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541.
by sunstone 7y ago
Same here. However I also notice that my writing has got better as my spelling has deteriorated. Perhaps the brain the moves up through higher abstraction levels as it ages.
542.
by sunstone 7y ago
Through my bleary eyes this morning I read this on my phone as $18 and I thought, yes that would be a good investment.
543.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yes I can.
544.
by sunstone 7y ago
So, The Road Ahead redux.
545.
by sunstone 7y ago
Is this the same as denying third party cookies?
546.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yup, it's the Amazon model.
547.
by sunstone 7y ago
"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." quoting a smart person here.
548.
by sunstone 7y ago
Why is it, exactly, that, as a rule of thumb, almost all people who start life poor and end up rich do it with real estate.
549.
by sunstone 7y ago
I find that about 3 hours of focus followed by an hour of defocus gives closer to optimal results. The defocus time (say, noodling around the net) gives my subconscious time to reconsider the assumptions I was using during the focus time t
550.
by sunstone 7y ago
Well the CyberTruck response has validated the market and market surveys indicate that the major alternative players (GM, Ford and Rivian) also have significant market interest. While Rivian may have to bring its price point down a bit it s
551.
by sunstone 7y ago
The phrase was replaced with the wording, "If you think freely it will cost you."
552.
by sunstone 7y ago
When you kick out the engineers and call in the Harvard MBA's it's a near certainty you'll start to lose altitude it's just a question of how fast the descent will be. In this case it was very fast indeed.
553.
by sunstone 7y ago
So this is a PR disaster for GCP. Already people are penciling out contingency plans because this inept leak. And Google's history of shuttering stuff really doesn't help.
554.
by sunstone 7y ago
The Logitech MX Ergo might be worth a look. Definitely works for me. Probably not great for gaming though.
555.
by sunstone 7y ago
And then you have them sign a waiver saying the treatment may be fatal and bingo! the perfect business plan.
556.
by sunstone 7y ago
"What's that mountain goat doing up here in this cloud bank?", says the pilot. (not the first time I've referenced this joke on HN :)
557.
by sunstone 7y ago
I wonder if the Hummer was ever sold in Europe? It would seem to have many of the same issues as the CyberTruck.
558.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yes, and not only that but current hunter gatherers are restricted to the most marginal environments so they are the worst case.
559.
by sunstone 7y ago
"The Signal and the Noise" might qualify. How to reason about systems of messy data.... like the weather for example. Very well written and entertaining.
560.
by sunstone 7y ago
And this is news?
561.
by sunstone 7y ago
My sense of it is that most of these are Russian propagandists trying to sow dissent in America, and that's why the popularity of the phrase tends to peak for two months are so and then die off for six months before resurfacing.
562.
by sunstone 7y ago
Now there's an understatement for you.
563.
by sunstone 7y ago
So the gauntlet has been dropped and a new era ensues.
564.
by sunstone 7y ago
It's very unlikely that SpaceX, who has to be concerned about space debris every time they launch, didn't think about the collision risk while they were designing their satellite system. In fact they petitioned the FCC(?) to lower
565.
by sunstone 7y ago
I believe that Tesla thought it's best value per dollar truck was the $40k rear drive model. The Tesla rear drive truck would handle better than rear drive ICE trucks because of the distribution of the battery weight. So they might w
566.
by sunstone 7y ago
Alternatively it could be seen as retreating from the Larry and Sergey experiment.
567.
by sunstone 7y ago
The human brain is the best Bayesian model builder that evolution has yet devised. A good place to start assessing its weaknesses is to observe your own brain messing up. This shouldn't be hard to do.
568.
by sunstone 7y ago
Saskatchewan also has fracking oil, along the border with North Dakota, in addition to tar sands deposits.
569.
by sunstone 7y ago
Also might be a usable source of entropy.
570.
by sunstone 7y ago
Things get busy at Thanksgiving, who knew?

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