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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Fun fact: the Japanese yen and Korean won are both cognates of "yuan". The character 圆 simply means "round" as in circular.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The yuan will never become a reserve currency as long as China maintain tight currency controls around importing and exporting it. It's very difficult to (legally) send CNY out or China. The euro is in a much better position to be adop
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The hallucinations here involve not dwarfs, but tiny people only a few inches tall.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Amanita muscaria is iconic because it's the shroomiest looking shroom that ever shroomed, but by all accounts A. muscaria intoxication is not particularly pleasant: > effects can range from mild nausea and twitching to drowsiness
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ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks(bbc.com)
14 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|4 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The favicon spec is a mess these days. The OG was 16x16 pixels, but now you're supposed to provide a whole slew of resolutions up to 192x192 and you can do SVG as well. And browsers have no consistency in how they pick the one to actua
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Context Bombs: stopping AI attackers in their tracks(agentic.tracebit.com)
2 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|0 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Aviation comes to mind. Most aviation regulations exist because people died. It's hardly a perfect system, but the problem is mostly that it's too conservative and risk aware, making it difficult to impossible to innovate and ig
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
It's kind of hard to take Kalshi out of this, since the whole premise for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority here is that Kalshi is a commodity futures trading exchange, not a gambling site.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Am I reading this right? The state of New York wants Kalshi to stop offering prediction gambling, excuse me, "event contracts" in New York, and the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission just ordered Kalshi to keep operating
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The realistic digital equivalent resolution of 4x5 film is around 40-50 megapixels, which iPhones have supported out of the box for a couple of years now. Of course there's a lot more to taking good pictures than the raw sensor, but wh
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Back in the day, the 4x5 (medium format film) experience requirement would have filtered out a lot of candidates. It was arty, weird and required expensive gear (Hasselblad or equivalent) and even more expensive film (around $1/exposur
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
A lot of the "feedback" below seems to consist of people complaining that this is not a comprehensive map, despite your site clearly saying it's a " curated atlas of notable passenger routes — not every railway on Eart
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Are you taking about World Train Map here? This whole subthread is about how it's not even trying to be comprehensive.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
World Train Map is, by design, a curated map of interesting passenger trains, not a comprehensive map. The problem with every comprehensive map I've seen is that they are way too comprehensive. If you look at Congo on https:/&#
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> "Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today," Trump said on Monday. "In those times, people were much healthier and of course the high rates of autism now observed did not exist.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
It does depend on the company and your role. Working a senior role at a FAANG in India is much nicer than junior roles in the local WITCHes (Wipro Infosys etc), which are notorious for their crap salaries and shitty labour practices.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
A "sponsor"? As in buys some ads? The Economist's take on AI is hardly uncritical.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The original Aalto stool, consisting of three pieces of bent wood and a circle, costs $479: https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/en-au/product/aalto-stool-... The IKEA copy, identical except that the circle is more o
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
"Computer says no" has been a trope of terrible customer service long before AI.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Can somebody give a ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is? I was always under the impression that it's just a dump of the "raw" uncompressed and uncorrected data coming from the sensors, meaning it's hardware de
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Until you get T-boned at an intersection, or a semi drifts into your lane, etc. At the end of the day, you can only control your own car, not the environment it's in.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Idea: it would be more interesting/competitive if you could immediately see others' submissions, and if those words were then "taken" and can't be reused. Currently you're just kind of twiddling your thumbs aft
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Discussion of the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The blog post has been retracted in full, for the very good reason that it apparently was in fact an astrology app complete with tarot readings and other (I quote) "occultist horseshit". https://daringfireball.net&#x2
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The USSR in 100 Photographs(trinixy.ru)
68 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|111 comments
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I couldn't have put it better myself (2016)(alexanderboot.com)
1 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|0 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
This already exists: in "Trip options", you can toggle between "Best route", "Fewer transfers", and "Less walking", as well as allow/block "Ride services" like Uber as a transport optio
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The economics of this fascinate me. There is absolutely no way selling paper copies of a single book (even/especially if it changes daily: what happens to unsold stock?) can cover the costs of ground floor retail store rental in the Gi
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
It's clunky, but still clear. They're building AI things (systems, solutions, harnesses, whatever) that can tackle big research problems.

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