twelve40

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by twelve40 3y ago
> too risky due to the city’s high fees and its low-income housing requirement let's jack up the low-income housing requirement so that nobody builds any housing at all :facepalm:
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by twelve40 3y ago
that's a very non-answer answer to the question of why would China pay $10+ or whatever for my address and my location in the US. To sway my vote? How does this make any sense?
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by twelve40 3y ago
I don't know, i read it as "might be important but outside of my area of interests". He's working on more fundamental things and might not be interested in applications, doesn't mean that some application or downstr
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by twelve40 3y ago
well it was probably stated a bit harshly, but i don't think it's ageist to consider that a person who is closer to running out of time might be prioritizing things to work on a little differently. FWIW I myself tend to mostly fal
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by twelve40 3y ago
Well the first group you mentioned is borderline abused so of course they would be miserable. The second group is interesting. > enjoy simple pleasures. Equip them with cognitive tools to deal with the challenges of life and disappointme
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by twelve40 3y ago
maybe. I tried to play board games with my boys many times, but even something as simple and potentially enjoyable as Monopoly or cards quickly turns our warm relationship into a nasty pissing match. We actually turned to movies and shows f
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by twelve40 3y ago
i obviously haven't experienced what you described, since i'm breathing and typing right now, but weeks of going with no food were really pretty calming. The only downside was the weakness and mental fog that affects productivity
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by twelve40 3y ago
> will sell data on anyone in their database, including current address, phone number and arrest records I see. My current address, my phone number and something called my (public) arrest records are being sold to evil China at $10/
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by twelve40 3y ago
no, no way. I will never let those miscreants manipulate my vote with videos of funny cats, it's not like I'm brainless! My vote is safe in the firm hands of Fox and CNN.
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by twelve40 3y ago
data brokers like who? and what the hell would China even do with my data? or which countries is my data supposedly sold to?
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by twelve40 3y ago
I don't know if this SO CEO person is actually good at his job, but every time i try to read his blog posts, he comes across as a completely lobotomized corporate drone who speaks in nonsensical non-statements and is completely disconn
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by twelve40 3y ago
> Emperor Justinian I lived to 83 i'm responding to the comment about hunting deer on foot to escape death from hunger. I'm pretty sure Justinian I didn't depend on that for his daily survival. Based on this link*, expecte
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by twelve40 3y ago
but of this keeps trending (more future bans) it will nudge more people to sideload to get around stupid middlemen who get in their way countries who engage in these bans have conditioned many non-tech people to learn to use vpns and other
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by twelve40 3y ago
yeah, they (us) were also designed to breed like rabbits starting at around 13, raise whatever survives of the offspring and check out by the time you turn ~40. I'm kind of glad we've chosen not to follow that initial design.
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by twelve40 3y ago
so these delusions of grandeur is what's weird to me with these startups. I just got out of one of many years where the decision was made to double-down on the failed approach and "we'll find our customer eventually". Th
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by twelve40 3y ago
Exactly, humans learning is a manual, individual process of improving oneself, upskilling, and hopefully contributing back to the same field at a higher level. The other is industrial strip-mining of all information in the world for the be
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by twelve40 3y ago
it does have specs, dialyzer and gradient for type checking, so there is hope...
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by twelve40 3y ago
well there was a time not too long ago where cryptography-related code was pretty heavily regulated, too
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by twelve40 3y ago
why would he go and hang out at an infamous convicted felon's house when it was a widely publicized story by that time? like, how did he even end up there? > Gates first met face to face on the evening of Jan. 31, 2011, at Mr. Epste
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by twelve40 3y ago
> Amazon was a leader in e-commerce once did i miss something and they are no longer half a trillion revenue top ecommerce company in the world? who did they get replaced by?
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by twelve40 3y ago
> As someone who used artificial sugars exclusively as part of a low carb diet to lose 40 pounds, this just seems like an insane statement to make no? i don't mean to sound too negative but i'm no longer impressed by "drop
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by twelve40 3y ago
> friction of getting your phone in and out of your pocket it's a quick (and mostly accepted) way to tune out, for example, while standing in a line or something. Yes, many people overdo it, but imagine popping on your VR helmet for
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by twelve40 3y ago
there is no replacement for keeping in touch with friends from far away and yes, remote parts of family, too - fb or insta. I don't go there much anymore because the endless promoted reels drive me insane, but i do miss that aspect of
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by twelve40 3y ago
decided to end it at 71 by drinking poison instead of escaping
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by twelve40 3y ago
as someone mentioned above, in the long run it's impossible to do any intense work with kids under 6 in the house, you end up either neglecting them (probably by giving them an ipad to stare into for hours), or you end up neglecting wo
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by twelve40 3y ago
This training in the wild sounds scary at first, until i remembered that we've done something similar with air travel, basically "training" with live people and fatalities. But over the years we did reduce those from 40 crash
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by twelve40 3y ago
But that's just a sign of the other person's low intelligence and laziness (launching into ad hominem instead of putting in the work to attempt to entertain your point of view). What's more tiring for me is coming up with inc
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by twelve40 3y ago
no, you should not blindly trust anything you read on the internet, why did you think that? If anything, ChatGPT is actually doubling down on this "i'm the single authority" mode. google, while far from perfection, gives me a
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by twelve40 3y ago
> ChatGPT is a great way to delve into new topics Like bears in space? ))) seems like a great way to delve into known topics so that you are able to catch it when it starts to confidently and plausibly hallucinate
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by twelve40 3y ago
pumped storage hydro, while really cool, are absolutely massive and complicated multibillion dollar infrastructure projects (which California lately has not been particularly famous for)

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