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by hooande 5y ago
You don't say that so-and-so is a "10x painter". Art is obviously not about the quantity of paint used per day, but how it gets used and in what context. This is what you seem to be communicating with your quote about bittorr
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by hooande 5y ago
This wasn't the case six hours ago. I checked, there were scattered outage stories and all whistle blower
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by hooande 5y ago
You're the customer. If you don't like the service they provide, you can choose to spend your money/attention elsewhere. There's no more powerful representation than that
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by hooande 5y ago
This comment is just wrong. This isn't a 'questionable benefit', it's a major change to the fundamental technology. This has nothing to do with price or profits at all. Comparing this theoretical advance to existing insu
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by hooande 5y ago
this is very true. prices of name brand insulin need to come down, but there is a low cost option available for those that need it
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by hooande 5y ago
I think the answer is the Law of Large Numbers. Think about the total number of air missions that the US military conducts on a daily basis. If only 1% of those are anomalous in a way that's difficult to explain, that's a lot of o
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by hooande 5y ago
What I don't understand is that everyone still has roughly the same expenses as they did before. The basic economics of rent, groceries, child care, car payments, etc have not changed. I'd think people might move from one industry
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by hooande 5y ago
The difference is that science, by nature, must produce testable hypotheses. I don't assume on faith that F=ma. I can make a prediction of what the force will be based on ma, and then conduct an experiment to see if that's true I
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by hooande 5y ago
These results are terrible. Almost all of the generated text posted here is non-sensical, and playing with it online is just confusing. There really needs to be a better method of evaluation, an MNIST for transformer text generation. like a
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by hooande 5y ago
Identities are the basis of social communities. The idea of "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you" is correct. But it ignores the fact that there is a minimum number of labels that all socially adapted h
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by hooande 5y ago
I've been thinking about this for a long time. I don't think it's because wages are low or working conditions are bad. Both of those things are about the same as they were in 2019, before the pandemic. If a job at McDonalds w
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by hooande 5y ago
Such a large scale shift in employment seems unlikely. The manufacturing / warehouse industry isn't large enough to absorb 20% of the restaurant jobs in the US. And if that did happen, you'd think it would be very easy to see
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by hooande 5y ago
Seems like he lost his access to the internal forum and wasn't "kicked out" of ycombinator. The actual ycombinator program lasts for months and involves funding. Access to a website is different and involves following terms o
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by hooande 5y ago
Does anyone still smoke? I smoke every day, heavily, and greatly enjoy it. I'm smoking a cigarette right now
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by hooande 5y ago
Imagine you start a company and one of your employees says or does something reprehensible. Investors fear a boycott and threaten to pull out of a fundraising round. You either fire that one person, or the whole company goes under and every
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by hooande 5y ago
This law is going to be struck down fast. Other states can test the courts, but why pay for all the litigation if it looks like Florida is going to lose?
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by hooande 5y ago
This is the smartest comment. Lab leaks happen frequently, it's part of medical research. There's no hard evidence that this virus was engineered or human modified. China didn't create the concept of a virus. Mistakes happen
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by hooande 5y ago
It often makes sense to delay gratification. Like working with someone who is very well known in the field for little pay, knowing that their backing will give you many more opportunities in the future than a job that pays more now. Same is
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by hooande 5y ago
The ideal case is not sending naked fotos online, if you'd be embarrassed by that kind of thing. and I would never trust any kind of technology to keep medical or legal secrets. I generally assume that anything I submit to a remote ser
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by hooande 5y ago
The set of people who know how to set up Plex/Roku is very, very small. My parents can barely figure out how to use Netflix. This is why monthly streaming services exist and will continue to exist
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by hooande 5y ago
Say a new variant emerges that has a 90% mortality rate. Would you still wait to get the vaccine because it was "rushed" and not fully tested? Would you rely on antibodies from the current variants? In that situation I would do wh
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by hooande 5y ago
The goal of the US in Afghanistan was to deny Al-Qaeda the use of one third of a country to plan their operations. That required taking control of that territory from the Taliban, who were allowing Al-Qaeda to operate without restriction. T
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by hooande 5y ago
My favorite part of this bill is that it specifically excludes companies that operate amusement parks: "Interestingly, two companies that will not be affected by the law are two of the biggest, most uncompromising corporations in the w
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by hooande 5y ago
This is inconsequential. People ARE dying, that part isn't made up. It would be fake news if there had been no casualties and pictures from other wars were used to assert that there had been. Fake news is largely defined by context and
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by hooande 5y ago
what has a higher probability of losing your life savings over the next 10 years, your gov/central bankers or any kind of crypto?
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by hooande 5y ago
There's no way these are advanced technology from any country. If someone invented any technology that's 100X better than the state of the art, not to mention something that violates the laws of physics as we know them, it would
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by hooande 5y ago
They don't have financial reports and insurance companies don't routinely disclose ransom amounts. Darkside has opened negotiations in the tens of millions in the past [0], with an average demand in the millions [1] [0] https:&#x
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by hooande 5y ago
Darkside was a legit business. They routinely collected ransoms ten or twenty times larger than what they got from Colonial. if they were going to retire, they would have done it a long time ago
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by hooande 5y ago
Ransoming Colonial basically put Darkside out of business. no one is going to hit them again
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by hooande 5y ago
I'll say again, it makes no sense for Elon Musk to do a cheap pump and dump. He's worth over $100 billion. The hundreds of millions he might make from a pump and dump are literally a rounding error to him

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