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by pnut 2y ago
Maybe it always was one and the same.. separation of church and state in Western culture was a hard won, radical political innovation not very long ago. And Christians today are a highly motivated special interest group in the States, openl
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by pnut 2y ago
Come on, doctors are some of the most highly compensated wage earners. Every working stiff at all income levels sacrifices disproportionately to their income, and if I were a high school teacher, I'd belly laugh at this doctor pity par
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by pnut 2y ago
The article mentions touchscreen huds for heavy machinery and cars, this feels like a real value proposition and not a gimmick. Also, why not have them in your home? In your bathroom mirror, everywhere?
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by pnut 2y ago
The price of a satellite phone in 1650 was greater than all the money in the world combined, so that has to be considered expensive in absolute terms, right?
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by pnut 2y ago
US republicans and democrats have largely the same policies except for social wedge issues. My bet is that Elon knows Trump is pliable if you come with an open checkbook, so there's real opportunity to advance your business interests i
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by pnut 2y ago
https://codewithrockstar.com/
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by pnut 2y ago
John Henry died immediately after winning his competition. He's like a 19th century Kasparov or Lee Sedol, a notable domino of human superiority falling forever.
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by pnut 2y ago
Buddhist philosophy suggests this entire reality is a hall of mirrors.
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by pnut 2y ago
https://nate.org/hacker-news-location-poll Disproportionate, but still a minority in the absolute sense.
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by pnut 2y ago
Yikes
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by pnut 2y ago
2040 is basically tomorrow, as far as I'm concerned.
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by pnut 2y ago
Major mistake, unless your company is building and selling CRM software. Focus engineering resources on core competencies and buy everything else off the shelf.
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by pnut 2y ago
A soldier telling a story from experience is a soldier artist. If Plato's point is that knowledge can only be derived through direct experience, then one must endure war to know what war looks like. If there is any value to be derived
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by pnut 2y ago
I don't get it. You have keys to the place. There's no written contract, no money changing hands. Show up with some muscle, chuck the losers out on the street and change the locks. What are they going to do, take you to court?
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by pnut 2y ago
Once money gets involved, you inherently have a commercial interest. What's the ROI? I personally think people misunderstand to whom "freedom" is granted and defended in the US, it is demonstrably not freedom of the individua
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by pnut 2y ago
The table of contents makes me feel like the book title should be "How to use a computer like a scientist" - computer science already has a meaning which is quite different.
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by pnut 2y ago
If you were wearing traditional slacks, collared shirts, and suits 25 years ago this wouldn't be a problem. Timeless style is a real thing.
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by pnut 2y ago
I'm not a CRM end user, but I'd be very grateful for such a tool if I had to suddenly cover for a coworker, or inherit an existing business relationship. What is the alternative, each person individually cobbles together some god
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by pnut 3y ago
I was walking my dog a few months ago right after dusk and randomly saw the starlink train, it was a linear constellation marching across the entire sky, from horizon to horizon, and lasted at least 2 minutes. It was both amazing and distur
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by pnut 3y ago
Article conspicuously omitted how long the race is, seems like a relevant headline level detail...
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by pnut 3y ago
Isn't that a common complaint from fine artists? That their work must be dumbed down to fit into a coffee table book or match the colour coordination of some interior design? Art appreciation has many dimensions, and arguably the most
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by pnut 3y ago
HN crowd maybe doesn't appreciate it, but the marine sensor networking world, route plotting, and related tasks are an atrocious cesspool of overpriced, weirdly incompatible proprietary solutions. Regular people save literally tens of
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by pnut 3y ago
Bezos has a particularly enormous one https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/damen-75m-supp...
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by pnut 3y ago
If you've got power already, why not consider a high bandwidth, wireless point-to-point bridge? Just need two dishes pointed at each other. That hard line is nice until it fails, which it will eventually.
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by pnut 3y ago
Nietzsche gave us a religion-free solution in the concept of Ubermensch 150 years ago, it's still too controversial today.
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by pnut 3y ago
Another important point is that other things besides light (for instance, gravitational influence) travel at the speed of light. It's actually the speed of causality / information transfer.
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by pnut 3y ago
MS teams has this, don't bother cobbling together and maintaining your own solution.
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by pnut 3y ago
If I ever start writing statements like "Part the first", please take me out back and put us all out of that misery.
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by pnut 3y ago
Obviously I am speculating and have not personally solved the problem of agency, but it's a common feature of basically all life forms, so probably boils down to survival pressure or something similar.
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by pnut 3y ago
Possibly controversial opinion, but this'll have to be revisited within 10 years. It seems inevitable (to me) that the near future looks like a heterogeneous mixture of natural and artificial intelligences interacting on a level footin

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