granfalloon

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New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium(reuters.com)
161 points by granfalloon 2mo ago|233 comments
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by granfalloon 7mo ago
What's being "forced"? And what boundaries aren't being respected? If someone attempts to strike up a conversation and you're not interested, you can signal that. Or just be direct and say you don't feel like t
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by granfalloon 3y ago
I never enjoyed Shakespeare UNTIL I started reading his plays, and now he’s one of my favorites. The drama and stories in his work don’t do much for me, I view them more as a vehicle for his poetry (which is some of the greatest ever writte
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by granfalloon 4y ago
They wouldn't! That's the downside. Or maybe not a downside -- there could be an even stronger incentive for politicians to get stuff done. Since voters would have to make their decisions based entirely actual results, and not an
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by granfalloon 4y ago
I don't know how exactly it would work, I just mean a system where only the final vote tallies are made public -- not WHO voted for what.
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by granfalloon 4y ago
I like the idea of "blind" or anonymous congressional voting. It feels counterintuitive, but donors might be less willing to "buy" votes if they can't confirm that they're getting what they pay for. And a repre
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by granfalloon 7y ago
As Emerson put it, "the mind loves its old home". ( http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/emerson/ess... )
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by granfalloon 8y ago
Quality and depth of information in a good library, at least for many subjects, is much greater than what you'll find for free on the internet.
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by granfalloon 8y ago
I've only started to develop an aesthetic reaction to, and appreciation for, poetry in the past year. Before that, it was a complete mystery to me. Part of the problem, I suspect, is that most people have very particular taste in poetr
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by granfalloon 9y ago
Why did this get flagged as a dupe? This particular article hasn't been linked yet, and it seems to have more substance and analysis than the other two posts today.
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Jamie Dimon's $13B Secret Revealed Following FOIA Litigation(vanityfair.com)
19 points by granfalloon 9y ago|1 comments
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by granfalloon 9y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to drag you back into the discussion! I posted my question because I was concerned that maybe a moderator deleted it. I guess I was being a little paranoid!
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by granfalloon 9y ago
There was a comment about the political influence and aspirations of certain big names in tech, but it has suddenly disappeared. It contained some criticism of Paul Graham and Sam Altman, but seemed totally reasonable to me -- can anyone sa
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by granfalloon 9y ago
So what are we calling this one, Y2K38? I've heard people talk about the risk to cars, but what other kinds of embedded systems will still be in use after 20 years? Maybe certain industrial machines?
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by granfalloon 10y ago
Also noticed that and was disappointed. What else goes into the rankings apart from points & time? Edit: Now page 6: http://imgur.com/3CAfOnT . (Look at the points/times of the stories above and below it...)
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A $13B Complaint(novackmedialaw.com)
38 points by granfalloon 10y ago|4 comments
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by granfalloon 10y ago
I think that's actually bootload's point? A policy of measured, non-violent responses to perceived aggression -- like China's response here -- is a good way to avoid being tricked into war. (Compared to North Vietnam's
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by granfalloon 10y ago
Come on, that's so disingenuous. "Punishment," as the word is most commonly used (and defined), implies a harm is being inflicted due to some fault or bad act by the punished. You can say it's "unfair," or &quo
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by granfalloon 10y ago
Because working for a living, while still a game of chance, gives me much better odds of coming out ahead, with minimal risk of losing everything in an instant. Plus I get some choice in how the game is played and have the ability to use my
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by granfalloon 10y ago
"But if you continue and success in the 12th, it is no luck. In fact if you never succeed your behavior will be called and obsessive compulsive and pathologic." You say that if you eventually succeed after many failures, it's
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by granfalloon 10y ago
Why do you say it's analogous to "requiring us to constantly record all of our vocal communications"? Don't they just want to make it possible for police to record electronic communications, the same way police can alr
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by granfalloon 10y ago
Just a heads-up, I signed up for the mailing list a few weeks ago and didn't receive the notice. I suppose there could be some kind of filter on my end blocking it, but just wanted you to be aware! Tried a different email address yeste
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The DAO: Or How a Leaderless Ethereum-Based Organization Raised $50M(coindesk.com)
1 points by granfalloon 10y ago|0 comments
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by granfalloon 10y ago
"...and also unlock the intuitive sense that comes from mastery." To me, unlocking that aesthetic intuition is the essence of creativity. The other component -- which I recognize most people lack -- is an open-mindedness and willi
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by granfalloon 11y ago
Isn't that still a "unit"? (Your desk is 1.7 "desk widths" long?)
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by granfalloon 11y ago
I wouldn't begrudge an employer for negotiating my salary and not paying me what they think I'm "worth," but I also wouldn't feel guilty about doing the least amount of work necessary to fly under the radar at the j
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by granfalloon 11y ago
I strongly disagree, but I'm up-voting to get this comment back up where it belongs. Plenty of smart people -- including, I imagine, some supreme court justices -- feel this way, so I don't see any good reason for censoring it as
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Bitcoin Processor BitPay Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Effort(coindesk.com)
2 points by granfalloon 11y ago|0 comments
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by granfalloon 11y ago
A nice recounting of the "discovery" by Goudsmit: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html (I use the quotes because he discusses the role of luck in scientific discovery, and the ques
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by granfalloon 11y ago
At the time his transactions may have been difficult to trace, but now we have tools like Wallet Explorer, which make his wrongdoing pretty clear: https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/08363b86122e340c (That's the

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