value and enc
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by asimpletune 2y ago
As sensationalist as this sounds I agree. I think a major turning point was when tech became a big business by charging nothing. 1. It’s impossible to compete with free so business that do add real value are at a disadvantage 2. A future wh
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by asimpletune 2y ago
In Italy there's a fantastic way to allow students to use LLMs to their hearts content, but still discern whether they learned anything at the end of the day: the oral exam. Students one by one wait to be called into a room where the p
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Yes, I agree. Search/discovery was not something that was solved in a way that respected the commons. Probably the biggest hole in the 'web is the platform' model. Sometimes I wonder if something like PageRank could have been
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Yeah HTML5 + CSS3 were not a thing yet. They were one of the last missing pieces to the puzzle of solving desktop publishing. I think after all these things (rss, usenet, irc, html5, css3, etc...) the only thing left was search. I don'
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by asimpletune 2y ago
It’s crazy to think how close humanity was to having pretty nice stuff right before Facebook came along. I don’t think it was obvious at the time but in retrospect, just before Facebook there was: - RSS/atom for notifications without r
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Yeah, I have to say, I heard so much growing up, from adults, always saying stuff about how they want the government “run like a business”. Now that I’m grown, and I’ve seen the various pathologies of businesses first hand, I question wheth
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by asimpletune 2y ago
Would Scala be able to run on this?

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