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by mherdeg 4y ago
Also very funny is "How to Deconstruct Almost Anything": https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html A lot of these things kind of lost their fun in the past 5-20 years when words stopped having coherent meani
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Yeah it makes me really upset when the outside dew point is lower than inside (often in the fall) and I've got to dig out my lasko box fan and run it in the windows. There are several kinds of HVAC systems for fresh air ventilation and
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" predicted this situation exactly. At the time I thought it seemed unreasonable -- would you really need a dedicated cult of techno-priests whose primary skill was sifting through search result page
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Why do things so often break down so intelligibly into these 2x2 matrices? Like the "urgent vs important" one? Is there a word for this phenomenon? Are people primed / wired to more readily understand things when they're
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A piece of Internet culture I miss dearly is the FatWallet Finance forums, which had an ongoing thread called "kinship proceedings: what can go wrong": https://web.archive.org/web/20171009102701/https:&#x
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by mherdeg 4y ago
This is thought-provoking and may change my views - thanks for taking the time to share.
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I see that subsection 5 mentions the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect so it is again time for me to again scream into the void about this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18005236 ): In the speech where Crichton proposes the
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Most of the elevator music I remember is designed to be memorable. Riding the elevator in the LAX Theme Building, up to the dearly missed Encounter rotating restaurant, it sounded like you were going on a space trip to visit a 1960s starshi
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I'm amazed by how reddit has turned itself around from "the place where the commenter zeitgeist involves wishing physical violence on the CEO" to "the place I append to all my searches with a site: prefix to find meaning
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> The more interesting question I think is whether any of the creators of the training data used by the AI have any claim over the generated artwork. Feels like we covered this back when we decided whether sampling music creates a deriva
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The 50th anniversary of Altamont came and went without much notice.
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> I'm beginning to wonder if the entities making this argument are conscious! It seems they don't truly understand the issues in question, in a way they could articulate recognizably to others. They're just repeating comfo
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The Bluey episode "Fruit Bat" touches on this -- when you decide to have kids you're choosing to forego a lot of fun, in Bandit's case pickup football matches with adult friends. It's a conscious choice and the trad
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by mherdeg 4y ago
The news coverage made it sound like in the last few years, Tony Hsieh was surrounding himself with people whose full time job was to make him happy. If that's accurate I wonder whether it worked?
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It's been a while but "A Canticle For Leibowitz" is one of my sf favorites and one I revisit every few years. I don't share the view of this post's author that Miller was saying nuclear holocaust is an inevitable re
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Rick's nod is one of my favorite and most memorable moments in cinema.
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McDonald's didn't have the item I ordered for my kids and wouldn't give me a replacement or a refund. I logged a support request asking for a refund. The franchise owner called me and said since the order came from the McDona
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I'm interested in this anecdote: > The Standard accompanied VanMoof employees Adrien Yeung and Bret Carmody on a “hunt” in early July, about 40 minutes into which the two happened to see someone riding one of the company’s bikes. Th
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I'm still amazed by how separate my Ring and Blink products are. The Blink app has an Amazon logo and a dormant Neighbors tag and that's .. that's it for integration?
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> So...they didn't think the law should apply so they just decided to ignore it? > What were they expecting? This concisely describes how I felt about Sci-Hub the first few times I read about the project. There are some differenc
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Yeah that tracks -- a local news station read through a database (I'm assuming this is VAERS) and found 5 reports of excessive yawning from Moderna recipients as of Apr 2021: https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/starin
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Gosh this makes me want to re-listen to some Capitol Steps parodies, like their 1992 classic "Mike Milken". Growing up in the late 90s there were a few ways that I absorbed the pop-culture view of what had come recently. Old books
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What is the Calyx Institute's interest in providing trial transcripts here? That's an interesting service: https://calyxinstitute.org/schulte
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Speaking of "in 15 years" -- it's not too early to start doing y2038 blogging. Write yourself a thoughtful post once per month about y2038 issues and you'll have a lucrative set of consulting jobs starting in 15 years an
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I imagine Pepsi's corporate culture LOVES this stuff. They must drink it up like, well.... I'm inspired by Jello Biafra's H2K2 keynote where he brought along a vinyl record of corporate training songs: https://www.
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What was his crypto strategy?
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I am fairly grumpy that we didn't get the Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for 2-5yos months ago. Waiting for Pfizer's data was such a strange policy choice. There may be something going on under the hood here I don't understand, b
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This is older, but it checks out. Thanks for this.
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The downside with the lottery is that it's state controlled; if a group of talented engineers finds a way to play to extract positive expected value from other bettors, stakeholders in the government will call this outcome unfair and s
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My town has an elected position called the "board of library trustees" which has just a few powers, including notably the ability to hire a new library director. There are usually vacancies and poorly-contested elections for the p

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