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by lr4444lr 13d ago
Her farthest journey was a day's walk, to a nearby market town. I think this is what boggles my mind most about antiquity: the vast majority of people rarely ventured much past where they were born (unless they did a likely once in a
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by lr4444lr 26d ago
This is exactly the question considered in Voltaire's short story "The Good Brahmin"[0] 0: https://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/4411/
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by lr4444lr 26d ago
Anyone can speculate. If we fail to pay interest in a timely manner, then presumably fewer foreign entities will buy our debt, and we will have less money from debt sales to fund what debt funds. Whether that pain is spread equally or not i
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by lr4444lr 29d ago
I don't think the "average" is a good metric for the social impact of this. Everyone (or almost everyone) being at a standstill would be the minimum that governments should worry about. When even a sizable minority loses grou
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by lr4444lr 1mo ago
I don't think your ancestors sat around the living room while their kids were playing threshing wheat, though. They put the plowshares down once it got dark.
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by lr4444lr 1mo ago
Nice. May I point out that in "Crudam si edes, in acetum intinguito", that "edes" is more likely to be the future of edere/esse "to eat"? (Just guessing by context.)
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by lr4444lr 2mo ago
I honestly like the vocabulary and turns of phrase the frontier models use. Their choices of words are usually apt to the circumstance. This is a weird thing to get upset about, IMO. The big problem I have is when they apologize and say som
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by lr4444lr 2mo ago
While your analogy is valid, I find it hard to get upset at people who flout an artificially imposed limit to a license to engage in employment. I'm aware the vehicles and drivers were at first highly unvetted, but the moral impulse th
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by lr4444lr 4mo ago
I can't upvote this enough. As has been attributed to the Roman stoic Seneca: “An enemy is a bad witness to your merits, but a good one to your defects.”
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by lr4444lr 4mo ago
No one's arguing you can't stand up a good MVP. It's when you have to iterate to handle changing business needs, scale issues, and integrate with other systems where the entropy becomes a scary concern over a long enough time
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by lr4444lr 4mo ago
I can't imagine SWEs will be reduced to SDETs anymore than attorneys will be reduced to spell-checkers on AI powered case briefs. I am a very AI-forward person, but hallucinations are becoming more pernicious than ever even as they get
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by lr4444lr 4mo ago
> At the gas station, Bradley accused Holland of driving under the influence. When asked if he would submit to field sobriety tests, Holland calmly refused. Much as I hope Bradley would be fired and lose his pension for abuse of power, t
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by lr4444lr 5mo ago
After reading this, I wonder whether maybe low doses of morphine over a short period are safer than either.
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
To quote H.L. Mencken (paraphrasing), a teacher's job is miserable because they must ceaselessly try to get masses or people to think who have no real capacity to. You might be lucky to reach a small minority of your students, assuming
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
As someone who taught kids in person and fell into a deep depression with how Kafkaesque that job was and then found so much more gratification as a SWE, all I can say is, the author's experience is not universal. (And I am a parent, s
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
I dislike Jack going back several years, but I think in this instance he's admitting that he's taking responsibility between weighing the risk of doing this vs. not doing this. Maybe morale will tank anyway and the company will ho
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
Downsizing your house? Picking your long term care location? Changing your asset balance? Recording more photos, audio, and video? Knowing an early, painful fate allows you to approach it with dignity.
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
Okay but even that analogy is limited. Incurable progressive diseases almost invariably have lifestyle factors, supplements, or medications that can at least slow the rate of progression for many people. Those are also often more effective
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
Stats? Who do you think is buying the kids the phones and the data plans? Who is letting them take them to school in the first place? The kids would be better off being told to read chapter 7 than play sensory overload edutainment tools tha
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by lr4444lr 7mo ago
At this point, I trust LLMs to come up with something more secure than the cheapest engineering firm for hire.
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
They've been losing ground to placebo in more recent research. Plus, most of the more serious side effects take a lot more time to manifest than the typical length any given patient remained in the older clinical trials that secured FD
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
On what basis do you call it "slop"? I would agree that it's not much relevant to HN, but it seems to report that the number is at odds with most other figures.
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
Were any of the prior fears totally wrong?
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
Counterpoint - she should have known what she was getting into marrying an engineer. It cones with the territory.
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
"China bad"? Do you have any idea how much Chinese economic leverage has caused Hollywood to censor against CCCP criticism? As for Iran, we have a literal embargo, so it's not quite the same.
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by lr4444lr 8mo ago
As I get older, I read this entirely differently (as an appeal to empathy) than I did when I was younger (as an appeal to stolidity). In other words, you should be pained for your neighbor when his slave breaks his cup. Maybe his grandmot
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by lr4444lr 9mo ago
It's debatable - to put it mildly - whether Maduro is the legitimate president of Venezuela.
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by lr4444lr 9mo ago
... and then President Vance maintaining the status quo would bring you back to reality.
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by lr4444lr 9mo ago
People with a lot less economic knowledge than Buffet still understand that another Depression could easily render them jobless and unable to pay a mortgage on a cheaper house. Wishing for a housing market downturn is not the same as a wi
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by lr4444lr 9mo ago
Find something you need their help with that forces them out of the house. Depressed people often lack purpose.

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