mLuby

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by mLuby 5y ago
That sounds nice. I'm surprised "work where you want" hasn't gotten more press time. Hybrid is so much weirder.
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by mLuby 5y ago
They should just get everyone together for an annual parade—it's what any good autocrat would do. Think WWDC but with scrum teams in matching hoodies marching by Cook's podium.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Exactly. Remote work promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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by mLuby 5y ago
If they're the best in the world, and the special allowances don't change the sport, then why not? They played soccer games in empty stadiums during the pandemic. I'm hearing three camps here: the first says sports about the
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by mLuby 5y ago
If you can guarantee "good" rulers, then even autocracy isn't so bad—the problem is there will inevitably be bad rulers. Even if I 100% agree with the current administration's policies, I'd be foolish to think there
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by mLuby 5y ago
If we're going to be mixing metaphors here: should we expect firefighters to do post-blaze media panels where they answer questions like "how do you feel about not being able to save everyone in today's fire?" Those tear
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by mLuby 5y ago
If Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps refused to do post-race interviews, they're still the best in the world at their events, and their feats would still be covered by the media. Caveat: opting out of regulations directly connected to compe
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by mLuby 5y ago
She said expecting players to answer questions after a defeat amounted to "kicking a person while they're down". "I've often felt that people have no regard for athletes' mental health and this
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by mLuby 5y ago
"balks" (but what you wrote is funnier.)
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by mLuby 5y ago
Relatedly, Garagin might've been picked to be the first human in space due to his winning smile.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Because they have too much piano and not enough slide whistle. https://youtu.be/EyofqsBQS5I
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by mLuby 5y ago
The oceans are big. Think how many floating (or submerged) apartment could exist, each a pressure vessel with links to air, power and heat, fresh water, and a personal shuttle to visit other modules. Of course, that's all the same tech
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by mLuby 5y ago
What about innate human curiosity, and our drive to explore? What about all the technology that, while developed for spaceflight, provides huge benefits to the earthbound masses? What about meeting other civilizations if they exist, or else
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by mLuby 5y ago
Is that created universe in 6 "days" time or modern calendar time?
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by mLuby 5y ago
> By scaling up the size and scope of the fund, you can conceivably get to a place where the dividend can work out to $10k+ per person per year. We've done that, except the dividends to go to a few rich families instead of to everyo
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by mLuby 5y ago
"The Juice" is also magic, but totally worth it to see high-G maneuvers.
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by mLuby 5y ago
"Something off in the room" could be mismatched file count, unusual memory footprint, or processes targeting that path. Really hope the user can fight and/or summon daemons too. Final boss could be Zalgo, who slowly corrupts
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by mLuby 5y ago
"The room begins to crumble around you. You barely escape the earthshaking rmdir." Dotfiles are invisible unless you use a Flag of True Seeing. (-a) The player could collect and execute scrolls like teleport.bash (provided they ha
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AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs(bbc.com)
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by mLuby 5y ago
I value a $50 gift or experience with my team far more than an extra $50 electronically added to my account. Presentation matters.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Oh that's a good distinction to make: involuntary immortality (as with many superpowers) could easily be a curse, or torture. Although like with zombie-powered generators, it's fun to think of ways to exploit a monkey paw's
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by mLuby 5y ago
> either you would die at some point (which creates suffering due to the anticipation of the event) or live forever, which actually seems more horrible in a way We know death causes suffering, but we don't know if immortality causes
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by mLuby 5y ago
Does this mean we'll be able to use [Markdown links]( https://markdownguide.org/basic-syntax#links )?
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by mLuby 5y ago
Validation errors are common, but warnings are not. I'd like to see more of "Patterns like [what you entered] are uncommon—are you sure?" instead of "Patterns like [what you entered] are not allowed—change it to proceed.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Would the fighter have shot down the airliner if it hadn't complied? Seems like enforcement options are quite limited for such fast-moving, fragile vehicles.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Don't give 2 weeks notice If they want you gone too, then sure. Otherwise, consider if and how that move may affect your next job's reference or background checks.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> People untrained in escaping these dark thought patterns What is this training of which you speak?
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by mLuby 5y ago
Maybe. On the other hand, that period saw incredible technological and societal progress. Thiel called it the period of "definite [technological] optimism." https://archive.org/details/ZeroToOneByPeterThiel&#x
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by mLuby 5y ago
Could be a coincidence, but that was just before Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927) and Godel's incompleteness theorem (1931) dashed the dream of perfect knowledge.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Indeed. Not even a week since the last one: Rectal Breathing with Perfluorocarbons (cell.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159001

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