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by jjulius 7mo ago
Touching grass. Valuing in-person connections. Focusing on the community, meatspaces and actual people around you. Getting off of the Internet and off of our devices. It's not just a solution to AI/LLMs modifying our reality but a
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by jjulius 7mo ago
Because this is a tech forum, not a weapons forum. I'd wager that a sizeable chunk of folk decrying AI/LLMs in this manner also do, in fact, decry the same weapons you refer to. They just do it elsewhere because it's not ty
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by jjulius 7mo ago
>Totally disagree this is what would happen. Doesn't matter if you agree that would happen, the analogy is valid - you're essentially admitting that you're ignoring the negative impacts of the tech for the sake of how impr
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by jjulius 7mo ago
Help me follow. Which bank, specifically, requires an app for the purpose of 2FA? Further, what is the 2FA process for logging in to the app itself - wouldn't you need a second form of authentication that's not the app in th
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by jjulius 7mo ago
Does/do your bank/s absolutely always require you to use an app? Is there a desktop/website that you can use? Do they have a brick and mortar location?
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by jjulius 8mo ago
The gardens that need the most tending, and that will have the most impactful rewards for individuals and communities as a result of said tending, exist in meatspace. Stop searching for walled gardens on the internet and focus on whatever i
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by jjulius 8mo ago
Nonsense. My kid just started kindergarten this past year - I've never been required to log into ParentSquare through a GMail address and I have only ever accessed it through a browser on a laptop. (Damn, I failed at my attempt to stop
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by jjulius 9mo ago
>The Facebook of today is a much better platform to the average user than the Facebook pretimeline. "The cigarette of today is a much better cigarette for the user now that we have filters in them."
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by jjulius 9mo ago
This. I've been saying it for years. You can trace the decline back a couple of decades. All of these threads and comments people throw out about how "social media" is bad misses the forest for the trees. The Internet has put
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by jjulius 9mo ago
... and? Nothing wrong with not buying into what's popular.
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by jjulius 9mo ago
So I made my original post knowing full well that my situation is my own and YMMV, but to speak to those concerns wrt my schedule/life... >You fall asleep instantly every night... Actually, yes! Two points there. First, when I'
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by jjulius 9mo ago
Sorry to confuse, it's 9:30 every night. Anything less than 7 and I'm wrecked. 7.5 is ideal, but I also feel great with 7. My non-scientific guess is that I spent so much of my teens and 20s getting less than 6 hours that my body
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by jjulius 9mo ago
Nah, I typed it up in like three mins lol
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by jjulius 9mo ago
Nah, you can do it with kids! I have two that are about to be 4 and 6, here are my weekdays: - Alarm at 4:30. 5 mins of breathing exercises, 20 mins of meditation. - Make coffee, have breakfast, out the door to work by ~5:30. - Get to work&
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by jjulius 9mo ago
>Yet we now have tools that allow us to do just that in less than a minute. With this tool, you read in under one minute what would've taken you 20 minutes before?
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by jjulius 9mo ago
>... or a stack of cash... So I don't, actually, need a phone in that instance...
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by jjulius 9mo ago
> By 2026, you'll need two phones... Need ? Unless and/or until the ability to log in and do your banking, healthcare, etc. via desktop/laptop goes away, then you don't need a phone to do any of that. Yes, 2FA may be
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by jjulius 9mo ago
I apologize in advance for the tone of my response. >Gemini informed me... Phrases like this are essentially, "I asked an LLM to interpret this and I didn't bother verifying it's accuracy, but I will now post it as fact.&q
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>Come now, stand behind your principles. Are we 100% sure that the edit wasn't a result of a reevaluation of "principles"?
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>Bailing out OAI would be ... political suicide (how many hundreds of billions that could have gone to health care instead?) Not that I have an opinion one way or another regarding whether or not they'd be bailed out, but this parti
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>... in the end they are a tool that is designed to escape reality. Non-fiction books would strongly beg to differ.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>What’s the difference between social media and books? I am struggling to believe that this was asked in good faith.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
Support mom/pop/local shops when possible. https://cuboro.ch/en/where-to-buy/
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by jjulius 10mo ago
> Can we at least get a source to where they're getting that information? Fourth paragraph of the article, first sentence, the hyperlink text says, "the US FDA announcement". The link[1] contains the following under the he
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by jjulius 10mo ago
Looks like their site links to a good number of US stores that sell them, many mom/pop. While there may not be a store close enough to you, perhaps there's one that would ship to you.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
To be fair, The Return, which is an entire 18 hours of avant-garde Lynch heroin, was distributed by Showtime.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>How does that make any kind of economic sense? It's not about economics, it's about control.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
Ah, you must've vouched for it. :) Odd, I don't remember that being a thing when I joined. Mine showed up a-okay.
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by jjulius 10mo ago
And yet... many communities are in the process of ending their contracts and lawsuits are being filed against them?
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by jjulius 10mo ago
>HN doesn't notify you in any way of this. I'm not sure this is the supportive argument that you think it is, as HN doesn't notify users of anything akin to what you're discussing, be it positive or negative, ever.

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