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by notduncansmith 4y ago
I stopped buying from Amazon years ago and haven’t noticed a drop in my quality of life. You can get 2-day shipping on many eBay purchases (brand new buy-it-now same as Amazon). It’s also nice to be able to shop based on seller location if
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
I don’t know how popular Alice (better known as Ayn) is around here. I disagree with a lot of her philosophy and am not charitable with my time to her fans, and I can’t say for certain I’m in a minority. The HN you get really depends on wha
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
> I can expect a random React dev to mostly do similar things. This has not been my experience. Even experienced software devs will differ stylistically, but intermediate devs often come up with very different ideas about how things ou
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
I think there is some room to innovate before we get to that point. For instance, they could educate students on the economic and ecological costs of food waste, and equip them with tools to reduce it, like associating certain levels of hun
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
My guess is that the advertising industry has stratified and now the advertisers are rarely self-producing content. Now they just buy stock footage from content producers and add narration, text, music, done. All of these can be sourced fro
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
Wikipedia article for anyone who wants to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
This is a great point. It’s also worth considering the impact that Twitter’s algorithms have on which posts get engagement and correspondingly show up in searches for prominent opinions. You may want to curate certain Twitter accounts that
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
Regarding your last point: "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should ca
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
> I don't expect low-code, AI, or developer productivity jumps to have any real impact anytime soon; there's no real evidence of a true jump in the productivity of the overall project I respectfully disagree. I don’t think thos
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
Hah, that is a great description. I would agree that more people seem to break the general decorum in the past few years than I’ve seen since I joined in 2013. I can tell that I’ve become a little more bitter. I’ve been commenting much less
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
It will help to recognize the key use-cases and provide lots of support out of the box like pre-built scrapers for price comparison, social media mentions (or other analysis), whatever you find that people will pay for. Make sure your prici
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
> view paying obscene amounts of money for provenance as exceedingly lame This is pretty much it for me. Some people have personal reasons to buy specific tokens for normal-goods prices, and I can still respect those people - but to spen
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Misdemeanors 'Can Haunt a Person for Life': Why LA's DA Stopped Charging Many(laist.com)
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
“Bury your head in the sand like we did! Don’t worry, your privilege will save you!” Delete your post, mate. The only thing most people talking about climate are selling is the idea that we should keep the planet nicer than we’ve been keepi
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
Surprised this comment isn’t higher up
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
I lost it at the quoted text, haven’t laughed this much in days. Classic HN sentence fragment of middlebrow dismissal with just enough obliviousness to social norms that it might be satire, but with such deadpan delivery you just don’t kn
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
A bit avant-garde but it works
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
Not that you can’t do “anything” about it, but you need to analyze the actual behavior instead of just user agent. Soon it will become an AI arms race between behavior analysis and behavior synthesis.
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
Reminds me of another joke, about how communism never works in practice because eventually you get taken down by the CIA.
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
I think one could do a lot more justice to the nuances of the situation than your summary. 1. Saying “whites” like it’s the 20th century is unnecessarily evocative of pre-civil-rights-era vibes. 2. To call it a “global conspiracy” implies t
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by notduncansmith 5y ago
For reference, 1971 was when Nixon first coined the term “war on drugs” (after passing the Controlled Substances Act and related legislation a year prior). People love to bring up that website when the gold standard is mentioned, but it’s a
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
I agree but I would say the internet is not unique in that respect. Bioshock was cautionary tales.
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
The real trick, assuming you succeed, is not becoming a lord yourself.
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
> physical reality runs with autocommit set to True Only from the inside ;)
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
Forgot to add: obsessively writing things down helps immensely. The act itself + the written artifact are a potent combo
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
Sometimes I don’t: I feel overwhelmed, I start to despair and I become very sensitive. Coming back from those times is hard, and sometimes I get into cycles of bad habits that persist for days (or, at the worst of times, weeks). When I do m
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
Most of your post resonates with me. Can you clarify what you mean by “actually me”?
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
Yeah, meth will do that to you. I was diagnosed with inattentive-type ADHD, and while I definitely felt the “high” from Adderall (and was convinced I was more productive) it was hard to say I actually was. I did find it easier to stay up la
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
I think we lost that when public figures started having to answer for their old tweets. Interestingly, that only happened because enough people bought into the original idea for it to become a permanent thing.
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by notduncansmith 6y ago
I’m sorry you feel like nobody cares. I relate to your message, and I think soon many people will appreciate the benefit of private/wholly-owned infrastructure.

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