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by slwvx 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber's_nightmare
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by slwvx 2y ago
I don't see any name calling. Could you eplicitly state what the problem is?
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by slwvx 2y ago
And maybe it's the richest 10% who have a subscription to the WSJ and can afford to read this article... It's paywalled and it looks like the WSJ is blocking archive tools. The subtitle says "The highest-earning 10% of Amer
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by slwvx 2y ago
Sure, tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoners dilemma is a recognized strategy. Even so, it seems petty to unfollow someone just because they unfollow you. Why not give it a bit of time and unfollow them for a more significant reason? Does e
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by slwvx 2y ago
Love to know the answer to this myself! I'd especially like to know if the Ioniq 5 is hackable. As a start, it looks like Hyundai's Bluelink can be turned off: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hyundai/comments&#
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by slwvx 2y ago
I already liked Acemoglu; this is a great article. For background, Acemoglu won the 2024 Nobel in Economics [1] with Simon Johnson. I very much like their book "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prospe
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by slwvx 2y ago
I know of a person who is looking into buying an apartment in what they consider to be a stable country (Uruguay). They are not immediately planning to flee, but making contingency plans. I am supportive of my friend and sympathetic to thei
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by slwvx 2y ago
...for the FIRST TIME in 5k... Article title: "Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the FIRST TIME in 5,000 years"
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by slwvx 2y ago
This is a follow-up to a video entitled "What a Small Town in Japan is Like": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiU3Nk16BLQ&t=0s
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by slwvx 2y ago
The tagline is too close to "Fastest Fourier Transform in the West" or FFTW [1]. The name "WebFFT" is fine, just do away with the "Fastest..." bit. It looks like the author is trying to piggy-back on the FFTW
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by slwvx 2y ago
The title of the Scientific American article is "These Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them", which matches the content much better than the title above.
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by slwvx 2y ago
..." each year" I.e. a better title would be "Prehistorically, as many as 19M acres burned in California EACH YEAR"
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by slwvx 2y ago
"In an accompanying small study performed on human test subjects, the researchers put 49 healthy adults on an eating plan that only allowed them to consume calories for eight hours a day. After shaving their heads, the team found
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by slwvx 2y ago
Why did this catch on in Europe? It's got some humor and hint of sex, and easy-to-understand English, but is there something more?
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by slwvx 2y ago
Nice. FYI, I personally would listen more to these if they were also available in podcast form. Do you have a RSS feed?
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by slwvx 2y ago
Looks like WSJ clickbait. Just because something occasionally happens does not mean it's a pattern.
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by slwvx 2y ago
I think this is click-bait from the WSJ
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by slwvx 2y ago
The Aktiia device seems very interesting. Looks like it also collects heart rate, sleep info, and activity data. I like that they give specific bounds on its accuracy: https://aktiia.com/evidence
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by slwvx 2y ago
Babbel Live costs $99/month or less if you pay for more than a month. It has classes with a native speaker as instructor and 0-5 other people. The classes focus on a specific topic in your level and are entirely in the given language.
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by slwvx 2y ago
https://archive.ph/kvOfy the academic paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16965v1
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by slwvx 2y ago
https://archive.ph/lgUsJ
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by slwvx 2y ago
a bit more info: https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/other/danish-scientists-cre...
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by slwvx 2y ago
omegle.com is shut down [1] while omegle.cc looks to be sex-focused. MB you're trolling me? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegle
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by slwvx 2y ago
I'd like a study that investigates how much tech has replaced face-to-face interaction. I guess such face-to-face interaction is how democracy worked in the past. Starting at the founding of the US, voting and discussion about votes
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by slwvx 2y ago
Gini coefficient data from Our World in Data [1] agrees with Piketty: Inequality has been increasing since the 1980s (likely from Reagan's tax cuts on the rich). I think that Piketty's data is right, but even if he's not, I c
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by slwvx 2y ago
If you want a brighter future, invent a coin where rewards from block generation (mining) are assigned to every individual worldwide. I.e. invent a coin that by its nature decreases, rather than increasing economic inequality (as in Bitcoi
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by slwvx 2y ago
Previous coverage in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209456 Seems a bit more useful for things like missiles or other military applications where reuse is not an option.
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by slwvx 2y ago
"Neoliberalism based on privatization, deregulation, and liberalization has led to reduced growth, financial instability, and higher inequality since the 1980s." I have read several of Chang's books and thought they were educ
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by slwvx 2y ago
https://archive.ph/6pF35 "Mr. Huang, 61, is not only an engineering genius and Silicon Valley icon whose company, the world’s second-most valuable, makes the chips that power much artificial intelligence. He is also th
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by slwvx 2y ago
On the other other hand rat poop, bug bits, mice hair can be in your chocolate. And an asteroid can destroy earth tomorrow. I don't think any of these things should be especially worrying. https://www.cnn.com/2019&#x

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