skrbjc

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by skrbjc 4y ago
You are living on another planet if you think that Repubs are the only ones benefitting from gerrymandering. https://www.vox.com/22961590/redistricting-gerrymandering-ho...
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My brother had a shoulder surgery that he put off for many years. The doctor actually told him that he did the right thing because the type of surgery he needed has some such a long way in the last 10 years. It's great that we're
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by skrbjc 4y ago
So you're telling me the robots from the matrix could have avoided all that trouble if they just went with candles?
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by skrbjc 4y ago
"The contracts stated that OpenAI would pay an hourly rate of $12.50 to Sama for the work, which was between six and nine times the amount Sama employees on the project were taking home per hour." OpenAI paid $12 an hour, it'
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In my experience with an induction cooktop over the holidays was that it heated very un evenly, burning food on one side of the pan, while the other side was not cooking at all. It had a terrible user experience (this is obviously specific
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For non food purposes.
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Imagine being so insecure that you can’t politely correct someone in the rare case they mix up a pronoun for someone.
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I think you mean dystopia because what this leads to is no utopia in my mind
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Based on the paper it seems to be primarily an issue with dilution. They say home dishwashers dilute it to a rate of around 1:80000, the commercials ones are around 1:1000 - 1:10000. The problems they observed seem to happen in that lower d
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It’s because once trump said it, everyone who hates him had to take the opposite position, even though he was right.
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This type of insufferable attitude isn’t in the spirit of HN civility and would make someone who might be sympathetic to your views much less so.
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was wondering what that meant
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One third is used for animal feed, a third for ethanol to blend into gasoline and a third for food consumption directly. To me it seems like the ethanol production part would be the easiest to put towards human consumption.
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I love how the disclaimer is longer than the article.
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It's just one of those things that gets repeated so much that people just start to believe it.
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Who's "WE" in your view? There was not top-down effort to get Asians to excel in the US, it was due to their own desires and efforts. I think it also explicitly proves the point that companies in the US are not racist. If the
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by skrbjc 4y ago
This says a lot about the biases of many journalists and why you are likely not getting a neutral viewpoint from many of them: "Picturing the moderators responsible for steering conversation on Hacker News, I imagined a team of men who
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by skrbjc 4y ago
The US does collect over 300 billion dollars from corporations in tax revenue...
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He is a writer :D
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In my experience Asia (I lived in Korea, so my experience is primarily indexed against that) is far more prudish than America when it comes to sex. My question, is how did Europe develop its seeming openness to sex and nudity? 1950s and ear
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Imagine if instead, a scene mentioned a child coming home and talking to his father who was in the middle of disassembling and cleaning his gun at the kitchen table. For many Americans this would be completely normal, but many Euros would t
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What’s not clear to me from the story is if Canada doesn’t want people harvesting trees from those forests, why are they issuing licenses for logging them?
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We did figure out how to split atoms and turn that into reliable, usable energy with nearly zero carbon emissions. That seems more impressive than welding under water, as impressive as that is.
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This guy seems to be making a splash with his book about white people disappearing. With the general idea seeming to be the world would be better off. He’s reviewed favorably in many newspapers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022&
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by skrbjc 4y ago
When I refused to log my race in our HR system they said they would use “perceived race” to report my race to the government. I specifically asked them to not guess my race and they said tough luck they are doing it anyway. It’s outrageous.
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This perfectly sums up the culture of reddit.
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Or just stir it up and put it in the fridge
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Does your wife sell things she makes? The rya sound so cool, I would love to get one.
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Any idea what it's like from a physical perspective to keep a mainframe like that running? Is there a point at which parts need to be custom made to replace anything that breaks or do they generally keep running with minimal physical i
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Can I ask why you have new ones made? Is it just to have multiple or do they somehow wear out?

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