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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I'm curious where you live that this seems so unusual. I'm in the USA, and any area with a large immigrant population will have a shopping mall or at least a few stores where signage is in English & the language of the local i
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
All the alternatives I can think of are extremely time-intensive - you'd have to go back to everyone who already scanned in and check their id against their boarding pass. That would add significant delays in taking off, which could co
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Any case where camouflage is currently used. Combat is the big one, but maybe also hunting. Hiding anything "ugly" in a nice environment: e.g. trash bins or outdoor equipment. Someone else suggested street level windows - lets som
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I am very interested to learn the evidence you have that life can develop outside a star’s habitable zone.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I mean, there are only a finite number of words in the English language, so of course something like this isn't truly infinite. But I've wandered off into a space of fantastical creatures: rainbow + explosion = unicorn, from there
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
If anyone in your life needs secondhand used underwear from unclaimed baggage, you can buy the "10 pc mystery underwear bag" or "women's lingerie mystery bag" online: https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com&#x2F
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Oh, yes, I completely agree Microsoft should be in “FAANG” (and that acronym is outdated). But for the question of whether Netflix's compensation and reputation are still at that level - reputation maybe is debatable, comp is definitel
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
They are definitely still paying FAANG salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Netflix&trac... Their reputation might not be quite as stellar as it once was, but afaik nowhere near enough of a drop to
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I think we want to restore it to a random walk with less bias in the "warming" direction.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I was convinced of this initially, but then I went back, deeper into the rabbit hole of the stackexchange discussion, and someone tracked down this image as clipart attached to the chinese characters for "axe" - so the illustrator
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
It was new to me; I think the widespread ADE and its role in ancient Amazon settlements isn’t very widely known yet. I found it fascinating.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Godel's completeness theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_completeness_th... (Not to be confused with Godel's incompleteness theorems)
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
As an omnivore who tries to eat more plants and less meat, I'm going to recommend my favorite food blogger I discovered this year: https://rainbowplantlife.com/ The author is a vegan Indian-American cook, and her recip
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
As for sitting next to a partner, if you don't absolutely need to guarantee it, then you can wait til you get to the airport and ask at the gate if they can move you to be beside each other. If the plane is totally full you'll be
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Are you willing to be more specific, or link to such a discussion?
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
At some point someone said to me, "How badly did we fuck up as a society that robots taking all our jobs is a bad thing." And I think about that a lot.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Love it when an article so clearly explains the answer to my first burning question - in this case, "How in the world do you prove that?"
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
Huh, interesting. He is known for not having any equity in OpenAI - interesting that he has other AI investments instead.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I think you have some confusion about RSA cryptography - it relies on numbers that are deliberately generated using very large (known) primes, so these numbers are definitely not "randomly generated". It takes a short time to gene
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
From the article, it does sound like the hiking was hell. They got lost in the middle of the night, bushwhacked to the coast, then bushwhacked around the coast until they found a ranger's house. They had to wake the ranger in the middl
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
In this case, the undisputable record relies on the word "biggest" before each noun. Lake Superior is the only "biggest lake in the world" and so on.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
In my experience, interviewers who would be peers at work are nearly always honest. Unless things are really dire, they don't have much incentive to hire someone who would be unhappy in the role. Recruiters have lots of incentive to li
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
3 lbs a year works out to 6-12 meals, depending on how big of a piece of fish you like to eat. But still I agree, I'm definitely doing more than my share in contributing to those numbers.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I had always assumed that causality ran the complete other direction! Rain -> happy plants -> big trees draped in ferns and vines and mosses.
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
What are you seeing in 1995? The methane charts I'm looking at don't have anything that stands out to me then. I'd be curious to know why we had a downward trend in methane from mid-80s to mid-oughts, and what caused that rev
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by magneticnorth 3y ago
I appreciated having this pointed out to me - it's fairly clear once the point is made, but I'd never really thought about it. Of course most of the time other planets are over on the other side of the sun and very far away, but i
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by magneticnorth 4y ago
The author posted a follow-up today discussing his thoughts on whether he might be asexual or aromantic: https://lukasrosenstock.net/2023/04/12/the-word-asexual.html I found it really interesting that he&#x27
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by magneticnorth 4y ago
He actually published a follow-up today discussing his thoughts on whether he might be asexual or aromantic: https://lukasrosenstock.net/2023/04/12/the-word-asexual.html I found it quite telling that he seems
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by magneticnorth 4y ago
Does this imply that Stripe thinks an IPO in this market would value them lower than $50B?
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by magneticnorth 4y ago
> Even after I pointed this mistake out, it repeated exactly the same proposed plan. The vast majority of people might make the mistake once, yes, but would be able to reason better once they had the trick pointed out them. Imo it is an

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