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by vharuck 8mo ago
I vaguely remember reading that Rowan Atkinson stuck to three gags for objects in Mr. Bean skits: something's the wrong size, Mr. Bean uses it the wrong way, or the wrong thing happens when it's used. (Half of the point of this co
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by vharuck 8mo ago
Men do riskier shit when young. They are also less likely to have a primary care physician.
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by vharuck 9mo ago
If you have the right to bear arms, but law enforcement officers can shoot you if they spot that gun, then you don't actually have the right to bear arms.
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by vharuck 9mo ago
The point of the Executive branch is to decide how to execute the law using limited resources. The AG doesn't have enough money, manpower, or time to find and deport every immigrant who's illegally staying here. In the past, AGs
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by vharuck 9mo ago
>The main thing I see these protesters doing wrong is that they seem to freak out and fight back once they get aarrested. This is not how to deal with under-trained law enforcement unless you want to die. Actually, the less training and
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by vharuck 9mo ago
It likely wouldn't poll well for elections, but today's ICE does need to be disbanded. Its tasks can be given to other agencies until a replacement can be created and staffed. The recent recruitment drive makes it nearly impossibl
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by vharuck 9mo ago
I'm bummed the ruined road is gone. It was surreal to see and had some beautiful graffiti.
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by vharuck 9mo ago
I think the above poster was trying to say, "there is no reason " for the US to claim Greenland. We have a treaty that allows us to build our military bases on the territory. If we want to do security stuff there, we already can.
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by vharuck 9mo ago
I've done sidewalk art with my kid. Between Spring and Fall last year, I'd make a new drawing every time it rained. Rarely was there a day without chalk on my sidewalk. I did it to play with my kid (and learn a little Japanese by
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by vharuck 9mo ago
A lot of current American cultures with centuries of history would fail that test. The Amish have very strong extended family ties, and I think Pennsylvania would lose a lot of its culture if the Amish disappeared or assimilated. Do you hav
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by vharuck 9mo ago
>And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do? Personally, I don't buy this "AI models are learning just like we do.&quo
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by vharuck 9mo ago
>There is a mechanism for prosecuting presidents, impeachment and a trial in the Senate That is not a substitute for prosecution, it is a political process for removing a president. The Constitution's authors likely meant it to be u
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by vharuck 10mo ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/opinion/artificial-intell...
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A 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Apocalypse(nytimes.com)
11 points by vharuck 10mo ago|7 comments
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by vharuck 10mo ago
When my wife and I have a date night, one of our go-to spots is a bar with a stack of Trivial Pursuit cards next to the napkins.
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by vharuck 10mo ago
It gives it a different implication. As I read it, an article titled "Lewis Carroll Computed Determinates" has three possible subjects: 1. Literally, Carroll would do matrix math. I know, like many on HN, that he was a mathematici
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by vharuck 10mo ago
So is this: `(`(1) Bonus points: Find a use for having the parenthesis be a function.
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by vharuck 10mo ago
I've done some of the problems in R. Vectorized-by-default can avoid a lot of boilerplate. And for problems that aren't in R's happy path, I learn how to optimize in the language. And then I try to make those optimizations no
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by vharuck 11mo ago
As a small consolation, consider that these title fads might become light-hearted footnotes in internet history books. "¹ During AI's reign over popular science, people emulated that royal family to invoke erudition-by-association
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by vharuck 11mo ago
I'm not a big user of LLMs, but instead of AI in everything, I'd like to see more web services and local software offer APIs that LLMs (and my own code) can access. Hopefully, "embedded AIs" only become as prevalent an
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by vharuck 11mo ago
>The US invading Canada isn't a realistic possibility. Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US If you had told me this last year, but replaced "invading Canada" with "sending armed military forces
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by vharuck 11mo ago
I haven't read that book, but I might now. It's refreshing to see such a realistic assessment of the problems. IMO, the most important line from that page: >The problems of boys and men are structural in nature, rather than in
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by vharuck 11mo ago
>Because drug cartels are a huge problem and local governments are often very bad at handling them. True, but the legal precedent this sets is very important. The requirement for sound legal justification is the only leverage the Judic
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by vharuck 1y ago
The poker games were run by the mafia, who pulled in a lot of cash by luring and cheating suckers. I want the FBI to stop scams that funnel money to criminal organizations.
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by vharuck 1y ago
I would like to see a ban on allowing children to play machines like the Wizard of Oz ones, where you drop the coin on a shelf in the hopes it'll push off other coins or cards you need to collect. It sounds like a skill game, and I lik
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by vharuck 1y ago
>I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false. Don't forget the red flag of "Makes me feel
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by vharuck 1y ago
>Evolution dealt with this problem since forever. For humans, that solution may have been 9-month gestation periods and two-decade fertility windows. A solution, to be sure, but not very desirable.
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by vharuck 1y ago
>as they do everything government has always done but are far too incompetent to divert attention away from it. This kind of attitude only increases and normalizes corruption. It's not a binary situation. And having an openly corru
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I'd bet farmers would much rather have repeat customers or the promise of future valuable repeat customers over bailouts. But with these tariffs and retaliations, their former buyers are finding new sources. Even after the trade war en
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by vharuck 1y ago
I love the Wiki holes this page leads me down. Like the Large Blue butterfly¹, where has a caterpillar stage that imitates ant larva. Once ants bring the "larva" to the colony, the caterpillar eats the other larva. 1: https:&#x2

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