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by setgree 3y ago
I watched a bit of the second vid, and I see why some people would have fun making and/or watching this; but to me it totally misses the point of what is magical about cinema.
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by setgree 3y ago
This is interesting to me because it's so at odds with how I took in the new trilogy. I thought only Johnson showed any vision at all, and I also thought his sense of small scale combat choreography was way better, e.g. the scene where
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by setgree 3y ago
Very cool, I love hearing founder journeys. Best of luck to you all.
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by setgree 3y ago
Very cool! Is the LLM-on-the-backend a recent addition or have y'all been thinking about that potential since 2020? Would be curious to hear a bit more about your journey to market
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by setgree 3y ago
I just recommended this to a friend who uses a conventional CRM (Salesforce I think) as a personal CRM -- a PRM? (The "C" is no longer relevant) Question about: > the feature I’m most proud of is the ability to customize almost
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by setgree 3y ago
My theory is that Binance execs were having these chats in an encrypted medium (e.g. WA or Signal) but didn't secure themselves against a defector. I think someone on the inside took screenshots and went to the feds (or started coopera
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by setgree 3y ago
South Park covered the addictiveness of microtransactions aimed at kids in 2014: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_Isn%27t_Free The scene in which Satan explains brain chemistry to Stan is well worth watching:
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by setgree 3y ago
Politics is downstream of culture. if we wanted to reduce social media use, we could try to change internet habits and attitudes writ large. Something like a “put down the phone and talk to people” campaign, a la anti-smoking/drinking&
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by setgree 3y ago
for context: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/the-last-rites-f... > The end of D.B.A., as it’s known, along with that of its neighboring venue Glasslands — Vice, the media conglomerate, is
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by setgree 3y ago
Like 10 years ago Vice bought the building that housed my favorite venue in Williamsburg, Glasslands, and then proceeded to do basically nothing with it. So I'll always hold that against them/the VCs who funded them.
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by setgree 3y ago
I am using ChatGPT to convert some very brittle tidyverse (R) code into base R, and it’s outstanding. I could finally learn (and then try to remember) all of R’s conventions but it’s a lot more pleasurable to have the chatbot actually do th
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by setgree 3y ago
So I'm not the OP, but I found this letter interesting because I think it's a nice illustration of ways in which so-called 'liberal' policies drive some people to become more conservative. Politics is about perception,
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by setgree 3y ago
Note to update the headline to 2021 (its publication date)
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by setgree 3y ago
A resposne comment says: > In business there is no cheating, there is only making money and not making money. This attitude is very common among people I know. You ask "how the world can function if everyone were to think and act li
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by setgree 3y ago
It's a wonderful newsletter. Perhaps you'll enjoy: * https://www.thechatner.com/p/please-accept-my-application-to... * https://www.thechatner.com/p/gene-kelly-is-getting-his-balle... And
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by setgree 3y ago
Jon Elster’s ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ is about akrasia, more or less; in situations where we know we are likely to act against our own best interests, how do we credibly commit ourselves to doing the right thing, like Ulysses binding himsel
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by setgree 3y ago
I love the idea, but this looks very easy to steal/steal from: * 350 kg and 1.6m tall = 3-4 people can lift this into the bed of a pickup truck * If the doors are removable, can a car thief get inside just by carrying the door removal
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by setgree 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interview > In June 2014, the North Korean government threatened action against the United States if Sony released the film. As a result, Sony delayed the release from October to
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by setgree 3y ago
And yet, both you and I fell down the rabbit hole. This kind of material is both sickening and addictive.
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by setgree 3y ago
Fraud is generally defined as intentionally deceiving others for personal or financial gain. I think it’s pretty clear here that these people were wrong , and arguably deceiving themselves, but certainly not intentionally deceiving others
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by setgree 3y ago
> These people belong in gaol. Luckily in the US, being very wrong about something, even when it's very consequential, is not illegal. We'd have a much less entrepreneurial society, and a lot less open, free debate, if it were.
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by setgree 3y ago
I wish I had not clicked this link
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by setgree 4y ago
The true ratio of would-be-hired to is-hired on HN is lower than 0.94. Many (most?) posts in the who's hiring thread mention multiple positions, e.g. the word "engineers", plural, occurs 91 times on the first page.
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by setgree 4y ago
It is not illegal for Congress to target specific products. I do not know where you got that impression. Laws can be deemed unconstitutional upon review, but Congress literally defines what is legal or not.
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by setgree 4y ago
So, the news here is that gun deaths are now the leading cause of death for teens (ages 13-19), but for kids 1-12, cars remain the leading cause of death in the US. Per https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/12/28/f
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by setgree 4y ago
as always, Silicon Valley covered/predicted this https://www.vulture.com/2017/04/silicon-valley-recap-season-... > “You’re doing what Bob Iger does at Disney!” Jack tells Gavin. “He makes every manager wea
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by setgree 4y ago
I'm really having trouble connecting the dots between potential liability and leading with "building the future of human connection"
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by setgree 4y ago
I know that working in tech can warp your sense of reality, but it's really, really hard to imagine starting an email in which I announce that I'm laying off 10,000 people -- the entire population of my hometown and then some --
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by setgree 4y ago
So nothing here is ironclad but it looks like some of those trapped folks might have had a bit of water and food [0] > In Turkey, for example, experts say those who were stuck in collapsed residential buildings may have had access to som
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by setgree 4y ago
The article is pretty lighthearted, but after a day in an elevator, I’d be pretty worried about dying of dehydration. I suppose you’d know that you’d probably be rescued on Monday no matter what, but Friday to Monday is 3 days, which is abo

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