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by toss1 8mo ago
>>everyone (even governments/corporations!) is free to observe everyone else in that same setting If you want to manually observe me in public, as in WITH A HUMAN PERSON'S LIVING EYEBALLS , go right ahead. Even if you want
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by toss1 8mo ago
Moments later (~1:13) he also said "we aren't forcing Flock on anyone" False, he is forcing Flock on EVERYONE No one has permitted themselves to be surveilled. And no, under the radar agreements with local cops and govts do N
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by toss1 8mo ago
TBF, Russia does have something more. It is a terrorist state with a gas station
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by toss1 8mo ago
BMW used to be extremely good and very repairable/upgradeable. They have clearly lost their way. Seems like a fundamental loss of confidence in their ability to produce leading technology, and instead feeling like they must defensivel
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by toss1 8mo ago
Facts always create problems for authoritarian regimes. So they do everything they can do get rid of facts. The primary reason they spread disinformation is not to get people to believe the nonsense (which is merely an occasional bonus), it
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by toss1 8mo ago
YUP For every constraint I see them creating in the law, I can instantly create a simple workaround, and also see multiple ways it will impair or destroy the ability to create 100% legitimate parts/components/products. This is an
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by toss1 9mo ago
>> they are restricted in how they use it, and defendents have rights and due process. That due process only exists to the extent the branches of govt are independent, have co-equal power, and can hold and act upon different views of
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by toss1 9mo ago
Makes the Pitch Drop Experiment [0] seem jump-to-warp-speed fast! [0] https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment
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by toss1 9mo ago
Exactly! And that level of workout will probably produce an even significantly lower resting heart rate than the 52 I cited. And for the top endurance athletes in distance running, cycling, nordic skiing, although they might spend 10+ ho
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by toss1 9mo ago
Good question, but needs to be worked through more. Consider an average person's 72/min resting heartbeat. That will be (72 60 24 365.25=) 37,869,120 heartbeats per year or ~379 million/decade. Now, add strenuous running or c
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by toss1 9mo ago
Sounds both true and interesting. Any particularly wild and/or illuminating examples of which you can share more detail?
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Was Vibe Coding a Ruse?(inc.com)
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by toss1 9mo ago
Very interesting, and I suspect somewhat related to the phenomenon in high-performance sports and music where the player or athlete feels they have become one with the instrument or equipment. It happens after a certain level of expertise,
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by toss1 9mo ago
Excellent scientific quantification that Search Engines and Large Language Models reduce the burden of writing — i.e., they make writing easier. The consequence of making anything easier is of course that the person and the brain is less en
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by toss1 9mo ago
>>If you think some politician is paying to manipulate the market just take their money by taking the other side. Yes, that is True -- IFF (and that is a big If and Only If) we can suss out in real time what is happening. The other ri
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by toss1 9mo ago
Right, we agree on just about everything. Political and economic commentary is generally brain rot, and Polymarket, etc. is not an accurate predictive tool And yes, if it starts to be seen as one of the levers to manipulate in manipulating
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by toss1 9mo ago
It beats polls for elections ONLY until someone notices it is being used as the basis of news stories and figures out it will be four orders of magnitude cheaper to manipulate that small market and make the news idiots broadcast that opin
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by toss1 9mo ago
The problem discussed in the article was NOT insiders trading on secret information — it is the nearly opposite problem of manipulators trading and skewing the odds. Insider trading seeks to trade with secret information and minimally obv
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by toss1 9mo ago
Interesting example, as there was an article on HN front page 10 days ago about exactly that - a blind person doing revolutionary work in agriculture. [0][1] [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4zlyqnr0o — &q
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by toss1 9mo ago
This! That exact line in the OP's article reminded me of that exact quote from T.R. and it's great to see another mind had exactly the same thought to post it.
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by toss1 9mo ago
That is a wrong decision. If anything falls under the core HN guideline, "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.", it would be this. I do not know how
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by toss1 9mo ago
So, "conservatives" yell about "preserving western civilization" whilst violating it's core principles of free speech and knowledge inquiry plus banning discussion of a founding thinker of western civilization. What
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by toss1 9mo ago
Outstanding design and implementation! Really great for visualizing the sun, earth, and seasonal relationships! One minor nit I notice is the Latitude slider on the right seems reversed from what I'd expect. I would expect Slide UP to
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by toss1 9mo ago
OK, have you considered that if inefficiency is a key feature and provides cushy jobs for a lot of people and subcontractors, that 1) there would be a low level of average competence in management as well as the workforce, 2) layoffs woul
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by toss1 9mo ago
Obviously, you know exactly how to run a major telecomm operation ten times as efficiently as the dominant operator in the most prosperous nation on earth — you are wasting your skills and should absolutely be given funding to disrupt them
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by toss1 9mo ago
Nonsense. You are seriously mistaken if you think mere legality will stop them. This regime has already illegally stopped, assaulted, arested, jailed, and/or deported multiple US citizens. They now stop people and demand they show citi
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by toss1 9mo ago
Which was specifically addressed early in the article. Not only are there more falls among the elderly, there are more falls even fully accounting for changes in age composition of the population. >>But an aging population only partia
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by toss1 9mo ago
Right, Marcus Aurelius an Emperor of Rome, successful reformer of it's society, public works, and education, successful leader of it's military, and generally considered one of the leaders of Rome's Golden age, was merely an
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by toss1 9mo ago
Here's some calculations on the return [0] (usual caveats of stuff found on the internet). Quite low returns indeed! [0] https://user.physics.unc.edu/~deardorf/phys25/rwp/exam1rwpso...
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by toss1 9mo ago
Touché — worth looking more into that aspect!

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