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by jawns 5y ago
I don't think it entails presumption that our form of life is special to say, "You can't determine frequency based on a single data point."
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by jawns 5y ago
The "why" might be more of a philosophical question than a scientific question, but in terms of the science, I don't think it's hard to reason about. Ultimately, the frequency at which abiogenesis occurs is 1/N. It
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by jawns 5y ago
I don't have any philosophic objections to the existence of extraterrestrial life, but what does bug me is when people claim that simply because the universe is so big, that somehow makes it not only likely but practically certain that
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by jawns 5y ago
I notice that the vast majority of comments here are lessons learned about office dynamics and interpersonal relationships. Which either indicates that soft skills are much more important than tech skills or that HN's mostly technical
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by jawns 5y ago
Mind sharing some background? I'm curious about how you snagged the domain, how you've managed to monetize it, and what the competition is like in this space.
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by jawns 5y ago
I don't think it's going to turn into a "special occasion" activity. Rather, I think you're going to have a smaller and smaller number of voracious readers, but those readers will continue to consume books at a pre
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by jawns 5y ago
But isn't that just tautology with an intermediate step? You might have Personality Descriptive Adjective X that is found to cluster into what we call a Big Five trait. But Adjective X has its own definition, and it's likely that
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by jawns 5y ago
I think a lot of this analysis is tautological -- meaning that when you boil it down, you're just saying that things are as you have defined them to be. For instance, take a Big Five trait such as agreeableness. How do we know that a p
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by jawns 5y ago
My father grew up on a rural Irish farm, then came to America as a young adult. At age 78, he hatched a plan to move back to his family home, where his brother and a nephew still lived. After three years there, he came back to the US, compl
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by jawns 5y ago
> Businesses, the entities that are paying the most money to AWS, will NOT want a hard shutdown. I don't think anyone is arguing that any account MUST take advantage of hard shutdowns. Only that it should be an option for those who
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by jawns 6y ago
That's often true when you're talking about a single project with a clearly delineated end state, such as, "Build a responsive website for my coffee shop that works in all major desktop and mobile browsers." But it'
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by jawns 6y ago
I think the closer we get to the point where all vehicles are autonomous, the easier it will get. The interim is the hard part. Right now autonomous vehicles have to be able to operate alongside human operators whose ability to communicate
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by jawns 6y ago
I, on the other hand, look forward to the day, probably not for at least 20-30 years from now, when all or virtually all vehicles are autonomous, and they're all constantly communicating with each other. Could you imagine the improvem
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by jawns 6y ago
If P&G is really not making a penny off this, I'm fine with a little CDC plug.
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Boop – Paste and transform text locally(boop.okat.best)
3 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
I read "Harriet the Spy" as a child, then re-read it 2 years ago to my own kids, and I couldn't shake the thought, as I read it, that this was a portrait of a girl with autism before autism was really understood, or at least
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Textmoji – Make rad text emoji for your Slack team(textmoji.app)
1 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
Not when you use language like, "I've kissed four guys in the past year." If I had to try to nail down when it is and isn't inclusive, I would say that when it is used in the second-person, where a speaker is directly ad
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by jawns 6y ago
Trivially? Have you ever tried to implement a text parser to enforce a style guide? The low-hanging fruit is when there is a banned word with a defined replacement. For instance, in this Google style guide, all instances of "auto-sca
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by jawns 6y ago
I'm a distributist, so I would prefer to see this type of system operated as a private cooperative, 100% owned by participants, rather than a government-run program. Why? Because then the people who get to make the decisions are the co
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by jawns 6y ago
It's unfortunate that interviewers, by and large, wait for interviewees to ask these questions rather than volunteering them. It's normal to expect an engineering interviewee to present a resume and do a coding assessment for ever
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by jawns 6y ago
This goes double for APIs, and triple for externally facing APIs, where typically the people who are working with it aren't familiar with your code base or naming conventions. That's why good API design is so hard. Every name you
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by jawns 6y ago
Absolutely -- although it's less manipulative than the phrase implies. It just refers to building up some level of trust, respect, and goodwill over time by being an honest, decent, and caring person. Then, when you find yourself hav
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by jawns 6y ago
Indeed. And in such a case, the greater risk, legally speaking, is a lawsuit from the employees who are victims of such attacks. The employer can't just claim, as a defense, that their hands were tied because of the ADA.
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by jawns 6y ago
I don't think you need to divulge any sensitive details, but unless this is a "one in a million" occurrence, it's possible that others might be faced with a similar situation in the future, so it might be useful to share
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by jawns 6y ago
"Conservation status: Least Concern."
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by jawns 6y ago
I have no legal background, so I could be wrong, but I would think that in both DE and WY the established precedent is overturnable, given the strength of your argument. If that's so, then it seems like the preference for WY is that yo
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by jawns 6y ago
Exactly right. I'm a Delawarean, and in my former career as a journalist I wrote about this phenomenon. It's all about the courts. It is a risk mitigation strategy for businesses. Having extensive, well-defined case law makes thin
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by jawns 6y ago
A few non-paywalled articles related to this research: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210407135801.h... https://www.sciencenews.org/article/psychology-numbers-peopl...
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by jawns 6y ago
> computer programs always serve a functional purpose The Court is apparently not familiar with much of my code :)

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