jaggednad

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by jaggednad 7mo ago
good point
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Show HN: Your Expensive Lawyer Is Making Mistakes(findthefuckup.com)
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by jaggednad 5y ago
I think you guys really did a good job with something that's hard to do well. Kudos
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by jaggednad 6y ago
Yes
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by jaggednad 6y ago
What business is it of yours if your neighbor is doing heroin? We could get people off the streets if we gave them treatment. A drug addicts are sick; Locking them in jail shouldn’t be the answer
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by jaggednad 6y ago
Yep, as it stands we are just pulling off the band aid in the slowest and most painful possible way. The handling of the crisis by the Trump administration has been so far beyond stupid that there isn’t even a word for it
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by jaggednad 7y ago
What is this? A plane for ants?!
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by jaggednad 7y ago
I think you’re right that we are on the cusp or real natural language understanding. It’s an incredible moment. But we are also kinda far from these huge models being in every home because of the enormous amount of compute they require. Eve
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by jaggednad 7y ago
A lot of truth in this article, but I disagree that trump has anything to do with this trend. As other commenters have pointed out, this trend predates trump’s ascension. The author admits vapor wave predates trump, as does Burner art and c
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by jaggednad 7y ago
The article talks of journals rejecting papers because the author had already been rejected by other journals or because the author’s prior papers were in less-prestigious journals. This method of selecting papers is the perfect recipe for
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by jaggednad 7y ago
While halting warming is important, a Solar shade is an absolutely terrible way to do that. Shading out 2% of the light has obvious implications for global crop yields and for non crop plants that all rely on solar energy. It would also obv
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by jaggednad 7y ago
Former lawyer who worked on IPOs. Can confirm, amendments to S1s are common af. Basically always see them
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by jaggednad 7y ago
I read the headline as “cannon rush” at first lol
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by jaggednad 7y ago
Wow, I remember doing this as a kid and thinking to myself that I was being stupid because surely wiggling the mouse would make the computer have to process more input and actually slow down whatever I was impatiently waiting for. I still d
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by jaggednad 7y ago
While I agree with you re trump’s motivations, it’s also true that the leading democrats are making similar statements about regulating/breaking up big tech (for better reasons). It seems that, in this time of hyper partisan polarizati
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by jaggednad 7y ago
From a purely self-interested perspective, this is the dumbest thing the US could possibly do. There are talented people who want to leave China and come study and work in the US. We are basically stealing China’s best minds. Now we’re tell
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by jaggednad 7y ago
You’re presenting a false choice here. Either we live with free market limbic capitalism, or we live with a totalitarian PRC like state. There are other options that mitigate some of the issues with limbic capitalism without being totalitar
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by jaggednad 7y ago
So did vernor vinge in his sci fi book A Fire Upon the Deep, which is worth a read regardless
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by jaggednad 8y ago
It’s different because Facebook has massive power to influence the National conversation by choosing which content to block or not block. Your local neighborhood store does not have such power, ergo, it’s reasonable to treat Facebook differ
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by jaggednad 8y ago
So good to see Elon making it happen despite a full court press against him in the media, likely financed by the saudis and other oil interests, and hedge funds who betting against him
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by jaggednad 8y ago
“ our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.” What someone is willing to pay and “benefits” they receive are not the same thing. Someone already touched on it—people are willing to pay a lot for her
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by jaggednad 8y ago
One theory why primates evolved big brains is because they had hands. Big brains for an animal like a gazelle don’t pay off because, without hands, there isn’t much a gazelle can do with that big brain. Better it use that energy for bigger
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by jaggednad 8y ago
It shouldn’t be the point, but Facebook wants it to be, because the more eyeballs looking at their site, the more money they get. In order to maximize eyeballs, they make their site as addictive as possible.
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by jaggednad 8y ago
Yes, they have a test set. They don’t check every video, but they do check every video in a sample that is of statistically significant size.
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by jaggednad 9y ago
I dont think you understand what Keynesianism is. Keynesianism doesn’t say anything about money giving the 0.1 percent. You should read up in what Keynes actually said
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by jaggednad 9y ago
Spending a year in the top x% isn’t what most people have in mind with their false optimism. They expect to make it to that bracket and stay there. One-time windfalls that put you in a certain bracket temporarily don’t make low taxes on tha
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by jaggednad 9y ago
You’re right. I think we need further legislation to bring out the “true meaning of our creed”, as we did in generations past.
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by jaggednad 10y ago
I don't think anyone's saying that the solution to poverty is for landlords et al to start losing money. That's a ridiculous straw-man. The article points out that many people profit by keeping others in a powerless state and
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by jaggednad 10y ago
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I highly recommend it. Takes only 4-5 hours cover to cover
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by jaggednad 10y ago
Also, there's this in in episode 26 of Season 1 of the Next Generation, in which a group of people who were frozen and kept alive in the 20th century are found and unthawed on the Enterprise: https://www.youtube.com/wat

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