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by labrador 3y ago
I thought the discussion of Findhorn Foundation and "pockets of light" like monks in the "dark ages" was pretty interesting. There are current organizations dedicated to such long term thinking such as seed banks and the
902.
by labrador 3y ago
The atmosphere is spinning with the Earth. It has to be, otherwise you'd have 1000 mph winds at Earth's surface. How? It gets dragged along by friction with the surface
903.
by labrador 3y ago
I wonder how much it would cost in electricity to run a current through salt water to produce hydrogen and oxygen, then run the hydrogen through a hydrogen powered generator to recover most of the electricity and the fresh water byproduct?
904.
by labrador 3y ago
You clearly know more about it than I do so I trust that this situation is more f'd up than I realized
905.
by labrador 3y ago
> being a dick to 3rd party apps You're making it personal, when it's business, not personal. > users prefer the experience of the platform provided by someone else Maybe reddit will buy the app that people like so they can
906.
by labrador 3y ago
That's capitalism for you. I also don't like the brutality of it, but it seems to the most efficient system at creating wealth
907.
by labrador 3y ago
We had this argument in 2012-13 when Google Dart came out. I advocated for a Dart VM in the browser but the Blink team killed that idea. Brenden Eich explained here on HN what the problems were and made good sense. Now there would seem to b
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How Mark Zuckerberg Deceived the World with a Multibillion-Dollar Fantasy(beincrypto.com)
1 points by labrador 3y ago|0 comments
909.
by labrador 3y ago
Maybe you haven't experienced the feeling of embodiment that Zuckerberg likes to go on about. You feel like your "in" the world with others, not in the solitary room of your physical world with your eyes staring at screens. I
910.
by labrador 3y ago
> strange solitariness of all VR The whole pitch of the Metaverse seemed to be "We'll all live in a virtual world and have great fun meeting and interacting with each other."
911.
by labrador 3y ago
Or I could use WebMD. What's the difference?
912.
by labrador 3y ago
You don't believe in the "wisdom of crowds" I take it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
913.
by labrador 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT "Is moderate consumption of energy drinks unhealthy?" and the answer was no. Moderate consumption is defined as "For adults, moderate consumption is typically defined as no more than 400 milligrams of caffeine
914.
by labrador 3y ago
The Monster zero Ultra drinks I like (no sugar) list energy ingredients as taurine, L-Carntine, caffeine, inositol. I'm bipolar and they make me somewhat manic, which I like because I get creative, but I keep thinking I shouldn't
915.
by labrador 3y ago
Young Asian, Hispanic American "Fast and Furious" type of crowd that also like to do illegal sideshows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow_(automobile_exhibitio...
916.
by labrador 3y ago
It seems pretty hopping to me on Fri Sat night when I ride my bike down there to look around, but maybe it's not the kind of crowd the city wants.
917.
by labrador 3y ago
The summer weather in central Texas is not to my liking. When I was there it was very hot, very muggy and dusty. It's better than San Antonio, but if I lived in Texas it be down by Corpus Christi. Rockport was really nice. I once thoug
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by labrador 3y ago
I totally agree, San Jose is not as interesting as San Francisco. That's why I take the train to SF. San Jose is a boring city, but my point is many other cities are the same. If I were a young person I wouldn't want to live here.
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by labrador 3y ago
> San Jose is not a real place I'm writing from San Jose right now. I a few minutes away from downtown on my electric bike. It's a city like many others. I've lived in Orlando, San Diego, Seattle, Norfolk, Providence. I&#x
920.
by labrador 3y ago
In Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" written 1939–41 but set earlier in the century, the protagonist illustrates the cheapness and miserly ways of his father by complaining how always he's yellin
921.
by labrador 3y ago
Saved you a click: It's infomation
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Elon Musk Says Something New Has Replaced Money(thestreet.com)
1 points by labrador 3y ago|2 comments
923.
by labrador 3y ago
We don't really know the intent of people as lawyers are quick to tell us, but I can guess, off the top of my head: - They are surprised at the ways people have come up with to misuse it and don't want to get blamed - They didn&#x
924.
by labrador 3y ago
'simulated' is the operative word
925.
by labrador 3y ago
This would make a lot more sense to you if you watched the AlphaGo Movie, at least it did for me
926.
by labrador 3y ago
My take: YouTube provides the tools, then people use them in a biased way. If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed. Something happened yes
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by labrador 3y ago
It’s a classic example of a fundamental American tall tale — that of a nation built on notions of individualism, a male-dominated story filled with loners and “rugged individualists” who suck it up, do what needs to be done, ride off into
928.
by labrador 3y ago
The actual title is: “The revolution has launched”: OpenAI’s Sam Altman charts the promise and peril of AI at Toronto event The word "nice" is not found anywhere in the article, which is good because it's inaccurate
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by labrador 3y ago
I enjoy Adam Curtis films the way I used to enjoy Jame Burke's Connections: As impressionistic history, entertaining art, montages of feelings, ideas and suspicions. They are daydreams and hallucinations of the past that offer explanat
930.
by labrador 3y ago
The answer to my question has probably never been entered into training data, while the answer to this one probably has

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