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by biztos 2y ago
> medical malpractice (the 3rd leading cause of death in the US.) Not to downplay the malpractice problem, but this doesn’t sound remotely plausible. Do you have some sources to back up this claim? I googled around a bit and it appears
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by biztos 2y ago
I had private health insurance in Germany. It was quite expensive and had a very high deductible — so pretty bad incentives around routine health care, I never made a claim in 13 years. The upside was that if you needed, say, a brain trans
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by biztos 2y ago
I’m a standard-issue stress eater. I also like to work out. When I’m really feeling the stress, even though I will tell myself at that time to just hang on and hit the gym later, the food is that much more of an instant fix that it wins
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by biztos 2y ago
Hold on. Where are you finding $100 avocado toast?
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by biztos 2y ago
Late to the party, but for anyone looking for inspiration: Fiction: Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) by Thomas Mann[0] Nonfiction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard[1] Illustrated: The Insect God by Edward Gorey [0]: http
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by biztos 2y ago
I like Hesse and I like Steppenwolf even though neither is my favorite -- but there is a fragment in Steppenwolf that I will never forget, that I have used often, and that anchors the love side of my love-hate relationship with the German l
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by biztos 2y ago
I like Rust, but wasn’t “plopping” a binary onto a server and running it one of the original virtues of Go? Arguably a louder “plop” due to size, but then you don’t have to chmod.
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by biztos 2y ago
https://archive.is/apLaG
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by biztos 2y ago
Now that I tried it out, I find it very Westworld and I think I would prefer something more plastic, more witty in the way the web site and the launch process is witty. Robot Twin Hassaan was a bit creepy in his Uncanny Valley Ranch. Up to
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by biztos 2y ago
Did you try it with a lower frame rate on the video? It seems like that'd be a good way to reduce the compute cost, and if I know I'm talking to a robot then I don't think I'd mind if the video feed had a sort of old-f
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by biztos 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: OK, or hybrid, depending where you are Willing to relocate: Yes in California Technologies: bit of everything but lately Golang, Python, Clouds, AI. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in&#
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by biztos 2y ago
Still not sure what this is, but here it is: https://youtu.be/4YBxeDN4tbk?si=CqumD2CHaNMZ650g
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by biztos 2y ago
This is a take I keep seeing, more or less, and yet Telegram is not an encrypted messaging service for the most part, and so Durov could have moderated but actively promoted his not doing so; and the crimes this article leads with, as e
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by biztos 2y ago
In Hungarian the people I know use felhő and not cloud. I don’t know what they say in actual IT circles but to my ears “cloud” sounds very awkward if stuck in a Hungarian sentence. https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felh%C5
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by biztos 2y ago
Two great examples from art are Michelangelo (look at the women) and Caravaggio (look carefully at anything).
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by biztos 2y ago
The point depends on the version, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_based_on_Faust Marlowe being neither the first nor the most influential.
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by biztos 2y ago
For decades (centuries?) in German, s p a c i n g was how you “bolded” (or italicized) when your typesetter couldn’t. Very elegant solution once your eye adjusts to it.
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by biztos 2y ago
These are the New Zealand police, right? I get that there’s a lot of corruption, but “nice GameBoy, my kid’ll love it after auction” seems like a stretch even for the US. If nothing else, it has a paper trail, right?
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by biztos 2y ago
I did a fair bit of googling on this as it was my first time using eSIM. Apparently for iPhone the network switching eats the battery, whereas for Android (which has had dual-sim support for ages) it’s not a problem. Nothing else changed i
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by biztos 2y ago
Large TVs? I wonder what the threshold is for assets worth seizing. Anything under about 100” is going to cost more to seize than it’s worth. If the kitchen is full of AllClad do they seize the cookware?
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by biztos 2y ago
Using Airalo plus a Verizon physical sim in Europe with an iPhone SE 2 worked, and I found the cost fair enough, but it drained my battery like mad, so bad in fact that I found myself turning the eSIM off a lot. I think this is probably ju
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by biztos 2y ago
I had the impression the Google SF office was for capturing that talent that would not be bothered to commute south; but that for most people there it was a career dead end, if you weren’t in Mountain View you weren’t in the game. At least
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by biztos 2y ago
According to the World Bank it’s less than that, but still it’s interesting to contemplate Meta monetizing the same in Nigeria and Colombia, and more or less the same in Romania: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.
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by biztos 2y ago
Come to think of it, the worst hangover of my life was on Hvar. Where I usually go in the Balkans -- Vojvodina area, if that even counts as Balkan -- the homemade stuff isn't that much stronger than the store-bought. Probably a little
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by biztos 2y ago
Yikes, where do they drink 70% Slivovitz? A fairly strong one is 42%, same with most other alcohols, even grappa. I’ve had 60% and it was distinctly unpleasant, felt like something you’d drink on a dare instead of for pleasure.
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by biztos 2y ago
I thought Loza was made from grapes, whereas Rakija is made from plums, peaches, apples, etc, being the Ex-Yugoland analog to Pálinka in Hungary. Is it different just in Croatia, or am I otherwise misinformed?
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by biztos 2y ago
White noise was claimed on YouTube[0]. When is someone going to copyright .gitignore? You could register gitignore.me right now! Fame, riches, lunch with Myhrvold[1][2]! [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580
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by biztos 2y ago
Herzog talks about this a bit in his cave-painting movie[0]. It's fascinating to think that for thousands of years, our ancestors lived without any significant change to their world. I like to imagine that they were pretty happy with
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by biztos 2y ago
Having worked in the field, I think you’re more likely to achieve AGI by intelligently watering tomatoes in a hothouse.
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by biztos 2y ago
When “altcoins” took off I spent a while racking my brain trying to figure out what special tech I could offer, how I could build my own blockchain, incentivize miners… When I realized it was just dudes copy-pasting a “smart contract” and t

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