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by dqpb 5y ago
It’s interesting. Our actions have been too weak to stop the pandemic, but strong enough to destabilize our economy and social systems. I imagine our response to climate change will be the same. Either we won’t do anything, or we’ll do enou
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by dqpb 5y ago
China seems to be doing great. Economy is way up, Covid cases almost non-existent, decisive education reforms, strong new military alliances. Based on the news being fed to me, it’s almost as if the pandemic didn’t even happen to them.
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by dqpb 5y ago
You’re being a little too cryptic.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris is pretty good, although he posts much less frequently than Lex Fridman.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Thank you, fixed it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
- China's economy grows 18.3% in post-Covid comeback [0] - New cases January 1st, all of China: 191 [1] With luck like this, they’ll never need to go to war. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-5676866
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Ask HN: How does China have so few Covid cases?
4 points by dqpb 5y ago|4 comments
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by dqpb 5y ago
Can you also comment on her claim that Delta was a lab leak?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> the rate limit doesn't distinguish between submissions and comments I'm not running into rate limits on comments, or submissions without links. I'm only running into rate limits on submissions with links.
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by dqpb 5y ago
When I saw that editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth is from UC Berkeley, everything made sense. Edit: I'm not trolling. The people I know from UC Berkeley are much more primed to see racism (including where it doesn't exist) than the pe
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by dqpb 5y ago
I also find the up/down voting to provide very little value.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> But the editorial section is about 3% of the magazine You do realize that this is exactly what woke cancel culture does right? It cherry picks something offensive that someone said and then cancels the entire person.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Read the article! > a period of exciting growth suddenly grinds to a halt once scalpers corner precious digital property and keep it out of the hands of those who actually want to play the damn game It’s a “crisis” in the context of the
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by dqpb 5y ago
Is there a very active community on second life?
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by dqpb 5y ago
I was being facetious. But in my defense, if it turns out that religion is false, then religion really is a prime example of Firehose of Falsehood. But I suppose it’s a protected class of firehose. Anyway, @dang while I have you here, can y
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by dqpb 5y ago
The Countermeasures listed strike me as insufficient mitigation. I think it’s pretty clear that Twitter/FB/Reddit etc are fundamentally prone to this kind of DDOS. Globally writable lists/trees are probably just the wrong dat
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by dqpb 5y ago
What do you mean?
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by dqpb 5y ago
Let me get this straight, the fact that there are multiple plausible lab-leak scenarios makes the entire question less credible than if there was only one plausible lab-leak scenario? I would invite you to think about that a little longer.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Interesting. So the Buddha was a micro-managing prick, just like everyone else.
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by dqpb 5y ago
If that’s true for you then you’re probably better off staying away from it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> Web3 is a name without being a thing. Then it’s just as meaningless to argue against it as it is to argue for it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
There are actually two rooms. A big one full of people who barely know what a data structure is, yelling about whether or not Web3 is a Ponzi scheme. And a much smaller room where Engineers are actually building things.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Which is important if you’re talking about whether lay people should buy random crypto. It’s totally irrelevant if you’re talking about the potential of the technology.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> 38 people The number of people whose info can fit on 2 floppy disks.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Python
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by dqpb 5y ago
> A lot of b2b software is quite simply garbage Netsuite is so terrible it boggles the mind.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Play-to-earn would be a coherent concept if the playing produced something of value. HN is play-to-earn. Except all you earn is worthless non-exchangeable karma.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> bullshit jobs is a term for jobs that have not yet been automated Bullshit jobs are jobs that do not produce value
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Ask HN: What tools do people use for Computational Economics?
2 points by dqpb 5y ago|1 comments
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by dqpb 5y ago
Correcting 'mistakes' - children help their peers.

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