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by ldx1024 4y ago
ChatGPT and Bing do the Alphonse and Gaston routine, nice. Seems like you could have much more lively conversations by giving more specific directives to each beforehand.
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Orwell had it all wrong. We would not be surveilled by force, we would be surveilled for our own amusement and convenience.
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Well, the distance between human intelligence and dolphin intelligence is less than the distance between dolphin intelligence and fish intelligence. A more appropriate question would be why wouldn't an advanced, space faring civilizat
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Reminds me of the saying "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together." But an important corollary is that you should be very selective about who you travel with. In some cases, like a corporate setting
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Any alien civilization capable of posing a physical threat to us probably will not recognize a significant distinction between us and say maggots. Better start worrying about coordinating our response with the maggot response...
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by ldx1024 4y ago
"So he mustered the courage to creep into the sleeping bears' dens and stick thermometers in their rectums, a gambit that allowed him to assess just how much their internal temperature declined during their annual torpor." Th
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Kind of reminds me of the apocryphal Shackleton newspaper ad: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Give The Castle a read...
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Kakonomics (2011)(edge.org)
1 points by ldx1024 4y ago|0 comments
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by ldx1024 4y ago
This is prime material for the "HN or satire?" game currently also listed on HN...
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by ldx1024 4y ago
https://www.bookbrowse.com/expressions/detail/index.cfm/expr...
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by ldx1024 4y ago
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead" - Benjamin Franklin It's generally true even if money is not involved. Another reason I tend to keep my own counsel.
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by ldx1024 4y ago
The term does appear to have a long history. This source states that using it as a term for widespread non-infectuous conditions is relatively recent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373038/#!po
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by ldx1024 4y ago
It may just be a pet peeve, but it rankles me a bit when the term "epidemic" is used to describe widespread conditions that are not communicable/infectuous. Looking at the dictionary it appears the usage here is legitimate,
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Nice!
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Software is hard, that's why we make the big bucks :)
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Try {2,2,1}
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by ldx1024 4y ago
Many would call the headline a tautology...
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by ldx1024 4y ago
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin
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by ldx1024 5y ago
that are easy to see while still operating the vehicle
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by ldx1024 5y ago
"I want to work full-time until my late 70s, and die in my early-to-mid-80s at the latest." We'll check back in a few decades...
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by ldx1024 5y ago
I have used this too and found it to work well. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the name they chose for the program, though.
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by ldx1024 5y ago
The default search tool from the Microsoft file explorer is an embarassment. Routinely doesn't find files that are there. No positive indication of when the search is actually finished. Wack advanced search syntax that I can't bo
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by ldx1024 5y ago
I must say that you picked a particularly poor example with which to make your point.
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Software CEO pays staff $5k to quit their job after two weeks(businessinsider.com)
8 points by ldx1024 5y ago|6 comments
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by ldx1024 5y ago
Looks like this guy gets to be the arbiter of what humanness constitutes, and label anything that does not meet up to that standard as 'loser'. Yes, this approach will weed out some people that will consume more than they produce
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by ldx1024 6y ago
Send my public domain book to my grandma who doesn't know how to handle an epub? Convert it because it is easier to print as a .pdf with my particular setup? There are all kinds of potential use cases for users of differing levels of
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by ldx1024 6y ago
Upcoming events. They are not doing the livestream until then.
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by ldx1024 6y ago
The most striking thing to me is the presence of his family (good relationships). Seems like such a contrast with the case of David Goodall, the 104 year old Australian who traveled to Switzerland to kill himself. He lived alone and lost
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by ldx1024 6y ago
Calling it disingenuous I would say is inaccurate (which would have been a better word than disingenuous). The post said might. I take that to mean that is the earliest instance the poster knew of personally. If that was disingenuous tha

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