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by shartshooter 1mo ago
‘The executive order does not give ranchers immediate license to shoot wolves preying on livestock, but instead gives Interior Secretary Doug Burgum 90 days to determine whether the grey and Mexican wolf populations had recovered enough to
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by shartshooter 3mo ago
I sold my business to a PE firm as the “platform,” meaning they’d acquire other companies in the future and “bolt-on” to ours. We ended up selling to the most founder-friendly, culture-is-important PE firm we could find and, to their credit
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by shartshooter 4mo ago
Except they raised $65 billion dollars, not $1. Ai is overstated in my opinion but to hand wave the reality of them having created something that investors were happy to value at $1T is pretty unfair
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by shartshooter 5mo ago
Will goblins be the “bugs” of ai? In 10 years will goblins be the term the general public uses for any nagging issues with ai?
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by shartshooter 7mo ago
When I joined the army as an infantryman back in the early 2000s there were kids who couldn’t start basic training because they weren’t capable of doing 6 pushups. 6. I believe at the time they were allowing 38 year olds to join for the fir
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by shartshooter 7mo ago
One of my friends was an elite athlete a couple of decades back(eg. won a national champion in a solo track and field event as well as a gold medal in the world championships) He’s mentioned before how he’s always had bad teeth. He chalks i
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by shartshooter 8mo ago
I spent my childhood in a rural town but learning Spanish from various teachers from 4th grade through high school. I always did well but focused too much on the process of Spanish such as getting very good at conjugating verbs without know
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by shartshooter 8mo ago
I wish this article shared more about how this tomb was discovered. Was it buried under mountain of dirt? Under a jungle canopy no one explored? Has it been there all along at an existing ruins site but was hidden in some way? Give us detai
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by shartshooter 8mo ago
I’d be open to a version of social media that is not banned and the version looks like this: - a straight linear feed with three tabs, 1) people close to me(default), 2) brands and influencers I choose follow and 3) everything else the alg
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by shartshooter 8mo ago
I really love this concept for an app. Downloading and getting going was a breeze. That said, I’m finding some latency issues when I respond. I’ll say something in Spanish, hit the red button, and none of the text I sent appears. Then I’ll
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by shartshooter 8mo ago
This summer I went camping and at the campground next to me was a middle manager at Amazon. I’ve been out of the workforce for about a year, so I asked him how much of an impact AI was having in his role. He told me that he had worked to de
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by shartshooter 9mo ago
Damn. There are some things here that resonated with me and some that don’t. I had a time of my life where I just felt like I didn’t vibe with my ex’s friends. We’d go to parties and these people would feel so shallow. Having grown up poor
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by shartshooter 9mo ago
It’s easy to find reasons to talk yourself out of action. Maybe you’ll get burned out, maybe you won’t. But if you never try you’ll never know. And you’ll definitely miss out on something special
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by shartshooter 10mo ago
People are willing value art with their attention more so than their wallet So while it seems we have more arists/creators than ever, the work seems more hollow and less inspired than ever because the artistic expression is tailored fo
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by shartshooter 1y ago
Only the type of food we eat in an “advanced” society
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by shartshooter 1y ago
My grandparents were children of the depression and encouraged me to invest in the vanguard 500 for as long as I could remember. Once I joined the military and had a steady paycheck I started putting some money away each month. Fast forward
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Ask HN: Is this an example of an Apple dark pattern?
2 points by shartshooter 2y ago|3 comments
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by shartshooter 2y ago
I spent the past year reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I’m on the last push of the final(seventh) book It was my first dip into any King books and I’m equal parsers impressed and exhausted with his writing style. I always assu
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by shartshooter 2y ago
Would the explosives in these pagers have been caught by something like TSA? I could imagine that at please *some* of the owners had to have flown with them. Were they caught? If not, why not?
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by shartshooter 2y ago
I (late 30’s male) grew up with migraine and ultimately discovered that they were triggered by caffeine mixed with dehydration and/or chocolate. Having discovered this I’ve been able to control them completely, but realize that not eve
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by shartshooter 3y ago
“AI coming for white collar jobs” is a sexy claim, but it’s got some truth to it. Using your examples of call centers, back office and fraud detection as examples: - what happens when five humans can do the work of seven, because there is
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by shartshooter 3y ago
I found the piece difficult to read as well. That said, the author wasn't writing it with you or me in mind. To me, the author was writing in a way that made sense to them, with no regard to how it would be perceived. People will eithe
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by shartshooter 3y ago
Agreed, having mostly lived only in America, it's tough for me to comment on other cultures, though I assume they're similar in that respect.
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by shartshooter 3y ago
Unfortunately, too many people in America are just indifferent to sacrificing their attention to ads. I see it in my parents/siblings when I visit. An ad that would have me immediately grasping a remote, doesn't even make them bud
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Sonic Bloom: particular frequency to stimulate plant growth(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by shartshooter 3y ago|0 comments
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by shartshooter 3y ago
My dad bought an ‘89 Toyota Pickup in ‘93 and, between he and I, we put 270k miles on the thing Extended cab, 5 speed manual. It was my first vehicle when I turned 16 and I loved it
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Daily energy expenditure through the human life course(research.brighton.ac.uk)
247 points by shartshooter 3y ago|239 comments
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New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by shartshooter 3y ago|2 comments
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In a first, scientists find genetic cause for ‘virgin birth’ in animals(washingtonpost.com)
14 points by shartshooter 3y ago|4 comments
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I learned to love toxic chemicals(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by shartshooter 3y ago|0 comments

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