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by hirundo 3y ago
Crying wolf on this puppy will get people eaten by an actually dangerous wolf. Too low a threshold for safety warnings is unsafe. As you may have guessed, this “evidence” comes from that seemingly inexhaustible fountain of bad science k
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by hirundo 3y ago
I see stories with predictions like this periodically, but I think they miss the depth of the motivation of us meat eaters. I was a vegetarian for years and a raw vegan for half a year. Serious health problems brought me back to meat, which
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by hirundo 3y ago
They're also a big problem here in New Mexico. I live on a heavily wooded lot of mixed pinyon and juniper. About half of my pinyon have died, and I've spent much of my free time in the last two years removing them. But the surroun
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by hirundo 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35894326
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by hirundo 3y ago
We're as much a part of the planet as its rocks, and we care. You could say that your bones don't care, but the organism that is you cares. In the same way the planet cares through the subsystem that includes us even if its rocks
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by hirundo 3y ago
Weizacker wasn't alone in that opinion: [John] Von Neumann was, at the time, a strong supporter of "preventive war." Confident even during World War II that the Russian spy network had obtained many of the details of the
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by hirundo 3y ago
I love my dog and plan on not eating her. But I can't think of a convincing reason why it would be more or less ethical than eating a pig or a cow.
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by hirundo 3y ago
It's almost routine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monumen...
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by hirundo 3y ago
> This research suggests that AI could be used for early detection and management of emotional contagion risk among professionals in “caring” fields, potentially preventing burnout and depression. We need this AI to monitor your face for
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by hirundo 3y ago
"shuffled off this mortal coil" -- Hamlet
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by hirundo 3y ago
How would they establish just compensation for a seizure of alien technology under eminent domain?
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by hirundo 3y ago
I stop caffeine intake around noon, and was just disillusioned about it being out of my system by bed time nine hours later.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm a remote worker who would quit before returning to the office. But even so I can't interpret a requirement to be non-remote as "a hostile work environment", "extraordinary", or "unreasonable". But
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by hirundo 3y ago
This is a large decline. It does not correlate well with the rise of LLMs, which have shifted my own habits away from Stack Overflow recently. Looking through the graphs, the most dramatic shift was the large drop in new visits in the first
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by hirundo 3y ago
We hear that eating vegetables is more efficient in ecological footprint than eating meat, since it cuts out the middle man. Is it yet more efficient to cut out the plants and get dietary protein from the bacteria that feed them?
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by hirundo 3y ago
"With the average new EV costing US$64,000, that’s about US$6-billion in stock collecting dust ... The average cost of a gas-powered car is about US$30,000, less than half the price of the average EV." Mystery solved. Does anyone
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by hirundo 3y ago
This game murdered me. I discovered Diablo a few months after it came out and played obsessively for a few weeks. I had lots of cool stuff. Then one day wandering through a dungeon minding my own business, someone invisible killed me. Boom
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by hirundo 3y ago
The more we caricaturize them in history, the harder it will be to recognize them now. It is more chilling but more protective to recognize them as ordinary. To make monsters of them is false comfort.
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by hirundo 3y ago
So a love letter to myself? Who wrote this crap?! `git blame` D'oh! Just today I found an old spec I wrote that was so completely mocked that the code it specified made no difference. I wasn't feeling the love.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I have principles, you have ideologies, they have dogma.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I just read another story on HN about the extreme expeditions that people who live where I do used to go on every few years in order to get ... salt. I have various problems with civilization, but I'd like to express my appreciation to
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by hirundo 3y ago
Symptoms of salt deficiency: weakness, fatigue, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, confusion, irritability. The Puebloans went on long risky journeys over very difficult terrain to get to sources of it. That makes me guess that it
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm afraid that in a small organization, where Slack is so often deployed, blocking abuse is a poor substitute for a low tolerance for abuse. My boss fired someone immediately after they made a degrading comment to someone on Slack, an
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by hirundo 3y ago
My best high school teacher was the best entertainer. He traveled the world in the summers and took pictures of the stuff we were studying, and showed them to us as part of long involved stories that had the whole history class silent. My f
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm a type 2 diabetic in remission (no drugs but a blood glucose level lower than pre-diabetic) for three years with a very low carb diet. Candy is right out, but I satisfy my sweet tooth with artificially sweetened drinks. It would pr
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by hirundo 3y ago
If mass turns negative enough to overcome friction, the collisions from Brownian motion would amplify and we would explode. If negative mass balls in this simulation are made from ordinary matter they should explode, or at least dissolve in
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by hirundo 3y ago
They were always going to be repaid, since their principle feature is that they are guaranteed by the federal government. Just not by the borrower. That's why they are so easy to get without demonstrating that you can repay, and that&#
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by hirundo 3y ago
I think that the reappropriation of slurs, like yankee, whig, tory, queer, etc., is a positive thing. But this practice serves to lock them in place, helping to insure that they remain slurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by hirundo 3y ago
When I train my wetware neural net on copyrighted work, that does not make everything produced by it in the future copyright infringement. Why should it be otherwise for my silicon neural net?
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by hirundo 3y ago
They're aiming for $250K per Raptor, not M. The goal is less than $1K/ton of thrust.

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