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The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi(nytimes.com)
3 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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Morgan Stanley cuts ties with Crispin Odey after sexual assault allegations(theguardian.com)
1 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Just talking to oneself in the mirror or journaling in a foreign language is already super productive and this is it… on steroids. I agree that a working pronunciation "coach" could be highly useful. And a great distinguishing
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by lisasays 3y ago
"a huge dud", sorry.
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by lisasays 3y ago
I see. A most peculiar dystopia, indeed.
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by lisasays 3y ago
By the only metric that matters -- collective output. Combined with the negative metric of employee burnout, which inevitably follows from years of exposure to open plan offices, constant interruptions ... and the toxic positivity of compan
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by lisasays 3y ago
No landmarks, no tall buildings, no walkable areas. Absolutely not true - and shame on you if you've never explored the older neighborhoods downtown. However I definitely agree that overall it's a huge did of a city for its size
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by lisasays 3y ago
Can you tell us more about the cancer elevator, please?
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by lisasays 3y ago
When it is -scheduled-. When they just walk over to your desk and grab you -- it completely torpedoes productivity.
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by lisasays 3y ago
So here's some more balanced feedback, if you will (playing with a language I know quite well already): On the positive side: the bot itself has excellent voice quality (it still sounds bot-like -- but people expect that) and makes ver
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by lisasays 3y ago
The thing is clouds sometimes have unusual formations, appear at surprising altitudes and move very quickly (or appear to, if one misjudges the altitude). As I'm sure they've been told already. I'm not denying their percepti
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by lisasays 3y ago
As the other commenter mentioned - these people troll each other all the time. It's practically the job description for a large portion of them, in fact. And it doesn't even have to be anybody is trolling him directly. The troll
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by lisasays 3y ago
In their case the thing they all described blocked out the stars almost from horizon to horizon as it passed over. It was described as huge, black, and silent with a well-defined edge that one could follow across the sky as the stars in fr
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by lisasays 3y ago
The astonishingly solid track record of utter Buffoonery coming out of people who work in that building (leading to millions of people killed, maimed and tortured), spanning multiple decades -- might have something to do with it.
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Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Not sure why you think there's any emotion in it. "Hate" is your word here, not mine.
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NYC Weed Bodegas Have No Fear(nymag.com)
2 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Exactly. If you're starting from zero (i.e. the learning state that the app promises to help you with), you're just learning to repeat gibberish. Which to some extent is what we're doing when we learn languages -- but hopef
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by lisasays 3y ago
Exactly the level of quality we expect when the product idea starts out with "AI" and "scalable". And completely forgets (or doesn't bother think about) what beginning students actually need.
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by lisasays 3y ago
The wave of edits for "community standards" is just beginning. I'm talking about the near future, when it becomes the new norm. Oh, and guess which version teachers/professors will be allowed to show in class -- on pena
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by lisasays 3y ago
If I want to see the original, I'll look elsewhere. Except -- good luck finding it (and in a form easily accessible, e.g. streamable). I get the fact that this is their right and at the end of the day, we can't put a gun to thei
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by lisasays 3y ago
That's very helpful -- thanks for the detailed summary. Come to think of it -- they may be turning to their phones in part to seek relief from all of the stressors you've mentioned. Just like us poor, harassed adults. Though I
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by lisasays 3y ago
They think their random musings must be profound. And in the case of the VC community - you can hardly blame them, because everyone else seems to think so, as well.
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by lisasays 3y ago
You need to give us some idea of what the "real" problem is, then. Otherwise we have nothing to go on here.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Or maybe they should adapt to the future. When everyone has recovered from this cancer. And we're finally allowed to be in the moment again, and are no no longer expected to keep diddling our phones all day.
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by lisasays 3y ago
I stand corrected. The point (in nearly all cases) is to win at any cost. From which the practice of limitless barbarism naturally follows.
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by lisasays 3y ago
4. A bunch of well-fed military-industrial complex types, some lying, some naive and sincerely deluded -- stovepiping and embellishing each other's BS as usual.
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by lisasays 3y ago
But of course. We have to remember they bombed that theater in Mariupol (with a "precision" guided missile no less) not despite the fact that there were children and mothers inside -- but because of it.
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by lisasays 3y ago
That said, isn’t the point of war also that it’s horrible and barbaric? Of course - that's precisely the point. The idea that any technical innovation can make it less so (or make war less likely) runs counter to all historical obse
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by lisasays 3y ago
But the same technology can also be used to make war, you know -- even more indiscriminate and deady. Or even where less so -- it can be used by the wrong side, even help them win in the end. While the companies that A16Z will inevitably

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