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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
There's a reasonably high floor here it seems you can't realistically do anything to drop below. Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_app... Nixon was 24% when he resigned, which is
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
Google's workspace features are almost hilariously transparent in how they do this. I have to use it for work and have chosen to do so on a single device also for personal use because I don't want two devices. I don't have Ch
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
Why should we care what Airbnb has to say? I get they're a YC darling, a poster child for making money, but how much of a role does software play in this? Do propery owners and travelers really care that much about the app? The Platoni
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
I feel like there's a common theme in business advice like this, the bullshit jobs thesis, general alienation of workers, that individuals have a lot of tunnel vision and don't understand the place of a firm in capitalism. The rea
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
I have no special insider knowledge here, but I'm reasonably sure McDonald's relative drop in the hierarchy of global made-to-order food providers is a combination of increased competition, more health conscious and eco conscious
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
I don't know the exact curriculum and I'm sure it's changed over the years, but one of my girlfriends from back in the day really did go to a school that had one like this. St. John's College, which has two campuses in A
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
This discussion gets me every single time. All three of my younger sisters are stay at home moms and their husbands make less than I do, and they have kids, whereas I don't. Until you're at least a deca-millionaire, no amount of m
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
At the same time, the problem is too many parents on the Internet and their kids feel like they have to do this. I'm in the top 1% of household income, have a rich life with a great wife, failed for 7 years to have a kid but we tried
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
There's another element to this that I almost never see discussed. Ideas are not facts. Neither LLMs nor humans can generate new knowledge , as opposed to ideas, by thinking alone. Physical investigation and experimentation is necessa
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
Any animal beats an engineered machine. Heck, the bacteria in your hand are probably more intricate than a phone.
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by nonameiguess 2mo ago
I agree with all of this, but I'm not the biggest fan of the way it gets framed. There are reasons for this beyond the common Internet sentiment that police are just evil bullies who became police solely so they can bully people. There
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
That's the "Pareto Principle" whereas the frontier is talking about Pareto efficiency. They have the same name because both were first developed by the economist Vilfredo Pareto, but they're not actually otherwise relate
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
The thing I always come back to is Aristotle's belief that if you release an object being circled about your head by rope, it will move perpendicular to the tangent line of the circle. This is trivial to disconfirm by experiment. It mo
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
This is fundamentally impossible without multiple third parties personally witnessing the act of creation. Consider John Milton was blind and composed Paradise Lost by dictating it to another person. Even if you can prove a human, even a
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
You're halfway there, but the only impediment isn't on the side of the researchers. Many of these topics they're trying to solve involve human subject research. Even with tireless embodied researchers who work around the cloc
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
I frankly think this writer is missing an even larger point. These are just bottlenecks to making progress in biotech, but rapid innovation in biotech or medical technology is not a goal in and of itself, except for stakeholders in biotech
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
I feel on the opposite side of a divide when I see these kinds of comments here about people creating bespoke software to address deficiencies they perceive in their daily lives. There's an engineer mindset that tools can solve any and
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
Not seeing this get traction, but this is exactly what I thought while reading this. The problem with calling something "a" top priority is you can only have one top priority. That's how priority works. A customer facing outa
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
There are few recurring discussions on Hacker News that frustrate me more than this. There is so much mean-spirited and disinterested in truth stereotyping of the kinds of people who become NIMBYs and why. Let's be clear right off the
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
I also live in Dallas and had a feeling Fuel City would be #1 or close to it. Apparently, there's a taco place a few miles away in Bishop Arts that is 2 cents cheaper, but I bet they don't have outdoor block parties with live DJs,
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
It's called wireheading and has long been one of the postulated "outs" even for true extinction-level AI doomers. It might prove easier for the paperclip maximizer to find the process telling it how many paperclips it's
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
I've experienced what this guy has experienced. I don't think that's unique. Being an athlete who gets injured and has mental health suffer because they lose their sense of identity and purpose is not anywhere near the same t
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
Reading the sentence twice slows down your mind enough to consider the earlier context that, given who this person is and everything else they're writing here, it makes a lot more sense that "mine" is referring the community
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
It's virtually impossible to have both a false positive and false negative rate of 1% for any predictive model. This is inherently a tradeoff. In addition to the terrific parent comment, you can trivially push false positive rate to 0%
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
This was also my first instinct. Wikipedia says the US Baseball Hall of Fame has 351 inductees currently, for a sport that has existed in professional form since 1876. That feels like a more appropriate rate for this kind of enshrinement. O
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
The conclusions aren't any different (it's one of the few thing that helps strength, poses no danger to your hair, and almost certainly does nothing for cognition), but the articles at https://www.strongerbyscience.com&
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
Gonna need to have a talk with LLNL. I'm sure they didn't choose the name, but seems a tad leaning in to use the name of tech from Star Trek meant to produce untold abundance that instead became an unintentional doomsday device.
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
This reminds me of a discussion a few months back from a BSD maintainer who had done a lot of volunteer work for AWS over the years. I think he might have even been the person who alerted them to the insecurity of IMDSv1. There was a sense
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
Beats me what it's become, but OkCupid at the outset and probably still by 2010 was about estimating compatibility based on the results of quizzes taken by both parties. To improve results beyond OkCupid's built-in romantic person
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by nonameiguess 3mo ago
I can't remember the book now, I think one of Antonio Damasio's? He recounted an experiment with a patient that had a severed corpus callosum where they put a wall between the eyes and showed him two different pictures, asking him

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