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by johnea 2y ago
One has to wonder: What's cause, and what's effect? Which came first, the cannabis consumption, or the mental health issues? I totally agree with some of the other comments: I've seen alcohol consumption lead to MUCH more fre
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by johnea 2y ago
I worked on a demonstration prototype for the "wireless cab", a handheld remote that allowed control of various features of a Lionel layout. This was used as part of a demo in convincing the previous ownership to allow the purchas
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by johnea 2y ago
> This is not the AI itself that’s at fault here. This is unscrupulous people Isn't this the s/w version of "guns don't kill people, people kill people"?
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by johnea 2y ago
> Fetishisation of markets is the issue. Well said. It should also be pointed out, that the regulatory laws are what _defines_ the market. They are even more fundamental to a market's existence than the companies producing goods and
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by johnea 2y ago
> the model being able to observe his own output I never knew ChatGPT had a d1ck? "Him" and the big invisible guy in outer space have yet another thing in common...
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by johnea 2y ago
Just one article as a reference: https://newrepublic.com/article/176117/prosperity-gospel-chr... and one citing the "optimal economic output" theory of the real lib-tards: https://thereformedc
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by johnea 2y ago
As someone who's pretty significantly left (at least in the US political spectrum) I've become pretty fed up with Jacobin. The author of this article is a religious historian, which explains a lot of the "circuitous" lan
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by johnea 2y ago
I wonder if this also applies to the widely deployed stingray cell tower emulators, which effectively institute a Man In The Middle breach of cell phone communications...
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by johnea 2y ago
I keep reading this in various places, but everytime I've checked the used prices aren't that low. > decreased by 1.34% in the US This just isn't a significant decline as far as influencing a purchase decision. EVs in gene
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by johnea 2y ago
Dangit! I was hoping this was a way to improve my HN karma. Since everyone here hates me 8-/ boo hoo... Maybe I should follow the business logic and just start making comments that are specifically tailored to engratiating myself with
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by johnea 2y ago
I'm not so sure about this assessment. But one thing I would agree with is that Li ion is not the ultimate battery chemistry. Several others with greater density, increased cycle counts, and more readily available minerals are in devel
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by johnea 2y ago
> seems like last version was a year ago If it works, don't fix it... I read HN in hexchat, on Libera.chat ##hntop...
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by johnea 2y ago
I wonder if it could help improve my karma? 8-/
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by johnea 2y ago
Those suggestions would really help, and also, why don't we just _build_ high speed rail? This is a shining example of the downsides of the financialization of the US economy: the inability to build almost anything at scale. Really gre
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by johnea 2y ago
Good article. It highlights an impact of concentrated wealth on technological development in general, the third option: If a competing technology can't just be ignored, or crushed, the final veto is to simply purchase it. Which is what
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by johnea 2y ago
The thing Japan's FTC was worried about was a bit of a mystery to me. A search app? One doesn't start a browser and go to a search page? Sorry, I don't run the goggle malware, so I wasn't aware...
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by johnea 2y ago
This is only for people who don't really care how correct the search results are...
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by johnea 2y ago
I totally agree...
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by johnea 2y ago
The fact that North Carolina's governor is pretty consistently from the democratic party is an interesting story about the lack of actual democracy in the modern US. The population in that state is pretty similar to the US population,
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by johnea 2y ago
There you go, expecting people to be rational again...
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by johnea 2y ago
I'm amazed this isn't flagged. The earnest determination of segemnts of the HN comments "community" to prevent discussion of topics they don't agree with is almost as concerning as the actions of this adminstration.
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by johnea 2y ago
I thought more emphasis should have been given to DJB. The article does mention that he created the ChaCha20 algorithm, and that he first characterized the timing side channel attack, but his extremely small, simple and fast source librarie
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by johnea 2y ago
And, after his campaign claimed incorrectly, that ByeDon was not providing relief benefits to republicans in North Carolina, he cancels benefits to everyone. How egalitarian. I know a couple of people in that disaster zone, and I'm tol
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by johnea 2y ago
Was that post written by a bot? It must be really sad to be born into the "reality's not real" internet brain damaged generations 8-( Of course, suggesting that all of that is why new millennium generations are the most neuro
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by johnea 2y ago
Maybe the solution would be, to stop watching stupid game shows and inane sitcoms? Maybe you're own mental health would improve (since this is repeatedly referenced as the reason for viewing nonsense media), along with that of your ima
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by johnea 2y ago
This list does recirculate routinely, and is always a good refresher...
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by johnea 2y ago
I don't agree at all with the "wild west" and "buyer beware" stuff in the article. But I do completely agree that it's annoying, when I surf to a website with cookies disabled, and am forced to click "Yes
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by johnea 2y ago
Wow! Spectacular images! Seeing the captured images, instead of drawings or verbal description, is such a window back in time.
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by johnea 2y ago
I really think this is a "drink the koolaid" phenomenon. Personally, I don't want an LLM synthesized result to a query. I want to read original source material on websites, preferably written by experts, in the field in which
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by johnea 2y ago
I like running, and I don't even wear shoes, from nike or any other maker. The wet sand on the beach at low tide is the ultimate running surface. And getting away from streets and cars and noise and barking dogs and most of the rest of

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