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by isykt 3y ago
> I take a more neutral approach on the finding and don’t yet assume this is something that is best medicated out of. Is it possible for an individual to do ET, or indeed other therapy in combination with medication, to study the change
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by isykt 3y ago
It doesn’t really matter if the people who live there own property, the US doesn’t require property ownership to vote.
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by isykt 3y ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-rv-safe-parking-ho... .
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by isykt 3y ago
The US will never end homelessness because the small town people who have never see a homeless person outside of a TV show want to lock them all up and throw away the key and the people who live in large cities want to spend endless amounts
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by isykt 3y ago
… in the US you definitely need a car to do everything else. Unless you live in NYC.
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by isykt 3y ago
The high priests of AI are trying to make computers more like people and in the process making people more like computers.
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by isykt 3y ago
The thing is, Apple is still the leader in the online ordering process, even though the competition has had decades to catch up. Dell’s website is a mess. For years the top result on Google for the XPS Developer Edition was a page saying th
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by isykt 3y ago
How big are we talking?
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by isykt 3y ago
There are hundreds of people on r/datahoarders that would gladly mirror it many times over.
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by isykt 3y ago
The pushback must be constant, or they will wear us down.
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by isykt 3y ago
> Snowman in English is counted as a word, for instance. Note that for linguists, the definition of “word” is so slippery as to not have much use. It boils down to “because it’s written that way,” and even that is a stretch, because this
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by isykt 3y ago
Pleased to see Asianomentry on HN. Fantastic YouTube channel. All of his content is well made and fascinating. I would recommend starting with “The Amazing Silicon Wafer”: https://youtu.be/sIRfWyyOFPg
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by isykt 3y ago
False premise. Intellectual property is not equivalent to those assets.
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by isykt 3y ago
Agreed. There should be an active sale clause for all copyrighted material, including video games. If you want to make money from the work you “own,” then fucking do it. Emulators exists for most systems. For books, the marginal cost of epu
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by isykt 3y ago
About as likely as the Japanese giving up fish and rice.
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by isykt 3y ago
If IA is dismantled, and doesn’t manage to survive on its Canadian or other outposts, historians will look back on its destruction with disdain. Cultural heritage destroyed so corporate stooges can afford another yacht or whatever. The onl
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by isykt 3y ago
The managers have that power, not the workers. That’s the key.
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by isykt 3y ago
If there are people working 3x as hard, why aren’t they negotiating for 3x the pay? It would create an incentive for the business to fire the people only doing 1/3 the work, or else cut their pay by 2/3rds in accordance with the v
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by isykt 3y ago
The contracts of adhesion that perpetuate society disproportionately valuing one form of labor over another do not validate the exploitation of one group of laborer over another.
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by isykt 3y ago
Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.
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by isykt 3y ago
> how expensive it can be to market music. Did you write this comment in 2001? The cost to produce and promote music has dropped to near zero. SoundCloud rappers have become millionaires. Billie Eilesh recorded her first album in her bed
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by isykt 3y ago
A brick through a window used to be a common way to make a message known.
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by isykt 3y ago
The US always has always had to do this because people die for all kinds of reasons, so this fact alone isn’t very interesting. This would be an interesting article if the headline included an actual dollar amount that pointed out the exce
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by isykt 3y ago
I’m not so self centered as to think my personal consumption has any particular impact on the demand for UPS drivers.
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by isykt 3y ago
I suspect that UPS has a large contingency of MBAs who are better qualified at striking that balance than I am, which partially explains why I don't work there and why they haven't asked my advice on the matter. I can only control
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by isykt 3y ago
We have different definitions of poor. I’ve been what I’d call poor, and when I was in that state there wasn’t any room in my budget for things purchased on Amazon. Wal*Mart with a ride from a friend was all I had.
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by isykt 3y ago
Three reasons. (1) I can afford it. (2) The increase in price and latency will probably result in my ordering less stuff. (3) I doubt that any company is going to allocate a substantial portion of their profits without raising prices. If it
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by isykt 3y ago
The company might be doing some funny math with the value of the benefits: $50,000. That could include things you might never use, like IVF assistance.
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by isykt 3y ago
I will pay more for items to be shipped to me and wait longer for them to arrive if it means the UPS drivers are treated fairly.
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by isykt 3y ago
Why do you think it’s highly probable?

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