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Plato vs. Grok(martinrobbins.substack.com)
1 points by jahnu 1y ago|0 comments
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by jahnu 1y ago
Given recent news* does that mean light at night could be used to measure US economic growth this year? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-commissioner-of-lab...
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by jahnu 1y ago
Let’s not forget the party that does everything possible to help fool and cover for his behaviour and choices. It’s madness. I’m deadly serious when I call this a Cultural Revolution. It makes Brexit look like a kindergarten game.
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by jahnu 1y ago
It wasn’t undone in 6 months. This started with the GWOT and ramped up in 2016. This year was just the tipping point.
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by jahnu 1y ago
The consequences of this Cultural Revolution will be felt for decades.
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by jahnu 1y ago
And MSFT are still second biggest company in the world by market cap. If Apple hadn’t regrown maybe MS would have been broken up.
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by jahnu 1y ago
> Literally billions of dollars of profits, and they still can't think of any way to avoid mass firings. I always wonder how a company can’t think of new avenues to explore with all that talent. Hiring is expensive so use that advan
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by jahnu 1y ago
Discharged lithium batteries can still catch fire.
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by jahnu 1y ago
Could we realistically get so accurate that we can measure time changes due to (human scale) mass movements near a clock?
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by jahnu 1y ago
> once I know what I need to do AI coding makes the doing much faster Most commenters on this paper seem to not respond to the strongest result from it. That is, the developers wrongly thought and felt that using AI had sped up their wor
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by jahnu 1y ago
How do the two sets of states compare on crime rates since the change?
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by jahnu 1y ago
I learned about it on this episode of Volts Fascinating consequences https://www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-solar-boom
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas(thejournal.ie)
121 points by jahnu 1y ago|211 comments
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by jahnu 1y ago
Honestly, it’s not as strange a read as people make out. Read it twice. After the first time which was ok but not an amazing experience I then read an analysis/explaination and then I read it a second time which was obviously much easi
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by jahnu 1y ago
I suppose the true alternative would be a standard open protocol that enables this cross platform.
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by jahnu 1y ago
30 year c++ veteran here. Also don’t know 80%. I used to know more but a combination of way better tooling and “modern” c++ and most importantly realising that thinking more about things other than the language details led to better softwar
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by jahnu 1y ago
Oh yes this too. How could I forget!
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by jahnu 1y ago
Yes it's also a problem there but WhatsApp gives you the tools to fix the problem in minutes if not seconds, or ask your tech literate relative or friend to help and it only takes them the couple of minutes to clear it and maybe show y
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by jahnu 1y ago
Signal have a few things that make it a hard sell. It's really hard to clean up media. You have to go into every single chat and from there go about deleting stuff. At least they finally added a "select all" option in there r
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by jahnu 1y ago
And the case for acquiring them as quickly as possible has been strengthened.
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Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan(ft.com)
2 points by jahnu 1y ago|0 comments
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by jahnu 1y ago
> Glad I’m not the only audio developer around here There are a few of us :) This synth is very cool. Highly original. Kudos.
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by jahnu 1y ago
Like personal computing up through the 90s to the .com boom everyone was trying to have fun and make cool stuff at the same time. Being able to get paid for it was an amazing bonus. Now it feels like getting paid comes first.
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by jahnu 1y ago
I think it was on Volts podcast where I heard that many of them are built as political insurance for regional governments who don’t want an angry population if they have an unusually cold winter and a lot of them are going to end up as st
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by jahnu 1y ago
That's a great explanation. Thanks!
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by jahnu 2y ago
A lesson that is supposed to be learned is not to wait until the camps have been built.
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by jahnu 2y ago
Well said. Being poor charges interest.
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by jahnu 2y ago
And yet they are worth infinitely more than simple contradiction free of any evidence whatsoever. A moment's though yet you can't write it down?
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by jahnu 2y ago
I am continually surprised how resistant people are to the statistics of our generic history
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Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by jahnu 2y ago|2 comments

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