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by dluan 2y ago
Facebook somehow acquiring 小红书 would actually be a prescient move, but even that era seems forever ago.
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by dluan 2y ago
HN only works when you have a working assumption that people commenting here are smarter than you. It encourages respect and good faith engagement of content, instead of ad hom, concern trolling, and cargo culting. It's been years sinc
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> Most people there will have difficulty independently learning about cybersecurity. Speaking from my own limited anecdata, but since the 90s in order to use the internet in China you basically had to be somewhat proficient in "cybe
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by dluan 2y ago
Imagine putting a cute little bike rack on top of the cute little roof.
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by dluan 2y ago
Cause it's not an SUV! It's a tiny cute little bug mobile. Considering the Fiat E was around the same ballpark price and people somehow bought those over 14 years ago, I think there would've been a market simply because there
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by dluan 2y ago
The only thing I am truly desirous of in life is that Honda E! Am so bummed they won't actually mass produce it. The next best thing would be plopping a Tesla powertrain into a Nissan Figaro. China has some adorable small EVs right now
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Right-Sized Ambition(davidlang.substack.com)
2 points by dluan 2y ago|0 comments
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by dluan 2y ago
I've been studying again for the past 6 months after going probably 10 years without putting in any effort. I quickly picked it back up, breezing through HSK 2 and 3, and now just about to be at HSK 5 soon. At times it feels daunting j
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by dluan 2y ago
lmao amazing
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by dluan 2y ago
you might not know, but the science on this method is settled. economists have run so many trials and experiments on this.
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by dluan 2y ago
yes this is very basic economics. this is literally the "draw a supply and demand curve" example and intro 101 economics classes talking about elasticity and substitution. or you can model it using elementary game theory.
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by dluan 2y ago
Here's a thread breaking down showing how it they managed to get the viral transporter to self-regulate and "turn itself off" after target gene silencing in the brain: https://x.com/cureffi/status/18
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by dluan 2y ago
Eric and Sonia are incredible human beings hellbent on a mission. Awe inspiring.
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by dluan 2y ago
I ripped out webpacker and replaced it with esbuild in a big legacy rails app for the front end, probably 2-3 years ago, and its been fantastic and I haven't looked back. It's more or less made front end bundling an afterthought.
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by dluan 2y ago
What happens when we reach the tip of bundling? Once you're in ms territory (like esbuild is), then what are the really creative things you can do if say every browser had a little WASM mako or some bundler in it? It's very cool t
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by dluan 2y ago
but steve gets celebrated when he did it
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Science or Authority? By Alenka ZupančIč(e-flux.com)
1 points by dluan 2y ago|0 comments
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by dluan 2y ago
It is a tool with many uses. Sailors and early pioneers who couldn't carry water for long distances used ale to to stay hydrated. The same sailors were given a daily tot of rum to maintain morale. Many medicinal compounds and molecules
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by dluan 2y ago
"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette" This is like asking "is a hammer healthy?" Alcohol is a tool. It evolved alongside humans as human social needs changed, like kava in a circle of elders or tobacco in
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by dluan 2y ago
Scientists have been obsessed with over-optimzing for FOMO for the past decade - what papers should I read that I don't have time for, what grants should I apply for that I don't know about, what projects should I work on that wil
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by dluan 2y ago
Road-that-becomes-road has now joined bridge-truck-that-becomes-bridge on my list of awesome and recursive construction widgets.
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by dluan 2y ago
depends on time and place. its true that now there is less dependence on foreign internet and you can now be fully decoupled from english internet with the number of domestic apps. most people only use a VPN now just to access email (e.g. g
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by dluan 2y ago
ultimately, china operates on an entirely separate internet that the NSA can't get access to without having to be explicit about it in some very public way. when reddit removed their warrant canary, it was seen as just a cost of doing
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by dluan 2y ago
in practicality it doesnt matter because you can easily circumvent it with a VPN and nearly every single person does
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by dluan 3y ago
Now this is ~~pod racing~~, uh, game theory
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by dluan 3y ago
> If you equate your wealth with virtue, you tend to equate poverty with vice, and the enemies of the homeless routinely portray them as criminals. The assumption that Bob Lee was murdered by the underclass rather than one of his own spe
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by dluan 3y ago|1 comments
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"dont be evil"
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by dluan 3y ago
PG had a rule of no politics, even though he made many political donations and made unjustful imprisonment and overturning the death penalty one of his pet projects. Michael Seibel, Geoff Ralston, and Sam Altman were all very apolitical CEO
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by dluan 3y ago
man, these comments are something. hacker news is scary now.

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