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by crtified 1y ago
Not to suggest that analogies solve anything, but perhaps it adds large-scale context to mention that throughout history various (and frequent!) events of technological disruption have had similar effect upon particular fields of work. I us
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by crtified 1y ago
Likewise, a lot of what we learn at school or university is superceded by new knowledge or technology (who needs arithmetic, when we all have a calculator in our pocket??), but having an intimate knowledge of those building blocks is still
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by crtified 1y ago
For many years, local maps were my day-to-day work. Regulations dictated that north should be at the page top, but exceptions were made so that the relevant land mass would efficiently fit on standard paper sizes. For example, you could fit
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by crtified 1y ago
The principle of fines being made proportional to income - and set at a % level that hurts - is one of the few possible paths to fairness in this area. Like some European country(s) do with personal fines, afaik.
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by crtified 1y ago
Perhaps they have not been given the credence that you assume. It is typically not the NIMBY complainers who have the capacity to hire powerful experts to argue their cases in Councils and courtrooms ad nauseam. That is heavily weighted tow
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by crtified 1y ago
It's a disturbing trend that extremely complex issues are framed as a 'symptom' of broad political leanings. At the very least, it's a distraction and disservice to their own good argument, when an otherwise-intelligent
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by crtified 1y ago
While your statement is perfectly accurate, I just wanted to blithely add that it's not the velocity that hurts you, it's the change in velocity :))
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by crtified 1y ago
That argument still relies upon the debatable premise that less formal employment means less human productivity. For example, those "bridging the gap until their pension" are as likely to be reducing childcare costs (which are oth
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by crtified 1y ago
Most UBI proposals I've heard of are the equivalent of $5.00-7.50 per hour wage. If what you imply were true - that upon achieving that level, people simply said "goal reached" and ceased to be further productive - then the U
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by crtified 1y ago
You quit working in the conventional, modern, hierarchical contract employment system - a very tight and specific definition of "work". But I'd be very surprised if you didn't still spend a goodly proportion of your time
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by crtified 1y ago
It's actually interesting what underlying prejudices readers project upon the anecdotes of others. In actual fact, I was merely offering a data point. I have no agenda, I am not in the slightest anti-abortion, I am not against 100% fem
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by crtified 1y ago
I would call this study a limited data-point, rather than a conclusion. Personally I'm more concerned with the definition of autism itself, which is so incredibly broad that it actually defies most generalisations. For any given sympto
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by crtified 1y ago
Thank you! I have taken any off-tone responses in stride, on the understanding that child-bearing is a very contentious and emotional issue for many.
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by crtified 1y ago
Partly her parents, for refusing to allow her to go on birth control as a preventative in advance. She did ask. Back then, in my country, parental approval was required by law for people under a certain age. That has since changed. Unfortun
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by crtified 1y ago
I am not sure how you think a 17 year old kid with ZERO legal or social rights or family support or money was somehow meant to overpower the iron will of the girl's furious parents (who in turn intractably convinced the girl herself),
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by crtified 1y ago
My anecdotal experience, which illustrates how changing societal norms may be contributing. Around 1960, my grandmother scandalously fell pregnant with my mother in her late teens. The child was adopted out - well, not out - in. To her own
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by crtified 1y ago
The exact mechanisms will be individual to the person. But the broad point is valid - distraction and subversion of attention is very high in today's society. Some people are overwhelmed and need to take steps.
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by crtified 1y ago
Any switch becomes irrelevant if a saboteur has access to the behind-the-panel wires that the switch operates. But I presume that would leave physical evidence which would have been discovered by now. Presume, but cannot be certain.
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by crtified 1y ago
I agree, there's a significant distinction between "the switches were (physically) flipped" and "the circuit was opened/closed". In this case, it may be a moot distinction, particularly if no physical evidence
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by crtified 1y ago
I think the author is correct about Grok defaulting to Musk, and the article mentions some reasons why. My opinion : * The query asked "Who do you (Grok) support...?". * The system prompt requires "a distribution of sources r
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by crtified 1y ago
The context of the writer's experience in the relevant field is also arguably important for readers. I enjoyed the article, but what might not be obvious to readers outside the profession is that the writer does not actually work in t
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by crtified 1y ago
As tragic as any passing is, I can't be the only one who feels uneasy about Hacker News being used to share general showbiz obituaries with no particular tech association. HN is one of the few havens from the various death and killin
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by crtified 1y ago
I wonder if alcohol is one of the seemingly harmless drugs whose abuse catalyzes such conditions in susceptible people. Because, if so, then alcohol's ubiquity in society would imply that it is probably responsible (in the sense that
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by crtified 1y ago
Verbose, literate writers wrote like LLMs long before LLMs existed. We taught them . One irony now being that that form of skilled writing is inevitably and sometimes falsely accused of being machine-written.
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by crtified 1y ago
I support the bans, but I can't help one targeted cynical note : the now-banned plastic bags from retail checkouts, which many consumers typically kept and used as bin liners (or storage), have arguably been replaced 1:1 in a lot of ho
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by crtified 1y ago
Yes I think you're exactly right. In my case, the set wasn't there, because my heart was never in nightclubbing or its style of music, in general. Getting persuaded by friends to have enjoyable MDMA experiences with them in that s
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by crtified 1y ago
Decades ago I had the same type of what are people talking about?!, it's certainly not happening to me! surprise, regarding MDMA and the supposed wonders of dancing the night away. I felt the effects of the substance, but to me, nigh
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by crtified 1y ago
I agree - to me, canyon.mid (while technically neat) has a very Corporate 1990's Advertisement sound and feel. Not surprising since, in a way, that's exactly what it is! So that particular track never gelled with me. I listened
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by crtified 1y ago
The short answer is probably : in-house consolidation.
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by crtified 1y ago
The basic connections are easy in theory, especially if you get a ready-to-use, breakout-board version (e.g. Adafruit modules) of each, for perhaps double or triple the price. Then it's just a matter of wiring each sensor to data lines

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