justtologin

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by justtologin 5y ago
What I took from the thread was: Bad news is reported more, if bad things happen, you need to act fast so it's good to pay close attention to bad news, that's what news organizations want you to think. And then you commented that
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by justtologin 5y ago
This is a good argument against technocracy. I want expert's views to be taken into consideration when making decisions that affect other people. I don't want them telling people what to do using the lens of their narrow technical
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by justtologin 5y ago
Wishing something was open source and committing to build it are pretty far apart. There are examples everywhere where people have built open source alternatives for things. Understandably, there are way more people who'd like an open
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by justtologin 5y ago
I'd find a few people that have been at startups of a similar size and stage and talk to them about this. First, there is no single "startup" definition. Are you the third employee, did they just raise series A, are they near
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by justtologin 5y ago
I think the point of the headline is to show how shockingly low the cost would be compared to the economic cost of covid. At the same time, it's a bit disingenuous. What does "vaccinate the world" mean now? Two shots, three,
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by justtologin 5y ago
My car was stolen recently, and the day it happened I was told it's most probably already in a shipping container on the way to Haiti or something, and not to expect to get it back. The role of the police seems to be completely adminis
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by justtologin 5y ago
No I wasnt clear, I used the api at ipinfo.io to get the information about the ip address the parent had posted. That info pertains to the "problem" ip he is encountering, its not generated by some service at that address
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by justtologin 5y ago
So yeah # curl ipinfo.io/34.66.115.47 { "ip": "34.66.115.47", "hostname": "47.115.66.34.bc.googleusercontent.com", "city": "Council Bluffs", "region":
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by justtologin 5y ago
HN is still a decent news aggregator as long as you turn on "showdead" and browse through new submissions a bit. Upvoted stories and comments are more often one-sided, but there is lots of diversity in what gets submitted, and eve
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by justtologin 5y ago
They do have a loss function, that is analogous to human desire. I think we are fundamentally missing something, that there is an irreconcilable difference between a mathematical expression and actual conscious desire, and until we figure o
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by justtologin 5y ago
War deaths are typically young men in the prime of life. Covid deaths are mostly old people. Not to say they should be ignored, buy what people must have experienced seeing a generation of young men die in WWII is nothing like what is happe
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by justtologin 5y ago
I think there is a "social construct" aspect of beauty, typically a variation on very skinny women, maybe plus big breasts. Those are basically what as a young man (and probably woman, I'm a man) you are conditioned to be int
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by justtologin 5y ago
Amazon textract, I think there is a free tier. I also heard that excel now has an image to table input capability but I've not tried it. You may need to screenshot the pdf first, I'm not sure over the input formats that work. If y
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by justtologin 5y ago
I'm 40, I feel like I've had a good, relatively free life, and I largely accept that is over and mostly feel bad for younger people who have to grow up in the fallout of the over reaction we've had. Imagine dating, going to u
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by justtologin 5y ago
Our stuff isn't worth endangering their lives, but in many people's calculus, a paycheck is. That's one reason we have workplace safety laws, because a pure market solution would lead to people doing unsafe things.
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by justtologin 5y ago
> "the delivery service partner's dispatcher didn't follow the standard safety practice." Amazon, not uniquely, has a business model based around devolving blame and recourse in a way that insulates them from the norm
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by justtologin 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good thing or bad thing. I've worked closely with police and military and the front line folks of these and similar "operational" departments should be the least of people&#x2
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by justtologin 5y ago
It could be interesting- the challenge would be to incentivize quality and participation. And at least IMO it's much more interesting to see different perspectives argued on a topic, rather than actual rebuttal in most cases, or even &
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by justtologin 5y ago
Part of the support YC companies get is the ability to periodically post ads on the HN front page. Part of the point of this forum is to promote YC companies and encourage people to apply for YC. The post would have been deliberately put th
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by justtologin 5y ago
Interesting take. So if i can restate it, automating people's agency - basically their decision making or judgement - creates a "disposable" class that there is (from management perspective) almost no point in investing in th
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by justtologin 5y ago
> blue collar or back office labor jobs like mailroom processors could work hard and rise to the top I'd guess a factor in ending this has been the rise or at least growth of an administrative or managerial class in most businesses.
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by justtologin 5y ago
I think a shorter way to summarize this could be "intellectual property is not property". The arguments he makes work because IP is essentially an imaginary concept and so doesn't have the same concerns about freeloaders and
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by justtologin 5y ago
Not the parent. I think it's the standard social media stuff - pseudo anonymity, lack of nuance or easy clarification, lack of private conversations meaning everything is exposed to the lowest common denominator. Not saying HN is parti
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by justtologin 5y ago
A simple one is to do the exercises in the book, if it has them. With textbooks especially, I find that it's easy to tune out when trying to read them. In school, it was doing assignments that gave me the motivation to go in and active
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by justtologin 5y ago
Yes! There is "reproducibility" in the sense that you can run the code and get the same answer, and this can be very useful. But I don't see that as the core domain of the research paper, which is to describe a new discovery.
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by justtologin 5y ago
Yes I agree - run 100k a week and your diet matters a lot less than if you do 3 x 5k runs a week, even though most would consider the latter to be a runner and regular exerciser. But, run 100k a week for 10 years, and you may not need many
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by justtologin 5y ago
Anecdotally, people adapt to do whatever they are doing efficiently. At some point I started exercising (distance running) a lot and I lost weight despite eating constantly. That phase lasted a few months, at which point my hypothesis is I