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by samstave 3y ago
Where we get the term "Banana Republic!" for such dispicibles as the DOLE family - who, we only know the white-washed name by their offspring Bob Dole charading as a nice ol' grampa type but a good ol' corporate boy. -
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by samstave 3y ago
AKA; ...'eeeeyyyyy, IgottaGuy..."
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by samstave 3y ago
I wonder if these two things from the HN post above this one: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDicGjD9yte6FLSie/interpreti... I would love to see a cross section of these two ideas.... I have been surprised that i
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by samstave 3y ago
I wonder if these two things from the HN post below this one: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00288-1 I would love to see a cross section of these two ideas.... I have been surprised that in the past few wee
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by samstave 3y ago
The deep-fakers were likely, at least at one point, an internal employee of this firm so that they knew how to pull this off.
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by samstave 3y ago
Yeahm I should have left wine off there - my point was anything that uses municipal water as the primary input of water in said products. Which is likely any liquid that comes in something plastic. It would be interesting to test various al
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by samstave 3y ago
Who's an expat who knows sliding some cheese? Not this guy.
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by samstave 3y ago
This is an epically cool blog post! - submit it to HN on its own merits. This was of particular interest to me: >>> "...1986 Reagan tipped off the Libyans that the US could decrypt their communications by talking about informa
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by samstave 3y ago
They were by facetious and sarcastic. ;-)
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by samstave 3y ago
BFY;TW - "Because Fuck You; Thats Why"
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by samstave 3y ago
Holy crap! I've never watched that show, but thats funny as heck that this was a thing. (and they even say "I don't have HydroStatic Equillibrium yet...) too funny is the Akashic Zeitgeist...
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by samstave 3y ago
This is a really cool idea. If you have a Fantasy city which is these weird polygons - you could make some great themes on cities - What if you will have creeps coming from Your Occupied side of the map, and you have to identify the snipers
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by samstave 3y ago
I rage quit Quora some years ago publicly here on HN, I dont recall now the exact reason (something to do with unwanted profile/content/privacy change or some such... It was quite a while back, but I have never really gone to quor
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by samstave 3y ago
Well yeah, Venus is in our solar system. Thanks, though - I wasn’t sure if we always use a local reference but then au is as local a unit as possible at these scales.
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by samstave 3y ago
Maybe just come up with a better/different label for planets who share a similar ratio of planet-to-star characteristics with Earth, which is a sample size of known_to_support_life=1. "Orbital Cousins to Earth" OCEs. Find the
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by samstave 3y ago
Yeah, but look at its period: >>> ts mass is 3.02 Earths, it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.083 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2023 https://i.imgur.com/ghLnFrH.png --
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by samstave 3y ago
Its almost as if user-created-content sites are un-MBA-able... in the way that MBAs are cloned to measure only certain metrics in a soulless gaze toward a self-exit from the growth hocky stick launching pad they are attempting to build on b
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by samstave 3y ago
>>> The periosteum, rich in blood vessels and nerves, is essential for bone growth and regeneration. This sounds like a very difficult thing to transplant or invoke with stem-cells or such, but the idea of being able to grow peri
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by samstave 3y ago
> This can help with optimizing their user experience, etc. Please, maybe have some success cases with a "how to implement on your shopify" page?
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by samstave 3y ago
Look at my update... At least I would have preserved a non-fluoridated system. And if you also owned a water company, you would feel the way I do, and did.
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by samstave 3y ago
Absolutely. I did the same thing with my kids when they were toddlers. I also asked water delivery companies about specifying non-flouridated water and they charged more for it (alhambra)... But here is my main kicker, think of all the vari
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by samstave 3y ago
This is great!. You know what would be fun, side scrolling mine sweeper - the field just keeps clicking several spots to the left each N seconds revealing new tiles to click - and maybe things like "Bomb Squad" perks that let you
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by samstave 3y ago
Would this be useful to Shopify Shop Owners, those who buy 3rd party/additional apps on the shopify app store (or any similar such services, like an etsy store)? Can this be used as a pen-testing tool to Highlight-TraceRt through a {ta
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by samstave 3y ago
What will they do will all the defunct storage they previously used for cache? What has Google ever done with old HW?
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by samstave 3y ago
Love this - There have been several fantasy map gen toys in the past, what I really like about this one was the opening passion for the maps in the paperback fantasy novels I read in the 80s - and how the pages still felt and smelled. I lov
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by samstave 3y ago
You just MENTORED them into how to find a mentor. :-)
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by samstave 3y ago
> universities that churn out tepid, conformist graduates who nobody would ever want to employ We call them MBA's in these here parts.
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by samstave 3y ago
Steam is different because there is a great sense of ownership on one's steam game library - to the point that one has family control PINs and passwords, and can share or hide or private games, wishlists and gifts to and fro. --- Wal
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by samstave 3y ago
> (read: asked chatgpt to write) I think the new verb should be "GPT'd" "I GPT'd this little snippet to slurp my chats from chat.openai and dump them into this searchable blob.
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by samstave 3y ago
Not if you're on the opposite end of a shitty job market attempting to find any way to get a foot in. The market sucks, and cynicism is growing among all parties.

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