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You might be thinking of The Insider (1999) , though that film was mostly faithful to the real life story behind the 60 Minutes investigation.[0] What you were probably thinking of can be found at 2:00 in the video below. Seven tobacco i
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> Most employers would wipe your memory if they could. Will work for memory wipe. In my book that's a win/win.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
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The title is both editorialized and making assumptions. We do not know the motive nor the intended targets of the perpetrator.
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>Q: How many eyes does the sun have? A: The sun has one eye. Kind of an eerie reply, gives me more of a Voight-Kampff test vibe. Since GPT-3 probably has a lot of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner quotes in it
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They're far less rare than Rust jobs from what I've seen.
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Technically: it's things inside of rendering or sim loops. Philosophically: print debugging.
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Note that each subsequent use of the -m flag appears to prepend a line feed to the beginning of the commit message. This results in more of a paragraph-style spacing, rather than true multiline. You can see this in the author's own s
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> Now when they can do it with low-orbit satellites ... Some of the better speculation I've come across suggests American ELINT satellites have deployed antenna spans measuring hundreds of feet . That might explain why grabbing ce
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Ethical, high-caliber, genuinely nice with a high degree of empathy. Bonus points if they've lived without the benefit of a silver spoon their entire life. Unfortunately you can't really determine these quickly, you pretty much ha
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No worries, in retrospect it was an incorrect assumption on my part. That said, glad to hear your life wasn't completely destroyed! Definitely sounds like it wasn't pleasant. For what it's worth, I've a similar story wit
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> I had one major problem with B12 back in the day. Now I get regularly tested for B12 levels and correct it before it completely destroys my life. If it's not too sensitive, can you elaborate on how it completely destroyed your li
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Foreign information warfare units absolutely want to be stoking that fire to the fullest extent possible. Their election interference was so wildly successful that they'd have no reason not be trying to inflict further damage on the US
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Thanks for asking this. As someone who's probably going to have to get a job in this climate very soon, I was about to pose nearly the same question. > ...and yesterday’s “Who is hiring” had plenty of postings. At the time of writi
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> Ask HN: Why do browsers include developer tools? For killing poorly-implemented modal overlays on paywalls, of course.
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> One of those was learning about the xray project. I probably shouldn’t have taken this personally, ... I've run into that phenomenon a lot with various startup projects over the years. It's soul crushing, and often an immedi
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> ... and if their returns can be comparable to software startups. Strictly speaking, there's nothing that says moonshot startups can't be pure software plays.
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You have to remember the US military is projecting power across the globe. What the paper is likely referring to is regional scenarios. Regions take time to reinforce, and other theatres may be active at the same time, while having their ow
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Picture how you want the world to be. Work backwards from there. Unsure what you want it to be, or can't picture it? Think about existing things we have today. Break those things down to the concepts or dynamics that underly them. Reco
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> On what project are you right now and what is fueling you ? I don't know anymore.
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I think trying to say one is more important than the other is a false dichotomy. They are both very important. It's true that ideas tend to dramatically evolve as a result of execution. Likewise execution affords an opportunity for ref
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Ideas become better when refined. Sometimes over the course of years . You can assemble a larger composite idea under the umbrella of a single vision, comprised of many smaller ideas. There's of course a balance to be struck depending
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Not when it hijacks your browser's back button in an unethical manner.
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
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When it consumes you is the metric I use. That method is not without major caveats of course.
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I stand corrected! Equally dramatic-sounding. :) Ironic that Gandalf was of course played by Ian McKellen in the films, and is good friends with Patrick Stewart.
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The Third Era would've been far more dramatic sounding, especially when spoken by Patrick Stewart.[0] Sorry, I couldn't help but draw an Elder Scrolls comparison here: "Behold, in darkness, a doom sweeps the land." &
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NFYB-1 regulates mitochondrial function and longevity via lysosomal prosaposin
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> Bad HN is puns, harsh politics, humor, and dismissive language. I think humor has a place on HN, so long as it's used sparingly while remaining highbrow and relevant to the discussion at hand. As a budding HN comedian, it's
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In most cases probably not, or if so mild. It depends on the hit, and it depends on the person. It's worth noting the second order effects of mTBI (such as sleep disturbance) can in some cases kick off neurodegenerative processes.[0] I
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