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571.
by twelve40 3y ago
> Maybe even better since the ai will have opinions about you what does that even mean?? and how in the world is it better than receiving direct visitors from Google as a reward for posting??
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by twelve40 3y ago
it'd be cool to be able to fingerprint that garbage, too. Like, sprinkle some hashes here and there (or something like that) so that you can later uniquely look up your own "content" being stolen by chatbots and which ones.
573.
by twelve40 3y ago
as someone who has personally hired and worked with for several years teams overseas (e.g. an individual in Spain or a team in Eastern Europe), I'm not really seeing that challenge. If our small startup managed to pull it off, then tho
574.
by twelve40 3y ago
fwiw my personal take is if 100% remote actually worked for the mainstream companies, all of us would have been outsourced to Kenya or Pakistan at 1/10th the cost instead of taking leisurely dog walks between the zoom meetings in Austi
575.
by twelve40 3y ago
Yes, it's much harder to invest time, health, money and effort to properly raise kids who do wonders rather than to abuse and to raise fuckups. What is the point you are trying to make, that it's not worth trying?
576.
by twelve40 3y ago
Well de-facto the balanced approach is here already. If you don't like OpenAI, you can go work for Gitlab. The actual interview is not as extreme as the title, and since Altman mentioned they have remote workers too, he seems to be try
577.
by twelve40 3y ago
There is a difference between software development and running a business. As in, "hustle to figure out this complicated operational problem or die running out of money in a month", vs "a grab bag of nice-to-have tickets for
578.
by twelve40 3y ago
> Legislature would have to stand up to a powerful environmentalist lobby that views humans as parasites > even if California’s state government weren’t dominated by extremists that's some intense wording there > California’s
579.
by twelve40 3y ago
two cops and security guards are a band-aid. If you approach the Westfield from the Mission St garage, the entire Mission-facing side of the whole mall reeks of human excrement, has camping tents and incoherent people lying on the sidewalk.
580.
by twelve40 3y ago
> If Norman Borlaug or Frederick Banting never had children but they otherwise did the work that they did, would you consider them selfish? Probably not (it's a bit judgemental), but if their parents decided to never have children
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by twelve40 3y ago
placing the links at the bottom is very bizzare and not a great improvement to accessibility because nobody in the world expects those links there and its hard to even scroll there. If one is worried about accessibility maybe have both, why
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by twelve40 3y ago
Incorrect. This sonic boom thing has been mentioned here like 50 times, but it's addressed right in TFA: "altitude of 170,000 feet"
583.
by twelve40 3y ago
> and freezing uh... is that why many roads in California are shot, too?
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by twelve40 3y ago
Mexico is below replacement, that's the opposite of good demographic growth
585.
by twelve40 3y ago
> The owner of the Westfield mall, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, told the publication that the department store’s exit from the city “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.” Did the news publications invent this
586.
by twelve40 3y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35796247
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by twelve40 3y ago
well, the numbers in Germany are trending in the same direction, so there isn't really a magic formula and in a decade or so it's likely to have the same obesity prevalence as the US does now.
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by twelve40 3y ago
This really sucks, Westfield is one of the brighter spots downtown. We've worked out of the coworking space on the top floor for a few years and I absolutely loved it. It seems like it's falling apart now : ( The downstairs food c
589.
by twelve40 3y ago
People have been eating less carbs and exercising more for a number of years if not decades now, but obesity is steadily climbing, so this is not a correct explanation for the continuing growth. https://qz.com/1230097/n
590.
by twelve40 3y ago
Hence the need for specially trained people who can do the back-and-forth with humans to understand exactly what is required, then enter it (into the brittle prompt in this case) in a way that the computer would understand.
591.
by twelve40 3y ago
both seem straight-up scientific journals ("the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal") for specific disciplines. Calling them "high-brow literature" and comparing them with The New Yorker (and its essays
592.
by twelve40 3y ago
The most confusing part for me is not the restaurants, where I agree there is currently no choice but to tip unless you want to rip off the workers, but all these other places in-between that try to guilt you into tipping but the workers ge
593.
by twelve40 3y ago
...and they adopt Japanese lifestyle and also go extinct in a couple generations?
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by twelve40 3y ago
if you claim this is sensationalized (ridiculously, too) would you care to decipher what this means: > They’re operating about 200 ppb at lowest conc. usually we’re looking to remove from a 1 ppb who does "they're operating&quo
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by twelve40 3y ago
At this point, with so many features they are competing with the likes of Google Docs/Drive? tried them a while ago, they were a bit too bloated and expensive for my taste, but they seem to have doubled down on bloat and price?
596.
by twelve40 3y ago
i'd argue in a different direction: if sudo barks a scary unknown message at me, i'd avoid using it altogether and just use su, which is the opposite of what people should be nudged to do.
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by twelve40 3y ago
A modern ride hailing service is much more tech-heavy and complicated than a taxi company. They even started their own in-house mapping service last year. They have to plan pricing, balance the marketplace, provide accurate cost and ETA est
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How YIMBYs Won Montana(bloomberg.com)
2 points by twelve40 3y ago|0 comments
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by twelve40 3y ago
a bit sad, funny for me though because I recently found myself using their mouse all the time after a decade+ of mac laptops built-in trackpads. Got really sick of accidentally swiping the huge enormous trackpad all the time, and a good ol
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by twelve40 4y ago
I'd have to cut off my legs to wear that t-shirt

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