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by onecommentman 7mo ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/a-fertilizer-shortage-worsen... Let me vu that déjà for you. Prior recent experience makes potential impacts easier to forecast, understand and manage.
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by onecommentman 7mo ago
“the production of critical thought – what is collectively referred to as the “humanities”” This is a rebranding of the humanities, but a good one. When people continue to talk of a “crisis in the humanities” for several decades with no re
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by onecommentman 7mo ago
But it is one objective indicator in the right direction.
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by onecommentman 7mo ago
Agápē, érōs, philía, philautía, storgē, xenía…
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by onecommentman 7mo ago
But only 8% of the baseline US adult population have a felony record. https://legalknowledgebase.com/how-many-us-citizens-have-a-f... And only 18% of those 8% baseline US adult felonies were violent felonies. https:/&
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by onecommentman 7mo ago
Thank you for posting that cheap crack. If you hadn’t, then I would have been duty-bound to sacrifice karma with a similar post. BTW, Cheap Crack was one of the stage names I considered when exploring a career in the lucrative adult enter
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by onecommentman 8mo ago
So, to paraphrase Kate McKinnon from her alien abduction sketch on Saturday Night Live, it wasn’t her worst Wednesday night.
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by onecommentman 8mo ago
Obligatory mention of the linear time analog sorting algorithm known as the “spaghetti algorithm”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort https://every-algorithm.github.io/2023/11/25&#x2
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by onecommentman 8mo ago
“A standard internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle requires roughly 3,000 Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs). A modern Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) requires up to 22,000.” From another site https://www.inkwoodresearch.com
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by onecommentman 9mo ago
I’ve always thought the hippie protests in 1968 are what guaranteed Nixon his second term. It provided an “other” whose appearance to the majority was so off putting/repulsive that, even during an unpopular war, they were willing to r
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by onecommentman 9mo ago
“Damage your reputation”…for a very narrow definition of reputation over a subset of people whose “positive” opinion and influence may actually be detrimental to your goals, your nation’s goals, and the world’s well-being, both long-term
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by onecommentman 9mo ago
Point of clarification: Silicon Valley is not the entirety of the “tech world”. Not even the majority of the tech world. It’s a significant, very noisy minority, focused on Information Tech World. Even on HN, that distinction needs to b
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by onecommentman 9mo ago
Alpha types might appreciate sitting alone in a café more if they realize that it is the ultimate power flex. I remember a quote from many years ago: standing on a street corner, waiting for no one, is power. I appreciate that much more i
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by onecommentman 10mo ago
“So by the ’70s or the ’80s, Bell is not doing so well business-wise. There aren’t as many people that are working there.” Assuming she’s referring to “Holmdel” when she refers to “there”, this is not correct. She’s off by a decade. In 19
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by onecommentman 10mo ago
Opposite for me, I read more physical books, primarily >50 years old. Reading more for pleasure now, I find the physicality of books deeply satisfying. Also prefer paper magazines for hobbyist content. I still refer back to ebooks I ha
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by onecommentman 10mo ago
Condemned out of my first undergraduate apartment, first grad student apartment was the basement of an old former church that had been flooded with sewage too few months prior. But none of us can match the lurid pasts of the Four Yorkshire
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by onecommentman 10mo ago
Do you really want CHSR to revisit anything at this point? Planning started with the CA High Speed Rail Act in 1996, and it currently has zero ridership. The NM Rail Runner planning started in 2003 and has had a functioning system starting
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by onecommentman 11mo ago
Embarrassed by the HN comments here. Lunch ladies, along with other low-status government workers, are as close to an Absolute Good as you can get. Co-opting the warranted praise for these heroes to attempt to score political points for a
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by onecommentman 11mo ago
Perhaps the high excessive drinking rate in WI means more residents need to be reminded in which State they actually are, other than the State of Inebriation. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/alcohol-con
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by onecommentman 11mo ago
We’re all retired in some sense. Some on farms, some elsewhere. But in a broader and deeper and more meaningful level, we’re not retired at all…working harder than ever.
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by onecommentman 11mo ago
The “bunch of cheap computers” approach was being studied and implemented at the National Labs years before Google showed up. Revisionist history?
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by onecommentman 1y ago
That’s higher risk than it looks for Hikaru. I legitimately defeated opponents rated 700+ points higher than me in tournament play in the 1980s. With a little planning, draws would probably be even easier. Anyway, soon you will be able to
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by onecommentman 1y ago
“Learning how to deploy A.I. in the medical field, Rodman told me later, will require a science of its own. Last year, he co-authored a study in which some doctors solved cases with help from ChatGPT. They performed no better than doctors w
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by onecommentman 1y ago
Explaining your ideas in the context of state transition matrices and ergodic theory would be helpful to the curious reader.
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by onecommentman 1y ago
I wonder, in the case of mass violence events that were used as advertisement for the (assumed) murderer’s POV, whether there should be an equivalent of a House of Lords for the exceptional situation of censoring what in any other context w
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About FIRE's Free Speech Rankings (Opinion)(insidehighered.com)
3 points by onecommentman 1y ago|1 comments
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by onecommentman 1y ago
Thesis: don’t just measure physical engagement in political discourse on campus, since the virtual political discussions individual students are having with AI systems in their rooms are just as intellectually important.
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by onecommentman 1y ago
If you’re working a regular job, you need a reliable car in the US. New cars should be, and nowadays are, more reliable than used cars with unknown provenance. Just donated a sedan I bought new 25 years ago that didn’t have a spot of rust
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by onecommentman 1y ago
Great things, or great toys? Finger painting with code?
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by onecommentman 1y ago
When you start blaming the audience/user, you’ve lost.

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