blonde_ocean

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by blonde_ocean 5y ago
How in the hell can you expect advertisement in the 21st century to not reach minors? We might as well legislate that all minors must wear blindfolds at all times, or be blinded as they’re born.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Not who, but what: work.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Anecdotally, my cat definitely responds to his name being called. Often around feeding time
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
So how are you hedging?
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Hey, can I connect with you 1-1 to discuss your post-grad work? I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting a graduate degree in linguistics, but with a CS-focus. Would love to hear from someone who’s been through it.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Can we stop calling everything a “black swan?” This would not be a black swan; nation states should be expected to have the ability to find a vulnerability in an application such as coinbase. Now, if you were to say a nation state decides t
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
How else do you prove something using the halting problem other than a proof of contradiction?
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
The article doesn’t but I think OP’s point was that relying on knowledge / algorithms designed and provided by others would mean an immediate fail in a FAANG interview, but it’s exactly what successful engineers do when employed at FAA
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
I would argue that raising GDP indirectly allows easier access to clean water, food, solid housing, vaccines, etc. All of those things allow for better quality of life. Where I agree with you is in the spiritual or philosophical sense of “q
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Still paywalled ;-;
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
It’s the experience of doing it that makes it special. There’s no good way to put that into words.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Yeah the difficult thing about industrialization is that the cat’s out of the bag in 2 ways. 1) we recognize the positive impacts that industrialization brings, directly and indirectly. Directly raising GDP has an indirect, positive net eff
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
How do you mean sub-Turing languages don’t allow recursion? Aren’t context-free languages, for example, literally recursive?
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
From a US Constitutional perspective, rights are inherent, and the Bill of Rights protects citizens from laws that infringe on those rights. Rights are not given by the government via laws, they are inherent protections from invasive laws s
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
I exited out when the authors claimed that “kombucha provides good set and setting.”
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
I mean, it’s pretty cool. There’s that fact. But my guess it’s probably being drive to top due to the parallels to 2001. I’d imagine there’s a large Kubrick fanbase on HN, if not just a 2001 fanbase.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
> Brodersen, the survivor, was fortunate to get to Ketchikan’s PeaceHealth Medical Center when he did. He’d had a heart attack, and was suffering from hypothermia and cold-induced rhabdomyolysis — a kind of muscle death. Disagree. This i
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
The toughest issue here, IMO, is being able to sign and authenticate a document without proprietary DRM. Been thinking about this a lot.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Why not?
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Right here with you. I don’t even know when I’m supposed to go back into the office, but I definitely thought about taking out an AirBnB for a couple months in somewhere like Provo.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
An HN-style shitpost. I like it.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Incredible. Where should I look for the undersea building off India? Gives me huge Atlantis vibes, haha.
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Can you link me some sources to your claims? Super fascinated and I wanna read more!
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
Good Q. I think it’s a nuanced distinction. Helping too much can too often lead to a lack of empowerment, IMO. The idea that you can’t help yourself, so you must be led along by another as if you were a child. I think empowerment requires
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
100%. I disagree with the article in that there’s nothing inherently mysterious or “hard” (like the “hard” problem of consciousness) in the inner machinations of a smartphone. In the inner machinations of a mind, yes, but not in a smartphon
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
I liked this video: https://youtu.be/GpMP6Nh3FvU
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
haha, the movie comment made me laugh. I could totally see that
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by blonde_ocean 6y ago
I haven’t read Dune, so when I saw “mentat,” I immediately thought of mentats from Fallout (a chem to boost intelligence stats for a brief period).