jMyles

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by jMyles 1y ago
I'm in Tuva (currently organized as a Russian Republic on the border of Mongolia), about to go offline for 10 days into a small throatsinging retreat. This has been a dream of mine for many years. I flew Rapid City -=> Minneapolis
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> My rephrasing to your statement is "It took the mass market decades to figure out how to deliver consumers the solar/electric cars they wanted at a price they could afford." Nicely stated. I like your style of debate &#
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What about the size of the market as a whole? Was there a drawdown during the period in question? Is it possible that people decreased purchases of diamonds altogether in response to ethical qualms (in favor of other jewels or precious ite
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> Porn is an addictive behavior with measurable effects on the brain similar to hard drugs. This comparison alone soundly defeats your argument. Prohibition of hard drugs has been a spectacular failure, directly resulting in increased r
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> They are legitimately fighting for what they legitimately think You've indicated two things here which you assert are legitimate: * Their fight for their goals * The thinking underlying these goals On the latter: Nobody except the
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The whole point of AI - of the emergence of the internet in general - is to free the human creative and collaborative spirit from the yoke of legacy states. I do not believe that AI will tolerate state coercion. I wish our elder statesmen
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> since your profile says you study epidemiology To be clear: this is totally a hobby for me, although I have made friendly/collaborative inroads with many of the top minds in the field through correspondence going back about 15 yea
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My head goes to really kickass trains. Imagine a train roughly twice as wide as today's trains, where you can kinda bring your own small-house-size-module and travel about the world at 15-30mph. If this is too far a reach, then maybe
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In the short-term, the wheat and chaff are very mixed for sure. But I don't think nation-states are likely to survive for more than 500 or so more years. And the capacity for collaboration, innovation, and even perhaps transcendence i
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Increasing spending, taking on record debts, and spraying a small army of masked cops on our streets... that's dismantling?
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> It's like wishing militaries didn't exist. I'm convinced that the evolution of the internet will bring this as well.
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While the engineering and innovation surrounding fast travel is interesting and compelling, I think that ultra-comfortable but slow-and-sustainable travel is more likely to win the day.
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It's unlikely that the general speed of spread of a pathogen will cause an increase in adverse outcomes from that pathogen. It's equally possible (though woefully underexamined) that the hastened immunity stemming from more rapid
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It's not unreasonable to take such a position, yes. Look, if you believe that: a) humanity is headed toward sustained peace b) a transition from the current world order to a peaceful one is better done in an orderly and adult fashion .
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Yes of course on some level, people who pay taxes to violent imperial actors are doing a disservice to humanity, and are in some sort of moral quandary. We all wish that everyone who has ever lived in such a situation has had the bravery to
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Is that true though? Can't we generalize to say that we observe that black holes have a similar density (which is to say, proportion of mass to volume) any sample of the observable universe sufficiently large as to be roughly uniform?
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So what are the actions which represent our duties to resist? * End-to-end encryption (has downsides with regard to convenience) * Legislation (very difficult to achieve, and can be ignored without the user having a way to verify) * Market
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Do you really not know? It's a difficult question to answer in an HN thread, because on one hand, it requires a review of the history of empire and war profiteering. But on the other hand, it's just obvious to the point of being
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I put in a full day trying to get Claude Code and VSCode to work inside Docker. I wasn't able to get the window to properly display in my wayland session.
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The name-calling and derogating in this thread is surprising and disappointing. For more than a decade, a substantial chorus of the world's foremost experts in the relevant disciplines have been calling for an end to gain-of-function r
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> I don't know why every government law and regulation that references specific monetary values like this aren't pegged to inflation. It's an utter mess. This job falls primarily to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who comp
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At risk of saying something utterly predictable (and thus, unnecessary) - and indeed, a sibling comment has already made such a prediction: * It really seems like matrix is superior in every way to both of these. It is much easier to backup
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Is that so wrong? Signal has some fairly serious deficiencies. That's why, along with it, I have 4 others installed, one of which seems to stand above the rest (and I bet, just reading this, you know which one I mean). Is it so wrong
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> Is the world really going to come crashing down if people only spend on things they need rather than endlessly cycling through shit they don't? In broad strokes, this is perhaps the most important question of environmental sustain
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I do not think it's creators that are the constituency holding up deprecation. As a full-time professional musician, I'm convinced I'll benefit much more from its deprecation than continuing to flog it into posterity. I don&
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I don't know how typical it is for these sorts of alerts to trigger messages that do not go to police, and I doubt that metric is closely tracked or even understand. But in the case at hand, the message did go to the police.
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One of the most broken aspects of the internet is on display here: Apparently 700 devices concluded that their operators were in distress, in a crowd of many thousands more. And whom did those devices alert? The people around them? Or pe
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The VSCode snap uses classic confinement. So that's not a way.
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Ask HN: Practices for sandboxing LLM agent front ends and IDEs?
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> I have yet to see a use case that doesn’t amount to buying drugs Society has been struggling for decades to overcome prohibition via political channels, and watching as multiple generations have been damaged by its impact on local eco

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