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isitmadeofglass
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
There is no way to carry out layoffs that people will see as being good. So what exactly does they lay-offs say about their new CEO? Except that he has a fever frenzied army of journalists chasing his every action and trying to draw it ups
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
You just need hollow chopsticks
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Doesn’t sound like it’s the children he wants to protect. He wants to protect himself from the damage that results if people pretending to be him hurt kids. It’s not like they are saying we need to verify kids accounts, or that doing so wou
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> Its clear he doesn't give a care Isn’t that the point? Previously misinformation would be fact checked and removed, and now Musk is opening up for the conservatives to make false statements without moderation, so people are pushin
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> If you translate everything to being stated in terms of category theory, it … … makes it incomprehensible to experts in the field and laymen alike!
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> we began creating a more formalized operating model so that Gitea could earn funding through public donations, selling Gitea merchandise, and receiving paid commercial contributions. This sounds in light of recent events like he’s sayi
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> I don't think there's any society in history that has not allowed more freedom in speech then in action. Speech is action. Therefore axiomatically every society has always allowed more freedom in action than in speech because
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> it “unusual” that two military COVID-19 vaccine development teams were able to reach early milestones even faster than the major drug companies who were part of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program. That’s such an odd nar
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> TL;DR: give us some time to set it all straight and if it really looks like incentives are misaligned… … it’ll be top late for anyone to do anything about it? If you’re not trying to capitalize on the community project then simply foll
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
He didn’t pay due to what Twitter currently is, he bought because of what he thinks he can make it. That obviously means a detour from their current direction, otherwise he would have just leaned back with his investment let things continue
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Different companies get bought for different reasons. Sometimes you’ll see manufacturing companies bought and everyone fired because the buyer wanted the machines and material and the real estate and brand etc, but didn’t care about the or
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> If it only includes the things people would be ok with you saying, there would be no need to protect it as a right. We have freedom of speech protected as a right to allow speech against government and oppressive institutions. Not to p
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> That's not free speech. Do you also believe that it impedes on your free speech when you boss decides to fire you after you repeatedly call them racial slurs? Freedom of speech does not mean “freedom from consequences” And ofcause
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Noone told my gas company which is still demanding about 10 times the normal price.
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
You can’t mention commercial options without mentioning yWorks. Their product is absolutely amazing and I’d use it for everything if it wasn’t for the steep cost.
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
What’s with the weird section on black holes at the end? Was it added to track bots doing automatic reposting or similar?
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
My advice is that even if you hate Apple with a passion, tell your seniors and less tech savvy friends and family to get a Mac. Just to avoid this whole scenario. Unless you like being the “while your here could you look at my laptop” perso
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
That’s not how the sciences work. Historians don’t invent a narrative and then go through ancient texts trying to find pictures and snippets they can use to back up their narrative. You start from the source, study it and try to deduce the
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> If you’re actually good I don’t think you can be called a snake oil salesman exactly. Of cause you can. Every single social media body builder who’s obviously on Steroids but is claiming they got to they are by eating whatever the late
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
I’m curious, what reality do you feel HN projects? Which languages did you expect further up and which further down?
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isitmadeofglass
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> PS: how something “sounds” is really difficult to say in a written medium. It might say more about the reader than the writer. No, it’s not difficult. And not it’s not the reader. When multiple readers all agree about the same interpre
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> If you’re an American eating at a restaurant in Europe and you order a glass of water, you may be surprised — and disappointed — to receive a glass of lukewarm water, or, even worse, a room temperature bottle of water. A glass of ice w
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Friendly reminder that guineas book of records is a company you pay a lump sum of money to, and they stage an event to give you an award for publicity. So it begs the question. How much did Lars pay to put on this event, of all the possible
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Your correct. Lars isn’t faking his feats. But his narrative that he “rediscovered the ancient true way of archery” is fake, and originally before his rise to fame, that was his “claim to fame” he was a snake oil salesman who ended up being
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isitmadeofglass
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> Is fair to say, for example, that we are about as clueless as our ancestors were with the bubonic plague? “We” in the collective sense are not clueless about quantum mechanics at all. We have an extremely exact model, and pretty much e
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Maybe. Considering that the simulation is taking place on a nearly infinite large white sand dessert with a turtle meticulously moving rocks according to a simple set of rules, there are bound to be hiccups in the physics engine part.
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
The MWI isn’t “no wave function collapse” it’s an infinite number of universes all collapsing with different outcomes.
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Its not like the field of theology is doing any better at it. We’ve tried sending thoughts and prayers at every single peoples we face, but it just doesn’t seem to work…
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
> Ironically, a lot of the organic content posted on Reddit is probably better at generating social unrest, demoralizing citizens, and altering perceptions of the United States than any foreign adversary could manufacture. Why would anyo
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isitmadeofglass
4y ago
Its weird they don’t mention their horrendously failures or attempts to take over all the independent social media groups. I expect that slowed them down quite a bit as well.
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