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by jrussino 3y ago
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html For as many times as I have read and re-read that essay, I find that I still need to be reminded just how pervasive this sort of thing is.
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by jrussino 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, but the illustrations in this article are gorgeous ! I found the illustrator's website here: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/
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by jrussino 3y ago
> 12,000 people in terms of congressional and state representation. But only half of them are actually allowed to vote This is egregious.
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by jrussino 3y ago
Thoreau, in Walden, on borrowing an axe: "The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it." A high school English teacher used this passage t
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by jrussino 3y ago
I've been looking for something like this. My wife and I each have a separate Apple Photos library. I'd love it if we could have a combined backup solution. Could we keep using Photos and back up to this, or would it be better to
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by jrussino 3y ago
Wish I had read this a few days ago; I had an idea for a pencil-only iPad app and spent a good chunk of the weekend going down a SwiftUI rabbit hole before realizing that it might not be the right tool.
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by jrussino 3y ago
I don't know about this. I got onto Facebook circa 2007 when it expanded from Harvard to other universities and man did I love it for a few years. Facebook really ended up being a major extension of my college experience. That was when
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by jrussino 3y ago
> going to be an ethical nightmare Thanks for the We Are Legion / We Are Bob reference - that one wasn't on my radar. My point of reference for the sort of horror that mind-uploading and simulation might result in is this fanta
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by jrussino 3y ago
> They know it's unpleasant and may be technically illegal and they're fine with delegating their elected leaders to deal with that for them. I don't know; maybe there are plenty of people like this. But I think there are
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by jrussino 3y ago
He's also a big proponent of cycling infrastructure, which IMHO we need much more of: https://youtu.be/FlVWv9O0qQ4
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by jrussino 3y ago
> $100,000/dose I really wish I could see a transparent breakdown of that number. How much of that is the amortized cost of R&D, marketing costs, salaries for the executives and management, etc? How much of it is actual producti
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by jrussino 3y ago
> a bold claim Isn't that just the definition of a vaccine? "A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease." ... "The agent stimulates the
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by jrussino 3y ago
This. When I was a kid, history classes were my least favorite. I just had very little interest in what I was being taught. At some point, I started to notice that we're all showing up "in the middle of the story", so to spea
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by jrussino 3y ago
Adam Ragusea has an excellent video on this very topic - "Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)" : https://youtu.be/J44svaQc5WY
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by jrussino 4y ago
> Also I'm completely convinced that the internet hype around broccoli rabes is a completely made up SEO infecting real life phenomena. None of my friends from college who grew up in Philly had ever had one Like, roast pork with bro
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by jrussino 4y ago
This was my first thought when reading the article. > The lunar far side is permanently shielded from the radio signals generated by humans on Earth. During the lunar night, it is also protected from the Sun. These characteristics make i
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by jrussino 4y ago
> But it does depend whether they’re mentally sound Where we draw the line on "mentally sound" is a social construct, right? I can't really wrap my head around somebody wanting to amputate their own hand and at the same ti
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by jrussino 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeli... Does the lunar gateway meet your definition of a "moonbase"? Because if you mean "long-term human presence at the moon"
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by jrussino 4y ago
This just made me realize that even though I pronounce Linux as "Lee-nux" (the same way he does), I always read his name as "Lie-nus" (like the Charlie brown character).
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by jrussino 4y ago
> he may well have found that having trolls, clowns, and morons to enjoy his adolescent antics is worth $44B in pure enjoyment This is the most disappointing part. I have a hard time imagining that any of these billionaires are "goo
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by jrussino 4y ago
I came here to say exactly this. I don't know anything about the man except that he brought a good deal of tangible joy into my life and the lives of many many others. As far as epitaphs go, you can't ask for much better than that
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by jrussino 4y ago
I recently heard a quote that resonated with me: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". I wonder if someone who treats these tasks as "non-work" is thinking of themselves as being more pr
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by jrussino 4y ago
I think this could make for a hilarious animated series. Kind of an AI-generated mashup between HarmonQuest[1] and DrunkHistory[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonQuest [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jrussino 4y ago
Lots of discussion here about this approach and alternatives. Not sure how feasible this is but I think it would be even cooler to turn this into a site where users can define their own custom ranking algorithm and/or select from a set
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by jrussino 4y ago
Looking at the "Failure Resume" at the bottom; it seems massive to me! But then I notice that there are as many as 13 entries for a single day (e.g. 7/5/2018). What exactly is meant by "failed" here? Did you in
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by jrussino 4y ago
If we follow this line of thinking: in the, let's call it, "pre-AI" days all of the ideas that we have of the form "Mixing A and B" are ones that at least one human found to be interesting/valuable (and the one
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by jrussino 4y ago
> I wonder if in 10 years people will be stuck debugging Rube-Goldberg machines composed of LLM api calls doing stuff that if-statements can do, probably cobbled together with actual if-statements Sounds like an extension of https:&#x2F
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by jrussino 4y ago
Do you know if/how someone can get involved with this at the research phase? I have a daughter who will be entering 1st grade next year and I'd be interested in having her try this out if there was a way of signing up.
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by jrussino 4y ago
With so many resources becoming available for self-directed study, and also things like this, I wonder if we'll move toward a de-coupling of teaching and testing/verification. I could envision a world where having a degree in a su
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by jrussino 4y ago
How do you become aware of these programs and initiatives and their level of preference in the eyes of the school? Do you happen to have personal connections with people in the school administration or admissions office and find out by word

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