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by awb 3y ago
Any guess as to how big the debris field is and what risk there is to people on the ground? Does the flight plan just take it over largely uninhabited land?
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by awb 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35640002
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by awb 3y ago
Probably not aliens. The idea of them traveling massive distances and being slightly observed but never fully observed defies the odds. Possible explanations: light, reflections, lasers, weather phenomenon, weather balloons, secret military
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Spain sees the first lung transplant performed by robot(euronews.com)
17 points by awb 3y ago|5 comments
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by awb 3y ago
In that sense, it's more like gold which has investment potential, but also utility outside of its investment potential. But if you're using gold as a productive asset, then you're modifying it and repurposing it to an extent
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by awb 3y ago
100%, but I'd argue that the song is a bop because: 1) people know the beat or the artist's voice 2) people know the song because it was promoted to a wide audience 3) it was promoted to a wide audience because the artist had tale
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by awb 3y ago
Sure, I can go appreciate an unknown artist’s work as well. But when it comes to buying decisions, wether it’s fine art or a concert ticket, the most money is made by selling a story. For example, if the music was enough, promoting music wo
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by awb 3y ago
I agree that this piece can be appreciated, but that’s about it. In terms of making money or reaching fame anywhere near the level of the original artists, I think it (and all AI generated art) will come up extremely short because it’s esse
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by awb 3y ago
I used to sell art in an upscale art gallery. People bought pieces rarely for aesthetic, but mostly for the story. They want to feel a connection to human greatness and deep emotion. While this music is technically impressive, I stopped lis
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by awb 3y ago
> You can trust me… I am Ling! Hope you enjoying your visit to LINGsCARS.com Sometimes marketing is so bad it’s good
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by awb 3y ago
I’d guess higher rates of mental illness, trauma, exposure to violence, overwhelming emotional responses, impulsiveness and a greater value on short-term instead of long-term goals. I know plenty of business/sports risk takers that hav
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by awb 4y ago
Those are two broad classifications. Any two broad classifications will have some overlap. I don’t think you’ve demonstrated that this overlap is any bigger than with any other random classification (hair color, height, type of car they dri
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by awb 4y ago
This section was the most helpful to me, how it compares to Go: https://vlang.io/compare#go
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by awb 4y ago
> The road to recovery for FTX began when the company enlisted the help of a team of forensic accountants, legal experts, and blockchain analysts to track down the lost funds. Their diligent efforts led to the identification and recovery
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by awb 4y ago
That’s true of most crimes, where it’s usually someone with a close connection to the victim: friends, family, enemies, etc.
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by awb 4y ago
Proof of identity is going to be a huge opportunity. Images, text and voice can now be spoofed with minimal cost and effort. With the progress of deepfakes and text to video, how much longer until you can spoof video calls? Meeting in perso
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by awb 4y ago
On a related note: I Just a new app called Boring Report on r/SideProject that strips clickbait content from articles so you can read the info without the sensationalism https://www.boringreport.org/ https:/&#x2F
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by awb 4y ago
> Programmers being bad at naming things isn’t very damning You’re right. But Musk was hosting Twitter polls, posting memes and proposing territorial borders and conflict resolution that seemed to be much closer to the Russian view than
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by awb 4y ago
> That is not comparable to providing starlink. What I mean is that it’s OK to look at the totality of a person and not show gratitude for [Good Quality], especially when [Good Quality] enables [Bad Quality]. > Most people browse inte
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by awb 4y ago
Dictators can make the trains run on time. Doesn’t mean we owe them gratitude.
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by awb 4y ago
> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. Never seen this before. Why would a commit to a fork show up on the original repo?
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by awb 4y ago
> the guy is not the wealthiest in the world. He's sitting on a pile of rare collectible beanie babies. Beanie babies are a novelty. Stock in market leading companies is not. Gates, Bezos, etc. have handed over control of their comp
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by awb 4y ago
It’s taken some getting used to. Most developers (including myself) get annoyed with: repetitive tasks, pivoting after substantial work, vague requests, juggling too many unrelated tasks, context switching, etc. With Chat-GPT I’ve had to le
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by awb 4y ago
So many YC LLM companies. Were you all early LLM adopters? Or is this a brand new idea post-GPT-3? Or did you pivot from another idea once GPT-3 took off?
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by awb 4y ago
The same goes for any billionaire with investments, which is pretty much all of them I’d imagine. And those assets even if they’re not all disposable at the market price can be used as collateral without liquidating them. So I think it’s st
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by awb 4y ago
I bailed. The richest person on the planet (at the time), buying up a premier media platform and then actively posting political content like how to vote in an election was the nail in the coffin for me. I don’t want to support an owner who
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by awb 4y ago
15 years fully remote for me and 3 kids. The lunchtime breaks were my favorite, getting to see how their day was going and help out or share a quick laugh. It really was and still is priceless for me. For anyone starting out, I highly recom
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by awb 4y ago
FYI, https://app.mirrorful.com/ on Chrome/iOS Mobile has several z-index and overflow issues.
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by awb 4y ago
I think it’s about 7,500x. This one estimated to be 30B solar masses. Sag A is estimated at 4M solar masses.
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by awb 4y ago
> 3 x 10^35 blue whales That’s way more confusing. Most people have never seen a blue whale to scale, let alone can imagine how dense it is. Once you’re at 10^35, why not just increase the exponent and use humans, basketballs or soda can

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