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by labster 3y ago
They’d just plead nyan compos mentis
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by labster 3y ago
Naming things is one of the two hardest parts of programming. If AI is this good at naming then I’ll be out of a job soon.
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by labster 3y ago
I love that “Bad Lightning Bolt” is literally just Lightning Bolt that does one less damage.
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by labster 3y ago
Water is wet, the Pope is Catholic, the SLS is a boondoggle. Imagine being told to design Google in 2000, but in order to save money you have to reuse old software: database from Oracle, OS from IBM, and design around the code from AltaVist
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by labster 3y ago
These kinds of jokes are tyreing. A British person would have said “corner store” while pushing a trolley. I like jokes on HN but this is too low effort and it shows. I would have gone with something more surprising than “guy spelled funny”
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by labster 3y ago
People will believe anything they want about casus belli, so long as it suits their politics. A week ago, someone here on HN was trying to convince me that the US State Department had a conspiracy to start the Ukraine war.
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by labster 3y ago
It is a silly thought, because it’s pretty small compared to other research errors in that show. “Roman Orthodox Church” gets me every time. It is apparently possible to put a space elevator in Tokyo — as long as the center of mass is over
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by labster 3y ago
You shouldn’t generalize about autistics on almost any topic, because they have a much wider range of behavior than the set of all neurotypical behaviors.
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by labster 3y ago
All Hail Discordia! For some reason HN has been into the occult lately. Which is great for me, because I’m writing some fanfic for A Certain Scientific Railgun. I’ve been a bit unsatisfied with Crowley’s characterization therein and been a
610.
by labster 3y ago
As a fanfiction writer, I find the entitlement of authors and corporations over work that I created gross. I transformed their work into something else, advertising the original work and making a bigger market for it, and in exchange we get
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by labster 3y ago
I’ve never read any Salinger, but after reading that article I sincerely doubt that old curmudgeon could have ever had anything to say about the human condition. People have a right to privacy, for sure. No one living a private life should
612.
by labster 3y ago
Elon: I want X to be the next network people trust to transfer money Also Elon: Let’s not pay any of Twitter’s bills
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by labster 3y ago
Again, none of that applies in the California alfalfa case. Senior water rights are a rent. The externalities aren’t important because if they paid a fair market value for that water, it wouldn’t be profitable to grow. Capitalism is unneces
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by labster 3y ago
Honestly in the California case, the problem is much more about senior water rights than it is about capitalism or freshness demands.
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by labster 3y ago
I hate to break it to you, but I think you don’t have a good sense of humor. This is fine, everyone is different and that’s okay. Minor teasing is a part of the theory of humor, as proposed by Immanuel Kant. I don’t purport to go all the wa
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by labster 3y ago
Hold up there, joke police. Petty tribalism is actually funny. It’s gross tribalism which goes too far. Listen to Garrison Keillor’s old radio shows, and amidst the long story arcs are little tribalist jokes between the Christian denominati
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by labster 3y ago
Yes, but it’s also funny, and not mean-spirited or targeted at a specific person. Windows users are in no way a protected class.
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by labster 3y ago
The GPL should really be updated to say that any code produced from machine learning on GPL code is also GPL licensed.
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by labster 3y ago
My experience as well. Sometimes education can lag well beyond scientific theory. The Scopes Monkey Trial happened in 1925, and evolution still isn’t being taught in many American schools.
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by labster 3y ago
I have never said anything about Sachs one way or another online or in-person anywhere, ever, in my entire life, because I have no idea who you’re talking about. Your accusation is baseless slander.
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by labster 3y ago
> Ad hominem via loose guilt-by-association, the lowest form of "argument" and further evidence of the plague of anti-intellectualism. I have never seen an internet poster so clearly and succinctly describe the problems with th
622.
by labster 3y ago
No political history of Ukraine is necessary to identify the conspirators behind the war, as you put it. The decision to invade was made solely in Moscow. It cannot have been otherwise.
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by labster 3y ago
I have a hard time believing that the Biden administration got the US Senate to confirm a member of Putin’s inner circle to the US State Dept. But we have Lord Lebedev as an example that weird things like this do happen.
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by labster 3y ago
That all seems rather ad hominem, while not talking about the value of the information. All sources are biased; some are more useful than others.
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by labster 3y ago
Honestly, the war coverage of the NYT and mainstream media in general has not been great. There is too much headline seeking in a long hard slog of peer competitor armies. OP is a good article, but it’s about Russian society, not the war i
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by labster 3y ago
Don’t even bother replying to new 1-karma accounts on hot button issues. Your sanity will appreciate it.
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by labster 3y ago
As OP2, my problem with OP3 is that none of that evidence really refutes OP1, which is why I said that the connection is hard to prove, or disprove. There could still be an environmental cause for some of the increase. But because gender is
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by labster 3y ago
Why are you so sure as to use the word “surely”? That might be an obvious conclusion but obvious does not mean it’s correct in biochemistry. Just ask the doctors who spent the last two decades removing the amyloid plaques that obviously cau
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by labster 3y ago
We know we are adding a lot of environmental estrogens. Establishing a causal relationship between that fact and human behavior is hard, and may or may not exist. Also I’m sure it would only explain part of the observed increase, since ther
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by labster 3y ago
Kilogram is also an outlier, as it is the only base unit that comes with a magnitude prefix.

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