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by trevyn 7y ago
Any thoughts about using a regular sleep apnea CPAP device for this type of situation, where one has access to the pressure settings?
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by trevyn 7y ago
TLDW: A 1970s over-the-horizon radar for ICBMs that apparently didn’t work very well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar
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by trevyn 7y ago
You don’t need a whole modern economy to feed people.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Money must exist?
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by trevyn 7y ago
The vast majority of home deliveries are drop-at-the-door with no human interaction, fwiw.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> "_____ so their suffering is their own fault!" Well, that is the core insight, no matter the external circumstance. (Though, of course, it’s not about blame, and more like “here is the door.”) Get deep enough, and yes, bei
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by trevyn 7y ago
And yet, we can each choose that we have enough, and then delight in the abundance that actually does exist. It’s an internal switch.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Right, and we could find ourselves in a time when any meaningful non-developer app is only available as a Catalyst app. It’s kind of how like Microsoft’s “embrace and extend” made us less free, because it’s actually “embrace, extend, and (l
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by trevyn 7y ago
> can Apple really assume the software will come for an ARM based Mac? This is what Catalyst is for, no? Mac software is now iPad software. Macs are now somewhat more capable iPads. The golden age of computing is over.
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by trevyn 7y ago
And your daily reminder that correlation is not causation.
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by trevyn 7y ago
What? Nobody is calling anybody anything. It’s an article reporting the results of a negotiation.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> Do people have advice on how to focus on videos? Practice. Or discover why you’re not actually interested in the content.
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by trevyn 7y ago
The karmic payback is that soon he’ll be walking around with a live #iamabillionaire tag on his head, which is not entirely a good thing for him, if you know what I mean. Of course, he’s welcome to never leave home, in a prison of his own c
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by trevyn 7y ago
A creme brulee torch is another fun option!
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by trevyn 7y ago
Agree. I haven’t read all of Seeing Like a State yet, but it does contain quite a few hints about how to protect yourself from the power of states. For example, states like to make their subjects “legible” to the state in specific ways, so
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by trevyn 7y ago
> ADHD is present from birth and cannot develop as the result of trauma. How do you test a newborn for ADHD? If you can’t, how can you say it is present from birth?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Manipulate HN into talking about math? I don’t have the full picture, but the discussion this generated is better than many posts.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I only see simple biochemical machines in that video. Here’s what they look like when you zoom in a bit more: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUHJhskW00&t=16 It’s literally chemical bonds breaking and forming, stochastic
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by trevyn 7y ago
> if you trust the numbers In which case all hope is probably lost on this hypothetical you. China has way too many incentives to lie, and has consistently demonstrated that lying is how it operates.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Bill Gates’ blog is paywalled? What? Did the link change?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Archive.is works: http://archive.is/GbUIH
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by trevyn 7y ago
Someplace where the government is too weak to care. Most countries with a GDP/capita under $20k qualify.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Is Sam trying to write like PG?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Another solution: Leave the US, and avoid other wealthy enclaves.
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by trevyn 7y ago
These should be solvable problems, considering that much lower prices exist in most of the world.
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by trevyn 7y ago
And it’s starting to become clear that this approach is not working.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Maybe the word “alive” cannot be rigorously defined in a way that agrees with our history and intuitions, and could be retired?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Broken now? Getting “this page failed to outline”
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by trevyn 7y ago
It shows that the author is incentivized by drawing traffic, which increases the likelihood of hyperbolized articles.
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by trevyn 7y ago
https://archive.is/19Ran

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