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by nindalf 4y ago
Here’s a thought - before the advent of modern fertiliser and high yield seeds we simply could not feed everyone. Famine was common, and when it struck people died. This is one of the many things that kept the population in check. Where do
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Would breaking up Google do any good?(noahpinion.substack.com)
4 points by nindalf 4y ago|3 comments
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by nindalf 4y ago
Please stop citing TIOBE. https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/
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Wi-Fi signals could prove useful for spies(economist.com)
3 points by nindalf 4y ago|1 comments
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Worst part is, there aren’t any links to his preferred theme. No screenshots, no comparisons, no argument for why it’s better. And the cherry on top is that this website itself isn’t responsive. Hopefully the theme that the author is clamo
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by nindalf 4y ago
He doesn’t mean using it. He means posting about SQLite on HN. The story of SQLite, how it came to be developed, how it’s tested, how it really works under the hood, funky ways to use it on the server for storage (fly.io, Cloudflare do this
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by nindalf 4y ago
Firstly, that's not my claim. I merely said it passed the USMLE. Which it did. Is it also inferior to clinicians? Yes, there's room to improve. But maybe next time read the whole paper before writing a comment. > Clinicians wer
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by nindalf 4y ago
Insane. Is it possible that Chekhov and Dostoevsky were just really good writers? That maybe we liked them long before Putin started Putin-ing? But no, everyone else apart from you is an easily led sheep and Putin or whoever else is the she
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by nindalf 4y ago
LLMs can already pass a medical exam. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13138 So maybe?
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by nindalf 4y ago
> The total number of employees of Google are 156 500 This is a non-sequitur. This statement has nothing to do with the outage. It’s just thrown in there to pad the number of words in the comment.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Remember that most content written by most people actually happens in these platforms owned and moderated by someone else. You say it won’t stop anyone but how many people currently posting on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok are capab
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by nindalf 4y ago
The difference is hyperbole. You make it sound like you’re being personally harassed by a minimum of 10 children, possibly taking shift coverage to make sure to infect you 24x7. And you’re comparing that with actual smokers who would actual
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by nindalf 4y ago
The emergent behaviour from lacking this feature is that often the main thread of a discussion involves multiple people instead of two people replying to each other instantaneously as soon as the notification comes in. IMO two people snipin
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by nindalf 4y ago
By deemphasising the author, HN rewards good comments, regardless of who writes them. This is a good thing, and incentivises people to participate and write good comments. The following system you propose breaks this, because “famous” peopl
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The “Scooby Doo” psyop(garbageday.email)
9 points by nindalf 4y ago|2 comments
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by nindalf 4y ago
Why don’t you think through the implications of your question? You say outlawed. Ok then, write a hypothetical law that would outlaw this behaviour. Remember, this law should be general enough to apply to advertising or internet advertising
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by nindalf 4y ago
> I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim. There’s a paradox here. The more everyone believes this, the worse the preparations are and the more likely invasion become
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by nindalf 4y ago
There’s no direct cause and effect between believing in a religion and living a longer, happier life. However, religious people are more likely to attend regular religious services, where they are likely to develop social connections. As so
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by nindalf 4y ago
When there’s a lack of investment in infrastructure, any investment is a net good. This is obvious to anyone who understands economics, but possibly not to people who want to get performatively upset about nothing.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Thing about an echo chamber is that it feels amazing to be in one. Everyone agreeing with me, slapping my back when I say something to reinforce the groupthink. I feel so smart! Love it! The negatives of the echo chamber are felt by people
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by nindalf 4y ago
Yes, I’d love to find the person who has never made a mistake to be the CEO. Undoubtedly you must be speaking from personal experience of being infallible?
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by nindalf 4y ago
I assume there’s been a post-mortem for this incident, considering the cost to the company in terms of morale, pain for former employees, damage to hiring brand etc. They’ve probably learned lessons from this so they don’t repeat them in fu
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by nindalf 4y ago
The penalty for wrongthink on mastodon is banning. This ensures ideological homogeneity within each instance. For many people, this is a feature not a bug.
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by nindalf 4y ago
The best part about people who take every word literally and demand punishment is that no punishment will ever satisfy all of them. It wouldn’t matter if Sundar took a pay cut (like Tim Cook) because the same people would say he’s still wor
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by nindalf 4y ago
Yeah it's not quite language's fault if the language provides a better way to do the same . But equally, the language does provide a bad way to do things. A developer in a hurry, or a developer trying to follow the existing conven
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by nindalf 4y ago
It's new code, there must be some logic errors, off-by-one errors, assumptions not expressed in the code etc. But that's not saying much, all new code has issues. The good thing is that since this code was written in a memory safe
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by nindalf 4y ago
You're kinda proving my point here. People will always focus on what they don't have, rather than what they do. You will likely never experience losing a child, something that was part of the human experience for all time, until t
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by nindalf 4y ago
If you want a book length answer to that question, Factfulness by Hans Rosling might be a good place to start. It shows all the ways that life has actually improved in the last 100 years across the world, for all people. There’s a reason th
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by nindalf 4y ago
Sometimes sports interviews can be memorable like - I’m just here so I won’t get fined. - It’s only game, why you heff to be mad? - They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
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by nindalf 4y ago
This entire thread is focussed not on BNPL, but whether the entire concept of consumer debt makes sense. Some folks say consumers should never take on debt for purchases, when they can save up instead. Others point out that it’s unavoidable

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