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by cainxinth 3mo ago
Here's a tip for doing this while traveling: If you need quick help on the street from a stranger in a country where you don't speak the language, don't open by asking if they speak your language. People will almost invariabl
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How Corporations Convinced America That Litter Is Our Fault(currentaffairs.org)
1 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|1 comments
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When Cybercriminals Hire Burglars(cnn.com)
2 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Donk-Ing of a Truth Machine(nytimes.com)
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
SM: AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T PC: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core ($170) - SM: AMD RDNA3 28CUs 8 GB PC: AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB ($280) - SM: 16GB DDR5 PC: 2 x 8 GB DDR5-5600 CL40 ($225) - SM: 512GB NVMe SSD PC: Samsung 870 Evo 500 GB 2.5&quo
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
When the U.S. first legalized pharmaceutical ads on TV, one of the requirements was that the drug companies had to disclose side effects during the ads. The companies chafed at that, thinking it would make the drugs less appealing, and only
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Infamous Front-Running Crypto Bot Gets Tricked and Drained for $7.5M(gizmodo.com)
4 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|0 comments
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
> When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, their answers didn’t correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people. The only trait that consistently predicted o
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The Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time(nytimes.com)
20 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|5 comments
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
79k. Missed three from the last group: Vagitus, Yarborough, and Quire.
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Wordle's Hard Mode Is Easier, 730M Games Show(nytimes.com)
1 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|0 comments
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How trust funds made the modern world(springbett.substack.com)
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
I wouldn’t have thought that black text on a lavender background would make for pleasing reading, but it was actually quite nice.
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
I’m almost fully converted, except my Gen 1 AirPod pros are somehow still kicking and thus I still need a Lightning cable.
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
> One of my clients has insane style guides, plural. I’m talking about 500-page documents detailing the proper way to format quotes and the one true way to insert footnotes. That’s absurd overkill.
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You Can Make Free Money on Polymarket. If You Know Math(nytimes.com)
7 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Measured Listener(lareviewofbooks.org)
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Humans vs. Bots – Who Does the Em Dash Better?(nytimes.com)
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The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer(thebaffler.com)
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
> If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property and ahead of pensions.
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Still Out of Control(kevinkelly.substack.com)
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Mathematics Is Out There(aeon.co)
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World Railway Map [pdf](zhaoxusui.github.io)
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
Claude Haiku 4.5 results with 60% fewer tokens. Sounds good, but they don't list token costs.
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Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us. (They Even Nap.)(nytimes.com)
4 points by cainxinth 4mo ago|0 comments
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by cainxinth 4mo ago
Absolutely. If packaging and marketing stopped mattering so much once the public already knows a product well, Coca-cola could have stopped spending so much on their brand a long time ago.
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Why Would Someone Publicly Burn $8M Worth of Bitcoin?(gizmodo.com)
4 points by cainxinth 5mo ago|0 comments
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NBA to use AI for automatic out-of-bounds calls, Silver says(reuters.com)
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Constant Pressure System(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cainxinth 5mo ago
No one is claiming that OS is as good. They are saying it isn't that far behind SOTA commercial products. So why pay exorbitantly just to get something only a few percent better than the free option? But there have been very good open

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