Melting_Harps

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by Melting_Harps 1y ago
> Real trustworthy bloke You do realize he became King maker by position himself in YC, who is the owner/operator of Hackernews. What makes you think you are not being traced here, and your messages are not being used to train his
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by Melting_Harps 1y ago
> Stewart is coming around and waking up to the idea that "woke" policies were rejected, and the democrats need re-framing/a reckoning. IMHO, he is largely the voice of democratic reckoning. Biden wasn't kicked out un
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> But these are still worse plans than just building a green grid. This is still the best option, but even after having spent over 20 years in environmentalism in various aspects we have to admit that carbon-free is simply unattainable p
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> the issue is that the top-tier sports (e.g., football, volleyball, basketball, etc.) capture the majority of money/value This, I met the daughter of a colleague who was one of the UK Olympian rowers/crew and after I fed her
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> No need to listen to the gatekeepers. Rave is a verb. Raves are where people rave! While true, I think in this case it is referring to the noun, which peaked in the 90s early 2000s underground movement and was the basis for the PLUR cu
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> Can you explain how sugar tax is an issue about body autonomy? Simply put, you are arbitrarily punishing those who consume these products (which I will repeat I do not purchase myself) in often high cost areas (eg Seattle, San Francisc
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> And you didn't address that they did find modest gains to the goals in the Seattle study. I don't have much to say, other than personally I feel it's a tacit nod to the fact they found the results they wanted from this s
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I'm curious if you have data showing this? Regarding the sugar tax? Only empirical/anecdotal, I'm afraid: the fact is, as mentioned in my statement and in a response below, is that it's a geographical based tax, whi
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
Yes, even then the horrid taste left a terrible feel in my mouth, which is why it was only palatable with fruit tea and with additional citrus juice for my tastes: and even then I still don't want it removed from the market if it serve
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> It's a complex picture, but sugar taxes seem to be a reasonable way to get sugary drinks off the shelves. As a person who is indifferent to the prospect, I fail to see why? When I lived in the UK a lot of people who couldn't
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I'd bet a dollar per gram additive sugar tax in excess of 5g would immediately flatten the chronic disease curve. Maybe double that if it's marketed towards kids. There are a lot of problems besides sugar/HFCS but it&#x2
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> So nobody in Italy is going to nonna’s house and sitting down to 10 courses of tiny amounts of pasta, proteins, vegetables, soups, and salads. They’re sitting down to one big feast with a much smaller number of dishes being passed arou
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> Ah yes Italians, famous for being stingy with portions, feeding you the minimum portion possible. So, this is an often [0] repeated misconception: you have to differ from family style eating, and that of professional cuisine gastronomy
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> "we have reason to believe AGI can ultimately be built with less than $10B in hardware" As a person who actually builds this infrastructure for Data Centers: Bwahaha!!! This guy should have been laughed out of the room, and p
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> What’s your issue with Armstrong? First I’ve heard anyone say he is despised? The fact that I actually know what he has done since he and his Goldman Sachs cronies got involved, and leveraged thier SV connections to get backing to star
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> The big reason is growing food in wide open fields is almost always more economical. Urban farming is mostly advocated for by people who spend too much time in urban areas and don't have a solid grasp on the scale of the rest of t
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
Sorry, I had a call and had do work rather than pretend o work while on HN after I posted this on the day ahead of thanksgiving. :0 0: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-crypto...
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
>but I'm really quite uncomfortable to see a large financial services company bragging that it defeated government regulatory efforts and its customers can now freely transact with a money laundering service. You should, but not bec
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> Which law prevents a convicted felon from running for and/or winning the presidency race and why are those currently tasked with enforcement not enforcing it? Judicial branch, specifically in the court of NY has delayed sentencing
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> It'll be a moot point soon, DoJ will be too busy dragging Democrat bodies through the streets to quote the probable future AG. And you're not worried of the 2 trillion the future man of 'effective efficiency' [Effec
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> Think about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker. Mobile users mainly have no grasp of this, and that is what most people Globally have used to be on-bordered statistically speaking, and they don&#x
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I don't buy it. I'm an introvert but happily married now. But I can still see the appeal of a very personalized AI That doesn't surprise me, some of the most loneliest people are married after all, hence why extra martia
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
Says it all: >OM: When I see “Her,” I see two aspects to the movie. One is very dystopian, and the other is that it is a love story. It was a story of someone who was lonely and looked for a connection. Silicon Valley has totally missed
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> but you lose credibility if you call the guy who is leading multiple companies... Leads? How many Musk corps have you worked at? I have been at 2 of Elon's and one of Kimbal's, I can tell you from from first hand experience,
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I think you’re exactly right, it’s a show for insiders to know what these 4 people think so the next time they directly or indirectly encounter them they are known quantities. Its masked as news & informative media but its principa
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> In my past life, I was a chef. I owned a restaurant in Ireland. I only purchased the cheapest Chinese truffles money could buy. Why? People only want to taste the oil anyway. I've worked with high end white truffles and the flavor
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> In practice, the vast majority of blockchain ledgers record the history of scams, penny stock style trading and money laundering attempts. It doesn't take long before they make themselves present. Thanks for proving my point.
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> If you're a windows users this is really the least of your problems with the new "trusted computing" measures microsoft will implement with the new requirements. Does user mean 'forced into malicious spyware eco-s
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I have little interest in the ycombinator legacy of hustle culture, growth hacking, get-millions-for-glorified-todo-app, etc. As far as I can tell it is effectively the underlying reason for why crypto and AI get hyped up to the point
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
zifpanachr23 said: > AI people sound more dug in to be honest from my perspective. But I guess that's cause the crypto stuff tends to be less overtly religious and more overtly batshit crazy politics and economics, which I'm mu

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