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The Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession(wired.com)
7 points by jtr1 1y ago|1 comments
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by jtr1 1y ago
One thing Jenny Chase (longtime solar analyst with Bloomberg) likes to point out is that in many places, solar panels are actually cheaper than fencing materials [1] 1. https://www.ted.com/talks/jenny_chase_solar_energy
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by jtr1 1y ago
Thank for noting this! I had no idea while I was reading the piece, but I loved those books as a kid. What a delightful connection.
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by jtr1 1y ago
One way of looking at companies advertising 996 is just that it’s a convenient legal proxy for ageism
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by jtr1 1y ago
Yes, this reminded me of a similar experience camping with friends where we could only describe the foliage as “ultragreen”. An incredibly vivid blue-green tone that suffused the whole island where we were staying. Been looking for explanat
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by jtr1 1y ago
I’ve noticed recently (maybe I missed an announcement) that Siri now functions locally for at least some commands. Try putting an Apple watch in airplane mode and asking it to set a timer or reminder
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by jtr1 2y ago
Frontend dev here. I think it’s important to remember that there’s not necessarily one use case to rule them all when it comes to the web. If this helps a smaller project that is Python-first get their work in front of a wider audience, is
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by jtr1 2y ago
If nothing else, I'd recommend reading it for the chapter on beans. Her companion guide to cooking with leftovers is a gem as well.
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by jtr1 2y ago
My immediate next question is how much of the article is AI generated filler.
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by jtr1 2y ago
It seems obvious to me that anyone supportive of psychedelic treatment should be supportive of this kind of investigation. It does no one any good to suppress or ignore stories of negative experiences with psychedelics. On the contrary, res
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by jtr1 3y ago
I did this for a few months while I was transitioning back from parental leave and was similarly insanely productive. It just made me absolutely ruthless about prioritizing. Part of it was motivation to keep up with ft colleagues while kno
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by jtr1 3y ago
Will do, thanks!
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by jtr1 3y ago
Hey, for the Senior Frontend role, I fit your ideal candidate profile quite well, plus your bonus points. Would love to chat. Is there an email you'd prefer or a way of tagging an application from HN?
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by jtr1 3y ago
What specific cases are being prevented by safety controls that you think should be allowed?
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by jtr1 3y ago
Someone on a thread about Apple Vision Pro called it “active noise cancellation for your eyes” and all I could think of was this story.
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"Meet the President!" Zadie Smith’s 2013 vision of our future with AR(newyorker.com)
1 points by jtr1 3y ago|1 comments
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by jtr1 3y ago
It gets lost in the culture wars, but as I understand it, the whole point of the concept of “structural racism” was that mustache-twirling racists aren’t required for modern laws and policies to have a targeted, negative effect on specific
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by jtr1 3y ago
IIRC they swept because Hugo membership is open and they made a coordinated effort to join and sweep those categories. The idea of a coordinated anti-diversity effort pissed off a lot of people. For a few friends of mine who are lifelong sc
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by jtr1 3y ago
A little background on that source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Natural_Health
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by jtr1 3y ago
A lot of it is what you pay attention to. It's easy to get pinned to trends that looked optimistic when you were young. Those trends may falter and fail, but they're blades of grass in a field.
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by jtr1 3y ago
I think I am going to take the WSJ Opinion Page’s assessment of Salvador Allende with a grain of salt.
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by jtr1 3y ago
> USA? Oops: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shopli... > A national lobbying group has retracted its startling estimate that “organized retail crime” was responsible for nearl
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by jtr1 3y ago
Nice, you keep those thought-terminating cliches locked and loaded
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by jtr1 3y ago
“{name} Derangement Syndrome” is a really neat tool for filtering out opposing viewpoints. Pro tip: save it as a hotkey for easy deployment.
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by jtr1 3y ago
TAD has just about the right sound, too. I've found it's a useful tool for very specific tasks. I found TDD perfect for writing functions or modules with a wide variety of possible state-dependent outputs. While not strictly TDD,
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by jtr1 3y ago
It’s difficult to talk about this when the concept of time is so deeply embedded in our language. To a timeless being (or universe or whatever), there would be no concept of “first”. “Always existed” would only make sense to a time-bound cr
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by jtr1 3y ago
https://nitter.net/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?l...
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by jtr1 3y ago
Not sure I subscribe to a totally fatalistic view here. Complex and interconnected systems can still yield solutions to careful study, and even without total foresight and control, some outcomes can be preferable to others.
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by jtr1 3y ago
Simplifying greatly, but 1. LLMs “create” these cultural artifacts by recombining their inputs (text, images, etc), all of which are cultural artifacts created by humans 2. Humans also create cultural artifacts by recombining other cultural
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by jtr1 3y ago
I think the argument is that you need to ask how you are measuring when you say it seems more correct than anything that came before. You may just be describing the experience of swimming in the dominant paradigm

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