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by NickRandom 4y ago
As a side note - the original quote isn't in fact 'money is the root of all evil' rather the quote says 'it is the lack of money that is the root of all evil'. A subtle difference I'll grant you but one that m
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Something that I think might sort of provide a starting point of exploration is this 2019 article "Hollywood Films Funded By the Pentagon" https://www.liveabout.com/pentagon-support-for-war-films-343... Depending
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by NickRandom 4y ago
While this is fun, trying to decide if a clip is fake or real based on a 1 or 2 second clip is almost impossible unless you use the audible 'clicks' that appear (mostly) on the fake ones. Maybe that is sort of the point but to me
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I am a gray/grey beard and have seen this cycle time and time before and it boils down to this - Mega-Corp announces lay-offs which means a short-term profit gain over the next few quarters. Hedge funds hop on the rise because why not?
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by NickRandom 4y ago
This nervousness is what companies rely on to keep the ship steady during massive lay-offs. In other words that same company that in its heyday relied on the person pulling an all-nighter 'for the good of the company' yet failed t
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Introduction to Abstract Entropy(lesswrong.com)
2 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I've seen those same Windows ISO sites push false 'known good' hashes and to make matters worse Microsoft makes it almost impossible to find an easy to check source on hashes unless you are downloading the U.S. version nor do
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by NickRandom 4y ago
How would that solve anything? If an adversary has the ability to push an update then it is game over regardless on if it is signed or unsigned because most don’t check existing keys prior to updating. Once an adversary has gotten so deep i
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by NickRandom 4y ago
As a parent of three children (all grown up now) if anything I was harsher on my own than on others for the following reasons - A) Set an example / Lead by example and B) What right do I or others have to dictate how other parents rais
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by NickRandom 4y ago
From one of the comments in the article - mayhem says: November 1, 2022 at 10:01 am When I went to my general license class at FRRL.org they showed a video by Frank Rutter k3aw that was awesome in every respect. At the time I asked if the
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Which implies that Twitter's profits were $1.5M/day rather than the $4M/day loss claimed by Musk. Something seems off there but I can't figure out which figure most accurately reflects reality. If in fact Twitter was
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by NickRandom 4y ago
For those that prefer a non Twitter link - https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-an...
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by NickRandom 4y ago
~ And you could have written a well thought out rebuttal instead of your one liner. At least the g.p spent some time on their thoughts. Have a down vote on me.
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by NickRandom 4y ago
How in the hell is this a "Show HN"? Please take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Can you expand on which parts of the energy sector you want further knowledge of? The question you posed is too broad for anyone to be able to meaningfully reply.
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River longer than the Thames beneath Antarctic ice sheet could affect ice loss(imperial.ac.uk)
3 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Sadly, almost certainly. The results of your action is that the entire load is rejected as mixed waste and sent to landfill rather than being able to be recycled so although your intentions are good, the end result is far worse than if you
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Not sure why this wasn't picked up but it's a duplicate submission of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33296085
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by NickRandom 4y ago
You could try just jotting down a précis of whatever drifts in to your head and then process it at the end of the day when you have some quiet time. Even if you can't recall exactly what your point was when you wrote it down, the intro
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Took a while but after wading through the usual 'experts say X' here is the tldr; Fewer infants in the pandemic cohort had one definite and meaningful word (76.6% vs 89.3%), could point (83.8% vs 92.8%) or wave bye-bye (87.7% vs 9
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by NickRandom 4y ago
As sad as it sounds - create three (or four) different email accounts on different hosts (And No - I don't mean just myname+spam1@ myname+spam2@) Use Gmail for the business one, a paid for one for your professional profile, one for you
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by NickRandom 4y ago
No I don't and to clear up the obvious - I tried it and didn't find it helpful. In fact it did more harm than good because I found the mental exertion of making sure that every entry was perfect, accurate, factual and precise and
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Or alternately - people like them spew hot-takes in the desperate hope for an upvote or two.
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I think the fact that posts like these turn up often and that a lot of users comment 'omg, I didn't know that' points to the need for Dan and the other mods to either update the sites FAQ or provide a new one. All joking asid
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by NickRandom 4y ago
That is true, I am not sure how it is calculated but flagging and/or vouching rights end up being shadowbanned if overused or disagrees with $deity
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Absolutely not the case, as others have mentioned
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by NickRandom 4y ago
O.D.G! Well at least you held your hand up to not reading the FAQ
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by NickRandom 4y ago
(Armchair shrink advice so place as much worth on it as you have paid for it). Perhaps try to nail down what the underlying issue is? From the sounds of it you have tried various things and each has failed to click for one reason or another
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by NickRandom 4y ago
[Dupe] of several - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036448
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US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers(reclaimthenet.org)
191 points by NickRandom 4y ago|208 comments

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