chiefalchemist

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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Punished? How? By who? All voices and opinions are not equal. If kids aren’t learning how to filter out the noise then yeah they’re playing in traffic. But once given the opportunity to learn they keep running into traffic. Self destructive
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Why wouldn’t vote history help? If I see a DV from a chronic DV’er that has no value. I’m not going to adjust my opinion / behavior because of some asshole. Along the same lines, if I say something less-than-flattering about say Google
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Yes, but the two go hand in hand. Michael Easter talks about it in The Comfort Crisis. He probably used a more technical term, but that term escapes me for the moment. In short, worry is relative. For example, we you have to focus on gettin
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Yes. And look where it has led us. Little by little. Easier than previously has become too easy too much of the time.
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
The constrain isn’t merely financial, it’s broader than that. Teenagers are less free because adults and society have bulldozed the adversity out of teen lives. This sheltering is creating generations that are more - not less - fragile. Gen
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
I’m of the belief that HN would benefit from showing a user’s up-votes and down-votes, and perhaps even the post that happened within. Also limit down votes per day, or at least make karma points pay for them. There is definitely an “uneven
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Merge Mozilla (including Firefox Relay, Mozilla VPN, etc ) with FastMail or Proton, price it reasonably and I’d be on board. If it worked well I’d recommend it to anyone I could. I understand email isn’t easy but it difficult to imagine why
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Put another way, OpenAI has acquired an ally and it is in that ally’s best interest to act in ways that increases OpenAI’s share price, or at least the ally avoids contributing to any decreases. I’d like to be a fly on the news room wall(s)
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Books such as: “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” and “Stand Out of Our Light” might not change your mind, but you’re likely to end up realizing customer data hovering is more of a driver of modern business decisions than you realize. To
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
To be fair, it’s not a conspiracy if it actually happens. It’s surprising how often this type of reasoning is still so common.
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Very nice. Maybe? When do you expect to have an alternative to Google sign-in? The free beta is helpful, but without some idea of that pricing might be eventually, investing resources in a possible commitment is too high a bar for many. Oth
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
> The massive Ice Age lake roughly 100 miles long and 600 feet deep dried up between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago as the climate warmed in present-day Death Valley National Park, A perfect example of what the Al Gore climate change gets
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
I believe this font does https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Lately I’ve become a fan of: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible Mainly for its attention to detail. It’s careful to make it obvious when it matters. For example, O and 0, lower case L and 1, and ot
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Thank gawd. Flash, gawd bless it, was a low point in internet history. People simply couldn’t resist misusing it and abusing it. I’m not blaming the tool per se. But Flash’s addictiveness caused reasonable people to make gawd-awful UI and U
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Why hasn’t anything evolved to prey on them? Given all the calories they could provide.
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
It was my comment. Thanks, cause I see plenty of NH treads that go completely off topic and there are too few down votes for that. In any case, 12M years a long time for a species to survive, let alone survive “as is”. It makes me think of
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Eventually we’ll have autonomous vehicles which will mitigate many of these issues, but will the surveillance infrastructure then be reduced? Probably not. War is peace. Surveillance is safety.
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
> Global changes have since driven many other giant animals to extinction, but anacondas grow just as big today. But why? Why have anacondas - and sharks? - been immune to evolving? Why hasn’t a significant predator evolved - or invaded?
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Get a hard case. Rip out the foam and replace it with something more insulation-y. Now you have a cooler, a cooler that’ll keep the cold out instead of in.
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by chiefalchemist 10mo ago
Have you looked at micro.blog? Plans start at $1 per month.
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by chiefalchemist 11mo ago
Allow me a second to play Devil’s Advocate. What if it could? Or should (be able to produce FTE or close income)? In that world, the amount of pointless shite - questing to “go viral” - would be reduced to near zero. That is, if the incenti
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by chiefalchemist 11mo ago
This has been the best thing the government has ever done for Brazil's poorest by far,” according to Márcio Garcia, an economics professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. A single centralized system? Controlled by
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by chiefalchemist 11mo ago
What you’re failing to acknowledge is the public was right. It was “leadership” across the board that failed. It’s been documented and continues to be documented. It’s simply not advertised, else the lack of trust gap would widen and be mor
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by chiefalchemist 11mo ago
My standing statement is: The idea of a pandemic was so well established that Hollywood made multiple bad movies about the idea. The other key piece that gets magically brushed aside is that there was a pandemic during the Obama administr
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by chiefalchemist 1y ago
The issue with addiction is, it’s very often a symptom of other underlying issues. Relapse are common because too often the underlying problem isn’t treated. Overcoming the addiction is hard because it means facing the thing the addiction a
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by chiefalchemist 1y ago
There are 3 Definitive Rules of Trust: 1) Trust is earned. 2) If it’s not earned, it’s not Trust (or trust). Full stop. 3) Once lost, regaining Trust takes 5x to 10x - sometimes perhaps even more - effort to earn it back. No matter how you
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by chiefalchemist 1y ago
Editorial: If things weren’t stupid enough, Ars Technica drops another headline / title unworthy of a high school newspaper. Sadly these stupid “journalists” believe they’re doing journalism. Worse, a high percentage of the public - ye
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by chiefalchemist 1y ago
The irony of your no-value-adding comment should not be lost.
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by chiefalchemist 1y ago
And who coached the kid to listen to the chatbot? I'm not being malicious, or trolling, etc. But for the parents to say, "We suspected NOTHING" just doesn't hold water.

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