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by whyenot 2y ago
> Possible Pros: You find out you are 20% Norwegian! Fun! It's kind of irritating the way you are minimizing the "pros" here (and you aren't the only one at HN who has done this recently). There are people who found t
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I think, unfortunately, you are right, it's just that it's playing out slowly enough that it's hard for us to see. Over time, natural selection will work its magic and the trees within the species that are more resistant to t
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by whyenot 2y ago
> I never personally understood that or why someone would want to turn over so much data to a commercial entity. I found my half sister and biological father thanks to 23 and Me. Maybe cases like this will help you understand. Some peo
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by whyenot 2y ago
> This is crap I appreciate you sharing your experience, I just wish you could have done it without this bit.
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by whyenot 2y ago
I donated a lot of time, code, and at least a little money to early Mozilla and Firefox. They were a lot more dynamic and engaging when they were a small nonprofit. Now it feels like thanks to Google money they have become fat and lazy. Una
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by whyenot 2y ago
Yes, it is called persistence hunting, and humans are very well adapted to this style of hunting because of our ability to shed heat and run/walk very efficiently. Wolves are another animal that has this behavior. https://en
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by whyenot 2y ago
I live in the SF Bay Area (Los Altos Hills). My neighbor used to raise miniature goats. A few years ago a mountain lion got into the goat pasture and killed all the goats. It was pretty gory. On the other hand, it seems like the mountain li
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by whyenot 2y ago
I was afraid you would suggest giving all the regulators malaria.
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This reminds me of Larry Niven's Integral Trees. Very cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees
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by whyenot 2y ago
A plurality (49.8%) of voters voted for Trump. More voted for something else.
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by whyenot 2y ago
Blame the tech workers who have been so dazzled by dollar signs that they no longer look at their moral compasses. I belong in this group as well. Of course this is not a problem specific to those in tech. It's just that we are the gro
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by whyenot 2y ago
Tony Tromba (my math advisor at UCSC) used to tell a low key infuriating, sexist and inappropriate story about a physicist, a mathematician, and a naked woman. It ended with the mathematician giving up in despair and a happy physicist yelli
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by whyenot 2y ago
I have dim memories of going to a show in San Francisco’s Brooks Hall(?) called TI-Fest. It was a show all for TI’s home computers and they had the speech synthesizer and some kind of expansion chassis and lots of other stuff. My dad was lo
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by whyenot 2y ago
With almost everyone using a case, magsafe doesn’t really need to be in the phone, it would probably be fine if it’s just in the case.
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by whyenot 2y ago
My prediction is that HP will make some half-hearted attempts to do something with it for a while, and then will sell it at a loss to LG. LG will use it in one or two of their smart TVs and then release it as open source, at which point it
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by whyenot 2y ago
A local radio station (rather ironically, KFOG) used to have an event (KFOG KaBoom!) every May, capped in the evening with a massive fireworks display over the bay. It was a fantastic event, people from all over the Bay Area could see it. M
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by whyenot 2y ago
With the president's immunity and expansive pardon powers, unfortunately, that is where we are. Laws don't matter when you can be pre-emtively pardoned for breaking them.
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So, 2,000 milliSchwarzeneggers if we use SI units?
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> Passive safety is the art of engineering cars so that when they do crash, the occupants are unharmed. Passive safety usually is defined as reducing the risk of injury or death to vehicle occupants in an accident AND also protecting oth
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Does this mean we will get discount ozempic?
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I am super excited about this! Thank you Google + Eric + everyone! My old Pebble is long gone, so the possibility of maybe buying a new one is awesome.
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by whyenot 2y ago
I appreciate the urge to do this, but what about the false positives? How about someone like this artist https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1i9vsz0/... who is now frequently being falsel
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by whyenot 2y ago
As I read this article, with its meandering narrative and digressions, I kept getting frustrated and thinking to myself "get to the point!" This says more about me than any flaws with article.
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by whyenot 2y ago
It's great, but it took more than 20 years to get here due to environmental reviews and shaky funding. ...and this was just re-fitting an existing, relatively short stretch of track! We (as Californians) have GOT to do better than th
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by whyenot 2y ago
This is surgery with a butter knife. It's going to cause a lot of unnecessary disruption and pain which could have been avoided with a more nuanced approach. What we are seeing with this and some of the new administration's other
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by whyenot 2y ago
I keep on thinking maybe it's time to move somewhere else. I'm a first generation American, so I'd just be doing what my parents did before me. The problem is, I have no idea what country I would move to.
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You need to be squeezed. Off to the juicing room you go!
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> abundance of science to support it A few citations would be helpful.
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Most of the government employees that work in the bureaucracy do care. They care a lot. The reason their "favorite" part of the job is "stability" or "job security" is because the pay usually sucks compared to
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Have you seen Reddit's recent stock prices? Bemoan enshtification if you want, but management's decision to include many long term users in the IPO and decisions since then have made many loyal redditors a lot of money ($34 ->

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