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by sangnoir 2y ago
TV OEMs tried to make 3D home entertainment a thing over a decade ago, and it was a failure. Has the environment changed enough to make a difference? I have my doubts, even though the average Internet bandwidth has gone up, at least 3D TV w
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I assume property values will evaporate along with the stock markets if this train keeps on rolling. The US government can prop up the stock market for a very long time. Anyone who purchased Puts early on during COVID times found the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You've never played Plague, Inc. and it shows. One of the better strategies in that game was to spend all you points on mutations that improve contagiousness and minimizing "scary symptoms" (like haemorrhaging from the eyes)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Root beer, then, or any beverage of their choice.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It was always the hairy egg/scrotum.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not going to be harangued for being an omnivore who's against factory-farmed chickens. You can lump me with the rest of the meat-eaters if it makes your feel better, but I'll have you know I don't purchase or use the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
1. It's not anecdotal. There's a very long papertrail if you wish to seek it. 2. I also shared my opinion about Larry Ellison in a different HN thread, and he's done nothing to me except make Java deader to me than it already
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Instructors ⊂ Academia
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The husk of the SEC with its brains scooped out is a useful tool to sic upon one's competitors or ideological enemies. I wouldn't be surprised by an SEC investigation into OpenAI in the next few years.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> And that’s arguably a core job of any elected government. It’s not to promote external commerce or industry. Is the "free trade" mask completely off now? Good.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But an insanely ruthless businessman Ruthless but ineffective: he'll stiff contractors and suppliers, but still failed to keep a Casino solvent when the house is supposed to always win. He also started a tariff war in his first t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Decision-making must be easy when you see the world in black and white. From where I stand, not all killings are equal.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Ellison no doubt genuinely thinks that such an effort is his highest calling, the best contribution he can possibly make to humanity's well-being It's likely much simpler: Larry thinks the solution to (his) immortality - or l
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> why can't we have less weirdos that make money When they do, you don't hear from them/about them as much! Chuck Feeney gave away his billions, but he's hardly ever mentioned.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
There's something about Rust that draws Zealots (or draws out zealotry in people). It's not at Haskell's level, but there are several culty elements for the fanatics: secret knowledge, being 'chosen' or set aside fr
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Being concerned about animal testing seems pretty silly coming from people who likely eat pigs This is reductive and lacking any form of nuance. If I eat chicken, should I automatically be okay with heavily industrialized chicken farms
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The current doctrine is those - and any other - rules don't apply to the president in his official capacity. SCOTUS declared that it's legal when the president does it.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Wikipedia won't inform me about the social media and email dynamics at a car manufacturer. Just the email response alone was entertaining and informative: self-aware humor-encrusted legalese that is very human. I can appreciate it for
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'd like to buy whoever came up with that tagline a beer.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The ones who didn’t take FAANG jobs but instead went deep into systems programming, AI interpretability, or high-performance computing I appreciate a good FAANG hatefest, but what the gosh-darn heck is this? Does the author seriously t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
British kettles draw so much power, the electric utility had to consider the additional power draw on the grid from synchronized tea-making during the commercial breaks of a popular soap opera, back when broadcast TV was king.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> He always had it? Money give influence naturally. Not as much as he has now: he was famously frustrated by the California state government's Covid lockdown mandates, and was pretty powerless against them. That frustration is prob
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What's the proportion to breakthroughs that are easier with familiarity? How many accidental discoverers do we need to match the output of a Terrance Tao or an Erdős?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If neither, what is this new race to be called? Would he be a different race if his father was also mixed race? American racists had precise, and now-offensive nomenclature for rations all the way down to 1/8 black, possibly beyon
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Somehow he gets very angry when I ask why there is wide academic achievement difference between his children despite growing in the same environment Wait, I thought your argument is that intelligence this is genetic - what then explain
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> What you can’t do is combine these concepts into any uncomfortable findings when it comes to humans. You can[1], and it's been done. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't see a route where I could reasonably have much more than say 10 million 10 years from now. You have to ask yourself this- how much is enough, and how hard are you willing to work/risk for it? On the low end, how much
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by sangnoir 2y ago
$12 is a small price to pay compared to the opportunity cost of having a bricked car in one's garage for months on end, multiplied by however many individuals they may have saved from the same pain.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Cosigned by the Supreme Court of The United States, in 2024.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What degree does one need to earn first in order to be a "cyber security specialist"?

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