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by xyzelement 19d ago
I have a distinctive memory about Theranos from business school - so circa 2013 a few years before it blew up. Some professor was going on and on about Holmes for being a young, female, founder. It stood out at the moment as weird because
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by xyzelement 20d ago
When open source was becoming a huge thing for everyone to participate in - say 20ish years ago, I always saw a dichotomy that people seemed to gloss over. You're either writing software for fun and you are happy to give it away. In wh
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by xyzelement 20d ago
A pretty bad article. In the American system we constantly test the boundaries of legal definition and it makes sense to test whether "how a water system is managed by a town" and "the right to bodily integrity are overlappin
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by xyzelement 20d ago
She innocently brought something from a country where it was legal to a country where it wasn't. It wasn't an obvious illegal thing and she voluntarily told customs that she was bringing it.
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by xyzelement 20d ago
Allegedly there's an actual re-evaluation during the renewal. For example if you start showing up on terrorist watchlists your next renewal might not go through. I think this is kinda true because my wife was involved in a customs inci
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by xyzelement 20d ago
I am sure the market will be smaller but I don't think it'll go away. I would segment the "diamond ring" market into two: those who "feel obligated" to give/receive a diamond ring because of peer pressure,
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by xyzelement 20d ago
Exactly. Amazing. My 6 year old kido started to paddleboard this summer and just today took our tandem kayak out by himself into the bay and handled it well despite the wind and waves. Would be hard to imagine a better feeling than watching
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by xyzelement 20d ago
I disagree with this list. I understand it but it's not my list. We have three little kids right, so "time" and "quiet mind" are not on the menu, and "health" is diminished since it's hard to find tim
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by xyzelement 20d ago
Does it mean that? Europe has had a space agency for a while now. So this story isn't "Europeans finally started to launch for space" but a private European company chose to launch from a continental location. It's fun
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by xyzelement 22d ago
I didn't get that far in the video but from where I live (NYC) two hours gets you to a lot of very common travel destinations: Boston, Massachusetts (1h) Washington, D.C. (1h) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (45m) Baltimore, Maryland (1h
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by xyzelement 23d ago
I hate prediction markets but simultaneously find this a little rich. I think most people have experienced what Michael Chrichton called Gel Mann Amnesia - the idea that newspapers feel accurate except about topics you know about. Whenever
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by xyzelement 23d ago
Doing your duty is an exercise of agency. For example "be a father" is a duty that takes active commitment. NPCs on contrast follow the programming and a path of least resistance.
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by xyzelement 24d ago
That's not my reading of the Gita. Arjun is not detached. He is doing battle. In fact he is doing the battle he is supposed to be doing even though his relatives are aligned on the other side. The whole lesson is to exercise your agenc
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by xyzelement 24d ago
Don't stress about it. The other day there was a thread about public bathroom descriptions and someone said "wow this has a countdown timer before the doors automatically open, how stress inducing" and I wrote "shit or g
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by xyzelement 25d ago
Shit or get off the pot.
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by xyzelement 26d ago
What's the American propaganda piece of it?
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by xyzelement 26d ago
This is a Google deck as mentioned elsewhere. What's not mentioned is the quality of employees involved in the decision making. Consider Google's first few hundred employees - people like Urs, Susan W, Marissa M. People chosen by
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by xyzelement 27d ago
// Yet, Canada remains independent The first step towards Canada being recognizable as its own country happened in 1867 nearly a century after Franklin's death.
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by xyzelement 27d ago
// Now Darwin rules the day How many children do you have?
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by xyzelement 29d ago
The USDA was the one to issue this recall. Inadequate number of inspectors would make recalls go down not up.
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by xyzelement 29d ago
Completely agree! I also find Gell Mann amnesia at play - obsessively following the news does not mean you're "well informed".
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by xyzelement 29d ago
Your post made me think about something that has circled my mind for a while. I grew up with an anxious mother and looking back on it what "mattered" to her (admittedly I don't think she can help it at all) is the feeling of
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by xyzelement 29d ago
Thank you!
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by xyzelement 29d ago
"Director of Technology (all genders)" I guess I hadn't looked at German want ads ever. Is mentioning the gender as the most important qualification - literally in the headline - standard practice? Also I guess Berlin is chea
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by xyzelement 29d ago
It's a thing kne can observe for itself (did the Tesla drive itself or not) without relying on opinions. That's why I used these examples.
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by xyzelement 1mo ago
Then I'm confused about your point.
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by xyzelement 1mo ago
Have you never been in a Tesla or Waymo or used AI?
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by xyzelement 1mo ago
A non-trivial percentag of readers of HN have used a robotaxi or own a self driving vehicle. Most of us have asked an AI to write software for us, plan our trips, etc - and importantly perform tasks requiring visual recognition. These signa
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by xyzelement 1mo ago
// Wouldn't it make more sense to make the legal process shorter and less unnecessarily bureaucratic so that people are less likely to come in the country undocumented? Lowering the bar until the kinds of people who are happy
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by xyzelement 1mo ago
This was not mentioned in the linked article so I wasn't specifically holding that (nor did I see this mentioned in a lot of comments?) Without knowing much about it - that sounds likewise like a something to be sympathetic about but a

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