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by yboris 4y ago
Highly recommend MDMA as a personal experience. I did not have PTSD or trauma to work through, but I realized how much I could love other people. It's an experience worth having at least once in your life.
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by yboris 4y ago
Wikipedia: ELVES - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning#El... > Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources
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by yboris 4y ago
Obligatory note JPEG XL aka .jxl file format lets you be either lossless or near-lossless. https://jpegxl.info A super-awesome feature for the web is that it is progressive - loading a beautiful preview with just the first b
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by yboris 4y ago
:bow: requesting a 4DWW - Four Day Work Week - tag to be included in the description so as to normalize what I suspect is the future of work.
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Bill to Make 4-Day Workweek the National Standard Gets Reintroduced in US House(complex.com)
4 points by yboris 4y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 4y ago
Hard to know what "center" is in a country where even the "left" is arguably to the right of the "right" in Europe. The US's "right" is so-far-extreme-right, there's no similar extreme in Eu
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Chatbots Shouldn’t Use Emojis(nature.com)
1 points by yboris 4y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 4y ago
Author writes about the US as far as I can tell. The US is behind Europe in numerous ways - it's a shame. I find it amusing how tiny trucks are in Japan - they are often smaller than regular US SUVs that moms drive kids to school in.
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Labor and Greens senators back four-day work week(theguardian.com)
2 points by yboris 4y ago|1 comments
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by yboris 4y ago
Also related, one of my favorite philosophy papers: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak Argues that SUVs are immoral because of the high crash incompatibility. They cause more damage to others (dispr
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by yboris 4y ago
This is not my claim. I am replying to someone who said above > Define "neutral" and I can find one I think I misunderstood their comment to say "I don't understand why you are claiming Rolling Stone is not neutral&qu
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by yboris 4y ago
I thought that's what "single-family zoning" means: a requirement to have nothing else besides single family houses. Eliminating this category of zoning means you can no longer mandate "only single family houses". I
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by yboris 4y ago
Consider the Media Bias Chart https://adfontesmedia.com/gallery/ You can see that Rolling Stone skews left and is lower than the peak of reliability.
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by yboris 4y ago
Unsure I follow. The title is "banning single family zoning" means it no longer exist - which seems equivalent to "banning single family only zoning". Direct link to bill page: https://app.leg.wa.gov/bill
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by yboris 4y ago
You're describing sunset clause or sunset provision ! A law requires further legislative action for it to not disappear on a certain pre-set date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision Another variatio
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by yboris 4y ago
Meanwhile: WA House passes bill banning single-family zoning https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-house-... Progress can be made
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WA House passes bill banning single-family zoning(seattletimes.com)
32 points by yboris 4y ago|17 comments
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by yboris 4y ago
I recommend: ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web by Ted Chiang https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
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by yboris 4y ago
Where are all these "0–1 Years Experience" salary averaging at $145k/year? Is this really an average ? (see page 29)
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by yboris 4y ago
Try incognito? For some reason I see the visualization with no block - and I'm not registered / paying to NYT.
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by yboris 4y ago
I love this idea! Came across it in Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...
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by yboris 4y ago
Related: Is It Better to Rent or Buy? - an interactive data visualization / calculator. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
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by yboris 4y ago
So cool! I've never seen a self-referential error!
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4DWW - Four Day Work Week. 100% guaranteed to make me more productive per hour worked. On average, with 8 hours fewer of work per week I would still get the same amount of work done, but would be tremendously happier with my life and wi
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by yboris 4y ago
Semi-related. Who remembers this classic: Cockeyed.com - several decades worth of fun projects (creations, experiments, etc). https://cockeyed.com/
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by yboris 4y ago
You are a superhero! I'll explore these options <3 https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
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by yboris 4y ago
Could we please normalize 4DWW -- whoever is posting this thread, just include 4DWW as a tag that someone can add - it's the future of work. Four Day Work Week - please.
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by yboris 4y ago
I've been so frustrated that FFprobe functionality is not part of FFmpeg. My app extracts screenshots from videos to create a beautiful gallery of videos. But even though I include FFmpeg already, I need a 50mb FFprobe executable to be
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I'm a little unsure what license I can slap on the repository, since even though I've written all the code, the content (text) was written by 3 philosophy professors & the guest essays were by other authors. While they are cur
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by yboris 4y ago
Novel bee keeping technique: plastic bottle (you can see what's inside, know when to gather the honey, and you can keep bees safely indoors) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItlOFLTUAs

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