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>So anal retentive quality control is a direct opponent of lights out, they want lights on all the time and fast detection of creeping in errors. Haven't I read something about how a key to high quality manufacturing is empowering w
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I'm not sure I agree, at least for me personally. If my mind is wandering while I'm trying to do something creative, I am definitely not being productive. I'm struggling. Even worse that a lack of inspiration is being stuck w
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In my experience, in the past, there was never much training, but there were jobs without a lot of qualifications that provided opportunities to learn. There are two fundamental ways I know to deal with overly specific job ads that may or m
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't think the quote in my original comment was (or was intended as) anti-Arab. The diversity of Muslims can be seen as a compliment to Arabs. Love or hate something, the objective fact that it appeals to people all over the world f
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Most of it? Some parts of the above are things which cannot change with time, if considered accurate. Like "[was] the first world civilization". Others can, and have, like Spain.
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I think you may not have read far enough to get to the point that is being made. A common language processing glitch leads to (so they say) people saying things like "No head injury is too trivial [to] ignore" while meaning someth
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>to end up being sued by our regulator for stock manipulation It could be manipulation in principle, but the instances where regulators have been corrupted and use that as an excuse are really terrifying. See: Wirecard in Germany.
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>If you don't have time to read The Rihla itself... That's sad on multiple levels. Does anyone know of a complete translation to English? From ~30 years ago, by a member of the SCA: "There seems to be no complete and unabr
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>humans bring an immense amount of suffering into this world Is it really correct to regard humans as running the world and responsible for it, or are humans just a mechanism for making more cows? c.f. https://xkcd.com/13
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It could hardly be considered unprecedented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
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A long time ago, I read an account online of someone who was looking for a new recreational drug experience and they got some risperidone, which is a popular antipsychotic. ( https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID
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I have a series of volumes with Orwell's collected writings, including before, through, and after WWII, so while I'm a bit vague, I am going on my memory of primary sources.
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Are you agreeing with something I wrote, or disagreeing, or what? I wonder if HN has banned using ChatGPT to comment or is considering it.
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Everything is a matter of perspective. I wonder if this person thinks his life is ruined: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/philip-esformes-whose-prison... Or this person: `Pol Pot stated that his "conscie
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>In general, I’m skeptical of any sort of “look what you made me do” reasoning Sure, I would be too. But you're not conversing with the people who did it, are you?
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>it’s strange I don't understand what's strange about it. Short term thinking spreads even among people who know better because of competition. If you're not taking the risks other people are, then how do you do business?
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> Imo, most people crying out for lower interest rates are likely swimming naked and just want the tide to come back in. Is it possible that zero interest rates are bad and excessively high rates are bad at the same time? The long term
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>the future of Stalinist absurdism Orwell saw in the UK's future if Labour stayed in power Are you sure? I thought Labour came to power right after the war, Churchill was famously kicked to the curb, and Orwell anticipated and wrote
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>Emergency braking is _very_ simple tech, and is actually robust. I didn't mean emergency braking only. I meant automatic braking to include non-emergency braking such as (but not limited to) active cruise control that can stop a ca
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by vba616 4y ago
I'm not dismissing your opinions, but what is there to say about them as they seem to be about hypothetical third parties' mental state? Many people besides yourself seem to see "full self driving" as a brainwashing camp
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They are definitely not paying any more than $385,000. It's malicious compliance like Prop. 65 warning labels.
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I'm not clear on what "full self driving" has to do with the article. I thought most new cars now have automatic emergency braking and many have cruise control that can bring the car all the way to a stop if the computer thin
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by vba616 4y ago
It seems like most new cars have automatic braking at this point, possibly excepting Chryslers and Land Rovers: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-announces-2020-up... Based on anecdata, I'd expect an econ
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I wasn't paying that much attention, but the way I remember it was that some major manufacturer of capacitors was producing bad ones for a while. Not so much "cheap knock offs" as more like Takata airbags. The only capacitor
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by vba616 4y ago
Why do you have to prove plagiarism? All you have to do is fail every paper of ChatGPT quality.
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People who want to have families often split the difference. One partner gets a government job that doesn't pay very much, but has great benefits, job security, and work/life balance, and the other takes a more demanding job with
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I am under the impression that Africans did colonize Europe "first" - it is said a group of about 1,000 people came out of Africa about 50,000 to 75,000 years ago and most people outside of sub-Saharan Africa are supposed to be de
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I don't understand anything about it, but I think I read that LIGO has been enhanced with a technique involving "squeezed light" which allows some bypassing of heretofore assumed fundamental physical limits through quantum wi
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I didn't want to work (without pay) for that non-profit for the rest of my life, and if I had, I would've had to deal with their small-time local IT service provider, and it was already a nightmare prior to a hypothetical initiati
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It might have been PowerPC. I can't recall for sure.

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