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by stellar678 7d ago
Apple continues to Microsoftify themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvX3laQlg14
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by stellar678 3mo ago
Thing about Doctorow is, his primary driver is rage-based attention on himself. He seems to have very little regard for evidence or facts if that gets in the way of a rage-inducing story. His appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast a couple
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by stellar678 4mo ago
Presuming that conventions, standards, best-practices will continue to evolve as people do this work - whether with or without AI - I can't see any reason why the resulting advancements wouldn't be published in a way that builds
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by stellar678 11mo ago
Why not just buy Apple if you’re looking for a company focused on extracting profits from a cash cow rather than risky innovation with big potential upside and downside?
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by stellar678 1y ago
I kinda wondered about this forever as well. Then one day I was chilling in my local worker-owned cooperative bakery when the Brinks truck came by to do the bakery's cash pickup. Armed driver. Guard waiting next to the truck holding a
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by stellar678 1y ago
> Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap More than you can say for the Boeing launch that took the astronauts up last summer.
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by stellar678 4y ago
There's active research suggesting that taking MDMA re-opens "critical period" learning where you lay down reward circuitry relating to the value of social interaction. It's potentially a way to have a do-over of importa
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by stellar678 5y ago
Sprawl patterns are not caused by natural market forces. They are caused and enabled by land-use zoning that uses state force to limit the use of private property, along with massive market distortions like government-funded freeways and th
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by stellar678 5y ago
Thanks for the link, very interesting. The maps that I see are presented as possible candidates for how to meet the housing goals, not a fait-accompli - and they're overwhelmingly concentrated near 101 and the Bay. I doubt that Marin C
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by stellar678 5y ago
Can you describe a bit more clearly what the state is requiring of towns around Point Reyes? Looking at the top line numbers of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation plan - the Bay Area needs to make space for an additional 440k homes in th
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by stellar678 5y ago
Hmmm. I grew up in rural Northern California and we had propane that would be trucked in. Is that what you mean by having a tank? I don't live there any more, but my old neighbors tend to be buying backup generators now so they can kee
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by stellar678 5y ago
I feel like we live in the same building with an ancient boiler and HOA neighbors who are extremely cost sensitive! I do wonder if there's a reasonable heat pump retrofit for old buildings with boiler-based heating. Ultimately you&#x27
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by stellar678 5y ago
The thing is "I absolutely must have gas installed in my house for cooking" turns into "well let's buy the gas water heater, and the gas central heating, and the gas dryer" and all of a sudden you're using was
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by stellar678 6y ago
You can just make your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239
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by stellar678 6y ago
I'd venture that you're looking at hundreds of people at harvest time for 720 acres of lettuce. I suppose the spikey nature of the labor demand is another reason why automation could be a better approach.
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Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine, Drug Addiction and Depression(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by stellar678 6y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 6y ago
In other news, water is wet. Is it surprising to people who are working from home, that the office they used to work in and cannot yet return to is now vacant? People have been calling the collapse of San Francisco since the gold rush. It&#
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by stellar678 6y ago
Cities only operate under authority delegated to them by their state anyway. So seems pretty reasonable to think of it as state owned/controlled, even if the municipality is the legal entity that owns the land.
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by stellar678 6y ago
The Bay Area could host the entire population of the United States with ~850 sq ft of land area per person. As it is, we currently allocate ~29,500 sq ft of land area per person. Surely we can find a middle ground somewhere in the name of
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by stellar678 6y ago
There actually is a company that has a microorganism-produced casein that's on the market and can be bought as vegan ice cream at Smitten in the Bay Area: https://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ Then there's the Real Veg
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by stellar678 6y ago
My sleep study with Kaiser just involved wearing a wristband computer thing on my wrist that recorded data from an optical sensor on my finger while I slept at home. Nobody was watching.
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by stellar678 6y ago
Among other things, I'd expect this is because YC is trying to break free of the idea that the only way to be a successful startup founder is to be a young, single, attachment-free man. Successful startups are created by all kinds of p
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by stellar678 6y ago
I loved seeing 10 year old kids riding their bikes around the parks of Stockholm after dark in the summertime. Hell, I see the same thing in the recently-fixed Snow Park in Oakland. There's no natural law that says kids can't play
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by stellar678 6y ago
It would be great if people writing articles like this (I hesitate to call them journalists these days) could take the time to provide more context. According to the county dashboard, Alameda County had 2,564 cases on May 20, 2 days after T
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by stellar678 6y ago
Yep, pretty much exactly that. The supermarket basil (I think it's Genovese Basil) feels a bit more delicate than the ones he shows there, the result being that maybe 1/3 of the cuttings just rotted away in the water. But 2/3
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by stellar678 6y ago
I finally figured out how to keep a supermarket basil plant alive, how to promote new growth and slow down flowering. And I've also succeeded at rooting and planting it - so now I have 5 supermarket basil plants! It's really grati
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by stellar678 6y ago
I'm super curious - what were symptoms of your sleep deprivation that you took to be positive qualities?
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by stellar678 6y ago
Facebook/Twitter/et al created the systems which focus people's attention and incentivize the production of divisive poor quality information in the first place - why shouldn't they take responsibility for fixing their m
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by stellar678 6y ago
I think the whole point of hacking a CPAP is that it's already got the control and sensors that could allow a doctor to use it without injuring a patient. It's just a matter of exposing that via the software.
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by stellar678 6y ago
Given that it covers the eyes, seems better than a surgical mask. Surgical masks aren't really filtering anything microscopic that's floating in the air, just blocking spit and other macro stuff.

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