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by elevaet 5y ago
At some point in this scenario you outline, there will be so much ML generated content referencing generated content, the (already muddled) primary sources will be lost in the mix and the role of ML will be forced to synthesize sensible, me
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by elevaet 5y ago
Actually funny you should mention that because one of them actually is not a taxpayer in the municipality that she sued (and lost). So no, they are not all taxpayers, but some are, it is true. Yes, of course they have this right, I don&#x27
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by elevaet 5y ago
Thanks! Is there a specific series in there that you recommend? It looks like a huge archive to go through, and clicking around it seems like many of them are broken.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with clients' requests for tasks that are “below” you?
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by elevaet 5y ago
I have a close family member who works in municipal planning, and it's exactly what you describe. Wealthy-ish, semiretired older local people, or non-locals with vacation property who do everything they can to shut down any kind of hou
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by elevaet 5y ago
>Like it or not transit will probably always lower property values in the US too. For whatever reason the more violent people here tend to take it and anywhere it goes becomes more violent so building it into suburbs like these is always
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by elevaet 5y ago
I would love to hear comments on the mentioned work "The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe" from anyone here who has read it. It sounds very intriguing.
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by elevaet 5y ago
54 _bytes_? Thats astounding. I just checked a sample haiku in utf-8 and it was 72 bytes. Gorgeous and adorable website! Even the markup is admirable.
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by elevaet 5y ago
> a healthy amount of caution is generally good. Definitely. These are potent levers, not toys. Knowing your dose is critical and really does need to be emphasized. Thanks. Re: chemicals - you can know very accurately but you really have
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by elevaet 5y ago
I think the ultimate bottleneck will be energy efficiency. My hunch is that silicon will never be able to compete with the mere 20W that our brains use. Biology might just be the most efficient way to compute.
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by elevaet 5y ago
Another study re: psychedelics and mental health: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01301-9 "Repeated lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) reverses stress-induced anxiety-like behavior, cortical synaptogenesi
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by elevaet 5y ago
I'll bite.. while we all have unique experiences in life, I believe Sasha and Anne's positive lifetime experiences with psychedelics is neither unusual nor surprising, and not that hard to replicate. 1) It's not that hard to
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by elevaet 5y ago
Ugh that's awful. A good reason to try to use fresh tumeric instead.
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by elevaet 5y ago
That's nuts. Why are heavy metals even showing up in these? Are the herbs/spices just picking the metals up from the soil and then they become concentrated because of the drying? Do plants end up concentrating heavy metals in the
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by elevaet 5y ago
On the other hand anecdotes like these are plentiful, and eventually they add up to a pattern that causes cognitive dissonance vs the story we'd like to believe. It's a brutal industry where profits come down to how cheap you can
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by elevaet 5y ago
Eating only 3 times a week? The metabolic breadth of the human body is impressive. I have a hard time eating only 3-4 times a day . I do 2-3h of solid exercise every day, so I burn a lot of calories. I'm pretty sure I could get away w
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by elevaet 5y ago
Can you cite any evidence of this?
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by elevaet 5y ago
Hypothesis: hormone-mimicking plastics in the human body are causing endocrine disruption and are part of the cause of obesity epidemic.
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by elevaet 5y ago
I wonder if they cloned it complete with the message?
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by elevaet 5y ago
Yeah if that's an addiction, it's the best kind.
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by elevaet 5y ago
They're not being raised without tech at all, they just don't have their own devices, or any open access to one. Their screen time is limited to a small amount of passive consumption per week (2 * 1/2hr episodes on Netflix pe
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by elevaet 5y ago
Yes, screens aren't inherently anything, but I think they're using "screens" as shorthand for the phone/social media/apps ecosystem that does have addictive qualities and is fairly well studied. Tons of good re
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by elevaet 5y ago
> I do. And I have. Although I speak for only one technologist. Same here. I'm a programmer, and my goal is to delay phones for my kids until the last possible hour. My kids spend time drawing, doing sports, reading books, swimming,
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by elevaet 5y ago
Lord of the Rings captured my imagination so profoundly as a kid there's no way it didn't change my life.
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by elevaet 5y ago
How would that even work? Define the border between SEO and abuse.
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by elevaet 5y ago
I've been starting to use kagi for search. I'm still using google by default, but when I get a screen full of ads and clickbait articles I turn to kagi and it's almost always better.
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by elevaet 5y ago
This might just be your perspective. No idea your age, but personally as someone who was a teen/young adult in the 90s participating in the emerging rave culture, the 90s are dripping with nostalgia. That being said, I have to agree th
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by elevaet 5y ago
I came here to say that too. If ever there was a quintessential HN movie...
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by elevaet 5y ago
Are lines ever recorded live? I imagined that they almost always re-record them in a sound booth later, it just seems like it would be so hard to get good sound on-set in most circumstances.
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by elevaet 5y ago
In many jurisdictions homosexual men are barred from donating blood.

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