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by cryptoz 5y ago
"FWIW", the last president declared that climate change was a hoax invented by China to make the US weaker. I don't know about "official position of any political office" but "climate change is a hoax" (or
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by cryptoz 5y ago
While that is a part of it, I have also heard that the virality was somewhat forced by journalists writing about wordle endlessly: as fans of word games themselves, journalists boosted its popularity in the earlier days, driving a lot of th
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I used to think that, but no longer. Many of them are true believers in flat earth, and also, are convinced of hundreds of other things that aren't true either. Sure lots are trolls. But there are lots and lots (majority of the movemen
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Instagram stole @sussexroyal from a real user, and gave it to some entitled "royals" who used the account for like a year before dropping it. So annoying how your handle isn't your handle, it's the company's, and th
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> everything built up a nice 1-2 inches of ice so power went out. Again way worse than tornadoes. Somewhere around 100 people died just last night in these tornados. I think your couple inches of ice and power outage and fences in cars
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Mayfield, KY Catastrophic Tornado damage- First light drone(youtube.com)
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Right but you can't climb that. The author's math ignores the real context of climbing and uses a google search for the math. But no climber can climb the full altitude due to the physical geography. There's nobody that can r
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by cryptoz 5y ago
A good article, I appreciate all the discussion on prompts too. However the author is a bit too underestimating of the language model and math: > GPT-3 is quick to learn that the narratives should include these comparisons, but often get
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Fantastic link, thanks for that. Got me even more excited for JWST!
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I have started to wonder, will it ever be possible to 'see' the big bang? How close can we get to measuring that far back? From what I've seen JWST will be able to peer back to just a few hundred million years after the big b
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Macromedia Flash era was the best for authoring IMO. But I was just a hobbyist, didn't use it professionally.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I've lived on the 2nd and 3rd floors of triplexes in the plateau and it was one of the best living experiences I've had. Really awesome location, price, size, etc.
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> but I want to see all that fleshed out properly before I dive into it and leverage it. Why? Why wait for a while? Why is "leveraging" your goal for it? What does this even mean? 20 years ago were you waiting for things to get
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Why not? I've found this advice to be harmful. Lots of extreme malice happens under the cover of incompetence.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
It's like this in Tacoma, WA right now. An Uber or Lyft may never arrive. 5-10 cancelled drivers before the car arrives is normal. A notice saying "No cars available" is shown 70-80% of the time for XL size cars. Often it tak
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Well, we did have a need for it but we just chose to ignore that need. Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> But I'm at a loss as to how this situation could blossom into something so ridiculous. This is one of the least ridiculous things Republicans have done in the last few years.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> Taxes are higher in Europe, which disincentivizes risk taking and ambitious individuals. This seems backwards to me. A society with higher taxes typically has better social safety nets, better infrastructure, less corruption, etc. High
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Advanced Civilizations Could Use Their Stars to Communicate (and as Telescopes)(universetoday.com)
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Giving $80M to each side in a war is no lock on a smart solution. Such a move could easily worsen the war, destroy the tanker anyway, and anger from millions towards whoever's give that 'gift'. There is potential direct loss
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Users correcting the weather in-app is a huge curiosity of mine. I first blogged about that like 8 years ago for a now-defunct project: http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2013/12/locally-crowdsourced-weat... I have also r
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by cryptoz 5y ago
There isn't enough info in the article to know exactly what is happening, but the problem with most of these systems (my first attempt 10 years ago, or Dark Sky, others as well) is that they use existing rainfall and wind speed to make
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Well this is the coolest thing I've seen in weather tech in a while. I wonder if they will pair this with additional city-level data collection - anemometers/mini weather stations on the sides of buildings, etc. I'm the barom
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Red Covid: Covid’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme(nytimes.com)
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California is running out of water(calmatters.org)
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Been wondering when this kind of thing will exist and be normalized. Idle thoughts, what happens if you swallow one? Seems possible and not good.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Related, Google Pay and GPay are totally different apps by Google on my phone. So confusing.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> Social media has never harmed me How do you know that? This isn't something you can typically know for your self with any degree of confidence. > To this day I check in on social media once in a while You've got a lot of
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This is brought up all the time. There is frequently huge opposition from locals anywhere regarding increasing housing supply.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
This isn't off-topic for HN. We've always had 1) submarine posts (aha, I mean both meanings here haha), 2) military strategy posts, 3) $40B deal-falling-apart posts, and even 4) war escalation posts. There's even a prized tec

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