gknapp

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by gknapp 2mo ago
Socrates was put death in ancient Athens in no small part to how much he was sinply a pedantic ass to everyone he interacted with, and yet it was this incessant questioning which laid the foundation for over two millenia of philosophy.
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by gknapp 3mo ago
I read Crime and Punishment, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I then thought I'd move right over to War and Peace and could not get through the first 5% of the book. I'm sure with diligent effort, you can get over the very lengthy and p
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by gknapp 3mo ago
I had to take down two absolutely enormous Douglas Fir trees on my property (> 36" base), and asked them to leave the wood rounds for me. I knew it was going to be a lot of wood, but even then, I was not prepared. I spent about a fa
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by gknapp 5mo ago
What does this do that Obsidian doesn't already do? I've found that's my typical go to for pairing with Agentic work, and supports Markdown well, alongside tons of other functionality.
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by gknapp 6mo ago
Well, it's easy! Just get the majority of voters to hate each other enough that it's a moral boundary to vote together on any law, effectively limiting any meaningful change.
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by gknapp 1y ago
> And no, please spare us all your justifications for how caffeine is fine or micro-dosing has been amazing, because they are simply varying levels of rationalization, I do it too, I’m just not in it as deeply. And no, just because you w
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by gknapp 1y ago
I just played a full round of Geoguessr world with Gemini 2.5 and got a score of 22k / 25k (so a silver medal). This puts in the realm of a "pretty good" player. It was shockingly accurate with its guesses of Essen, Germany a
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by gknapp 1y ago
Right, but this is the same company, so the cost of marketing, auditing, R&D, etc. shouldn't be different for these products. That's a fixed cost for the company. This is a guess, but the argument is probably that it took way
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by gknapp 2y ago
I don't have a great sense as to how this works across the world, but where I'm at (Seattle) your property tax is a factor of both the improved and unimproved aspects of your parcel. The improved ones being the value of the buildi
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by gknapp 3y ago
People value family differently. For some, their dream life is to have sick cars and a sweet loft, for others, it's to raise other humans to be good. You should probably understand that there are some that read your perspective on life
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by gknapp 3y ago
These are some interesting points around its value, but it can absolutely be inflated, no? Given that most of our standards of value are tied to fiats, and that Bitcoin's exchange with said fiats is highly variable, the value of your c
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by gknapp 3y ago
I can tell you honestly that I am personally hoping for a crash, and that's in part because I work on real estate. Home prices are unsustainably high by such a margin that it's absolutely killed transaction volume. Sure, earnings
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by gknapp 3y ago
It's a very interesting time indeed for the housing market! These next 6-12 months are going to tell us something very big about the economy, crash or no crash. If anything, however, the Fed has built up an ability to drop rates if thi
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by gknapp 3y ago
The dictionary doesn't agree with both options. Cambridge has a single definition: > In a way that continues or has continued for a long time. Merriam-Webster offers the following two: > continuing or occurring again and again fo
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by gknapp 3y ago
That is the requirement. The law applies standards to ensure that domestic workers aren't adversely impacted by the hiring of foreign workers. This includes putting essentially bogus ads in newspaper classifieds, and requires that they
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by gknapp 3y ago
I'm not quite sure where you got that figure from, but some quick research cites numbers vary between 0.1 and 1.2 acres per person. In any event, 17 acres could theoretically supply food for an enormous range from 15 to 170 people, dep
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by gknapp 4y ago
What makes you say that? There's so much research that flies in the face of this sentiment. Solar on rooftops alone has the potential to supply a fourth of the current US energy consumption [1]. Other studies estimate that solar could
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by gknapp 4y ago
I know this is anecdotal, but whenever I hear these stories, I'm curious about the details. A quick search leads me to believe that head chef pay in Seattle typically ranges from about 90k-110k per year. Finding apartments off Broadway
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by gknapp 4y ago
For me at least, reading speed inversely correlates with reading retention. There are plenty of non-fiction books that are about 20% useful information, and 80% anecdotes in support of that information. If I find that I’m already convinced
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by gknapp 5y ago
It's easy to pick on the weirdness of french numbers, but honestly "quatre-vingt" ends up just being a word like "eighty" in its own right. No French speaker is multiplying 20s in their head. Probably the only true
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by gknapp 5y ago
I don't have an answer in particular, but I was surprised to discover that Panama is doing just as well, if not better, in most macro-measures (HDI, median income, per capita GDP PPP, etc.) than Costa Rica. Took me by surprise!
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by gknapp 6y ago
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is an excellent and renewable answer to this problem in tons of areas, has high efficiency (above 70%) and is already in use in a number of areas.
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by gknapp 6y ago
Vietnam does not have the capacity to accurately test any reasonable swathe of the country, nor are they known for being transparent with any government data. I would take any data published from them with a lot of skepticism.
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by gknapp 7y ago
This might not be applicable to you, but I will say that meditating is like reading speed. Everyone says they can do it better than they can. I've done multiple meditation retreats and have meditated for years. For me, a "focused&
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by gknapp 7y ago
In this case, it's likely that Nazis would be labeled a terrorist organization, or a wartime enemy, and would be subject to federally-enforced economic sanctions. It actually would be illegal for Google to do business with Nazis.
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by gknapp 8y ago
The article mentions what they plan on doing with it: "What Gebald and Wurzbacher really want to do is to pull vast amounts of CO₂ out of the atmosphere and bury it, forever, deep underground, and sell that service as an offset. Climew
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by gknapp 8y ago
I gave Allo an honest shot when it first came out – I was excited by its feature set, and I was hoping for a far improved messenger app. My first message went to my wife, who's on an iPhone. It was really difficult to suss out exactly
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by gknapp 8y ago
> but string together 80 or 90 years worth and you will be close to death I think 80 or 90 years of "life" will bring you close to death!
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by gknapp 9y ago
Disc brakes are catching on, but for good reason: they increase the stopping power in rain substantially. Though, it doesn't matter if you don't ride in the rain, and many people don't.
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by gknapp 9y ago
I would argue that this particular character was actually very receptive to the idea of still being part of society - he certainly doesn't come off as a individualistic idealogue. He set a goal of being totally self-sustained, and achi

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