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by dwd 4mo ago
I always thought the TV show Ozark was fairly accurate in it's depiction of money laundering. The family would buy a small business that they could inject cash and cook the books with fake sales.
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by dwd 4mo ago
Can we just say it was basically vibe coded, but with real humans in the loop? Version 5 was when the source material dried up, and the hallucinations became more frequent and obvious. As far as I remember there was a basic outline of major
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by dwd 4mo ago
Given he posted this comic in 2008, Randall Munroe was way ahead of the ball on the idea of autonomous agents.
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by dwd 4mo ago
Maynard Keynes posited a future 15 hour work week in 1930 based on the productivity gains after WW1, nearly 100 years ago now. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
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by dwd 4mo ago
And yet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
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by dwd 4mo ago
Back in the days when launching a website was an event, and sometimes included junket trips to attend.
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by dwd 4mo ago
It depends. If you own a single block dwelling and have a yard with trees, plants, lawns or a pool there are always things to do. $500/year for the garden is very conservative, even when you're doing all the labour. It would be mo
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by dwd 4mo ago
"Other products" is quite a long list, though there's more a link between a high intake of refined sugars that promote particular bacteria that can damage the lining. Still often the same products to avoid or minimise. We&#x2
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by dwd 4mo ago
Always wonder whether this fits with Jeff Hawkin's "Reference Frames" where he ties movement to learning and understanding - and I would also say creativity.
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by dwd 4mo ago
React was a major improvement over Backbone + Marionette. Pre-jQuery was a shit-show as they hadn't even standardised the DOM. Before that was XMLHttpRequest (particularly during my .Net WebForm days) and even had to use the ActiveXObj
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by dwd 4mo ago
Groupon? Did an IPO with a 12.7b valuation and was mostly dead within a year.
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by dwd 5mo ago
Joined Usenet in 1990 and for a few years it was great. I always wonder whether HN suffers from periodic influxes of newbies who don't get it yet and rile up the regulars.
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by dwd 5mo ago
"Sun as a sympathetic victim". Isn't this Sun YuChen, who has been dogged by crypto scam accusations for years?
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by dwd 5mo ago
They're often polymaths - generalists who are very competent across the fields they touch on but not necessarily the best. It is their ability to reach across multiple fields simultaneously or bring together experts in those fields tha
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by dwd 5mo ago
As would Neil Armstrong.
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by dwd 5mo ago
The few iconic blue police boxes that are left also need to be protected.
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by dwd 5mo ago
I would think right-handedness is largely reinforced through learning gross motor skills as an infant. If you always use your right, your brain optimises for that. I wonder whether something simple like being allowed to select and use an ob
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by dwd 5mo ago
Interestingly, playing left-handed in "field" hockey is actually illegal for safety reasons and left-handed sticks don't exist.
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by dwd 5mo ago
As someone who is fairly ambidextrous, but predominately a lefty - the things that are harder to switch between are some of the gross motor skills. For example, throwing (or kicking) with your non-preferred side is not as simple as picking
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by dwd 5mo ago
From reading his journals the editor of the Corsair publicly mocked him and used the paper to hide behind (in the name of journalism). His lamentations on journalism are very much due to this personal attack and he does name the perpetrator
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by dwd 5mo ago
Your knees will thank you when you're older. Wife currently has a knee issue and the physio has her doing more hip bridges and lunges to build up the supporting muscles. Had a hamstring injury that caused issues by compensating for it
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by dwd 5mo ago
The US learnt this lesson over 80 years ago with the simultaneous attacks on Pearl Harbour, Guam, Wake, Midway and the Philippines. The difference is these days satellite surveillance makes it harder to secretly move military forces into pl
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by dwd 5mo ago
Gemini seems to understand irony better than most people. If you make a joke it will respond with a deadpan sarcastic wit that is worthy of Gervais. (without the smut or profanity) Was asking it about finding a different supplement as the o
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by dwd 5mo ago
H.L. Mencken is my preferred critic of democracy. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." or "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, mo
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by dwd 5mo ago
Yes, he had quite a few things to say. Unfortunately I don't have my ratty bookmarked copy on hand as he wrote some quite prescient ideas that are relatable to our "modern" world. "We make our happiness dependent on situ
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by dwd 5mo ago
Sadly he passed away. I enjoyed listening to him on Michael Shermer and Sean Carroll's podcasts back in the day. What you may like are the debates on the 2014 Greenland Cruise. Dennett, Chalmers, Goff, Churchland, Prinz and other lumin
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by dwd 5mo ago
Highly recommend reading Kierkegaard's Journals where he writes about what he called the evils of the "daily press" and also his relationship to Regina and his attempts the befriend the Bishop Mynster. "The daily press i
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by dwd 5mo ago
Anil Seth calls the "hard problem" at best a distraction, or hand-waving to avoid answering what he calls the real problem: linking what we experience to the physical brain mechanisms. In his theory, consciousness is a "contr
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by dwd 5mo ago
I feel like Hoffman's core idea really tries to pull string theory into our understanding of reality. If reality has 10, 11, or 26 dimensions and we can only perceive 4 of them then there are dimensions where other things could exist.
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by dwd 5mo ago
Another "camp" is panpsychism, which is often seen as a polar opposite of materialism. David Chalmers and Philip Goff are the two most prominent people pushing it. They espouse consciousness or subjective experience is fundamental

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