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by gota 2y ago
If I recall the original 'Bullshit jobs' post, even before it was a book, food service jobs (and hairdressing) were specifically mentioned as not bullshit jobs; and that distinction between liking the job vs it being bullshit wa
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by gota 2y ago
In the most charitable interpretation of this comment - I can understand the feeling, when so much of social media interactions are in the form 'It's post a picture of you as a baby, 10 year old, and current age!'. Those and
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by gota 2y ago
This stuff seems miraculous. > "Through minimally invasive surgery, Shu injected adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineered to carry and deliver functioning copies of the human OTOF transgene, into the children’s inner ears. " Can
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by gota 2y ago
How long before the M-word starts being thrown around? In all seriousness, is it possible, likely or inevitable that Nvidia be 'broken up' due to effective monopoly? I'm just curious, I'm ignorant about how these things
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by gota 2y ago
I learned the numbering rule (in Brazil) at school - but have friends who didn't know it far into adulthood. The rule, ~if I remember correctly (and matches my experience)~ confirmed by Googling is: 1) distance in meters from the begin
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by gota 2y ago
The way you describe it is similar to what I know of 'Mate-doce. From the parent post I got the impression it was something different in its preparation and I was curious to understand exactly if/how it differs
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by gota 2y ago
Parts of southern and central-western Brazil also drink Tereré ("Tererê") with fruit juice, most tipically lemonade, so I'd guess there may be some other places here and there in South America where that's also regionall
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by gota 2y ago
I assume drive scale means 'serve ads', which somehow translate into more flights?
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by gota 2y ago
I am afraid that AI tutors and teachers will slow down our progress in ethics and moral issues. Model X trained on all our data thinks Y is ok and that permeates lessons here and there. Raising a generation that does not rightfully challeng
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by gota 2y ago
Surely its politics, religion and sex(uality)? Sports is the go to watercooler topic after weather
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by gota 3y ago
deosjr just posted a proposed Prolog solution in ~50 LOC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014035
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by gota 3y ago
Anecdotal, I don't know a single person who likes McDonalds (or any other fast food's) sodas. I'm not in the US, if that makes a difference The consensus among close to a 100% of people I know is glass bottle > can > pl
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by gota 3y ago
Expand that concept just a bit and we're back at The Matrix and our world being a simulation
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by gota 3y ago
Agreed. I'd believe Tolkien deliberately chose a "small" world precisely so that he could make things coherent and consistent to _some_ aspects of reality (some because it is, after all, a world with magic). It is apparent th
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by gota 3y ago
> say nothing of decades more of people being maimed and killed by our cluster bomblets left all over the country. Not to mention the millions of people devastated by Agent Orange. The fact that the specialists warned the US military of
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by gota 3y ago
In fairness, Lula's block has little to do with it. A bit more now that Lula gets to appoint new court Judges, I guess, but - there have been many pushes from the Supreme Court against the right-most Bolsonaro block because it openly
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by gota 3y ago
Show us some examples?
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by gota 3y ago
I'm not sure the post parent to yours was serious, but I've seen arguments that international diplomacy is currently based on assuming a (somewhat abrupt?) incoming end to the Pax americana that has held since the Cold War Most
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by gota 3y ago
> Intelligent, educated, and capable adults should be held accountable for their own decisions when they turn out to be poor decisions. Rarely I'll state something so strongly - this is true at face value but in the context you mean
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by gota 3y ago
Do you recall what kind of bonuses they award to patent authors, if any? Seems like the message behind 'this is core to our business' is easily communicated with financial incentives backing that up.
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by gota 3y ago
I am extremely interested in hearing about these coups and your experience in them; if you'd like and are able to share
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by gota 3y ago
To wit, the Luzia woman was found to be ~12 thousand years-old in South America, so it puts the 13 thousand date in question Disclaimer: I know absolute nothing about this topic and this is from my recollection of reading wikipedia and so
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by gota 3y ago
> they printed this data, scanned to PDF and sent the PDF via e-mail. I guess it may not be in this case (low volume, text content), but this could be a tactic to generate hurdles for anyone attempting to use it in systematic fashion. I&
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by gota 3y ago
I've seen this referred to as a 'cock-thumb' proposal. As in, you ask for the greater sacrifice (cutting off the first) and hope they answer proposing the smaller sacrifice (to cut off the second) instead; which is what you w
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by gota 3y ago
Well, I guess we can all agree that our planet cannot support X amount of people with a certain quality of life and sustainably for the then-on future Parent post hints that X < 10B, but I'd wager many believe X < whatever we
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by gota 3y ago
Minor point - is first class 2x only? My recent experience with international flights indicates that business class is 5x of the premium economy seats, which are 1.5x already
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by gota 3y ago
yet
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by gota 3y ago
I can imagine far worse. Besides all mental health issues and societal reproductive crises, we can easily get a black mirror-like situation where each one of the million copies of AI Girlfriend X convinces their 'boyfriends' to co
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by gota 3y ago
Hm, I don't know. Sex dolls don't pass the Turing test with flying colors. More than that, even without speech or action they are emotional surrogates for some needy people - making the simulacra perfect will make it easier for mo
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by gota 3y ago
2055 is going to be the roughest. Eyeballing it looks like by then the current 'lump' of 45-50 will make it above 80, with not enough replacement of younger folks

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