delichon

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by delichon 10mo ago
Infected by a packet of ideas that profoundly alters your outlook on life, for good or ill like a mind virus. I've been shot several times, it's thrilling. For me it's always text that does it.
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I'm a Zionist.
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by delichon 10mo ago
I've known people one-shot by pure text, like Atlas Shrugged, The Communist Manifesto, The Bible, The Qur'an, The Selfish Gene, Godel Escher and Bach, etc. Don't underestimate text.
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Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health(nature.com)
4 points by delichon 10mo ago|1 comments
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To me those stats suggest that the Palestinians have a bigger advantage in making love than war. How do you think they encourage war?
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by delichon 10mo ago
Not today, but the fertily rate is 2.9 in Israel and 3.9 in Gaza. Even if demographics isn't quite destiny it's generally the way to bet.
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I worried about that too, but jumped in and it hasn't been an issue at all in two years. Including three bank apps. And it's usually so easy to reset to vanilla Android if you need to that it shouldn't be your moat.
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The Slavers Call for Reparations(pacificresearch.org)
4 points by delichon 10mo ago|2 comments
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> “The work we do is constantly changing,” Jacobs said. “It used to be that squatting was more of a homeless activity. Then it became more like organized crime. I’m kicking out a whole lot of gangs.” Badass hero.
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by delichon 10mo ago
> In the original comparison second category of people have much higher intellect than average. I think that intellect may sometimes be weakly and unreliably associated with some kinds of competence, but not with integrity, which is as i
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I have confidence in the US electoral system to select representatives of more than usual charisma, but not competence or integrity.
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by delichon 10mo ago
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” -- William F. Buckley. Now more than ever. See "Franchise" (1955) by I
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Are There Fourth Amendment Rights in Google Search Terms?(reason.com)
4 points by delichon 10mo ago|0 comments
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Well over a century after the commercialization of the Newcomen / Watt steam engines.
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They are building too many steam engines. It's a bubble that's going to pop and leave investors empty handed. There are only so many mines to pump water out of, mills to turn, textile machines to crank. And those industries have j
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The Unreported Story of Grid Scale Battery Fires(wattsupwiththat.com)
3 points by delichon 10mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 10mo ago
Push advertising sucks, but we can make pull much better by giving the user more control. Imagine a protocol to publish commercial offers for any given fragment of content addressable by URI. It would describe the details of some product or
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Murder is a far brighter line than hate, and therefore a law against it enables far less arbitrary power.
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We can learn useful rhetorical techniques from AI that can help us clearly communicate. We should separate those babies from the bathwater.
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by delichon 10mo ago
Apparently it isn't very hard to define as you just did so quite accurately. It's just whatever those who control the definition don't want to hear.
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Good enough.
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Why?
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Sharing isn't the right word when "negotiating" with a rapacious power that has all of the leverage. Seizing is.
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by delichon 10mo ago
Here are the result for this username, this title and this description: https://hn-ph.vercel.app/results/ZT06GF It got a 62, a C+, predicting that this won't be very viral. So you either didn't test this subm
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Nvidia is buying Groq for two reasons imo(twitter.com)
1 points by delichon 10mo ago|2 comments
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by delichon 10mo ago
When I read Rob's work and learn from it, and make it part of my cognitive core, nobody is particularly threatened by it. When a machine does the same it feels very threatening to many people, a kind of theft by an alien creature busil
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by delichon 10mo ago
Arizona, Lake Havasu, triple digit temperatures. We spent more time in the water than out of it. Us kids loved the flooded camp because of the tiny fish that would swim up and nibble on our toes. It tickled. The camp was boat access only, a
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My dad was a busy construction contractor. One summer he tore himself away from work and took the family to a week long boat camp out next to a big beautiful lake. It turned out that our campsite was actually in the lake by a few inches at
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https://foreignlegion.info/ranks/
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That's absurd emdash I work with AI constantly and have noticed no such durable lexical shift.

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