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by monknomo 4y ago
A guy builds a company from scratch, has a successful exit, does extensive extra curricular philanthropy, stays on and somehow your takeaway is that he probably doesn't do anything
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by monknomo 4y ago
strange world was really excellent. I never heard about it until it hit the streaming service, and then my kids watching nothing but that for like two weeks straight
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I'm not sure suicides strictly are the result of mental illness. I, for example, have an uncle that killed himself. He may have been clinically depressed, but mainly, he was an alcoholic. I think it's likely what depression he
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by monknomo 4y ago
maybe the difference between a meme and a thought terminating cliche?
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Parks & rec funding has also cratered so the "little league" that you think of as a way of putting together local kids of all abilities to play a sport is less common that it used to be. The privatized equivalents are usually
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by monknomo 4y ago
just wondering aloud, but say like this eats google's lunch and search goes away. These chatbots provide answers, and footnotes. In a world like this, where the need is reduced to actually go to a website, what's the incentive f
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by monknomo 4y ago
I'm pretty confident that the probalistic conversational AIs lack what I'd call 'synthesis'. But at a higher level, talking with a bug or robot or rubber duck, no matter how smart it sounds, isn't very valuable. Th
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by monknomo 4y ago
A hn populated by chatgpt bots would be close to valueless, even if they produced output indistinguishable from the median commentor. It matters because talking to a human is a worthwhile thing to do, but talking with a probalistic robot co
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by monknomo 4y ago
It's an interesting problem - I was reading about bipolar, which also (probably) has the issue of too open a blood-brain barrier. There is a theory that repairing the blood-brain barrier would help, but as drugs repair the barrier, it
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by monknomo 4y ago
Heat pumps come in two main flavors. They can be like a forced air system, where they heat/cool air in an air handler and blow warm/cool air all over the house. Or they can be ductless heat pumps, where there is a head unit insi
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by monknomo 4y ago
Requiring two egresses usually means that the building will not have an apartment that spans the width of the building, instead there will be a central hallway to connect every apartment to two stairwells. That central hallway seems small,
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by monknomo 4y ago
Of course it makes sense - a print is different than an original, they have a different price, they have a different impact. Even when it is a very good print. For that matter, a limited run print has a different impact and value than an u
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by monknomo 4y ago
Also similar to the Epstein-Barr virus link to MS
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It's not totally unknown, but it's also not especially common
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There is all the passivhaus and mass timber housing stuff that is more or less unknown in the US as well
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your emotions, your brain, your body. They are all just meat. Much as lifting weight will make you stronger, studying will make you smarter, practicing recognizing your emotions and where they come from will help put you in charge of your
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by monknomo 4y ago
The Russian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, China's revolution all had substantially rural components. But the tldr; is that land/resource ownership, the distribution of surplus value and softening the blows of the market when y
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by monknomo 4y ago
A lot of people, when they hear exercise and physical fitness, imagine something like getting up at 5am and hitting the gym for an hour. For folks in your situation, I typically advise looking at the overall structure of your life and figur
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by monknomo 4y ago
Unless you buy low end chest freezers you get 1 or two layers of sliding shelves. To access lower items, you slide the shelves to the side. If you were not blessed with sliding shelves, people typically uses bins or dividers
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by monknomo 4y ago
if you want `fish_config` opens up an easy editor for changing all the colors to whatever you find quiet and soothing. You have a level of control over things popping up too
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by monknomo 4y ago
yeah, it's business jargon. I can only imagine someone somewhere forgot the word "lesson" and was high enough status that the malapropism stuck
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by monknomo 4y ago
Segal houses are cool, but I'm pretty certain they are unpermittable in most places
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by monknomo 4y ago
Seeing like a state covers this - it could be that in the interest of making ownership legible (while dispossessing the Native Americans), people could only buy contiguous land. In particular, I'm reminded of the piece on how the tsar
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by monknomo 4y ago
This article contrasts two different modes of rural areas. There is the US-style rural, where the homesteads are widely separated. The house is on the farm, and far from the neighbors. Then there is the European (and really most of the res
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by monknomo 4y ago
And yet developers do disregard the content of error messages. Try to figure out why they disregard it. I doubt the answer is "because they're stupid". The answer probably also isn't "because they just aren'
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by monknomo 4y ago
aviation is not exactly a laissez-faire industry with private industry self-regulating...
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frost line is like 6 feet underground in these places. There is permafrost in mosquito land!
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Both phases come with a lack of self-awareness and sometimes anosognosia as symptoms
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having read the article, you could sub 'enduring' for 'perfect' and maybe have a more accurate title
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hollow earth - just find a way to eject the convenient liquid layer inside the earth elsewhere

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