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by kadonoishi 5y ago
He doesn't practice any of his speeches ahead of time. Too busy. When you hear it that's the first time he's said it, generated right there in realtime. Often he'll repeat something he said in another talk, but when it&#
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Could be part of Canada's national defense posture. According to the experts, https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/7xnulz/canadas_... , they have "cultural WMDs".
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Sounds like Scott Alexander's thinking on meat eating. Have you read his deep dive on this question? [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-n...
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
This is a nice visual: https://youtu.be/tmNXKqeUtJM?t=100
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
One point where he talks about domestication starts at 1:54:16 (half a minute earlier he goes over the decrease in brain size): 1. https://youtu.be/YJF01_ztxwY?t=6856
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Possibly related to that - I just fixed my letsencrypt problem on an old Mac by following these instructions [0], which were referenced here [1]. [0] https://docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/kb/kb-202109-letsencrypt...
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Probably because the purpose of SpaceX is to build a city on Mars, and Starlink is a prototype for a communications and positioning system to be put in place around Mars before there are any facilities on the Martian surface. Remember this
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Probably because the purpose of SpaceX is to build a city on Mars, and Starlink is a prototype for a communications and positioning system to be put in place around Mars before there are any facilities on the Martian surface. Remember this
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
jbay808 had a really interesting comment about six months ago about the relationship they'd found between estimates and actual completion time: "When we plotted the data, in all cases, the actual time was very accurately fit by a
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
228-page official report from the University of California on their use of standardized testing [1]. Voluminous data they would’ve referred to while making this decision. SAT and GPA provide significant and independent predictive value for
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
From a comment above, > But you have to feed the cells. And you can't just grow some plants and feed it to the cells, you have to manufacture a very precise blend of chemicals (amino acids, sugars, surfactants, antioxidants, etc.) a
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Very late to this, but: You sound like a machine built for a different set of circumstances. Wartime, or famine, or slavery; or most likely, a heavily religious society. I would guess you’re mostly nonreligious. But you have a lot of mechan
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
everybody has an NFT on their likenesses
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
It allows you to use a full Turing machine rather than restricting yourself to a Finite State Machine.
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
1. electoral-vote.com is first read every morning for high-quality political commentary 2. old.reddit.com 3. news.ycombinator.com 4. earth.nullschool.net for weather 5. fivethirtyeight.com 6. nytimes.com 7. Youtube, Google maps and mail, Wi
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Svante Paabo, who led the group that sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered we interbred with them, had to decide whether to give a species- or local name to the Denisovans. The argument that carried the day was that “species” is s
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Sorry, matsemann worked in two, so you folks produced the 4 immediate responses. Respect for this community +4.
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Yep. That’s the right response. Put the past behind, and move forward productively. The reason I posted this on HN is that it’s hard to muster the emotional wherewithal to do that after such a setback. I thought comments from this community
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
> You spent a year working on a 'project' to invest your entire inheritance in a single stock, while refusing to monitor the market itself? This was a difficult project. After two serious runs at buying TSLA in 2018, where we g
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
> Just because it would have turned out good in hindsight doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid idea. The evidence confirms the the accuracy of my predictions. It’s not empirical to brush aside evidence because it’s inconsistent with
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Thanks guys, the HackerNews community produced the 3 immediate responses, expressed quite clearly. Respect for this community +3.
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
How does one get over the frustration of not having invested? It’s particularly acute for me because I made a serious plan for my brother and me to put our entire inheritance on one stock intending to level our money up by an order of magni
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
1500 per month pretax
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
All right here's what I want: Anyone who feels that things aren't being done right, write it up as a specific job description, with a specific government or corporate employer. You have no hiring authority. But you can see what ne
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
It's a much broader question, and much more advisory. Why do we not routinely say to people in adtech that there is a specific need for better coordination in local government? Not generally, but pointing out a specific county where th
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Ask HN: Tell Professionals What to Do
6 points by kadonoishi 6y ago|5 comments
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Bees form a mass in winter and work their wing muscles to keep themselves warm, rotating bees between inside and surface so none gets too cold for too long. So they did have a base behavior from which the surround-and-cook behavior could ev
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
LIF101 Drugs LIF102 Sex LIF103 Money Get their attention with marijuana, first topic first course. Spend one day on the chemistry, then one day on effects including how to recognize people under the drug’s influence. Then do tobacco, alcoho
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Ask HN: Does our motion up and down in the galactic plane minimize collisions?
1 points by kadonoishi 6y ago|0 comments
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
If you want to risk a country that is currently cheap and might soon brighten up a lot, there was a Hacker News thread on Bulgaria, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113203

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