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by nyerp 3y ago
I had a similar experience with ChatGPT: I asked it for articles written about me or my company and it happily produced a number of citations to stories in well-known newspapers. I was elated, until it turned out none of them were real. Ask
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by nyerp 3y ago
The article states "More than 99% of NPR's funds do not come from federal sources" and yet elaborates "NPR ... gets the bulk of its direct financial support from two sources: sponsorships and fees paid by hundreds of mem
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by nyerp 4y ago
I closed it after a few seconds. Was hoping to find out more in the hn comments. :)
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by nyerp 4y ago
> They can choose between the individual products they buy, so it wouldn't be a problem if just some food items got expensive. But the price of food overall is inflating. That is a false binary. You can still buy flour (or naan or p
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by nyerp 4y ago
That's not correct, based on my experience. Yes, you could copy-and-paste the "results" page, but that contains the answer, so it's no good for sharing. To get the actual "share" text (using Chrome on Windows 1
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by nyerp 4y ago
Love it!! But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client! And the informa
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by nyerp 4y ago
Popup ad with 15 second delay was too annoying. Didn't read the article.
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Cheat at Wordle(strolling.ca)
2 points by nyerp 5y ago|0 comments
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by nyerp 5y ago
> "Say you have a certain amount of time and money with which to make change – call it x, since that is what we mathematicians call things. The trick is to increase that x by multiplication, not addition. The trick is to take that 5
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Kimarite(en.wikipedia.org)
22 points by nyerp 5y ago|4 comments
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by nyerp 5y ago
This is half clever, but taking up the other side of that bet in a public market would immediately make you a person of interest to law enforcement.
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by nyerp 6y ago
"But a return on investment of 200 percent per year is not very exciting when you only have a few hundred dollars in capital." Huh? Take $500, double your money every year, and in 20 years you have over $500,000,000. Not very exci
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by nyerp 6y ago
It would make more sense to compare carbon emissions using each crop's market value rather than its weight. No surprise that growing cannabis takes way more carbon output than growing the equivalent weight of corn, a low value crop w
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by nyerp 6y ago
Facebook has been working on a clever solution to this kind of dispute: they have been installing a global network of indestructible monoliths with control panels which provide local governments complete authority to take down controversia
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by nyerp 6y ago
"When I said I was leaving, my boss at Yahoo had a long conversation with me about my plans. I told him all about the kinds of pictures I wanted to paint. At the time I was touched that he took such an interest in me. Now I realize it
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by nyerp 6y ago
A startup doesn't necessarily want everyone to know its pricing. They might be happy to let potential customers know, but not competitors, family and friends, customers' clients and suppliers, the press, etc. Making people contact
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What classic game would you like to see remastered?
4 points by nyerp 6y ago|8 comments
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Thought You Deleted That? The Metadata Hiding Inside Your Documents(foiassist.ca)
2 points by nyerp 6y ago|0 comments
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“I thought we deleted that ” Metadata and Hidden Data(foiassist.ca)
3 points by nyerp 7y ago|0 comments
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by nyerp 9y ago
The survey population for this study was American Mensa members. I'm not surprised they found "those in the Mensa community had considerably higher rates of varying disorders" but I suspect this has more to do with who joins