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by brandall10 1y ago
You can do this with the "free dialog" option from the beginning. The only issue with this is you do have to reference the actual lesson material to that point, so it's more of a review piece. That said, my impression is gett
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It's not that complex, there was nothing technical here. You could say this was 'social engineering' at some level. She pushed back against access to the customer list claiming privacy laws as a shield. JPMorgan was overly ea
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by brandall10 1y ago
She pushed back on any direct vetting of the list using privacy laws as a shield and JPMorgan didn't challenge it due to competitive pressure to get the deal done ASAP. Clearly, if only 10% of the list was real, it would be pretty easy
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There's a newer app I use called Natulang, developed by a Ukranian software dev to solve this problem for themself, which is entirely speaking focused w/ AI support and aims to get a person to a B2 level over 360 lessons w/ a
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One thing I like to do with sr+ engineers who will feel burned by a decision - esp. those very publicly against it - is to lead with some sort of concession... maybe a project they expressed interest in, greenlight for a week to research so
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There is a great documentary called “The Century of the Self”, which is about the rise of consumerism in lockstep with politics in the United States. The initial primary focus is Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who is known as the
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by brandall10 1y ago
I have a generic slim GAN charger that does a similar stepdown, 65W -> 45W. Different form factor, but same 80g weight. Peak power tends to last about 10 minutes or so.
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by brandall10 1y ago
Check out Japanese knives. The Tojiro DP I got for an inflation adjusted $75 is a dramatically better knife than that Victorinox.
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No, this century. The majority of the building was built over the past 25 years. The last 15 years in particular have been a speed run to finish it.
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To be fair, many cathedrals in the past took well over 100 years to build (ie. Notre Dame @ 182 years), and it wasn't an unusual idea at the time construction started that it could take this long. Of course one would think modern metho
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I've been twice, and unfortunately it was cloudy on my second trip. The difference light quality makes to the experience is remarkable, and I implore anyone that visits to ensure you go at the right times on a clear sunny day. You may
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I agree repression has always existed in the U.S, but the difference is scale. In WWI the country was smaller, less centralized, and suppression was cruder - local violence, language bans, mobs. By WWII the U.S. was far larger, more cohesiv
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They also tend to put the 'other' in them. My argument is that New Deal policies paved the way - culturally, institutionally, legislatively - for the United States to quickly mobilize for war, which also significantly reduced the
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To the larger public they were the opposite of that... a clean, uncluttered alternative to MySpace that had none of its social baggage, in spite of its DNA which was clearly unknown during the early phases of social media.
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Communism is far left, fascism far right. Both often slide into totalitarianism, which commonly includes camps. FDR’s era, the furthest left the U.S. has been, true to form had this element... showing how concentrated state power, left or r
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by brandall10 1y ago
Just for clarification, you've had 3 jobs in the past 2 years? Were some of these contracts? Otherwise oof, that sounds like volatility only worth dealing with if one really needs an income, esp. considering the signal for prospective
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by brandall10 1y ago
It's not the mode so much as the comparative efficiency. In a handful of keystrokes you can launch a commonly used app in under a second. Any type of visual browsing mode is going to take an order of magnitude more time/effort. Fo
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You’re free to dislike sports, but that doesn’t make their economic and cultural impact disappear. I’ll bow out here.
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It’s a wild argument that entertainment does not provide practical value for society. It absolutely, unequivocally does. It’s an overwhelming driver of capitalism and consumer behavior, and it also provides real social and cultural cohesion
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If you're taking that standpoint, then all entertainment has zero practical value. Game devs/studios, actors/movie studios, musicians, board game designers, etc, etc - all worthless. Would you prefer they all do this work out
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Let's not pretend there aren't multitudes out there doing similar things who never get caught. SBF was just more egregious and untimely w/ his actions.
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Just to be clear, I'm comparing it to the linked research and any notions of naturally induced states. To me, it's similar to that early part of the trip where you get tired and feel like you want to take a nap, only to find that
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I still own it, just go through phases of using it and forgetting about it. The biggest drawback is time as the sessions are between 10-60 minutes. In recent years I've used it to help induce sleep when I'm having issues there. It
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It's one of the terms used to describe the eyes-closed visuals one can get on a psychedelic trip. It's a bit of a misnomer in this case as light helps induce it but the effect is similar.
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More effective? No. Just a ballpark state similar to the article, which I believe is more like the initial come up where you still have the ability to snap back to reality. Quite efficiently and reliably. Can't edit my OP but the cavea
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That is a valid point, I already had significant experience with the drug when I purchased one. That said, I was still shocked at how quickly and effectively it worked the first I used it and how reliably it worked despite whatever state I
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FWIW, I used to use a light and sound machine (Mindplace Procyon) and was able to induce these states with minimal effort. And I had a couple dozen experiences w/ psilocybin in my college years, so I'm well versed in what they sho
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Sure, we can argue all the we want as to who 'pays', but the ultimate goal is to apply pressure to the importer to take another route.
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It’s fundamentally how tariffs work. The importer pays the cost. If it’s a finished good to a consumer, they pay the full amount. If it’s a finished good to a retailer, it’s the wholesale cost. If it’s on components used domestically, it’s
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There's also a middle ground, where you have the AI generate PR reviews and then review them manually. So that 2 minutes of code you spat out (really more like 5-10 using CC) takes another hour or three to review, and maybe 5 to 10 mor

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