Octokiddie

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by Octokiddie 2y ago
> The Guardian-Harris survey also found that 49% of respondents think the S&P 500 index is down for the year. In reality, stocks have been ripping: The S&P 500 is up 13% this year on top of a 24% gain last year. This is kind of i
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
1. Flood the higher ed market with low-quality federally-guaranteed loans. 2. Witness the explosion of enrollment in low-quality colleges and universities. 3. Notice the spillover effect of (2) into every corner of higher education, in the
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Nuclear weapons are all about posturing. Both sides know the consequences of detonation and do everything in their power to avoid it. Thus posturing.
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
> Microservices are the Wrong Answer The author never states the question. This makes it impossible to evaluate the answer, which presumably is stated in the title. The article would be much stronger with a clear statement of the perceiv
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Oddly enough, I predict the final destination for this train will be for moving images to fade into the background. Everything will have a dazzling sameness to it. It's not unlike the weird place that action movies and pop music have a
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
A few points of note: 1. This doctor is widely-described as a pathologist. So it seems unlikely he would have developed any cancer treatments as a lead investigator. 2. It's much more likely he was part of a team that developed treatme
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Breast augmentation could be one case.
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Google is an advertising company. Relying on them to do anything other than service that business seems risky at best given the abundant history of rug-pulling. Even then, at this point I'd be questioning the support for ads. Support c
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
The article hints at, but doesn't really nail the strong associations between music and our past that develop as we age. The older we get, the more listening to old music takes on the role of time machine, teleporting us to an earlier
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Any insights into what makes this culturally acceptable?
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Context: Bitcoin miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves. This pay cut was baked into Bitcoin protocol at the launch of the network (mostly, see "BIP 42" [1]). The OP link gives information about the block in which t
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
For those complaining about the presentation, Safari's "Show Reader View" works well. Also supported on Firefox. On Chrome, it's complicated.
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
The irony is that when you know the result is on Reddit, it's far better to use the Reddit search bar. It's not even close. More than that, I've found myself just going to Reddit search rather than Google. Ditto StackOverflow
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
So it served its purpose by trapping the OpenAI spider? If so, why post that message? As a flex?
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
I'm more interested in what that content farm is for. It looks pointless, but I suspect there's a bizarre economic incentive. There are affiliate links, but how much could that possibly bring in?
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
Every explanation of double entry accounting seems to do the same thing. If I'm trying to understand the double part of double-entry bookkeeping, what exactly does the "double" refer to? What's being "doubled&quot
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
> It was not taken by surprise. But in spite of that, it was still unable to respond. This is even a major point of discussion in the book. The incumbents always see it coming a mile away. They can't respond because doing so breaks
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Fort Ross, California(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Octokiddie 2y ago|0 comments
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Death of a Computer (1984)(texasmonthly.com)
6 points by Octokiddie 2y ago|1 comments
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by Octokiddie 2y ago
I was looking for something about how the company actually made money, but only found this: > It’s a dramatic exodus that comes less than 18 months after Stability’s 2022 fundraise that valued the company at $1 billion. Now, the company
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
This kind of gross imbalance is self-correcting. Those who have been through a few of these cycles know the warning signs. Those who don't get an expensive lesson at the school of hard knocks.
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The title doesn't match the article: > Last month, Deputy Attorney General John Fowler argued in state court that mere possession of a basic cellphone indicates criminal intent to commit conspiracy under Georgia’s racketeer influenc
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year to make that happen. The last I heard Fac
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> In October of 2021 the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) decided to launch what is believed to be the first significant open source lawsuit based in contract rather than in copyright. Critically, the SFC’s case argued that anyone who
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The strong anti-Bitcoin sentiment on HN is still amusing. It goes way back - 13 years or more. Having read many of these negative comments, I think part of this sentiment boils down to the commenter seeing no point to Bitcoin. Just this thr
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> Hundreds of feet underground, in a long-dormant portion of Chiquita Canyon landfill, tons of garbage have been smoldering for months due to an enigmatic chemical reaction. It doesn't sound enigmatic. It sounds like anaerobic respi
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” -- Frederik Pohl Car, meet traffic jam. But few, if any saw this one coming. Oddly enough, today's readers would find any story based on t
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> But, does humanity really need an AI friend? This reminds me of the Fredrick Pohl line "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." So I wonder what the traffic jam is going
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Looks like that part was edited out.

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