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by dluan 3y ago
It's not an ad-hom to point out that "Hacker News" used to be populated by Hackers, who maintained an ethos of trying to take on unfair players. Maybe it was too long ago.
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by dluan 3y ago
I am honestly not that surprised anymore to see that HN commenters don't remember Microsoft or Oracle antitrust suits, or how Twitter rose to prominence, or etc x 1000. Laughable.
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by dluan 3y ago
Venture capital's failure to address this flaw in the past 3 decades has basically soured everyone - the fact that it's a great tool for handling high risk endeavors, and also happens to be an even better tool for finding and esta
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by dluan 3y ago
> There used to be coups all the time in Latin America. huh, why were there coups?
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by dluan 3y ago
Better to do science out in the open and let the results speak for themselves.
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by dluan 3y ago
Aside, what do you even do now if you are Tessier-Lavigne? Where do crooks go after they are caught but not properly punished? Some pharma company?
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by dluan 3y ago
The visual effects people and animators in Hollywood should absolutely be organizing for one, because their work is the soonest to be blown up with AI stuff. There's already a ton of stuff for small productivity improvements that reduc
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by dluan 3y ago
I don't like this. This reduces the scientist or designer to some small cog in the machinery, to the point where they are further alienated from their work. Remove the scientist and replace them with an algorithm doing some poor facsim
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by dluan 3y ago
jaeger has a history as a traditional alpine bitter of serving some sort of medicinal purpose. like chartreuse or absinthe, lots of the herbal ingredients inside sometimes helped soothe upset tummies, or in the case of wormwood, expel paras
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by dluan 4y ago
A list of VCs who did not learn game theory correctly
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by dluan 4y ago
you rule
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by dluan 4y ago
I wonder if you could treat it as kind of stateless, or maybe a ChatGPT-RDT could work.
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by dluan 4y ago
Solidarity usually means a specific action - e.g. joining a strike action, critical support, organizing, etc. Mutual aid usually means intra class action.
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by dluan 4y ago
The consensus within the progressive arm of the unions is that there should have been a walkout date for a shorter term agreement to keep negotiations going. The leadership only had one card to play and they burned it with terrible strategy
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by dluan 4y ago
The rank and file were reportedly all willing to strike, and even more so now that Biden has enforced the current rail agreement.
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by dluan 4y ago
You should look up what's happening with the situation first before spouting nonsense. Rail industry has been cutting the workforce and trying extract as much profit as they can knowing that it's in an unsustainable death spiral.
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by dluan 4y ago
A rail wildcat today would result in the national guard out, it just is not the same as it used to be.
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by dluan 4y ago
One of the big issues was that in this multi year negotiation process, union leaders were banking on Biden to support them favorably and so did not pursue any other backup plans or offers. They could have had a Plan B in place to strike or
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by dluan 4y ago
Also the markup font is a little wonky and `Ok` ends up looking like `0`.
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by dluan 4y ago
Nice writing style!
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Merge Conflicts – Git Tutorial(learngit.xyz)
1 points by dluan 4y ago|0 comments
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by dluan 4y ago
I have a thermos vacuum pot, and do stews and soups with it once a week where I just bring things to a boil and leave it in the insulated thing overnight. Oxtail soup, pork spareribs, chili, biryani, hunter's stew, etc. Helps it with g
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by dluan 4y ago
In August I was in southeast Alaska right when pinks were starting their run. I caught a salmon with my bare hands right out of the water, it was amazing. In Ketchikan's little waterways, there were so many salmon that it was mind-bogg
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by dluan 4y ago
Neil! Check out purpose ventures, based in Berlin and SF.
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by dluan 4y ago
A really good realistic sailing game.
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by dluan 5y ago
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1341534427227123713 the fact that i am more frequently having to dig up this tweet to show people lately is astonishing
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by dluan 5y ago
Why stop there? What if we even had a huge tent, available to workers from all around the world...
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by dluan 5y ago
I would not take anything Matt Yglesias says seriously, at all.
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by dluan 5y ago
It seems that in determining who first 'invented' CRISPR, the PTO has gone into lab notebooks as far back as 2012. https://twitter.com/jsherkow/status/1498413788994940928/phot...
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US PTO rules against Univ of California, argues that Broad Inst invented CRISPR(scribd.com)
217 points by dluan 5y ago|90 comments

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