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by mft_ 3y ago
There’s a lot more to social mobility than an individual’s ability to become a millionaire. You’d have to decide whether you agree with the methodology, but European nations feature highest in the ‘Global Social Mobility Index’ [0] while th
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by mft_ 3y ago
> that level of nuance likely isn’t going to make contact with those that have staunch political views Interesting; you appear to suggest that an interest in politics makes someone more stupid - in that they become incapable of appreciat
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by mft_ 3y ago
I've wondered for a while: is there a space for a (new?) language which invisibly maximises performance, whatever hardware it is run on? As in, every instruction , from a simple loop of calculations onward, is designed behind the sc
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by mft_ 3y ago
They're all (or mostly?) from a single (graffiti?) artist: https://www.space-invaders.com/about/
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by mft_ 3y ago
Also see: https://www.space-invaders.com/world/ (There are a pleasing number to spot in Basel, Switzerland - which surprised me a little when I was there, but I guess why not?)
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by mft_ 3y ago
(Late back to this but) It's far more skewed than you're making out. That the a-beta hypothesis is true, is/was the vastly dominant prevailing belief in the field, to the extent that it hasn't been a question that many
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by mft_ 3y ago
That may or may not be the case, but you're rather detracting from the original comment, either deliberately or not. The issue in the Alzheimer's world is the possibility that the very disease mechanism concept underlying the vas
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by mft_ 3y ago
Hah, you’re describing almost exactly my feelings the few times I’ve tried to learn Swift…
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by mft_ 3y ago
There are a couple of ways to think about this that might help overcome your conservatism. First: how awful would you consider a world-wide apocalypse to be, where the human race is effectively ended? Let’s call it massively, enormously bad
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by mft_ 3y ago
I’ve had this on my Amazon list for ages now, but have never quite found a reason to make the purchase: https://amzn.eu/d/0jSspfR
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by mft_ 3y ago
Even just the free iPhone app with free-tier GPT3 is better than Apple offers with Siri (low bar, but still) in many regards. Imagine that built out, and given system-level access to your phone tools, emails, calendar, and your smart-home
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by mft_ 3y ago
I get the discoverability point; even without this new announcement from openAI, there have been so many posts to HN regarding new AI tools. TikTok is full of videos of people showcasing the "five best new productivity websites"
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by mft_ 3y ago
Sure, but it's a 20 minute video, ˜40-50% of which is arguably unnecessary: it could have been a kick-ass 10 minute tightly-edited informative video. It's not about a short attention span - it's about the value of the time s
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by mft_ 3y ago
Thanks; and I'm totally with you. Most informational topics (except perhaps obviously mechanical topics - e.g. changing an inner tube on a bike) are by far better dealt with in written/pictoral form. Funny you mention boomers -
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by mft_ 3y ago
I know, right? God forbid we should share our opinions of things posted to an internet forum, on an internet forum. Whatever is the world coming to? To answer your question less sarcastically, I watch quite a lot of 'technical'
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by mft_ 3y ago
Yep :) (For me, a wonderful example of a channel that almost perfectly balances information and entertainment. One of only ˜2-3 channels that make me want to drop what I'm doing, whenever I see a new video has been posted.)
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by mft_ 3y ago
Side-note: I watch quite a lot of Youtube videos in this space, and while I quite liked the presenter and the project, I've rarely watched a video with more 'fluff' padding out the content. There were multiple sections of mu
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by mft_ 3y ago
Same here - my experience is that Amazon works very well in Europe. We picked up the Amazon habit when we moved house during the pandemic, and must have bought hundreds of times since.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Old money vs. new money, etc.
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by mft_ 3y ago
You make a good point, but... * people are all different * managers are different * roles are different * teams are different ...which goes to say, everyone's experience is likely to be close to unique, and what works for one person is
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by mft_ 3y ago
There's an interesting point made in a podcast (Huberman, perhaps) - which is that Colon Cancer could be totally eliminated as a cause of death, if we used screening via colonoscopy optimally. As in, play a thought experiment: * Firs
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by mft_ 3y ago
> It hard to imagine anything much more invasive than having a metal tube (with light and camera) shoved up your arse. Well, how about an operation where sharp tools are used to slice open parts of your body that are otherwise entirely s
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by mft_ 3y ago
While I'm still trying to get my head around things in Germany, I'd argue that those are symptoms of deeper cultural issues related to deeply-embedded conversatism and over-respect for hierarchy (e.g. status, age, seniority) in le
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by mft_ 3y ago
Very interesting. An acquaintence was describing something similar - a frustratingly high rate of early failures across various bulb types usually meant to last 10-15 years. I have exclusively IKEA smart bulbs where the right fitment is av
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by mft_ 3y ago
Have you not been on HN long? :) Complaining about the website itself in some way unrelated to the actual topic (e.g. design, fonts, use of JS, size of download, number of modules, failure on a particular browser, OS, or device, etc) is a t
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by mft_ 3y ago
I’m not for a second justifying needless animal suffering, but you’re picking on the wrong thing, presumably due to a lack of understanding of the area under discussion. A solidly established concept in regulated animal trials (e.g. of huma
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by mft_ 3y ago
I wonder when it will become more commonplace for reviews (or advertorials, like this one) to offer efficiency figures for EVs? After all, it's common for ICE cars to have MPG or L/100km figures quoted by manufacturers (as unreal
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by mft_ 3y ago
> "I’ve made hundreds of phone calls and e-mails, pleaded with physicians, pharmaceutical companies and clinical investigators. I’ve begged for appointments to establish care, open trial slots, opportunities to be screened for eligi
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by mft_ 3y ago
Totally with you - feedback is a gift. The challenge (in all fora, not just HN!) is parsing out the well-meaning, helpful, truthful feedback from the other noise.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Not dissimilar to HN then :) ‘Show HN’ posts often have a mix of different comparatively negative comments: from the (classic) I could do this quicker/cheaper/easily, alternatives being posted, genuine criticisms (+/- misunde

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