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by batguano 2y ago
And Harold's Fried Chicken shack
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by batguano 2y ago
Didn’t even work well then, which is why the 12th Amendment passed quickly
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by batguano 2y ago
In many states (California being one) you don’t vote for a vice president on the primary ballot. I did notice that in Illinois, you do.
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Google parent in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B(reuters.com)
4 points by batguano 2y ago|1 comments
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by batguano 2y ago
I find this very creepy, not necessarily for any _rational_ reasons. It just seems like a bizarre way to use human tissue.
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Ask HN: Tracking Coding Friction Points?
3 points by batguano 2y ago|1 comments
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Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells(arstechnica.com)
2 points by batguano 2y ago|1 comments
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by batguano 2y ago
From the title, I honestly thought you were asking, “As a regular, sensible person, how do I put up with all these AI doomsayers?”
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by batguano 2y ago
As a parent, this kind of sorry breaks my heart.
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by batguano 2y ago
Never ascribe to malevolence what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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An Artist in Residence on A.I.'s Territory(nytimes.com)
1 points by batguano 3y ago|0 comments
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by batguano 3y ago
And “Emmanuel Goldstein” was the name of a character in the novel 1984. He was the widely despised “enemy of the state” cooked up by the government to justify their autocracy.
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by batguano 3y ago
We’d have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
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Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died(marcthorpe.com)
108 points by batguano 3y ago|21 comments
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by batguano 3y ago
Amused to see the 10mm socket in an "in case of emergency break glass" box. So true about 10mm, though I'd lean towards the 10mm box wrench. I've disassembled many a motorcycle with not much more than that.
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The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought over Radio Waves(nytimes.com)
2 points by batguano 3y ago|0 comments
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by batguano 3y ago
So disappointed that there wasn't at least a chapter on irrationality. That's the fun part! :-D
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by batguano 3y ago
Agree 100%. First of all, this is much more of an “anecdote” or “dinner theater” than an “experiment.“ But even more so, when you take a bunch of people and _tell them to play these roles_, why are surprised when they _play the stereotype
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The MIT Gender Admissions Controversy(hxstem.substack.com)
4 points by batguano 3y ago|2 comments
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by batguano 3y ago
The severed employees likely had accelerated stock vesting the moment Elon took ownership.
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by batguano 3y ago
I live in the Bay Area, which is both big city, and heavily tech/maker, and I have never even heard of a Micro Center, much less seen one. I miss RadioShack, and especially Frys when they were in their prime.
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by batguano 3y ago
Many employees stock options plans vest the options on change of control. All the ones I’ve had did.
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by batguano 3y ago
Here’s hoping for some Streisand Effect publicity that puts Skiplagged on the map! I for one hadn’t heard about them until this lawsuit
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by batguano 3y ago
> then got caught and settled for an "undisclosed" sum (rumoured to be quite large) The sum wasn't insubstantial, but it was much less than the pay that would have been received in a free market.
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by batguano 3y ago
> . If enough people get another job, the industry they are leaving will adapt or die. The only way that happens is with a union. The union is what lets the workers organize for the kind of collective action that forces an industry to ad
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by batguano 3y ago
As someone who received that settlement, it didn’t. And a no union clause would be just as illegal as their conduct in the first place.
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by batguano 3y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that in the United States, a civil defendant who prevails is not usually entitled to have their legal fees paid by the plaintiff. [0] https://porterlaw.com/obtaining-attorney-fees-in-litigation
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by batguano 3y ago
The second edition uses Python rather the the first edition which uses the Lisp dialect Scheme.
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Large Crack Spotted in Roller Coaster Prompts Its Shutdown(nytimes.com)
7 points by batguano 3y ago|2 comments
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Elizabeth Holmes: Inside the Routine at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas(bbc.com)
15 points by batguano 3y ago|16 comments

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