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by saulpw 3y ago
Benzos and opiates get you plenty high. And much less safely. But at least it makes some people rich.
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by saulpw 3y ago
> A survey last year found that nearly two-thirds of people said they would prefer to use cannabis rather than pharmaceuticals to treat a medical issue Hm, maybe because cannabis is cheaper and more readily available? I am extremely wary
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by saulpw 3y ago
"Perhaps". But it's quite optimistic in 2023 to think that Google or any major company is using their data for your benefit.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Yeah I think anyone on HN could write that website in a weekend. With uncensored GPT-4 you wouldn't need more than 10 people on staff and most of those would just be there to fix the printer. Edit: I thought this would obviously be sa
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by saulpw 3y ago
These all appear to be full-time unpaid work? Like the expectations are incredibly joblike and the pay is free housing and a visitor's pass to all national parks.
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by saulpw 3y ago
> a capable public can make this determination The public is not capable, either technically nor emotionally nor politically.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Very nice! Have you seen the talk "How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal"[0]? Or the largest collection of crossword data on the planet[1]? Source: it me. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aHfK8EUIzg [
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by saulpw 3y ago
The top users are not open source contributors, but creators of those "awesome" lists and dev interview prep resources, which are overwhelmingly popular (by number of Github stars) even though they have zero code and don't ha
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by saulpw 3y ago
And neither a neutered male nor a spayed female are actually sexless--you still refer to them as "he" and "she". They are merely reproductively disabled. On a side note, I just learned that 'neutral' comes fro
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by saulpw 3y ago
Charity begins at home. It's immoral in my -ism to send money halfway around the world, while ignoring the growing misery in your own city. Similarly it would be immoral to sacrifice your own child to save the lives of two strangers.
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by saulpw 3y ago
> Personal anecdote - I don't work full 40 with full intensity, I do slack a lot. But it's not like I work hard for the first 32 hours and then slack all Friday. It's more like I work hard for 2 hours and then slack for th
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by saulpw 3y ago
The same reason North Korea is officially called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". If you're not going to walk the talk, you can still get some good PR from an "aspirational" name. You'd think
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by saulpw 3y ago
> What's our profession's equivalent of a film director? Scrum master.
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Integrated circuit layout design protection (mask work)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by saulpw 3y ago
There were 1 billion people on the internet in 2005. Now there are more than 5 billion people on the internet. There were no smartphones in 2005 and everyone used the web to access "social media". Now any social media is nonviab
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by saulpw 3y ago
easier != easy
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by saulpw 3y ago
The City And The City (China Mieville). Two nations, occupying the same physical area, and occupants of either nation have been trained/socialized since birth not to see or interact with the other nation. If they do accidentally, for
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by saulpw 3y ago
How about we revert copyright to 14 years (plus a 14 year extension if the author is alive to file for it)? Like it was in the US until 1831.
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by saulpw 3y ago
No one parks in the garage in the suburbs :) They either park in the driveway or on the street, both of which have ample room to store vehicles.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Yes, it's true. The costs to do apparent 'journalism' fell because underpaid news writers could make a valid-sounding article from stuff they found on Twitter. That started a race to the bottom, where now very few places ar
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by saulpw 3y ago
> City of Seattle to phase out gas leaf blowers by 2027 https://mynorthwest.com/3893695/city-of-seattle-to-phase-out... 5 years is a stupid amount of time to wait for this, but at least it's coming.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Bluetooth is huge and designed by committee. I don't know what GPT could help with; it's not that there aren't any good guides, it's that good guides are impossible. The protocol and stack are not designed to be unders
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by saulpw 3y ago
I mean is there any value to sources beyond "peer-reviewed historiography"? For instance here's a Vox video about the conflict which says much the same thing as the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZ
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Muslim Arab armies conquered the region in the 7th century A.D. and treated the existing population relatively well, compared with other conquered populations anyway. From the transcript: > The animosity that characterizes the modern Isr
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by saulpw 3y ago
To a first degree, yes. Its answers made sense, they comport with other things I've read and other people I've talked with. I have seen nothing that appears incorrect, either grossly or subtly. If the information I got from thi
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by saulpw 3y ago
Nope, it doesn't really. I did some research[0] to get to the bottom of it, and it goes back to the Zionism of the late 19th century. Before that, the Jewish population in the Palestine region was a 5% minority (and Christians a 10%
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by saulpw 3y ago
It seems like VCs will often sell shares for a near-total-loss on their investment, for simplicity and relationship with founders, and they can write it off[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
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by saulpw 3y ago
"Capitalism" does not mean "free market". It literally means that the profits go to investors (capital) instead of to the workers (labor). You can certainly have a capitalist system that does not have a free market, an
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Shame is not a viable mechanism at scale (particularly across cultures). Particularly with the rise of extreme partisanship, shame lobbed at one group will be turned into an identity and used provactively (see e.g. "rolling coal"
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by saulpw 3y ago
There is experience after your before-birth, though; how do you know there won't be another experience after your death? Maybe it takes a trillion trillion years, and the collapse and rebirth of the entire universe; but all that would

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