klyrs

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by klyrs 3y ago
Speak for yourself, some of us have principles.
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by klyrs 3y ago
You were the one characterizing my question as implying some sort of intelligence. Don't act like you're taking the high road because I thought the words you put in my mouth were stupid. You could have, for example, pointed to s
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yes, I did say my first adult job -- that's where I went from scrounging paycheck to paycheck to make rent, to being comfortable setting up autopay for my bills. However, I've never been payed at the analysis-paralysis level. The
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by klyrs 3y ago
What the technology could also be used for is irrelevant. What TC was actually used for was laundering money from North Korea.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Lesson I learned from my first adult job: money might not buy happiness, but being broke sure is stressful.
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by klyrs 3y ago
It's a scientific journal article, not a product release
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by klyrs 3y ago
But my Canadian data rate...
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by klyrs 3y ago
... videos, not inline examples?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Way to miss my point and tell me about my problems... I'm tellin ya, meatspace also has thousands of dudes, their number isn't the problem. It's the underlying premise, that we should rely on technology for matchmaking and
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by klyrs 3y ago
I'm imagining a small asymmetry in angular momentum piling up over billions of years, along with, yes, gravity. Nothing so stupid as ascribing stars a "herd mentality."
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by klyrs 3y ago
Neat! What are the chances this trail of stars ends up twisting into a spiral galaxy?
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Women have far too many choices and men have none. So many of my girlfriends are single... this is not how I would phrase the issue. By and large, men are looking to get laid, women are looking to get serious. If a woman only wants t
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by klyrs 3y ago
Not true! Doing puzzles can help mitigate risk for dementia. Probably not necessary for those of us who do puzzling work day to day, but there is a solid benefit to society if people are in the habit of doing puzzles.
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by klyrs 3y ago
If everybody did that, we'd wouldn't have Zoozve...
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by klyrs 3y ago
That take is extremely popular on HN
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by klyrs 3y ago
How sure are you? I do joke a lot, but in this case... The slave trade formally ended in Britain in 1807, and slavery was outlawed in 1833. I haven't been able to find good statistics through a cursory search, but with England's
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by klyrs 3y ago
My cat recently discovered that her fur can absorb a toilet bowl full of water. This seems like it could be useful, if you need a very wet floor immediately.
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by klyrs 3y ago
When were you born? Gender and race were pretty hot topics in the 1960s, you might have missed that.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> As these systems get better, they'll figure out that "1800s English" should mean "White with > 99.9% probability". I question the historicity of this figure. Do you have sources?
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by klyrs 3y ago
> But hey it runs on Windows, which is better than 99% of research languages. So rude. Why would I want to run WINE just for that?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Sweet dreams, little prince.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> I wouldn't have guessed that the in-group would have abandoned it so readily. You never understood the meaning of the word, then. Woke is a synonym for "enlightenment." Indeed, the notions of wokeness echo an earlier
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by klyrs 3y ago
I dunno anything about the user but they sumbit lots of stories every day. Just a wild-ass guess: there's a script underlying the submissions, which works from a finite pool of Tomte-curated links.
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by klyrs 3y ago
The globe cannot sustain the entire chinese population at the western rate of consumption. Modern economists aren't known for their ability to think beyond next quarter's earnings.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Can you point me to a human community of 100k individuals that isn't full of drama? Asking for a friend
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by klyrs 3y ago
Likewise HN both hates rust, and insists that we rewrite everything in rust. Viewing "the left" as a monolith is where you went wrong. Right now, "the left" includes groups willing to speak out about genocide in Palest
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by klyrs 3y ago
No, some local governments have been doing safe injection sites . Safe supply is a political football that's scapegoated despite not being implemented anywhere in Canada. And neither is a solution to the homelessness, addictions, an
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by klyrs 3y ago
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Where I live, "beautiful bc," it was decided that emissions testing was ineffective so we stopped doing it. Also there's a rash of catalytic converter thefts. A real catalytic converter is expensive. A metal tube the same
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by klyrs 3y ago
In that case, a person is 100% at fault for pressing the gas pedal, and there's a good chance that responsible party gets real consequences. In the Tesla case, there's a good chance that the meatbag is just a stooge and the algor

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