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by serviceberry 1y ago
I'm pretty sure that a good chunk of this article is generated by an LLM.
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by serviceberry 1y ago
Governments try stuff like that pretty regularly (you can only buy certain things with food stamps, etc), but it's typically expensive to administer and inherently prone to abuse. Buy groceries with food stamps, sell groceries, buy dru
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by serviceberry 1y ago
I don't think capital has any special attachment to real estate specifically. It's just that we have policies that essentially require your money to be invested into something (because inflation); and we turned real estate into
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by serviceberry 1y ago
> The most hated companies [...] Johnson & Johnson, 3M You're living in a serious bubble if you think people hate the company they most readily associate with shampoo or scotch tape. Almost all "most hated company" ran
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by serviceberry 1y ago
For better or worse, government jobs are perceived as something you get for life. That was part of the appeal: yeah, the pay is less than in the private sector, but they're unlikely to fire you even if you're not good or if the ro
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by serviceberry 1y ago
What's the damage to the society done by Disney holding the rights to Mickey Mouse? Like, if we're being honest? Patents, sure. They're abused and come at a cost to the society. But all we've done here is created a cultu
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by serviceberry 1y ago
It's probably a matter of pragmatism. People are gonna use instant messengers, might as well recommend the least bad one. I've seen it in corporate environments too. If you have locked-down workstations, there's usually some
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by serviceberry 1y ago
I'm guessing it's annotated by an LLM. Would be a lot of thankless work otherwise, so don't really blame the author, but it means you get the occasional nonsense summary. Edit: yeah, the "methodology" page confirms
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by serviceberry 1y ago
Note that this is gonna be skewed pretty heavily toward domains that have existed for most of HN's history, at the expense of any newer domains that had fewer chances to rack up points. If you look at any 2-4 year period, the ranking t
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by serviceberry 2y ago
More importantly, a lot of it was hidden from view. Your washing machine and laundry detergent might be not as good as 30 years ago, but... do you know that for sure? And when did that happen? Maybe you're just imagining it. Your old h
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by serviceberry 2y ago
You can run Arduino code on anything, since it's mostly just a bit of syntactic sugar around C. But I'm sure you know what I mean. My point is that people who are attracted to Arduino are, by and large, not the kind of people who
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I used to say things like that, but come on: Arduino is targeted at hobbyists. More specifically, it's targeted at hobbyists who don't want to spend too much time learning hardware . If they did, they would be using a "bare&
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Because a lot of environmental movements aren't rooted in utilitarianism, but in deeper beliefs that the endless pursuit of growth is inherently evil. The basic idea is that tigers and wolves have as much right to the planet as we do,
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by serviceberry 2y ago
The author isn't posting angry rants about it. I think one can look at it as just a quirky collection. No different from cataloging the movies that feature the Wilhelm scream, and how many articles have been written about that?
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> Like it or not, "eyes glued to phone" has become a pretty clear indicator of distraction, and I'm fine calling this out. This is not like work meetings: 99% of meaningful policy work is happening behind closed doors. The
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by serviceberry 2y ago
If superintelligence gives you superpowers, then why isn't the world trembling at the feet of Mensa nerds? There are rapidly diminishing returns on "excess" intelligence. Life is constrained chiefly by resources. There's
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> Did Slashdot really kill itself or was it just never ambitious enough to seek a broader base or try to foster communities? It's still around, but there's one simple DAU measure we can look at: it used to be that stories would
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I think some of this is on the authors of reference texts, though. I often catch myself writing what I think is a very accessible intro to a particular topic, only to re-read it a month later and be mortified by all the logical leaps, nic
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by serviceberry 2y ago
The parent's quip was that you can't rise to the top of the field. My point is that it's irrelevant. Textbooks used in college coursework are usually written by academics, for obvious reasons. Plenty of independent learning &
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? No, but so what? The guy behind 3Blue1Brown probably isn't one of the top mathematicians of his era. But he's
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do. But you already do. Unless you're working for a tiny startup, your CEO or the Board probably doesn't understand the specifics of your code. You can't run a l
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Perfect in what sense? Kickstarter is useful if you're thinking of doing something capital-intensive and need money and customers beforehand. This comes with downsides: deadlines, shipping, cranky customers, etc. This is a hobby projec
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by serviceberry 2y ago
The same reason why text LLMs show exaggerated emotions (enthusiasm about your questions, super-apologetic tone when you dislike the answer, etc). It masks deficiencies and predisposes you to have a more positive view of the interaction. Th
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Venture capital bets on returns. It's not about some objective and eternal value. A successful investment is just something that another person will buy from you for more. So yep, a lot of time, they bet on trends. Cryptocurrencies, NF
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by serviceberry 2y ago
The practical trade-off is that it is very, very difficult to secure a modern browser. Major vendors employ large teams of full-time security engineers and still ship vulnerable code with regularity. Companies such as Brave don't, bu
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a reasonable question. The lithium cation is the bioactive part and the smoke will produce it when the particles are dissolved in water. But the basic answer is that lithium is fa
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Right, but the argument here isn't that humans domesticated wolves, but that wolves self-domesticated themselves (i.e., humans tolerated adult wolves in close proximity).
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I find the self-domestication theory quite plausible for cats, but I'm having a hard time accepting it for wolves. Why would human tribes tolerate wolves in close proximity? Small cats are largely harmless and get rid of pests. Wolves
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by serviceberry 2y ago
The corollary is that if you find that post, say something . Drop the author a note, leave a comment. No one else does. For every YT celebrity, there are thousands of people posting good content on the internet and not knowing if it's
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> People prefer ads to paying. Eh. Spotify has 250 million subscribers. Netflix has 300 million. Amazon Prime has 180 million. Heck, there's something like a million people paying Twitter for a checkmark, and half a million paying R

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