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by msabalau 2y ago
By definition, it isn't "piling on" for this blog to have been written, last December, before the CES AI gadget hype. Anticipating, long before launch, issues that are being discussed now, when reviewers have the device in th
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by msabalau 3y ago
Pulp storylines have co-existed with "future looking" conceit driven SF in publishing for over a century. And, of course, they can co-exist in the same work. If Star Wars had an impact, beyond greatly expanding the SF market, it w
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by msabalau 3y ago
If the first amendment actually protects TikTok here, as may be the case, then the courts can strike this down. On the other hand, perhaps the first amendment doesn't block this. In that case, that relevant consideration would seems to
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by msabalau 3y ago
My wife and I did city hall, but with the encouragement of my mother-in-law who thought it was it was smart and sensible. (And, it was, in fact, what she had herself done.) I managed to persuade my wife and mother-in-law that could be fun t
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by msabalau 3y ago
Yeah, we also only have structural disruptions in the first place because of the global pandemic. All of the factors you've mention are in play in peer economies are managing things less well.
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by msabalau 3y ago
I bought brand new Honda Fit with a backup camera 9 years for 17K. There isn't some magic safety dust that is forcing the entry level prices to rise by nearly $10K.
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by msabalau 3y ago
You mentioned applying to a hundred jobs over a six month period. When I seriously needed a job as a less senior person, I targeted closer to 100 applications a week. Maybe only a few of these will be "high effort" dramatically re
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by msabalau 3y ago
Good essay/speech. Pedantically, I wonder about: "the readers Gernsback was cultivating didn't ask about the politics of radio" with this coming back to haunt them in the 1930s. Both radio enthusiasts Gernsback are talki
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by msabalau 3y ago
Physical media has been trending towards poorly. But in a changed world where streaming media costs for consumers are doubling, at the same time content on the services are shrinking, it's not clear that this trend will continue. Why w
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by msabalau 3y ago
Generally, and probably inescapably, science fiction ends up being entangled in the author's worldview. (Either positively, as you note, or negatively, as in the warnings of dystopias, or in an arbitrarily mixed way that still has to
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by msabalau 3y ago
You can find out the story of our world in the Culture series in the novella: "The State of the Art"
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by msabalau 3y ago
Discord is great for chatting and hanging out and playing and discussing what is new. Forum features are important to forum use cases. They are irrelevant when you don't care about that. It would be odd if a librarian asked "why a
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by msabalau 3y ago
Well, the CIA, as an intelligence agency, isn't really in the business of widely sharing their sources and methods. I mean, just this year a high ranking FBI counterintelligence agent was arrested for spying for Russia.
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by msabalau 4y ago
You can just receive their notes without subscribing to their newsletter. You'll see their notes in your stream, albeit with an option to subscribe. You can also post notes without even having a newsletter.
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by msabalau 4y ago
Being a place for people to land as they leave Twitter seems a reasonable thing to pursue. One can post a note without having a newletter, and you can "see notes" from a user without subscribing.
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by msabalau 4y ago
Human beings have a weird and wide range of empathy, being capable of not treating humans as humans, while also having great sentimental attachment to stuffed animals, marrying anime characters, or having pet rocks. In the nearer term, it s
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by msabalau 4y ago
In this case, treating the "US" as if "they" have a consistent, considered view that drives all their actions seems a little odd and vaguely conspiratorial. After all, it has been well reported that US politicians on bot
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by msabalau 4y ago
Sticking a bunch of disclaimers onto cyanide doesn't mean that it is useful to describe it as almond milk. If they had done an adequate and accurate job explaining what, if any, plausible value or potential Galactica had, warnings woul
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by msabalau 4y ago
You've got to turn the lemons into lemonade. Take advantage of the fact that they are likely to close things. I got to play Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia when that was the best and most reliable way to play that game. Now I'm getting
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by msabalau 4y ago
Given that Dang has decided that exploring the negative aspects of monarchy are "ranting" and "malignant", it is hard to imagine how you could get an comprehensive assessment of the institution on HN. A curious person ca
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by msabalau 4y ago
We don't have interstellar travel because Apple's suppliers have to meet labeling requirements? But yes, there are nice things that the money that goes to defense budgets could be spent on, if there weren't authoritarian lead
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by msabalau 4y ago
That being said, the user experience of Stadia is so much cleaner, GEforce now has much jank in linking accounts, staring up your instance, checking if a game you might buy is even supported, and then deciding the storefront to get it from
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by msabalau 5y ago
You say this as if it were a bad thing. And while it may be hyperbolic to literally slice engineers, anyone who engaged in a criminal conspiracy (from coder to CEO) could be tried and, if convicted, jailed. Having this happen broadly would
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by msabalau 5y ago
Good point. Let's do an experiment and shut down Facebook altogether, and see if things improve. Move fast and break Zuckerberg!
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New Leadership at Blizzard – J. Allen Brack Steps Down(hearthpwn.com)
5 points by msabalau 5y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 5y ago
What constitutes a "significant number" of customers to your mind? Losing 5% of WoW customers in very mature recurring revenue business would be huge hit, and not something they can easily make up. Its not like kids today are beat
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Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time(bostonglobe.com)
43 points by msabalau 5y ago|5 comments
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by msabalau 5y ago
Publishers generally shouldn't be in the business of poaching writers ideas, even if the writer eventually is too afraid too allow what they've written to be be published. It is not as if there was some urgent conspiracy that wasn
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by msabalau 6y ago
There hasn't been an application for emergency authorization, so the FDA has not a chance to deny or accept it. Perhaps you are mistakenly thinking of the time when AZ was delayed in ramping up it's clinical trial in the US, pendi
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by msabalau 6y ago
I'm a volunteer for this vaccine, in the first month I have three in-patients visits, involving two inoculations, 6 blood draws, 2 Covid tests, and three nasal absorption tests. My first visit lasted a little over three hours including

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