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by empathy_m 4mo ago
Huh, that's a remarkable miss for Pangram then. Interesting.
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by empathy_m 4mo ago
Hrm. I plugged in the first 4000 words of this essay into my free Pangram account and it says "59% AI generated", "We believe that this document is a mix of AI-generated, AI-assisted, and human-written content". Who is t
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by empathy_m 5mo ago
I noticed that the company is glossed as "Flock" and not "Flock Safety (YC S17)" in posts like this and last week's "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology", https://news.ycomb
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by empathy_m 5mo ago
Is this the first time Bookface screenshots have been published publicly?
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by empathy_m 7mo ago
At one point recently the Mirai came with a fuel incentive program: when you buy the car, Toyota gives you a gift card worth $15,000 towards fuel at hydrogen stations. An interesting second part of the program was that if you live near a hy
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by empathy_m 8mo ago
I thought this piece was nice but: (1) It doesn't give Adams enough credit for his work on WhenHub. I was reading Scott Adams's posts about WhenHub contemporaneously as he worked through the startup's various pivots. He had a
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by empathy_m 9mo ago
Wow, I read the linked case ( https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063 ) and the High Court judge's ruling has a remarkably strong and thorough discussion of both modern Internet forum c
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by empathy_m 9mo ago
Watched a fantastic film about this on the plane a few years ago, "Liar Game - Reborn". There is some fairly sophisticated logic puzzling and scheming going on (see e.g. sample illustration https://imgur.com/a&#x2F
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by empathy_m 1y ago
How much money did the attackers make?
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by empathy_m 1y ago
Hey hey, maybe it will help job stability. Gergely Orosz, whose writing is influential in tech spheres and fun to read, has been a loud proponent of the theory that TCJA's elimination of the immediate expense of R&D research cost w
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by empathy_m 2y ago
An interesting read, thanks for this.
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I think it's worth reading both the 2015 OIG report on the topic ("Title: Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident", A-06-14-34030) and also the 2023 followup you submitted. I left a comme
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I think it's worth reading both of the OIG documents on this topic: - 2015: "Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident", audit report A-06-14-34030 ( https://oig.ssa.gov/aud
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I spent a fair chunk of the mid-90s to early 2000s on a moderately busy MUD with a group of people who, it turns out, were all about the same age. No idea in retrospect how I juggled this with school/friends/work - I guess kids ju
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by empathy_m 2y ago
The chat logs show that he was quite stoic about the whole thing and treated it as a mundane business action to protect himself ("is a liability and I wouldn't mind if…"; "I've received the picture and deleted it. T
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I skimmed the literature on this and the ritonavir story seems legit. There really is a peer-reviewed paper saying that there are five crystalline forms of the stuff. ("Elucidation of crystal form diversity of the HIV protease inhibito
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Honestly any time I read the procedural history of this stuff I get nerd sniped by the bizarre details and I lose track of the big picture. I feel like the whole thing could be three competing Dateline NBC style six-part crime specials and
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I think the disappearing polymorph stories are also pretty spooky. These have real-life impacts, like with ritonavir.
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Cell phones and laptops in general have changed a couple of things for me, as someone who grew up without them: - I realized about 20y-25y ago that I could run a Web search and find out nearly any fact, probably one-shot but maybe with 2-3
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by empathy_m 2y ago
> There's a lot here that feels like... Bad statistics. Not to say that there's no truth in the accusations - but they don't seem to be acting in good faith, and that will wreck them when it comes to the court. Well… There
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by empathy_m 2y ago
I remember reading in Reader's Digest in the 1990s that if you're in a store and you break something which the merchant asks you to pay for, you should offer to pay their cost to replace the item, which is of course often much low
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Looking up one of the phrases from Langdon's statistical report ("Four Sigma Members") led me briefly to the rabbit hole of high-IQ societies, of which there seem to be many. Neat little interview here with Ronald Hoeflin, wh
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Eric Meyer's posts about his daughter's illness, and the family's lifelong process of grieving afterward, are heartbreaking. It's arresting, gripping writing. It's wonderful and awful. Hug your loved ones tight. ht
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by empathy_m 2y ago
After high school ended (2:30pm) most days I used to have some kind of club activity (2:30pm-3:30pm) and then hang out in the cafeteria or by the front of the school, waiting for a parent to pick me up on the way home from work (5pm). I had
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Does Twitter still have software in Scala?
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by empathy_m 2y ago
Gosh I'm not cut out for the academy. To me: * Empirically, words seem to be tools which we use to make ideas appear in other people's minds. * To know what a word means we need to understand the mental state the speaker intends t
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by empathy_m 2y ago
US lockpicking enthusiasts tend to know their states' laws (see e.g. https://www.toool.us/lockpicking-laws.php ) In general it's probably okay to bring your picks somewhere in most parts of the country if you'
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by empathy_m 3y ago
It sounds like there's a distinction between looking for a corpse with a flashlight and looking for new things to kill with the flashlight, and that the latter is sometimes prohibited (some discussion at https://en.wikipedia
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I keep thinking about parking cash in box spreads on SPX directly -- pay net $98,000 in option premium now and earn $100,000 in a few months, effectively lending to the market at the rate implied by highly liquid option prices. The section
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I think there are 2-3 different things going on here: (1) Yishan is a master troll in the style of some of the very best from Usenet and old Slashdot. Every few months you'll see him pop out a other banger tweet with 2M+ views just for

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