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How about a “Stasis Award” - Tag 1,000 issues as “Won’t Fix”
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If you add up all the people that had live in a district where the Tea Party was active, or served in the military, or in government where budgets, decisions, negotiations, etc. were affected by the Iraq war or the Tea Party, it’s probably
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> Let us look at the front page of today’s New York Times, the gold standard in news. In the top spot there is a story about Republicans feuding among themselves. There is a photo of soldiers in Iraq. A stock exchange chief must return $
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I’m surprised they took the case. It seems like a carbon copy of the cake decorator case that set this precedent. > But the Supreme Court now says artists cannot be compelled to express messages against their religious beliefs. How is th
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Selling at the top requires a buyer who doesn’t think it’s the top. Not easy to always be the correct party in a market timing transaction.
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Autonomy seems important as well. Plants are at the mercy of their environment to a much larger degree than conscious animals that can strategically assess their environment.
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Might want to consider a different name. “Nerd” is a negative label for many kids.
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In the sense of consumers worrying about their goods creating pollution, yes thats a common concern. Many consumers choose to evaluate goods based on their environmental impact. But animal meat is different from most consumer goods in the s
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> So you agree that if I pay the cost it's not a problem? You just disagree about what that price is? Not OC, but I don’t think that’s quite right. When you create any good, like converting a tree into a piece of paper, you convert
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> If I enjoy that food and pay for the cost then whats the problem? Very few activities have costs that can be paid in full by the participant. In your example, the burden of transforming the land, the carbon footprint of producing the f
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Same. I tried the "easier" version early on in the challenge and it didn't help increase my confidence. I only chose it going forward when I had not even the slightest idea. It really helped once, but not the other times.
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Probably a mixture of declassification procedures, no imminent danger to the public and a desire to confirm the incident visually before giving up hope.
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Top Secret U.S. Navy System Heard Titan Implosion Days Ago (wsj.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36439661
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Interesting timing given the SEC pursuit of Coinbase.
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Pre-2022 Internet content definitely had spam/bot contamination though.
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Ran a successful digital agency for years. Estimation was mostly guesswork. There’s a theory that work expands to fill the time you give it and I found that to be largely true. Other agencies would quote 3 months for projects we’d complete
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He’s responding to the theory that some parents/teachers believe that if you can’t do X by age Y you’ll never be a top performer. He’s saying you can still train but you don’t need to hit 10k hours in a specific skill to excel, especia
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The opposite is true in the US. Parents treat soccer as a youth pastime and funnel kids towards basketball, football and baseball for high school and college. Then the question becomes: Would LeBron or Patrick Mahomes be elite soccer player
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> He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. As for sports, he argues that individual sports like golf can be mastered through deliberate pract
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For those interested in an alternative view, check out Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein > Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field s
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Timeones. Some firms offer a near shore PM, but that still didn’t help as it’s a big delay. The language barrier can be tough too, but manageable.
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> Betelgeuse is expected to explode some time in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years.
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> Nineteen of the board’s 22 members were Neuralink employees as of late 2022, according to a company document reviewed by Reuters. The oversight board’s chair was the Neuralink executive who led the company’s animal-care program, and at
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Well, we do it in software where we charge higher monthly fees for uptime guarantees, more features, better performance, etc. And Xfinity does it with hardware where you pay extra per month for faster speeds over the same cable. But in thos
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Love the UI. Any explanation of the tech?
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It was amazing for countries rich with it. But not great for countries without it, or for undeveloped countries with it that couldn’t defend it.
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At those price points, I’d pick lifetime, after a free trial.
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They mean no way back. Photos have been staged / forged for a long time. The big difference is the ability for AI to create fake photos in seconds which could inundate future historians unless there was an equally quick way to spot a f
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Thanks for sharing! Super helpful and easy to follow. One suggestion: Audio queues would be great. I heard a beep when it was first starting but not after that (iOS). And maybe a gong or chime sound would be more relaxing.

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