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by tboyd47 4y ago
Someone who's into this kind of thing answer me this: Say some "Music Man" type huckster comes to your town with a "Brain Uploader" device. He promises to upload your brain to the metaverse, but all the device does
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Southeast US.
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I'll take cheap kindness over no kindness any day.
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If they had climate / moisture control, I'd be interested. Can't speak for any others.
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Ask HN: Unconventional places of business to rent a desk?
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This can be solved very easily at the search engine level.
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> Nobody reviews it for days because everyone is busy working on their own stuff. Just ask people nicely. If they do your review promptly and objectively, ask again. > You end up in an endless back and forth with one or more reviewers
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by tboyd47 4y ago
Is this how they treat everyone, or just people they dislike?
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Oh boy, more reasons to be afraid means more funding!
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I like calling them chores. It correctly conveys that they are boring tasks that have to be done.
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Tell that to the BCH investors
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That's a really interesting parallel with Greek history I've never heard before.
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If there are "leaders" in Bitcoin, it would not be the whales. It is not Proof of Stake where money buys you a voting right.
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All of these are equivalent if you have showed your team that you trust them and value their work. If not, then only the first version is acceptable.
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The Andrew Ng certification on Coursera for Machine Learning give me all the skills I needed to start my own ML projects. It is excellent.
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The scale of human potential is vast. Who's to say that, for a given definition of success, a person who's "very successful" with one lifestyle wouldn't be 10x or 100x more successful in another?
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by tboyd47 4y ago
The advice is fantastic! Fear the club. > grug tempted to reach for club and yell "big brain no maintain code! big brain move on next architecture committee leave code for grug deal with!" > grug tempted reach for club when
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by tboyd47 4y ago
It's the power of money that demands that we turn our efforts -- and therefore, ourselves -- into commodities. When money becomes a force in and of itself (separate from the people wielding it) then it begins to mold society in its own
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I signed in just to upvote this, so let me ask you this, how do you avoid it?
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You seem to have it all figured out, but if you want to hear a counterargument, here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OARREl39syQ
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Because the "meme" was the force pushing them downward, not upward.
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Be a guard for them against people outside your team trying to waste their time.
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It's not even that they get bored , it's that they're comfortable with their tools and don't feel like doing the mandatory re-tool every 5 years.
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There were still humans who made the decision, regardless of what reasons they claim forced their hands.
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> MISO's biggest problem is that demand was rising at the same time generation resources have declined due mostly to the retirement of coal and nuclear plants for economic or environmental reasons. So the irresponsible climate crisi
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The downside is at least limited at 0. The upside is unlimited.
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Where are you going instead?
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You're spot on. If you transported an average dweller of the Greek, Roman, Persian, Byzantine, or Islamic empire into our day and time, perhaps they would be in shock as to how many sons of Japheth are walking around, and even refuse t
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by tboyd47 4y ago
Perhaps it refers to penetrating into the inland of the victim's territory by way of a vik.
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"Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership."

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