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by bongoman37 4y ago
I have a friend at Meta who is exceedingly unhappy (but sticking with them due to visa issues). He advised me to avoid Meta at least for another year even though they are hiring in ML roles.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Is it really that bad a thing though? Nicotine has several benefits even if smoking may not. There was a recent HN discussion on how current higher levels of adult ADHD may be because of the decrease in smoking. I am a very occasional smoke
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Yea, basically this is a data collection front end. I too hate where you can't pay without cash though I'll bend if no other alternatives are avaialble.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1883/
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by bongoman37 4y ago
The US is pretty friendly to despots as long as they haven't done anything specifically against US interests.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Most people know that, but the narrative is just too good that he got pwned because he tried to pwn Greta. People want to believe it.
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Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped(twitter.com)
7 points by bongoman37 4y ago|5 comments
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Coke and other soft drinks and bottled water have a similar supply chain for water. Chlorine is a non-issue.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
This is true for many airplanes. The first time I saw the SR-71 I was shocked at how large it was. The photographs simply don't do them justice and often the pics that are used are those of the planes flying which have no items to set
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Having worked around some folks similar to Elon, they literally do not think family etc matters and since for them there is a small army taking care of everything like child care and so on, they assume it is similar for other people. This i
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I can imagine that the only folks saying yes would be folks on visa and those who cannot be without health insurance or those who like working for abusive folks (there is a not insignificant number who does prefer some level of abuse in the
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NFT bro burns $10M Frida Kahlo painting as mariachi band plays(pcgamer.com)
4 points by bongoman37 4y ago|4 comments
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by bongoman37 4y ago
The propagation of the species is too important to be left to rational choices. This is why places optimized for finding partners tend to have things like alcohol, dark lighting, flashing lights, loud music etc to subdue the neocortex. Thes
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I had a cop friend directly tell me that there is no point to telling an officer not to search your car. If he feels like it, he will call a K9 unit, and the with that he will have probable cause to search the car. I said what if the dog do
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by bongoman37 4y ago
This. A close friend of mine was diagnosed with stage III stomach cancer. He lost massive amounts of weight and I almost thought he was not going to make it. And a year later he is back at work and doing pretty well.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I think ads are the equivalent of resource curse [1] for Google. It is so successful that it is kind of like oil gushing from the ground funding all sorts of inefficiencies that otherwise would be unsustainable. [1] https://en.wi
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Just some regular banter got him fired. You could clearly see he was goofing off. I hope he gets a huge payday out of it.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Wow... how would you even know this? Whose wrath did I incur?
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Some girl was killed because she lacked enough haircover. Just reading this makes it seem so utterly insane. A living, breathing, person was killed for a piece of cloth. Shame on anyone who defends it in any way, and shame on a culture that
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Not just defund public schools, but legalize things like child porn and underage sex [1]. Purely local government is often shitty in the absence of any guardrail laws from a higher level. Small towns are filled with people who care for abso
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by bongoman37 4y ago
While a lot of people are looking at the claims in the article with skepticism, the claims are actually pretty run of the mill. US police does do these kind of things and worse fairly routinely, anybody who knows cops will find that they jo
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by bongoman37 4y ago
If the first test is positive, it is followed with a second, more sensitive test. It is not directly go to abort.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Those are complete non sequiturs. Being smart doesn't detract from being 'good'. People here aren't anti Apple CSAM reporting. They are against routine privacy invasion for people who have nothing to do with CSAM. I am s
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I used to work for a company that did this. The amount of location data out there and how easily it is available is mind boggling. And turning off GPS location on your mobile phone doesn't save you. You can get location data from telec
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Photography is usually explicitly forbidden in these spaces.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
This list seems incomplete. I've had the filter triggered on words like 'thong' as in thong slippers as well.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Sun dried cow shit is still used as a fuel source in India. You can even buy it on Amazon [1]. [1] https://www.amazon.in/Fresh-Cakes-Religious-Purpose-Handmade...
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Yea, and this is true for even countries which don't look like dictatorships like Thailand. Be careful about setting foot in those places after criticizing (even mildly) people leading them.
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De-extinction company sets its next (first?) target: The thylacine(arstechnica.com)
2 points by bongoman37 4y ago|0 comments
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by bongoman37 4y ago
What's atomic level shock testing? Sounds like marketingspeak.

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