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by vwcx 4y ago
Relevant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/10/meta-fa...
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by vwcx 4y ago
'Living in fear' is such a charged, politicized statement. Can you dissect what you mean by it? For me, testing before I visit my elderly parents isn't a decision made of fear - it's a basic precaution I can take, causes
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by vwcx 4y ago
And pinterest!
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by vwcx 4y ago
It's not a direct analogy (nor a particularly robust comparison) but I think of the pivots most countries made during WWII. A factory goes from making Ford automobiles to aircraft and back to automobiles within a span of four years. It
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by vwcx 4y ago
It's also been nice to see retailers like Patagonia playing along the trend. Buying a $250 coat, trading it in for a $50 credit, Patagonia reselling it for $80. Unclear about the net gains when factoring in shipping + cleaning, but at
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by vwcx 4y ago
Insects, but the cats don't help.
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by vwcx 4y ago
In some parts of the world, one can still celebrate their 40th birthday with their grandparents and their grandkids at the same party.
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by vwcx 5y ago
Even though I no longer want or need this memory, I will never be able to forget the sound of Bonzi singing Daisy Daisy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuUyfywhGQ&ab_channel=c1yd3...
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Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?
289 points by vwcx 5y ago|142 comments
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by vwcx 5y ago
The Atlantic has a fascinating article about what actually happens to these returns: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-re... TLDR: We imagine they're processed/cleaned&#
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by vwcx 5y ago
Corey Arnold's photography of bald eagles in Dutch Harbor is fascinating - they truly look like a nuisance: https://story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds/
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by vwcx 5y ago
Related - Gridlock vs Bottleneck Simulator: https://setosa.io/blog/2014/09/02/gridlock/
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by vwcx 5y ago
The best managers I've have were all people managers. Like a gardener, they "planted" me in my role because they wanted my skillset, and now they "cultivate" me to make sure I thrive as they know I'm capable of
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by vwcx 5y ago
This exactly. The level of austerity that comes with traditional homesteading can be shocking to most Americans.
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by vwcx 5y ago
In a related note, people are always surprised that Ansel Adams also photographed Japanese internment: https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-t...
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potato starch emulsion!
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by vwcx 5y ago
I'm curious to see what scientists the community here holds us. I'm looking specifically for scientists currently working today, not necessarily the historical giants. I'll add mine: The work of Laurent Ballesta and others st
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Ask HN: What living scientists do you consider heroes?
8 points by vwcx 5y ago|9 comments
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by vwcx 5y ago
Wasn't that the whole premise of Ask Jeeves? And then much later, Wolfram Alpha awed with that same 'plain language' functionality?
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by vwcx 5y ago
The stock market is an excellent point. Feels like there is lots of under-indexing (no pun intended) for the sentiment associated with 40% passive growth in one's retirement account since the start of the pandemic.
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by vwcx 5y ago
"Yes, I think this is driven by corporate friendly mainstream media to mostly drum up for support for more corporate welfare while simultaneously painting Americans as lazy and undeserving of welfare themselves." I think you are o
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by vwcx 5y ago
Let me ask you: would you expect the quality/tone/curation of r/science to hold up 50 years from now? Would you be surprised if, in 50 years, r/science didn't have the special sauce it has now? All things are epheme
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by vwcx 5y ago
*A year to learn, a yearn to earn, next year churn.
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by vwcx 5y ago
One counterexample to this might be the field harvesting of bison. Starting to see more 'artisanal' buffalo ranching that stress the positive ethics and efficiency of slaughtering in the field as needed. Of course, they still do n
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by vwcx 5y ago
This weekend we also saw the loss of Tom Lovejoy, one of the most important conservation biologists of the last century. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-cons...
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by vwcx 5y ago
Not to mention the quality of the attraction itself -- there are plenty of B-level Colorado "resorts" that most upper middle class won't bat an eyelash at because the vert/terrain/natural snowpack just isn't as
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by vwcx 5y ago
Great. We acknowledge the importance of this developmental period. So what are the options, and which option contains a downside that is more palatable than the others? I.e. we fear the effects of total isolation of a four year old more tha
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by vwcx 5y ago
Propublica has a fascinating series on the failures of the modern Navy: https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-i...
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by vwcx 5y ago
Flying as a GA pilot in Montana, I can't rely on VOR for two reasons: signal interference from terrain and the fact that the FAA is actively decommissioning the VOR system. I can't rely on ATC radar because of terrain, either.
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by vwcx 5y ago
In their minds, is the greater risk a side effect from the vaccine popping up years from now or the debilitating effect of long-term COVID symptoms? Because right now, we're seeing hundreds of thousands of people not dying from Covid,

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