chrisbaker98

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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
If only it was that easy.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? That book is extremely long. I haven't heard of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" but it might be this one from 2
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
According to some Sam Harris podcast I vaguely remember listening to years ago, publishers generally don't want to publish short (like <200 page) books because they don't make enough money. Longer books are more profitable beca
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
By whom?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Are you being ironic? I'm genuinely not sure if I understand what you're saying. You know the Twitter files have been released, right? Or has HN really done that good a job of burying discussion on them?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I think that ElonJet shouldn't have been banned and that Elon is behaving like a pathetic, petulant child, but if the recent bans bother you more than the fact that Twitter worked with the US security state to suppress a truthful and p
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> the policies of shadow banning and such were already mentioned and known. They were "known" in the same sense that everybody already "knew" that the US government spies on us before Snowden leaked the details. Twitt
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Please provide an example that actually happened of a "terrorist attack against drag queens".
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The problem with Yishan's analysis... > Both sides think the platform is institutionally biased against them. ... is that it could still be true that the platform is institutionally biased in one direction. Both sides could think
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
That sounds like the kind of thing that would be worth discussing on HN! Someone should submit it here if it happens, I can't imagine this site would bury it.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
For more on Dan Brown, see this hilarious parody: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-r...
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
And what makes it even funnier is that they all sound like they could be from a real Dan Brown novel.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I know, I was just using their metaphor.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Who says that person will work for you , or that it will be free?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Doesn't mean it's wrong.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The point is that their prices are less volatile than the prices of "real" cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
What does "incorporated against" mean?
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FTX’s inner circle had a secret chat group called ‘Wirefraud’(afr.com)
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Considering how terrible we already are at infosec (c/f all the zillions of times that huge companies who should know better have had enormous, embarrassing data leaks), I can't believe that we'll do a better job containing a
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
But you can control a human body. Plenty of intelligent people have spent their lives in chains. If a human intelligence is causing harm then we can make it stop by putting that intelligence's body in jail. I'm not sure what the e
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I have no experience with game programming. Why would you not want booleans when developing games?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Well we've been the dominant species on our planet for tens of thousands of years, so I'd say it's gone pretty well so far.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> I am not too familiar with ChatGPT None of us are, it's only been here a week.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Is "direct debit" not a thing in the US? All of my regular bills in the UK (mortgage, energy, water, internet, insurance, debt, probably some others I'm forgetting) are deducted automatically from my bank account every month.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Yeah, I read the post thinking "how on earth is this guy still falling for it? Everything about this screams scam, scam, scam, scam. Is he stupid or something?" If I'd come this close to falling for such an obvious scam I&#x2
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
From a purely selfish human point of view, how important are desert ecosystems to the overall health of the planet and the planet's ability to support human life? I feel like sacrificing the deserts to save the rainforests is a trade w
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Anki
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I don't get it. How do you know that GP is shadowbanned? The post looks just like a normal post to me; I'm not even sure what it means for it to be dead.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
How can you tell that someone is shadowbanned?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Looking at the size of the severance packages that Meta, Stripe etc. have been giving in recent downsizings, I think I'd rather be laid off.

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