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by johnyzee 3y ago
We should call it the Turing Police.
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Thanks for the link, I think there is something to it. I have personally experienced, on multiple occasions, getting rather sick if I eat anything very sugary while on keto. So a 'cheat day' should probably be more like eating som
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Thanks for reminding me - done.
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Tell HN: Story about Sam Altman attending the 2023 Bilderberg meeting was killed
6 points by johnyzee 3y ago|8 comments
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OpenAI's Sam Altman attends secretive annual meeting with the world’s elite(cnbc.com)
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by johnyzee 3y ago
The mainstream media cartel is pumping Sam Altman hard for some reason. Just from today (CNBC): "Sam Altman wows lawmakers at closed AI dinner: ‘Fantastic…forthcoming’" [1]. When was the last time you saw MSM suck up so hard to
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Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce(cnbc.com)
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Twitter post with the images (the original postings were removed by Amnesty International): https://twitter.com/shahselbe/status/1652679528660049920?ref... The captions make them worse somehow. Like the images are
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Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images(theguardian.com)
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by johnyzee 4y ago
If only there was a way to teach computers to identify patterns based on a large dataset...
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by johnyzee 4y ago
Listen to good books while walking.
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by johnyzee 4y ago
The 'old internet' was chuck full of hucksters and scammers and 'futurists' selling snake oil, at least from circa 1993 onward and in full bloom since around the time of the Netscape IPO. It was pretty much exactly like
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by johnyzee 4y ago
But that's not what they are doing. Godot/Unity are not complements to Unreal. Epic are, in fact, commoditizing their competition, which is low-end, indie-friendly games development platforms.
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by johnyzee 4y ago
Peanuts contain a unique kind of lectin, which, unlike almost all other plant lectins, does not break down with preparation (heat, mechanical, etc.). Lectins irritate the gut lining and therefore cause gastro issues for a lot of people, pea
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by johnyzee 4y ago
"It's not a panic if you're the first one out the door." Another great quote from Margin Call . Love every bit of that movie. Very underrated too, as it was (unfairly) overshadowed by The Big Short .
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by johnyzee 4y ago
> ... with "hof" Which means (court)yard. In some languages, it exclusively means the royal court. Its origin is apparently obscure, but I am guessing it derives from the Nordic word for 'head' ('huvd' in Sw
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by johnyzee 4y ago
> it also doesn't explicitly force people to stop speaking their native language or abandon their religion, or throw people in prison for waving a sign in the street I don't mean to get all edgy, and not to detract from your ge
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by johnyzee 4y ago
ALA must be converted to EPA and DHA, which it does at less than 10% efficiency, so you'd need to consume an assload of it, too. Your best bet is still fish(oil).
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by johnyzee 4y ago
This is why omega-3s are effective. Your body depends on them to function optimally, and they are found in only a very few food sources, pretty much only fish. The omega-3s found in nuts and plants can convert to the most critical fatty aci
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by johnyzee 4y ago
Sugar is pro-inflammatory, and so is omega-6 fatty acids, the consumption of both of which has increased massively within the last 60-70 years. Omega-6 fats have gone from less than 5% of human diet to up to 30% today, thanks to the commerc
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by johnyzee 4y ago
Question for you and the sibling comment: What are the issues with WebGL, in your experience? It has been around for over a decade at this point, and I often wonder if it has yet to become a viable target.
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by johnyzee 4y ago
> a waste of energy Not if the energy is wasted anyway (or worse, costs money to get rid of). > a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions Except if it is wind power.
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by johnyzee 4y ago
> One possible etymology for London is from the (plausibly reconstructed, but unattested) British Celtic word landa: ‘low-lying, open land’ Huh, I always took it for granted that it was from the Nordic languages. ‘Lund’ = valley, ‘Lunden
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by johnyzee 4y ago
But can you hack it?
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by johnyzee 4y ago
If you are liquid, a good time to pick up some real estate will probably be in about a year's time. Around 2008, a typical property dropped to half its value, then doubled and tripled in the next five-six years. Just buy it and rent it
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by johnyzee 4y ago
I love the idea of the Paradox grand strategy games, but they seem to me to be almost gratuitously complex. Everything has so. many. parameters. In turn, this seems to make the games (1) require learning a lot of details that are 'coin
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The Final Countdown to the Ethereum Merge Has Officially Begun(finance.yahoo.com)
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The Final Countdown to the Ethereum Merge Has Officially Begun(coindesk.com)
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by johnyzee 4y ago
To be fair, they do have "a parliamentary democracy with elected MPs". It's just that those elected MPs have some fairly strict limits on what they are allowed to govern (anything that does not involve the military, which in
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by johnyzee 4y ago
Welcome to HN, where posts about bitcoin price are banned, unless it is down.

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