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by austinjp 6y ago
It's not a lack of "get-up-and-go" that perpetuates lack of opportunity. "All one needs"? You could gain some insights here by having a few conversations with people doing the sort of precarious contractor work that
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There is something fundamentally different about an AI, though. Perhaps the ability to produce output at scale. Perhaps that its creator/owner may not have the ability it trains the AI to perform. I'm not sure. But I feel that com
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What separates the haves from the have-nots? It's not blogs.
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> Today, I ship all over the world via the internet for $0, have no stock, no scrap, no middlemen, get paid instantly, ship instantly, and the transaction cost is 1% for paypal and 3% for credit cards. This all true, and empowering for t
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by austinjp 6y ago
Thanks for this. I've noticed a few similar apps/sites mentioned on HN recently that do similar. Time I checked them out.
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There's the concept of "engineered serendipity", which actually appears to be more about removing the obstructions to creative conversation that poor work environments have fostered. It's not about regulating spontaneity
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I've not been having these conversations since covid, and yes I miss them a lot. I prefer to flesh out ideas by kicking them around with others, and this is has suffered significantly. I've noticed a real lack of engagement in onl
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by austinjp 6y ago
Skincare products are a huge industry in Korea, and can include ingredients that seem outlandish to some, such as snail mucus. They seem to have a dedicated following in some circles.
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Many, if not all, lives are as rich as this and would benefit from as romantic a retelling.
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That was Alexander Litvinenko. https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+litvinenko
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by austinjp 6y ago
Indeed. I'm currently experimenting with NodeGUI and React Native as a means to write React components shared by web, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux. Early days, but it broadly seems to work. I can even swap in Preact for web, RN fo
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by austinjp 6y ago
Curious, so piggy backing to ask: does anyone use Spectrum in this way with success? I've looked around some communities out of curiosity but not yet engaged much. I actually had a brief conversation on an open Telegram group about a s
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by austinjp 6y ago
In what meaningful way were they financially poor?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/29014045421...
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Or the corollary: life invades whichever crevices it can, and clings on as long as possible.
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The word "toilet" was indeed used in English in a way similar to the French "toilette", far less so today. For example "toilet water", meaning "eau de toilette".
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by austinjp 6y ago
Hi there. Nice work. I've been tinkering with wrapping a bash script around the serverless and aws CLI tools. Out of curiosity, does this do anything that serverless doesn't? I fully appreciate that "intellectual curiosity&qu
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by austinjp 6y ago
http://archive.is/xztOi
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> It doesn’t matter if a lot of small family-owned businesses fail. Tell that to the families involved.
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Title has become mangled, should be "The reasons why people become incompetent at work". TLDR, the Peter principle: "Every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence – Laurence J Peter". A quote I didn&#x
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by austinjp 6y ago
Beautiful. Thanks for this.
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a.k.a. "the AI effect", Larry Tesler (mis)quoted by Douglas Hofstadter.
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by austinjp 6y ago
I'm frankly bemused at the push-back in this thread, and totally lost about your aggressive tone towards me. The parent post links to global slavery information, here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446390 The o
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by austinjp 6y ago
> Why bring "current slavery" into it Because it was mentioned in the post you replied to. > Have you asked a slave in Saudi Arabia how they feel about the usage of the word Slave in Go documentation? Why Saudi? Slavery exis
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Hmm I notice the change was made to the "master" branch :/ Maybe change that to "main".
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ITT: reductio ad absurdam.
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I don't think this is the thrust of the issue, but since you mention it, yes. I'm pretty sure someone who lives in modern slavery would find it sickening to learn that the word "slave" is used casually without considerat
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While I partly agree with you, unpopular political moves are weaponised during elections. If the opposition win they can revoke previous changes. This highlights issues around populism, and democracy in general.
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The behaviour described is entirely selfish. There's plenty of evidence that the opposite, selfless behaviour, is highly beneficial and can actually be enjoyable. If you never compromise for the sake of others you'll find yourself
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The subjectivity of experience doesn't prevent something being science. How might someone conduct a blinded placebo controlled trial of a suicide prevention campaign, or of parental advice to help reduce risk of cot death, for example?

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