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by hirundo 3y ago
What happens when Atlas shrugs?
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by hirundo 3y ago
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service." - Franklin Roosevelt https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/docum
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Econ 101 lessons from the Twin Cities(econlib.org)
2 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
"The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying." -- Alfred North Whitehead This effect only works if we let the ideas joust with each other as our champions. If we try to bury the ideas instead people tend to
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by hirundo 3y ago
The Elephant in the Brain, Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
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It's at least a little nice to hear people complaining about how brutal the game of politics is today and how extreme the reign of intolerance has become, and be able to think "oh, my sweet summer child." Turns out it could b
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by hirundo 3y ago
Exactly. Some of us are ugly but still have a hope when face to face. That ambiguity gives us a chance at being a contender, to make the case that there's more to us. Is that unreasonable for an ugly person? I think its not, and its al
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by hirundo 3y ago
There's more to a job than the salary, and it can be reasonable for a company to leave salary ambiguous in order to make that sales pitch. Sometimes it's half the company; sometimes it's a set of steak knives. And it's r
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by hirundo 3y ago
This is where games excel as a medium of artistic expression. They can get you invested in these decisions in a way that can let you see both sides. I remember the moment in Mass Effect where you're called upon to either exterminate an
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by hirundo 3y ago
Will be everywhere? It's like this was written a whole month ago.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I bought the new HTC Vive XR Elite last month for just this use case. I had never tried VR before so I really didn't have a feel for whether it would work. It did not. There was so much glare and blurriness that I had to scale the font
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by hirundo 3y ago
The sliding barn doors on open shelves mystify me: https://officesnapshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/githu... You don't get the cabinet to keep the dust off of the dishes, but we'll keep t
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by hirundo 3y ago
I love devdocs.io when it works, but almost every other time I open it, it has forgotten my documentation configuration and I have to start from scratch. I don't have problems losing cookies, etc., elsewhere. And I have a peeve with it
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by hirundo 3y ago
"But none of this gets at the most important thing about the chili-pepper scenario: your suffering. After all, why do you care about the pain the pepper causes? Naturally, it is because of the suffering involved. It is only because you
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by hirundo 3y ago
You're right, my bad, the article only says the bacteria attaches to the plastic.
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by hirundo 3y ago
A bacterium that can metabolize plastic, which is notoriously difficult to recycle, could be a biodegrading symbiote as well as a pathogen.
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Are Woo Non-Responders Defective?(astralcodexten.substack.com)
2 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I lost touch with my mother's half of the family when I left Facebook ten years ago. Poof, gone. It was the only thing bringing us together. For me it's worth that cost to separate from social media, but it isn't for everyone
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by hirundo 3y ago
"The 2000 Federal Cardiac Arrest Survival Act grants those who administer CPR or use an AED immunity from civil charges, except in instances of willful misconduct or gross negligence." That should make it less risky to try and hel
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by hirundo 3y ago
Fascinating article, it argues that Churchill was indeed racist and imperialist toward these people, and yet strove to head off the famine from humanitarian impulses. The more informed histories always seem to be written in shades of grey.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'd like to be able to subset the API with field level granularity for each user's roles, serve everyone their resulting custom introspection results, and authorize each query accordingly. Rolling my own solution via graphql–ruby.
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by hirundo 3y ago
You're over thinking it. You know that horrible feeling when you can't pay your bills? Work to avoid that. If tech work is the easiest way to do that, just do it for that reason. For many of us a passion for solvency is more relia
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by hirundo 3y ago
> On the following page, Kanga and baby Roo are shown wearing boxing gloves. The text says: “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.” That's just the message I got from my
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by hirundo 3y ago
Maybe they should also have bought all of the surrounding land within sight in every direction. I moved to a remote rural area very particularly because of the dark skies, for my joy of it and an astronomy hobby. A decade later they built a
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by hirundo 3y ago
The Extended Phenotype. I thought it was a worthy follow up that has had me thinking in terms of phenotypes for the last 40 years.
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by hirundo 3y ago
The prohibitively costly part of the semantic web is tagging ... which LLMs can make dramatically cheaper.
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by hirundo 3y ago
To what extent are we put into a suggestive state by the stylistic presentation of speech, not just the rythms, but the rest of the oratory and rhetoric? This is a great place for LLMs to make a contribution with neutral, consistent rewordi
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by hirundo 3y ago
For a few months at the turn of the century I lived in nearby Bonny Doon and was training for a long distance hike. 3x/week I'd drive to Big Basin HQ at dawn and run a loop trail through the park. Those are some of the most blissf
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by hirundo 3y ago
I bought one that year for $500 (1981 dollars) from a guy in his garage, my first non-Heathkit computer. I don't know the provenance but don't think it fell off a truck. It had a cassette system for storage. The seller told me he
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The role of meat in the human diet: evolutionary aspects and nutritional value(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
46 points by hirundo 3y ago|69 comments

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