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by lovecg 5y ago
Sense of smell is fascinating. I remember reading that there are dozens (hundreds?) of these distinct receptors and each has a different response curve for a given substance. So you end up with a huge multi dimensional space, which explains
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by lovecg 5y ago
That doesn’t seem right. It’s mostly the bus drivers, police and firefighter unions and the like who came out against vaccine mandates in large numbers. Your typical tech worker is happy with office-mandated vaccine and masks.
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by lovecg 5y ago
True spinlocks in user space are rarely a good idea. You would use a spinlock in the first place because you assume that the critical section is short, but the kernel often gets in the way of that assumption. The thread in the critical sect
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by lovecg 5y ago
Note that this is true in terms of various pollutants, but importantly not CO2.
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by lovecg 5y ago
It seems that a society where trains run on time with amazing precision has to also be a society where you get berated if you’re a few minutes late for work.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Reading the email in question ( https://newbostonpost.com/2020/06/19/heres-what-the-m-i-t-ca... ), it really seems like he was attempting to bring together the two camps. At the time the talking point of “oh, h
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by lovecg 5y ago
I think there are different flavors of Stoicism chiefly differentiated by the social status of the person practicing it. The wealthy and the powerful don’t have to deal with systemic oppression, only their own emotions and consequences of p
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by lovecg 5y ago
Ah Stoics, they’re the best at turning being a resigned quitter into dignified philosophy.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Plaid
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by lovecg 5y ago
Depends on what you consider a “joke” I guess. In my view 2 months in jail over this seems excessive: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-58738771
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by lovecg 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Any other study which is nothing but a few dozen people surveyed about how an intervention X made them feel, with the results split would barely register on HN. Yet if X = Instagram use it’s suddenly this huge
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yeah that’s how I imagine it would have to be done (scene capture from many angles + 3d scene recreation) but I disagree on “that’s never going to work”. The number of everyday things that people in say 1950s would think were “never going t
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by lovecg 5y ago
I was just thinking that experiencing live spectator sports in VR will be a big deal when the camera technology catches up. Imagine being _on_ the field with the players!
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by lovecg 5y ago
Personally I want to know if they still tell tales of the hero whale who killed one of the ships in 1820: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)
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by lovecg 5y ago
What dystopian doomsayers get wrong is the axiom that things must always get worse. In reality the pendulum tends to swing. WW1 was a horrible period for free speech in the US, but this was relaxed over the following decades.
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by lovecg 5y ago
As I understand it, modern flat earth stuff borders on outright religious belief (with a dose of antisemitism and conspiracy theories - a lot of qanon is just flat earth rebranded), so convincing someone like that with physics is like tryin
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by lovecg 5y ago
Beautiful.
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by lovecg 5y ago
By ourselves and the structures we created. Agriculture, etc.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Also reminds me of all the skepticism surrounding the iPhone launch. I remember those joke ad spoofs making fun of the actual phone feature. Yet here we are and who uses actual voice calls anymore?
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by lovecg 5y ago
That makes way more sense too. Human brains are pretty complex devices, it’s easy to believe the machines didn’t figure out how to make something comparable and opted for human farming instead. On the other hand humans make very crappy bat
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by lovecg 5y ago
If my reading of the bill is correct, it would expose any SaaS website to liability. What does Gmail do if not promoting content that’s specific to an individual?
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by lovecg 5y ago
The proposed bill would not make this distinction though. Both of these would fall under the “personalized recommendation” umbrella, and so would Gmail and a ton of other services.
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by lovecg 5y ago
This is a good write up on the perils of messing with a fine-tuned mechanism that is Section 230 and potential devastating effects it could have on the internet as we know it. If not carefully drafted, any such bill will open up internet co
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by lovecg 5y ago
Surely that’s what they were saying about world hunger and how depopulation is the only solution before the invention of the Haber process?
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by lovecg 5y ago
No. But if an entity C keeps publishing whistleblower documents from company A but not B, it’s reasonable to wonder if C is in fact not a neutral actor.
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by lovecg 5y ago
There are clearly advantages when working for someone else. Is the negotiation between the employee and the employer always fair when an industry has a few established incumbents? That depends and there’s a large spectrum of possibilities.
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s completely fair and it’s also not quite what people who critique capitalism are talking about. Imagine you’re hiring a company that has electricians on payroll, then by definition the electrician you hired will get less than the labor
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by lovecg 5y ago
Funny how the salaries suddenly exploded after this collusion scheme was brought to light.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Even assuming it’s 100% legit documents. In an environment where all parties do bad things, but country A selectively exposes parts of country B’s dirty laundry in a way that would benefit country A and uses Wikileaks as the tool to achieve
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by lovecg 5y ago
You’re asking a lot of children. Skilled people have been working on improving propaganda techniques for a very long time. It’s rarely just outright lies - there are more effective techniques. For example, it’s easy to find dozens of cherry

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