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by hirundo 5y ago
> Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders. Since they own no appreciable equity in Twitter except for Jack, their powe
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by hirundo 5y ago
I think that math problems should be carefully drafted to be as neutral as possible, and not used as vectors of indoctrination other than the mathematical. A word problem requires non-relevant noise, but it is as distracting for that noise
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by hirundo 5y ago
Audiobook publisher GraphicAudio has cheesy tagline: "A Movie In Your Mind.". Well yeah, that's where all movies play. But there is a sense in which an audiobook is more movie than book. Especially with light reading while do
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by hirundo 5y ago
I can beat that by 3 orders of magnitude. My father told me I owe my life to a broken $0.25 condom. So I gave him a quarter.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> I want to be elevating the voices of women, non-binary and trans people in these kinds of spaces so we can change the culture of our industry. There is a kind of radical meritocracy about a github account. Nobody knows the gender of th
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by hirundo 5y ago
Nice! I hope that this gets sufficient interest for you to leave it up. But the cursor seems to be zero based on each story collection, so I can't figure out how to read just stories up to a given story: { newStories(after: &qu
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by hirundo 5y ago
The article doesn't mention the repercussions. It's hard to think of any that would be a net benefit to Russia. Sanctions would just be redundant. A conventional war with the US would not be in their favor. If the threat is WMD, t
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by hirundo 5y ago
If you can afford to source meat grown with regenerative agriculture you can be doing something positive both for the environment and your health. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLWy3hkH2Y This has been excellent for my o
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by hirundo 5y ago
> “Distraction” is recorded when the phone’s screen is on, the phone is in motion within the vehicle, and the vehicle is in motion. So this could just mean that software engineers tend to use the hands-free options more often than people
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by hirundo 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
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Turing Test for plant based meat by 2023?(metaculus.com)
1 points by hirundo 5y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
I wonder if there is a coincidence between people with extraordinary vision and an extraordinary capacity for fantasy. Maybe those same fantasies can trigger extraordinary acts of creation by scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, e
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by hirundo 5y ago
I'd like a command line tool that could transform `history` into a list of alternate tool recommendations. Bonus if it could also generate recommended aliases and functions according to your habits.
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Dr. Carl Hart: 'I Am Better for My Drug Use'(reason.com)
9 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
> The object, a small meteorite measuring just 1.5 feet (0.45 meter) across, So a bit too small to hold baby Kal-El.
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by hirundo 5y ago
April fools comedy is an unethical use of taxpayer dollars. If you're going to seize the fruits of our labor please don't spend it on chuckles.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Look at your calendar.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Fastmail. I'm quite happy with it so far. Paying $5/month is worth it to be the customer rather than the product.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Optimistically, the hackjob happening in the social and other sciences will be used to launch a deep examination of epistemic practices. This does seem to have occurred in social sciences to some extent. There are no sciences so rigorous th
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by hirundo 5y ago
If you were unpleasantly unsurprised to be run over the other day you wouldn't be posting.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I saw an employee at a hardware store yesterday with a full sized iPhone strapped to his wrist like a watch. It's just such a convenient place for information that people are going to keep using it, whether we design products for that
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by hirundo 5y ago
It was not an exaggeration. I was morbidly obese at the time, and the doctor almost completely ignored that condition for the roughly five years that I saw him. He did once recommend that I always eat a salad at the start of dinner. That wa
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by hirundo 5y ago
"The intelligence reveals the names of the Russian spies, their place of work, registered address and passport data as well as the models and registration plates of their cars." This is a positive example of doxing, if the list is
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by hirundo 5y ago
Agree. If you have diabetes I highly recommend making Jason Fung your doctor by reading his books, watching his videos, and taking his advice.
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by hirundo 5y ago
See e.g. Project Orion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
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by hirundo 5y ago
Metformin is the first resort in diabetes treatment. If it proves to truly increase birth defects by 40% that may have to change. It was my doctor's first resort for me, but the side effects were too severe and I stopped it. He vaguely
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by hirundo 5y ago
I guess plutonium is right out then. I hope they make exceptions for sufficiently safe launch vehicles that put their payloads beyond Earth orbit.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Horse and jockey. Geoff Mack wrote a beautiful horse and Johnny Cash rode it for all it was worth. It's annoying that Mack is ignored, not that Cash is lauded.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I use a 65" monitor at about 12 feet away for comms, and a 27" monitor close up for code. I'm looking forward to football stadium sized monitors in VR.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> This goes beyond obnoxious comments, or Donald Trump’s tweets, or even targeted harassment. Instead, we’ve entered the realm of “weaponized narrative” as a 21st-century battle space This sounds like a framing intended to justify force

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