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by gbear605 6y ago
Without knowing anything else, that sounds like it could've just been partially an acqui-hire to get the CEO.
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by gbear605 6y ago
If you make $60,000 a year for a job, you are doing decently well on a US-wide perspective (and very well on a global perspective). However if your coworkers, doing the exact same work as you exactly as well, make $120,000, you’re in fact b
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by gbear605 6y ago
On the other hand, if you just got a haircut, then they know that you’ll be looking for another one in a set amount of time (based on your hairstyle, which they also know from photos), and they could advertise hairsalons to you then. I’m no
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by gbear605 6y ago
I definitely know real people (especially highschoolers or college students) who put fictional jobs in their profile. Also common is using some fake name, like that of a fictional character.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Just in the last few weeks, three states have passed new laws targeting the healthcare of transgender people and twenty five other state legislatures are considering them. It’s unfortunately not going away. [1] It’s not one of the issues yo
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by gbear605 6y ago
It seems like the simple solution is just to change your phone’s sleep settings when you know you’re going to be cooking
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by gbear605 6y ago
Presumably Trump can afford to pay for a few servers. They could even be colocated.
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New report finds clear and convincing evidence that China is committing genocide(cnn.com)
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by gbear605 6y ago
Most contemporary art has a lot more effort put into it than you think. It’s perfectly okay to not value that effort, but things like those “black squares” or whatever actually aren’t just that. If you see them in person, you can see how
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by gbear605 6y ago
Just the number of native bilingual Russian-English speakers numbers in the thousands at least. Just think of everyone who immigrated to the US after the fall of the USSR.
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by gbear605 6y ago
That’s why the only solution is to not digitize.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Oil on its own is still not great, because of the extraction methods that cause environmental harm, but it’s definitely better than the CO2-related issues from burning it.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Gmail at least still shows them by default, and that gets you most personal email users in one go. I know Apple Mail does as well.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Google Sheets is for the many companies that use Google. It’s definitely not ubiquitous, but then Excel isn’t either (my company only has a few Excel licenses for the people who are customer facing, everyone else gets Google Sheets).
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by gbear605 6y ago
Governments have always (always) been involved in economies. Rome imported hundreds of tons of grain a year and gave them out free to its citizens. Hammurabi’s code mandated fixed medical payments and regulated professions. Don’t get me sta
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by gbear605 6y ago
If it’s you using a gun, you get Somalia. If it’s the police using a gun, you get the US. (If it’s the police using a baton, you get the UK). It works because the threat isn’t just physical harm but also social consequences. Even going back
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by gbear605 6y ago
A market doesn’t work in countries without a strong government, since for a market to work, there needs to be faith that the other party isn’t going to break the rules of the market. If you’re trying to sell your goods and someone comes in
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by gbear605 6y ago
Zoom backgrounds work by some sort of machine learning to identify humans while the Photo Booth backgrounds just did a diff between an initial image and the current image, and displayed anything that was different. The plus side to Zoom is
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by gbear605 6y ago
If you’re raising the deer, then you’re responsible for the externalities produced by your economic pursuit. If you’re not raising the deer, then they’re the responsibility of humankind as a whole, who is already paying for those externalit
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by gbear605 6y ago
Depending on what you mean by understand, it seems that some ML models are already beyond human understanding.
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by gbear605 6y ago
In my opinion, GPT-3 is impressive not because it’s good at being human but because it’s good at doing lots of previously exclusively human things (like poetry) without being human at all. It’s certainly a better poet than I am, though that
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by gbear605 6y ago
There’s some issue with storage - long term storage of food leads to the nutrients decaying.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Of course not. Unless you’re raising a deer herd, and claiming ownership over them, in which case sure.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Unless I’m mistaken, that law is for new cars being sold, not existing cars, which just means that they need to have transitioned by then. Obviously it can’t be left to the last minute, but it also doesn’t have to be the next two years (at
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by gbear605 6y ago
Walmart/Meth is a pretty strong exaggeration. Things aren’t great without a degree, but they’re not (yet) impossible.
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by gbear605 6y ago
What other posts is it competing with? Right now all the other posts at the top of the front page are older and many of them have similar amounts of comments and points. It seems that HN just isn’t very active right now.
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by gbear605 6y ago
I think the largest chunk of Python usage is what you’re talking about. But there’s still a significant number of people (and importantly, companies) just using it as a scripting language to move around and parse data or files. They’ve gott
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by gbear605 6y ago
Yes
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by gbear605 6y ago
In what way is Pinterest a Twitter competitor?
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by gbear605 6y ago
20 minutes / month + unlimited emergency phone calls and emails. It’s mainly intended either as a way for people with long term psychiatric needs to be able to get medications and be monitored without having to also have an expensive h

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