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by eszed 3y ago
I've been reading through these (number 15 is long , but worth it), and I'm pretty sure all of the "Phelps" stories are fiction, with a cast of interlinked characters. The others are... maybe, maybe not, but told straig
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by eszed 3y ago
One game I've played with myself whenever I've moved to a new area is to drive or walk until I've felt irremedially lost, and then break out the map or GPS to get back home. (I remember once or twice trying it with random dic
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by eszed 3y ago
My opinion: it's the padding on the other parts of the body (particularly the shoulders) that makes NFL so dangerous. If you ran directly into someone at full speed without padding you'd injure yourself as much as you'd injur
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by eszed 3y ago
Yeah, but I didn't "get" (to the extent that I can without grokking maths) quantum entanglement until I had it explained with this analogy, and then the "but that's not exactly what's happening here" rea
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by eszed 3y ago
I prefer to think that Aristotle wasn't wrong , just operating at an insufficiently-complex level of abstraction. Life did / does spontaneously generate, but it involves amino acids and cosmic rays (or something like that), not r
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by eszed 3y ago
How did you solve that last (expected port) problem? (I've run up against that elsewhere, and couldn't get over the hump for iOS.)
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by eszed 3y ago
I think moving on is the goal for everyone. You're fortunate to have sufficient internal insight plus resilience to do that on your own. I have, too - although I've also had the advantage of caring and insightful friends and partn
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by eszed 3y ago
"Early results from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [suggest] that dark energy is not constant."
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by eszed 3y ago
This may not be germane to your example, but in my experience of German -> English translation creating several sentences can be the smoothest way to make sense out of something German gets across in a couple of overloaded compound words
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by eszed 3y ago
I've had that in academia, and in my current (medium-sized) company, where rules and processes aren't as stringent as I know they are in BigCorps. My partner works for a consultancy firm (where she, in part, arranges travel for va
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by eszed 3y ago
I slightly mis-read the headline. Here's what's going on: >Canoo reimburses Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by the CEO, for use of an aircraft. In 2023, Canoo spent $1.7 million on this reimbursement. CEO owns a plane.
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by eszed 3y ago
I hadn't seen that before, so thanks for posting it. What a great story!
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by eszed 3y ago
We're approximately the same age, and the first time I held job at which I had the option for direct deposit was 2003. I remember it particularly because I thought it was cool, and evangelized it to co-workers, many of whom did not tru
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by eszed 3y ago
It does. The US banking system is still predicated on paper checks, however, and efforts to change that face considerable inertia. There have been posts on HN explaining how (insanely) it all works.
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by eszed 3y ago
Just to go further down the historical-nuance rabbit hole: France had been an absolute monarchy, under Louis XVI's grandfather. Both Louis XV and Louis XVI were reformers (which arguably created the conditions for revolutionary senti
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by eszed 3y ago
A nuance: many American mass-market entertainments are now being subtly steered towards palatablity to the Chinese government / market.
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by eszed 3y ago
I get that they're ginning up excitement with "Caravaggio's last painting was a murder scene!", but it's a bit of a schtick. As pointed out in TFA it was a commission, and so not exactly a "personal" paint
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by eszed 3y ago
Caravaggio was an epic troll. His Crucifixion of Saint Peter has a pair of beautifully lit buttocks in the left foreground, which (it is thought) are not accidentally oriented towards the Carracci painting over the altar (Caravaggio'
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by eszed 3y ago
Can confirm. We had a cat, at a shared house in San Francisco, which our landlord (mainly to be a jerk) forced us to get rid of. Rats immediately appeared, rummaging through our pantry and tearing up our clothes. I remember one cheekily gla
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by eszed 3y ago
Listening to podcasts helps me. It gives my brain something else to focus on, and I drift off much more quickly.
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by eszed 3y ago
Heh. Yeah, price and quality are tenuously correlated at best. For years, back when I was a starving artist, but went to parties with people who cared about wine, I had what I called a secret weapon. One couldn't show up with two-buck
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by eszed 3y ago
Agree with everything you say. Wine experts do try to use a common vocabulary, but it's a bit of the competing standards problem [relevant XKCD goes here]. Most of the wine training I received working in the restaurant industry was voc
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by eszed 3y ago
Not a bad thought. (Your first one: if we're throwing nukes around I suspect minefields will be the last of our worries.) The complicating factor would be how widely they can be dispersed, and how quickly they can converge. It might ta
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by eszed 3y ago
I hadn't thought of that, but it's terrifying . Like, far more nightmare-inducing than a conventional minefield. How would you counter? Up-armoured bipedal robots with roughly human-shaped heat-signatures is the only thing that w
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by eszed 3y ago
Whoa whoa, dude. You're being unnecessarily hostile. GP's question was a fair one, and not (by my reading) unkindly phrased. Even if I'm wrong about that, personal attacks aren't welcome contributions: flag and move on.
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by eszed 3y ago
He and his colleagues, yes. Previously on HN a couple of times, the first (I see) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37584578
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by eszed 3y ago
I like that approach. Following on, there are people who disregard boundaries, with whom it is important to end or curtail relationships. One is not, however, rejecting them because of their beliefs, rather redefining the relationship becau
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by eszed 3y ago
I was thinking particularly about the DDoS protections they advertise (and explain in lovely technical posts on this site). So you're saying that they protect their network from others, whilst disregarding harms their clients cause to
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by eszed 3y ago
It would follow that Cloudflare is tacitly admitting they have been / are hosting a large number of domains used for fraud and abuse. That surprises me, given the time and effort they spend mitigating fraud and abuse. Anyone care to ex
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by eszed 3y ago
I think you do a better job than the article does of articulating it's underlying point, which is to approach others with humility rather than judgement. Many people, perhaps most (the "crowd"), find out one delusional or dis

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