klenwell

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by klenwell 2y ago
The other thing I recall tying those two periods together was enthusiasts saying, in the face of an obvious bubble, "Well, things are different this time." My glib summation of those two events: - Dotcom boom deregulated (in the s
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Connecticut DMV Allows Tow Companies to Sell People's Cars(propublica.org)
5 points by klenwell 2y ago|1 comments
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by klenwell 2y ago
> I've been saying this for years now, because I first noticed the differential in fertility rates as a child in the 90s. You and The Onion both: https://theonion.com/study-uneducated-outbreeding-intelligen...
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by klenwell 2y ago
I think my favorite Simpsons gag is the episode where Lisa enlists a scientist (voiced by Stephen Jay Gould) to run tests to debunk some angel bones that were found at a construction site. In the middle of the episode, the scientist bicycle
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Newest social network does not suck(metafilter.com)
12 points by klenwell 2y ago|9 comments
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Italian Teenager to Become the First Millennial Saint(nytimes.com)
3 points by klenwell 2y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 3y ago
I think the killer app will be online meetings. Online socializing really. I work fully remote and Zoom/Meet works fine for meetings. But I kinda dread things like team happy hour and find you have to keep them structured like a meetin
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by klenwell 3y ago
> Everyone agrees that FTX paid $100's of millions to celebrity endorsers and arena naming deals. Don't forget the fortune cookies. I know that I and some others on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33599
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by klenwell 3y ago
I agree. It is an amazing, quasi-anachronistic novel. Speaking of Utopia, Melville offers his own vision of it in Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand: Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almos
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by klenwell 3y ago
E.O. Wilson does a wonderful job in the opening of his book Consilience illustrating the philosophical tension between the Realists (Linnaeans) and Nominalists (Darwinists) that the New Yorker reviewer zeroes in on: My intellectual world w
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by klenwell 3y ago
I take it you didn't sniff any deeper. From the text: Gunnar Broberg’s biography dutifully accompanies Linnaeus every step of the way, trekking through his life for four-hundred-plus pages. These are not, unfortunately, a pleasure to
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by klenwell 3y ago
Ask and ye shall receive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1 See a lot of these in my area (Southern California). I'm ok with them. Probably need more.
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by klenwell 3y ago
Good example here: https://archive.org/details/thequestfortherest_flash It works! It had been effectively defunct for years: https://amanita-design.net/thequestfortherest/
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by klenwell 4y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for skeptics but this is the first thing that comes to mind the idea of Skepticism as a movement comes up: A few years ago, he told me, he went to a skeptics’ conference in La Coruña, Spain. He was walking down som
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by klenwell 4y ago
Christ. I realize you're probably being facetious. But de-extincting species to consign them to industrial food production (or some other industrial extraction process) seems like one of the more plausible business models. That's
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by klenwell 4y ago
This is legendary Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder's technique, too: Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if pos
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Mumpsimus(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by klenwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 4y ago
Experienced this myself trying to get it to write a poem with an unusual rhyme scheme. ChatGPT's response when I tried to explicitly spell it out (a few different ways): Yes, you are correct. The statement I made is not accurate. The
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by klenwell 4y ago
Glad you mentioned this. Not horror, comedy! Listen, you! I was born here. I raised a cloud of children here. My ancestors came over here on the sandwich. One of my favorite episodes.
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by klenwell 4y ago
Good example of that here: https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/us/ferguson-missouri-racism-t... So began an odyssey with Ferguson police, municipal court and city hall that left her with $1,200 in fines that
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by klenwell 4y ago
Have you tried this game? https://playheyrobot.com/rules
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by klenwell 4y ago
Did anyone else see the FTX fortune cookies? https://mobile.twitter.com/klenwell/status/15921781646752522...
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by klenwell 4y ago
I detest the Meta metaverse as much as the next Hacker News user. But there is one use case where I could see it luring me in. Virtual meetings. Really virtual social events or happy hours. Professional ones mainly with my remote distribute
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by klenwell 4y ago
I actually do this more effectively working from home with my wife. For people who like the aesthetics and atmosphere of an office for some reason, I think a coworking space would as productive or moreso than the company office. (Is this B
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by klenwell 4y ago
On this topic, I find this article fascinating: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087 But life in New Jersey was not working out for Yarima. It wasn't the weather, food or modern technology but the absence o
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by klenwell 4y ago
I tried to set up an online account with Vanguard recently. At the end of the signup flow, I got an error saying I had to phone it. It was a weekend so I tried a couple days later during business hours just to be sure and because I loathe d
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by klenwell 4y ago
> They find, time and time again, in all sorts of fields, that extremely parsimonious models like equal-weighted linear regression of one or two predictors outperform expert judgment. I came across this in Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahnema
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by klenwell 4y ago
Excellent advice. This is like the golden rule of dealing with people. Well, the other golden rule. The professional one, I guess you could call it. Be explicit, polite but firm. It works well for both managing people or doing customer supp
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by klenwell 4y ago
This American Life also did a pretty interesting story on his origins: > Reporter Jon Ronson travels to Jones' hometown in Texas, to investigate the story Jones tells about himself, and how he became who he is. https://ww
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by klenwell 4y ago
I feel like this thread's title is editorialized (and click-bait). It got me. To be fair, maybe it hit a character limit. The actual title: Children and adults should avoid consuming animal products to reduce risk for chronic disease:

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