prions

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by prions 2y ago
Mopeds can only operate on streets, they cant go in bikelanes or sidewalks. They are subject to the same restrictions as cars (licensure, registration) except that they uniquely have a speed limit Not having a speed limit is unique only to
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by prions 2y ago
Class B and C mopeds in NYC are speed limited and require a license and registration
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by prions 2y ago
Bit funny how the article states that the systems are unobtrusive as to be essentially useless, which ignores the fact that these systems are defanged to appease entitled speeders. Governments around the world impose various requirements on
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by prions 2y ago
It looks really interesting, but as an experienced climber I'm not sure if just watching a video of my avatar climbing would really help with skill acquisition. Also, this claims that the wall type or video quality doesn't matter,
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by prions 3y ago
Not new. Seeing as the NYPD also surveils people well outside of the city: https://www.nj.com/news/2012/02/nypd_muslims.html
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by prions 3y ago
Comparing YC to Bell Labs, which had deep ties to academia, misses the entire philosophy of YC and Paul Graham. He constantly talks about academia being a hive of orthodoxy, and positions "smart people" as those who can think arou
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by prions 3y ago
How many times does the hard libertarian view on forums have to be debunked until people stop trying to pitch it as a serious solution? Even 4chan has stronger moderation than what you advocate
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by prions 3y ago
It's not a "Tangential remark" if your tangent is 10 times longer than your commentary on the article! > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-butt
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by prions 3y ago
> Supportive. We build models to support our users, not replace them. We are focused on efficient, specialized, and practical AI performance – not a quest for god-like intelligence. We develop tools that help everyday people and everyday
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by prions 4y ago
The author also cites this paper as support: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2580324?origin=crossref#metadat... Instead of bashing the author and his credentials, maybe you should engage with the argument hes making instea
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by prions 4y ago
I work in this space (podcast ads) and the podcast ads tech maturity is years behind other media, like video, due to RSS. This lag is also reflected in that advertisers generally spend less on podcasting. RSS makes it very difficult to meas
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by prions 4y ago
> The US-wide heat map aligns pretty well with agricultural and industrial pollution, not necessarily wildfires. Let's not turn every last thing into a climate change debate. Does agricultural and industrial pollution not contribute
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by prions 4y ago
Stream quality and catalog sizes are both legal issues with music rights holders and have nothing to do with streaming innovation. Unless you consider Apple having a boatload of money to make legal issues go away a kind of innovation.
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by prions 4y ago
Because the aggrieved aren’t satisfied only by Elon taking over twitter and taking it in a different direction, they also believe that those currently at twitter deserve harsh punishment for whatever role they had in twitter.
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by prions 4y ago
There have been a lot of people cheering twitters downfall because they feel personally or politically vindicated. But it’s especially bewildering to see how many people here on Hn completely cheer on the absolute disrespect and humiliation
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by prions 4y ago
Without getting into the weeds of it, I'd say smooth out the rough edges in your development experience and make it behave as similar to prod as possible. If there's less friction there's less incentive to cut corners and mak
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by prions 4y ago
IMO Data engineering is already a specialized form of software engineering. However what people interpret as DE's being slow to adopt best practices from traditional software engineering is more about the unique difficulties of working
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by prions 4y ago
Same with Fly.io, SQLite, Hetzner, etc. Hackernews is a pretty effective way to advertise to developers.
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CEO of Kraken, the Cryptocurrency Exchange, Steps Down(nytimes.com)
31 points by prions 4y ago|17 comments
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by prions 4y ago
So Twitter isn't important except for: * influential politicians * journalists * Jerome powell "... though there's some evidence that Jay Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, may consult it for ideas on monetary polic
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by prions 4y ago
The trueup data casts a pretty wide net. Seeing Microsoft on that list and makes the impression that layoffs are hitting FAANGs in a similar way to high growth startups, but those layoffs were due to Microsoft pulling out of Russia. https:
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by prions 4y ago
I don’t understand how comparing Trudeau to Hitler is a reasonable position.
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by prions 4y ago
IFS patient here as well. Totally agree on how powerful it can be, and how deep of a connection you can get with some far off parts of yourself. I find the whole concept a great mental model of how my mind works. Also as a software engineer
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by prions 4y ago
So all of the data for https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership/ is fake?
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by prions 4y ago
So the author points to a link claiming 12% of Ukrainians own crypto, yet triple-a creates a circular reference in trying to substantiate this claim: - The author refers to: https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-ukraine/
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by prions 4y ago
First off, I'd recommend you explore art on a personal level before you start looking to apply it outwardly. What mediums do you like? What's your style? Where does your inner drive to make art come from? Art can be incredibly rew
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Yandex collects data from mobile phones before sending the information to Russia(arstechnica.com)
7 points by prions 4y ago|0 comments
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by prions 4y ago
Because that group values personal ownership of technology, and their aversion to the "you will own nothing and be happy" philosophy as antithetical to their own.
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by prions 4y ago
People who criticize Apple for forcing their users to spend tons of money on new phones every year (via forced obsolescence) should be cheering this decision. The techno-libertarian wing of HN will be incensed about this decision, but this
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by prions 5y ago
Mask off time. I wonder how @dang will handle egregious racism disguised as "data".

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