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by javajosh 3y ago
Interesting story - I wonder how they managed to manipulate the Paypal account of the victim. Clearly Paypal has a problem there. But the other issue is that of general lawlessness and the fact that this scammer will get away with the attem
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by javajosh 3y ago
>I don't get why people buy inkjets at all. You can get laser or CISS. Because people don't know. They go to the store and buy the cheapest one. They don't consider ink costs, and so they end up saving $50 up front and t
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by javajosh 3y ago
It would be a real tragedy if they discovered you could write a webapp such that all such "pushing around the plate" activity could be done via CSS. But of course that is insufficient "drag" to dissipate managements exce
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by javajosh 3y ago
My all-time favorite response to this problem was I think from Ben Shapiro who said that people who experience flooding should just sell their houses and buy somewhere else and it won't be any big deal. Lol.
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by javajosh 3y ago
As with so many things, like physical media, the wider world will undervalue some devices which is an opportunity for those in the know. It's a consolation prize, to be sure, but it's not nothing.
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by javajosh 3y ago
$25/mo for access to a mac seems like an okay deal.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to build React Native for iOS without a Mac?
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think there is a clear distinction between early Peterson, the Canadian psych professor who took exception to a law that impinged on his free speech rights, and the wealthy media juggernaught he has become. His early appearances were nuan
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by javajosh 3y ago
I personally believe that the origin of life started with something we would not recognize as such today. I imagine that it started with some long molecules in water and they have the ability to grow longer and longer. Maybe they looped aro
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by javajosh 3y ago
Maybe start with your current employer? Then expand out via LinkedIn. You could also try fiverr but that will generally be pretty cut-rate "doing it for the exposure" type deal - but might be useful if you want to get your feet we
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by javajosh 3y ago
Surprised no-one mentioned https://syncthing.net/ yet. That would seem to be the main competitor for such an app. Still, perhaps there's a market for something a little more user friendly and streamlined. Nice work!
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think it should be a personal decision. As a skull on a bookshelf I feel my remains would have far more impact than if I only had a plot somewhere that was infrequently visited. It's also more of a conversation starter. Also, there i
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by javajosh 3y ago
I always thought it would be fun to leave behind my skull for my descendents - something to put on the bookshelf. And then, if I attained infinite wealth someday, I'd create some elaborate, expensive treasure hunt that kicks off when s
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by javajosh 3y ago
Do 30-day trials and put a reminder in your calendar to cancel with the URL to do so. Make this a habit. Yes, subscriptions are a dark pattern but the minimal amount of effort to avoid being charged in some circumstances (not gyms) seems
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by javajosh 3y ago
An important post to remind us that most of our trials are of the lesser kind. >The best metaphor I can give for the daily home hospice care of your own seven year old son is a monastic vocation His son is seven . In hospice care. The
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by javajosh 3y ago
>This seems quite condescending; I'm not sure if that's your intent. It's not. It's a fine-line between being empathetic and enabling. Just as there's a difference between being rejected by women and using that
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by javajosh 3y ago
If you're online enough to identify yourself as an incel you're too online. If most of what you know about women comes from what they post on Instagram and Twitter and whatever, then you really know nothing about women or men or t
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by javajosh 3y ago
The feedback loop building a simulation will always be OOM faster and cheaper than building the real thing. The barrier-to-entry for entering the loop becomes personal aptitude, not capital, and yet the EV is enormous. That is why our &qu
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by javajosh 3y ago
The real tie-breaker is experiment. It's telling that his primary example of "epistemic learned helplessness" is historical narrative. Historical narratives are solutions to a boundary value problem where the boundary is simp
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, but...the analogy I like to use is to imagine that we are tiny creatures living in a hole in a vast sheet of ice. Our hole is ~1 au in diameter, Proxima Centauri is 270k au away. So if the hole is 1cm wide the next hole is ~2.7km away.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I have always assumed that such metals came in big blobs and then got smeared out over geological time. Could be wrong though.
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by javajosh 3y ago
The idea is just a seed. To make it grow, first you must articulate it, and share it, and - this is important - try to approximate it in your own life. Eat your own dogfood, so to speak. It means ignoring paid-for speech in all mediums in y
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by javajosh 3y ago
Input latency is famously short on an Apple IIe. Something like 5ms from key to screen. That is far, far faster than modern computers.
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by javajosh 3y ago
The urge to do more and explore exists, but it is not the centralized monolith it once was, nor does it occupy the mainstream imagination like it once did. In fact, I believe that the internet has destroyed the very notion of "mainstre
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's too vague. See through the right lens, the current infosphere is entirely adversarial. Advertisers want to separate you from your money. Political machines will say anything to get your vote, externalities be damned. For these pur
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by javajosh 3y ago
I've heard this before, of course [1]. And it may be. But it doesn't really matter because far-flung parts of the universe cannot interact with each other. Which assumes universality of some physical laws, like relativity. An as
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by javajosh 3y ago
I rather like to believe that the universe is infinite[1], and that the laws of physics change imperceptibly across long distances, meaning that our observable part has properties that helped life, and intelligent life, evolve[2]. There doe
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by javajosh 3y ago
How is urinating in public a sex offense? I'm releasing urine not having sex with it.
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by javajosh 3y ago
We all make judgements about what is worth pursuing. I'm not a fan of string theory because the sub-field over-promised and under-delivered for decades. I'm content to let others who know more get excited if the field is going to
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by javajosh 3y ago
I can follow Susskind's lectures about gravity. I understand metrics and tensors. Have you seen EW's talks? What was your take? I found them impenetrable and impossible to follow. Perhaps it's just me and my ignorance. But I

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