iron_albatross

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by iron_albatross 19d ago
That’s fair. I guess I’m also thinking that whatever new kinds of intellectual work that arise from the introduction of AI could be also done by AI. But maybe this comes from a lack of imagination again.
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by iron_albatross 19d ago
When thinking about these valuations, shouldn’t we try to quantify how much knowledge work becomes obsolete if other knowledge workers are automated? I.e. there are a huge amount of knowledge workers employed in businesses that create tool
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by iron_albatross 3mo ago
There’s an open source ATC sim called OpenScope that’s a bit more complex and is mostly keyboard based. I think HN would appreciate it. https://github.com/openscope/openscope
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Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak on the Upper East Side of Manhattan(nyc.gov)
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by iron_albatross 5mo ago
How does this happen in practice? Wouldn’t the privately funded news companies still cover the story? Or are all the news companies publicly funded?
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by iron_albatross 7mo ago
Are there some dog whistles in your comment and its parent? If not then could you restate your point more clearly, it’s not immediately apparent what you’re talking about.
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by iron_albatross 7mo ago
On the other hand, these are markets , right? Your ability to make profit is limited by the available liquidity. I wonder, if enough people get burned by insider trading, will liquidity dry up? At the same time, I suppose you don’t need t
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by iron_albatross 9mo ago
Does anyone else just work backwards from the nutritional information? The pasta that I get has the calories per 100g of dry pasta. So I just weigh out the amount of pasta that yields a reasonable amount of calories for a meal (taking into
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by iron_albatross 10mo ago
I get what you mean, it’s hard to retrofit/force this concept on low density, car dependent suburban sprawl. But I’m not sure if I understand the conflation of 15 min cities and covid lockdowns? I don’t think any government would want
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by iron_albatross 10mo ago
I’d argue that any sufficiently dense city is naturally a 15 minute city, and tens of millions of people (including myself) live in them. For example: in New York, Tokyo, London etc. one can feasibly access all the amenities they need withi