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by robocat 9mo ago
> makes scavenging more economical and increases life span NZ exports the front half of Hiluxes, 4runners, Prados etcetera to the Middle East. Chop the front half off, put a bunch of em into a container, and ship them away. I was yakking
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by robocat 9mo ago
> we've allowed millions of foreigners to come in and raise said healthcare and housing costs They also raise your GDP by a lot more than they cost. Australia and New Zealand have about 30% foreign born population, and we do fine. M
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by robocat 9mo ago
> Perhaps these constant restrictions will finally spur us to create our own spaces again We had forums using forum software but moderating the spam got too hard. If you create your own space using any common software platform then you&#
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by robocat 9mo ago
I'm suggesting creating history is fun. Maybe a meat fed on something that flavours the meat? Similar to Jamón ibérico de bellota. Preminted lamb? Unfortunately where I'm from is a bit culturally sparse and we don't really ha
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by robocat 9mo ago
I childishly looked for a historical quote on how we should all be doing science at home now. Google referred me to a gorgeous article written by Isaac Asimov: While computers and robots are doing the scut-work of society so that the w
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by robocat 9mo ago
> I overdrafted the account to the max ($500) and left them the bill I think theft is a poor answer - although most society accepts your rationalisation when dealing with government or big business. Even worse is that you can't know
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by robocat 9mo ago
What food would you create a fraternity for, where you live?
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by robocat 9mo ago
I love your juxtapositioning! Can the yen carry trade equation exist outside of belief? Edit: I just noticed your comment is the one result for your "equation"!! https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22yen+carry+trade+equatio
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by robocat 9mo ago
Do you know any links about whether successful founders learn about failures or not? From my limited experience, founders concentrate on their current risks. I also think founders are good at filtering out the deluge of failure porn that is
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by robocat 9mo ago
The well known SHTF story that summarises your point written by a guy who lived in Sarajevo: https://www.scribd.com/document/110974061/Selco-s-Survival From a real situation, only alluding to the true horrors of t
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by robocat 9mo ago
> customer pain > driving away your customers > company death You are implying efficient market theory, which is bunk. Example: Our banks have endless painful papercuts yet most of us don't change banks just because of one pa
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by robocat 9mo ago
I try to challenge myself by reading the article to form an opinion, and then I learn by testing my opinion for faults (using good HN comments). Sometimes I test myself by writing comments. My recent binge has been trying to understand what
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by robocat 9mo ago
We should just blame "the willies". Investment is all about belief. When the root cause is the willies, then we hallucinate reasons together. Crypto and memes have demonstrated us a lot about the drives of individual investors. Un
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by robocat 9mo ago
> because the US Reducing the root cause to the US is ludicrous. Cuba had agency and their government made some horrific choices for their citizens. I was there about 20 years ago and it was the most depressing place I've ever visit
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by robocat 9mo ago
Nothing to do with the public: how is your comment relevant here? The article explains using AI beneficially for a professional task.
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by robocat 9mo ago
Looks like you need to be careful with the definition of pronation and supination for feet. There's a lot of results for running where they use the term dynamically, and it looks to be different from the original technical meaning. You
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by robocat 9mo ago
Maybe consider that other people are not as au fait with AI. There are plenty of people learning to use AI and this article helps them. A reasonable amount of repetition of "things you should know" is good. The article is well wri
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by robocat 9mo ago
What's your beef with AdBlue?
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by robocat 9mo ago
He mentioned hills - I would be worried about kids rolling it and getting crushed. I've got an old sit-on mower and it is very heavy. I'm in New Zealand and we have a number of deaths every year from quad-bikes on farms. Often chi
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by robocat 9mo ago
Paper forms used to be our main competitor. Paper forms have some amazing features that software really can't compete with. And also some significant downsides that software fixes.
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by robocat 9mo ago
> And then you have extremely large amounts of unplanned spend and engineering to get around them You get the same shocks with internal teams, just from other causes. And you have to manage them. I'm sure you've only ever seen
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by robocat 9mo ago
3) Upgrades suck. Admin also sucks Maintenance is probably my number one reason for giving up on projects where I'm responsible for feeding the pet.
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by robocat 9mo ago
Whaddabout the military then? Same same problem. If you are interested in removing bias, then hopefully you're interested in removing bias in the military too?
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by robocat 9mo ago
> more people will participate in communal efforts AI won't teach collaboration. Open source is a lot more about learning the norms of working together than the actual underlying software.
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by robocat 9mo ago
I always felt that Microsoft's winning move was to be consistently mediocre. They just waited until competitors screwed up. Now they're following in IBMs or Intel's footsteps - concentrating everything on the enterprise marke
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by robocat 9mo ago
> NASA/JPL/defense contractor Perhaps learn to look around the world. Europe has nothing, China is working on copying. New Zealand has RocketLab but looks like they've sold out to the states and is only for small payloads
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by robocat 9mo ago
> I'd bet on in-housing I wouldn't. Knowing what to build is part that many businesses struggle with. As much as consultants are lambasted, my experience of companies is that they struggle to develop or maintain anything in-hou
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by robocat 9mo ago
New Zealand has much stricter filters for immigrants. Tautologically: good immigrants are great and bad immigrants are terrible. I certainly know a few awful immigrants too. 30% of our population was born overseas. It seems to be working fi
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by robocat 9mo ago
> when most still heat with fossil fuels Christchurch doesn't use much fossil fuels. Coal, Coal gas[1], Coke, and LPG were used in the past for home heating. Electricity generation can come from coal when hydro lakes get dry. Utilit
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by robocat 9mo ago
It achieves cleaner air, which I personally like, and which is especially great for anyone with lung problems like asthmatics. I suspect part of the rule tightening is to slowly squeeze to get rid of fires altogether (the outcome with the c

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