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by squigz 7mo ago
There are 101,000,000 books visualized. Another way of looking at it is how incredible it is that we can catalogue (and archive) so much of humanity's writing.
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by squigz 7mo ago
Government employees get bonuses for denying people benefits they're entitled to? Source, please?
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by squigz 7mo ago
> I don't think the author would have acted this way toward someone who said "sorry, I know it's a burden, I know it's stressful to be at risk of losing these benefits, and I've told that to everyone I can repeat
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by squigz 7mo ago
> Maybe they feeling a bit of the pain themselves might make them more likely to speak up. If this becomes a miserable job that no one will stay in, that might provoke a change. Unfortunately, it might also just cause anyone who wants to
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by squigz 7mo ago
Considering the sentiments usually expressed on HN, it's kind of shocking the ratio of people judging the people vs those judging the system.
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by squigz 7mo ago
I'm legally blind. This seems needlessly pedantic. What GP was highlighting was a valid distinction between disabilities that are likely or not to change, and how the lack of that distinction leads to the situations like TFA.
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by squigz 7mo ago
The anger is not unjustified. Directing it at people who are nearly as helpless as you in the situation is not justified or remotely helpful. (I'm blind myself.)
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by squigz 7mo ago
I feel like you're giving way too much credit here.
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by squigz 7mo ago
I sincerely doubt more than half the population of the entire planet showed more than a passing interest in them, and I'm still curious how it'd be possible to measure that.
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by squigz 7mo ago
How do you even measure that at that scale? I'm sure I would be counted among that 5 billion, yet my "following" was searching medal counts every couple days to see how poorly my country was doing, yet I would never describe
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by squigz 7mo ago
It seems like quite the hassle to have to pull out one's phone every time one enters or leaves a room just to turn on lights? Let's hope you don't have to get to the bathroom quickly late at night...
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by squigz 7mo ago
Have you tried edibles or another method than smoking?
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by squigz 7mo ago
How much of this process is cleaning up from the previous run and how much is purely for starting up the process again? Does it make sense to clean up the system as soon as you can after shutdown, in preparation for restart, whenever that m
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by squigz 7mo ago
If you care about communicating an idea or concept effectively , things like capitalization and grammar are absolutely important.
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by squigz 8mo ago
What's the difference for those 1 billion?
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by squigz 8mo ago
The "correlation is not causation" argument gets brought up every single time such a study is shared on HN, so I'm not sure what you mean by "picked a funny time"? Anyway there's no reason to discount it, but i
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by squigz 8mo ago
There are various systems meant to (attempt to) prevent it from happening, yes, from firearms laws to police forces But picking out murder and ignoring the other ones which are far more analogous to the regulations mentioned seems a bit dis
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by squigz 8mo ago
Looks like there's a lot more info here, at least about the text version. https://ai.google.dev/responsible/docs/safeguards/synthid
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by squigz 8mo ago
Why was the title changed from its original that mentioned it's owned by Peter Thiel?
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by squigz 8mo ago
I wonder how Tao - or a supermodel - might feel about the idea that they don't have to work for their "gifts"
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by squigz 8mo ago
There's also the time he did spoken word Slim Shady for Futurama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf04PAeFnE
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by squigz 8mo ago
I mean, that's really not normal puberty stuff, but... okay.
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by squigz 8mo ago
Sounds like a kid in need of psychiatric help.
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by squigz 8mo ago
It's really not some Herculean task to do so either, though.
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by squigz 8mo ago
None of those things are remotely comparable to the surveillance we're talking about. There's a world of difference between, "My city knows who owns what properties and also we have a police force", and "Western int
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by squigz 8mo ago
Police forces nor "neighborhood monitoring" are equivalent to mass surveillance though. Anyway I'm curious why - despite having less anonymity than at any point in history, at least from the perspective of law enforcement - w
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by squigz 8mo ago
I don't think a random internet comment proves anything about society at large. People don't hesitate to be aggressive even when they're not anonymous and there's a threat of accountability - see, all crime, or people ju
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by squigz 8mo ago
We haven't been able to utilize solar to the degree we have been able to utilize oil for all that long, and since it has, our utilization has only grown. "Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980
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by squigz 8mo ago
I never enjoyed the Blackberry-style keyboards, but I had an HTC Desire Z with a full slideout keyboard that I absolutely loved.
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by squigz 8mo ago
If your house catches fire because an electrician fucked up, and it catches other houses on fire, are you responsible for it? Not to mention that, while you may be responsible for calling it in, you are certainly not responsible for fightin

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