eriktrautman

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by eriktrautman 3mo ago
At the Republican TX state convention this week, they proposed to add wording against differential privacy to their proposed platform via an amendment, justified with an example from someone supposedly involved with the census of how it was
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Federal whistleblower on DOGE data exfiltration(twitter.com)
12 points by eriktrautman 1y ago|2 comments
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by eriktrautman 2y ago
Next, I’d love to move in to text SPAM, the perplexingly unsolved problem that we’ve been particularly reminded of every election season for the past 20 or so years
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Why do EVs crash more than gas powered vehicles(cnn.com)
8 points by eriktrautman 3y ago|18 comments
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by eriktrautman 3y ago
The idea of a Lego AI sounds amazing... just thought of what might happen if you took a photo of your pieces then said "I like original Star Wars, make me a series of spaceships from that" and it outputted step by step instruction
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Scientists grow human embryo in lab without sperm or egg or womb(metro.co.uk)
2 points by eriktrautman 3y ago|1 comments
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by eriktrautman 3y ago
They need more than that - they raised $22M but only for a portion of the company so presumably at a valuation of multiples of that. To get a 10x valuation it may have to become a unicorn.
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by eriktrautman 3y ago
Same - chrome on ios
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by eriktrautman 4y ago
Depends on the environment. In a startup, the top performers often say basically “what took you so long? Glad we can move faster now. And try to hire some more top performers for me to work with.”
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by eriktrautman 4y ago
RIP content writers scratching out a living on a beach in Bali
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by eriktrautman 4y ago
Firearm deaths just overtook auto deaths as the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the US: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761 Unclear the portion that is suicides but homic
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by eriktrautman 4y ago
I started triathlon training and the swimming helped bring my back and knee pain into line such that I could actually run again and I haven’t had a reinjury of the back disc (previously every 12-18 months like clockwork for 10 years) in 7 y
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
Deploy this to production on NEAR and fund it every step directly with staking rewards that are piped in from a small endowment and it will run forever. Hell, I’ll give you the tokens myself just to see it go! Good excuse to play with Rust
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
This represents a reasonable-sounding surface view but is mostly off the mark. There are valid concerns but insufficient logic to justify a dangerous trap . O/P TLDR: 1. Art is silly too but it's ok for Real Art because we&#x2
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
An oldie but goodie. I suspect applying some modeling of traits would show people low on Agreeableness/people-pleasing would naturally harbor far fewer of these crony beliefs since it removes the reward mechanism for their cronyism.
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
Plenty of good points but don’t forget that the fully loaded cost to an employer of a European employee is anywhere from 1.5-2x of what it is in the US. This alone is a major driving factor since it doesn’t matter how much of your salary yo
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
I love the idea of that but do wish it didn’t require altering so many of the basic facts. The most compelling alternate histories use the same set of facts but show how the victors were misguided and misled by their assumptions, because it
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
Any article citing Sweden as a failure today indicates they haven’t done their homework. After a brief surge, that country is doing far better than much of Europe and didn’t sacrifice nearly so much of its economy and its peoples’ mental h
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
I have the same problem with melatonin — it seems like artificial sleep because when I wake up 4-5 hours later, my body really doesn’t want to fall back asleep.
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Guy builds mesmerizing kinetic sculptures [video](youtu.be)
12 points by eriktrautman 6y ago|2 comments
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by eriktrautman 6y ago
The poster said 'better shape' not 'good shape'. A biz that's dead in X months of runway is still in better shape than one that's dead in a week.
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Ask HN: What Covid-related problems can technology solve?
1 points by eriktrautman 7y ago|1 comments
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Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say(nytimes.com)
4 points by eriktrautman 7y ago|0 comments
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
So you're implying that our ability to take risks in the pursuit of massive systemic gains is exactly zero?
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
Don’t feed a troll, expose it to sunlight.
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
It works especially well with click-baity things where someone has helpfully quoted the key bit in the top comment and you can avoid dealing with popup-riddled sites to find it.
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How much information tech companies store on you (2018)(twitter.com)
1 points by eriktrautman 7y ago|0 comments
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
If these are registered securities they will need to trade on regulated exchanges where the company knows all the token holders only and thus cannot be used in decentralized applications by normal people. Which seems to defeat the purpose i
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
What if I’m poor?
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by eriktrautman 7y ago
Can’t get past that awful ad play with no close button taking up half the screen

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