next_xibalba

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by next_xibalba 4d ago
> In my community, [strawberry leaves are] considered medicine Huh? What does this mean? Isn't this a binary? Either they are or are not medicine. I don't "consider" Tylenol a medicine. It is because it has an effect.
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by next_xibalba 9d ago
Thanks for the reference. I am interested in your specific perspective as opposed to someone else's (much less else the received opinions from The Experts).
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by next_xibalba 10d ago
Which laws? And why?
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by next_xibalba 11d ago
I can't think of a single unionized organization that is run as well as or better than union-free organizations. Unionized companies all seem to be crippled by bureaucracy and unable to improve performance and output.
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by next_xibalba 11d ago
And all of that (along with the serious problems in how WMF/Wikipedia operate) is why I no longer donate to WMF. Clearly, they don't need my money. But if they ever want to bring me back into the fold, they need to adopt Larry San
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by next_xibalba 11d ago
We can’t even execute heinous murderers effectively. What makes you think this would be any better?
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by next_xibalba 18d ago
It’s the classic confidently wrong HN opinion about a field outside the commenter’s expertise.
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by next_xibalba 26d ago
It is truly amazing how hostile some of these "free thinkers" are to ideas and speech that are in conflict with their own. Kind of makes you wonder who is actually fascist.
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by next_xibalba 26d ago
Why are these books "rare"? Because no one wants them. Why then are we up in arms over their destruction? These sensational headlines make it seem as though a copy of the Codex Sassoon 1053 is being destroyed, when in fact these a
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by next_xibalba 1mo ago
I worked with a woman who, in 1-on-1 meetings no less, would stop mid-sentence when she received text messages and reply via her Apple Watch. It was maddening. I finally had to kindly ask her to be present and stop playing with her watch.
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by next_xibalba 1mo ago
My uninformed hypothesis: Demis was gently pushed out. Gemini, while having made major strides over the last year, continues to lag behind Anthropic and OpenAI.
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by next_xibalba 1mo ago
Doubtful. His destination is both funded by Google and has a compute deal with Google.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
And yet: > Despite the July losses, Situational Awareness remains up about 80% on the year and holds a portfolio of investments in private companies including Anthropic. 80% return (YTD) is the type of performance for which many hedge fu
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
What is your theory of how the dominoes fall and why? My understanding of this situation (ahem) is that SI was highly leveraged and where tech (ai and adjacent) stock prices fell, they got margin called ABs were forced to liquidate. Why wou
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
There is quite a bit of information out there as to how Google is achieving short term growth in their core search business. And boy, it is ugly. It does not signal long term continued growth.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
It tickles me greatly how much HN’ers are fascinated by dithering. It seems like a few times per year a post about dithering makes the front page.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
You could replace “gesturing at” with “describing,” then explain why the description is technically wrong.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
This is very obviously a countermeasure against distillers, illicit resellers, and the like. The scale and competence of the Chinese black (grey?) market has become a serious threat that can’t be ignored.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
I think it is dead obvious to anyone willing to be honest that the value created by more satellites absolutely dwarfs the value of ground based telescopes.
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
Surely you don't think the two are equivalent, right? Biden was clearly experiencing major cognitive decline over the course of his presidency. Trump was/is not. I've not seen any serious argument or evidence that Trump has e
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
Wait, what? People were offended by that? It seemed an apt cover in light of the situation. For those unaware, the economist ran this [1] image after Biden’s historically disastrous debate in ‘24 (as a result of Biden’s age based senility b
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by next_xibalba 2mo ago
Fortunately, no one owns space, so we don’t have to listen to these decels.
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
It is a violation of their terms of service. There are plenty of good reasons to not use Anthropic's services. If you don't like their terms of service, do stop using them! I personally think Anthropic's increasingly successf
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
People keep throwing this idea around haphazardly, but U.S. courts have pretty consistently decided that training on copyrighted works falls under fair use. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it "illegal".
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
> Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it There are enough neuroscience experiments demonstrating how we create post hoc explanations of our actions that I wouldn&#x27
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
Here is the abstract of the paper this article is about(Global Capital and Local Assets: House Prices, Quantities, and Elasticities): “”” We estimate price elasticities of housing supply for U.S. cities by examining the impact of foreign pu
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
4,000 employees (pre layoff). That’s quite large.
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
Sure. But if we have enough surveillance cameras, we can just trace the full path of the car from the moment of theft to now. I'm reminded of Gorgon Stare [1]. Stolen cars suck. But how about murders? I'm sure all of the people wh
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
I'd love to know how the demographics of steam's actual users compare against those represented on the marketing page ( https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine ).
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by next_xibalba 3mo ago
This is not true. Broadcom is a public company. It doesn't have a single or even majority owner.

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