sha256kira

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by sha256kira 5y ago
And didn't cloud seeding used to be chemical-based where this is electrical? Does that make this less sketchy?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
I do find that I have time for side projects even with my wife and I working full time with a one year old but some / most weeks I feel like Im going to drop dead and that is in part because I find myself with little time for exercise
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by sha256kira 5y ago
The last time I went to Wisconsin and New York it seemed way greener than ~8 years ago. So make that sample size three (or maybe even four?)!
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Great links! Other related rabbit holes to go down might be Adam Curtis (kinda obvious) and Liu Cixin. Anyone else have any good living scifi authors indirectly or directly dealing with related ideas?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Any other projects (especially software or web related) you can recommend in this same spirit? Or maybe hackathons / conventions / irc / discord communities etc. for software engineers interested in getting involved?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Thats such an excellent succinct counterpoint to all the doomer nihilism we tend to slip into on HN. I feel like this should be on some kind of open source tshirt or commemorative plate.
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by sha256kira 5y ago
omg I love that farming bot project! perfect concrete example after reading that manifesto :^) super inspired
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by sha256kira 5y ago
yes... go on?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Agreed. The great filter and collapse theory in general are fascinating in theory and can motivate some great positive action but they can't undermine the fact that humans beings are doing better than they've ever done in our hist
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Can somebody please explain the SO2 thing? Im googling to no avail...
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Personally Im into Cornel West but I do agree that the phenomena of celebrity academics / philosophers needs to be discussed more openly and critically.
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by sha256kira 5y ago
And unlike every other Ivy League school it doesn't have a graduate fine are art dept. Even more retro.
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by sha256kira 5y ago
A lot of talk on HN about drop-shipping lately, wondering what it is exactly? Why its good / bad?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
I didnt read it as a criticism necessarily. Qrencode is just awesome. I like that someone made a UI for this though so non-ghost-in-the-shell folks can get down with this awesome use of QR code dopeness :^)
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by sha256kira 5y ago
I think even the apolitical stuff causes a different flavor of the same anxiety though on some deeper level based on the comparing-your-insides-to-other-peoples-outsides phenomena. What I cant figure out is why so many of my artist friends
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by sha256kira 5y ago
I agree, I like the ephemeral nature of stories in theory at least (Mark Zuckerberg cackles in the distance somewhere).
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Its become the defacto central hub of the art world, especially with the exacerbated decline of in-person small and large art galleries. For the overwhelming majority of emerging / non-established artists, if you aren't on instagr
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Whats bitcoin again?
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by sha256kira 5y ago
I dont like them per say, but they worked for me when I had to learn data structures and algos under a lot of pressure. What I noticed (and what I tell my students now) is that they can help you get to a point where you get enough muscle me
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Whoever you are you made my day, please post more comments on HN. For the good of humanity, for the children, for me.
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by sha256kira 5y ago
Ive been very happy with this one. Bought it mainly for fire season out here in California but seems good for monitoring the collapse of human civilization too. https://www.amazon.com/humai-HI-100-Quality-Device-House/d