jonahrd

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by jonahrd 3y ago
I remember reading a very well written article on stuxnet, detailing the entire way it worked. It was written in a very story-like way that built slowly until it revealed what the actual payload and impact was. Does anyone have a link to th
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I'm not sure I fully buy this, only because how would anyone be absolutely certain that they'd make more with Sam Altman in charge? It feels like a weird thing to speculatively rally behind. I'd imagine there's some inte
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by jonahrd 3y ago
That is the point of the study, but in my non-scientific opinion it seems like a very poorly crafted study. Nobody is going to have issues with attention/motivation during the one, short task they were assigned at some study. It's
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by jonahrd 3y ago
This is super interesting. Are there more examples I can see? The one in the article is a famous song which makes me wonder if it's really "decompressing" the data, or just being hunted towards a very common popular pattern o
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I see. This article compares GDP vs housing prices, which isn't a surprise that US fares very well because the US is stellar at GDP growth. But GDP is _absolutely irrelevant_ to the average citizen's purchasing power / income
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Urbanisation is a trend across the entire globe for many more reasons than just wanting to live in a few attractive areas. And it's absolutely necessary for us to urbanize instead of the wasteful way we use our land, in order to avoid
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I don't know why I'm even surprised, but this is very funny! Of course my "simple" solution has problems as well :) Maybe something you could opt into though?
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by jonahrd 3y ago
While we're at it, why is the 'hide' button so close to the submission link, with no confirmation? I often accidentally click hide, have to navigate to my profile, click 'hidden', click 'un-hide' then have
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Do we ever record record cold months on a global scale? My understanding is that globally, we keep seeing record warm months. Perhaps locally there are some record cold months but that's much less _news_ than the entre global average.
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by jonahrd 3y ago
You copied and pasted, and edited 5->4 and 4->3 in an attempt to make a point about a slippery slope. But you didn't edit this sentence: > 4-on, 3-off means you spend over twice as many days working as not working. Which now d
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by jonahrd 3y ago
The author is handwavingly wondering aloud if shoplifting is responsible for the cost of living crisis, spurred on by new shittier checkout procedures. No, it's demonstrably not. I shop from a few small local grocery stores within walk
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I am telling you that Metropolis for always being cited as one of the greatest films of all time is not actually that good, although very very influential.
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Alright I'll take that comment back, it is pretty good and I see other films of the same tier on this list. I still think this list lacks recent films.
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Mad Max Fury Road? Also, heavily biased towards the 20s-50s Edit: more detail, 35/250 films are from the past 25 years, from 1998 to now. Less than 1/7 of films from over 1/5 of the entire history of film? And then the consis
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I don't fully agree with parent poster, but the questions in your comments begged for some legitimate answers: > What do you expect them to do with office buildings filled with conference rooms and thousand dollar conference room ch
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by jonahrd 3y ago
This makes me wonder if something like Google+ "circles" or the idea of maintaining a finsta could translate into a way to bring back posting on social media. I think what Google+ got wrong is that connections are a 2-way street,
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I develop cross-platform desktop software. I have one backend/set of build flags for Linux binaries, and another very distinct one for ChromeOS. For me, it makes sense to differentiate the two.
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by jonahrd 3y ago
From what you wrote, it sounds like they are already back, still in their severance window, and took maybe a 2-3 week trip? This sounds like a very reasonable thing to do when you receive a 4 month severance package. There's still time
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by jonahrd 3y ago
This is a very 'Economist' article-- looking at macro trends instead of what actual Americans are feeling. Sure, healthcare has expanded, GDP has risen, even pay has gone up. But the _cost_ of healthcare has rapidly ballooned, the
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by jonahrd 3y ago
Where do you read that it's an "unwanted kiss"? Maybe I'm just missing it, but I've looked through this article 3 times and can only see it referred to as a sexual assault.
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by jonahrd 3y ago
I believe this idea somewhat stems from American exceptionalism. Our country is so exceptional that it must require exceptional solutions. There are many countries out there (Finland, France) that don't have this crisis in education an
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by jonahrd 4y ago
It's a pretty big claim to say the ability to purchase cannabis online is due to crypto. The legalization movement started well before crypto, and the consumer laziness to anything except online shopping has also been around a long tim
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I notice in this article a pattern where the author makes some really detailed statistical analysis of a trend, including rebuttal to some theories that aren't backed up by the statistics in a useful, well-presented way -- And then imm
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by jonahrd 4y ago
But these stock image artists provided consent when signing a contract and selling their work to Adobe. The contract is pretty clear that you basically don't own the work anymore and Adobe can do whatever they want with it. If you don&
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I would assume it would go with 949, weird that it doesn't
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I live in the highest density cycling city in North America (Montreal) and this is not anecdotal. A huge portion of my office cycle-commutes to work, and the vast majority do not shower. This was doubly-true before I worked at my current co
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I could probably count the number of times I've changed or showered after cycling on one hand, and cycling has been my main mode of transit for 10 years. When your trip is like 3km you don't even have time to work up a sweat, espe
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by jonahrd 4y ago
It still doesn't seem to understand that the diamond won't magically fall back into the thimble
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by jonahrd 4y ago
Are you just looking at raw numbers? Because the population size is different and in fact the link you posted says this: > Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other eth
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by jonahrd 4y ago
One of the biggest problems is Canada is the assumption of country wide immunity from systemic issues because "it's worse in the States". This prevents lots of real change from happening and allows lots of really bad laws to

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