drewcon

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by drewcon 3y ago
“The purpose of a system is what it does”
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by drewcon 3y ago
I think about this HN post about Boeing quality…a lot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671611
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by drewcon 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882358 From today on HN.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Yeah I have the same question. My understanding is they had to bring more coal online to offset shutting down nuclear. What gives?
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New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement(cnbc.com)
8 points by drewcon 3y ago|2 comments
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by drewcon 3y ago
I try this with my young kids with mixed results. They seem to have instant amnesia.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Was great to wake up to and learn we had PFAS air dropped on us.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Same exact story here. Happened when I was 17 at a concert. Too loud. Brain seemed to just stuff it away and emotionally I was fine (because I was young and dumb). “Came back” when I was in early 30s and devastated me for about 3-5 months w
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by drewcon 3y ago
“Perceived affordance” is the term I believe.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Apple should rebrand it as “Ask Jobs”
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by drewcon 3y ago
This is the equivalent of arguing that we instead invented sanitation to adapt to reality instead of sitting in our own shit and dying of cholera and opining about sanitation refugees.
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by drewcon 3y ago
As human being have been doing since the dawn of history.
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by drewcon 3y ago
I don’t know where you (or your nephew are) but you’re tremendously underplaying the human races ability to simply adapt.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Good thing you’re not a mouse.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Citation needed. These comments read like Reddit/TikTok. Lots of frantic fearful hand waving, not a lot of evidence presented.
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by drewcon 3y ago
I absolutely love going to the movies alone. One of life’s great gifts.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Some people are dead because of anything. Alone that is an entirely unuseful realization. We need adjusted hazard ratios to make rational comparisons.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Or, hear me out, watching terrorists kamikaze a few commercial airliners into a couple of buildings in downtown Manhattan and the Pentagon live on TV was actually kind of a nerve racking on its own irrespective of what the dissolved mineral
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by drewcon 3y ago
Setup Boston to Nantucket…and just print money.
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by drewcon 3y ago
Seems like they’re underpaid :)
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by drewcon 3y ago
CEO pay is a market rate. This is not much different than complaining about the price point of gas, or milk, or eggs. You can describe it as being too high in your opinion, or not worth it in your opinion, but that's completely differe
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by drewcon 4y ago
Isn’t this just…Darwinism? We could say the same thing about biological convergence in animals. The average vertebrate animal… Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one brain, two sexes, five digits, moving around on appendages. It converges becau
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by drewcon 4y ago
I’m not sure that’s accurate.
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by drewcon 4y ago
I defy you to describe race in certain terms.
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by drewcon 4y ago
Sad. Truly.
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by drewcon 4y ago
Is there any actual evidence that contamination travels to any meaningful degree? Hasn’t seemed to have any impact that I know of.
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by drewcon 4y ago
It’s doesn’t. Stay in target. I responded to ChatGPT being NFTs and chatbots all over again.
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by drewcon 4y ago
I have zero issue with this.
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by drewcon 4y ago
Not the giant Chinese balloon. There is no disagreement about that. The other 3.
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by drewcon 4y ago
My current theory (other than nefarious state actors) is that it’s somehow just industrial inflatable gas storage devices that got filled with lighter than air gas and took off. https://m.indiamart.com/proddetail/portab

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