whymeogod

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by whymeogod 1y ago
meditation, if you want to try a drug free approach. Make it simple. Stare at a clock with a big second hand. Take one breath every 15 seconds. Then, after a minute or so, push it out to 20 seconds, then one every 30 seconds. For the 30, my
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by whymeogod 1y ago
natural consequence when results are the sum of random processes. if you add random rolls, you get a gaussian, thanks central limit theorem. if you sum them, you get a lognormal distribution, which approximates a power law up to a cutoff
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by whymeogod 1y ago
> A lot of it may be for the auto disappearing messages, except that the conversation in question, and similar such conversations, are required by federal law to be archived. So explicitly choosing a communication channel that violates f
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by whymeogod 1y ago
"governments" may not, but the political parties running them certainly do. And changes in political parties can change what services government delivers. Heck, you don't even need a change in parties for that to happen.
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Sounds like a certain LLM I've read about
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Important to remember that his maternal grandfather and mother were ardent nazi supporters, which is why they moved from Canada to South Africa.
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Sell their tesla shares, and the sooner the better
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by whymeogod 2y ago
with kindness and respect. Ideally, "hacker news" is for people who have a hacker/engineer mindset. Look at the actual facts of the situation, not the flashy sales brochure. Odds are that your second hypothesis is the correct
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Yes, this point should be emphasized more. The aid the US gave Ukraine was the US government buying expensive things from US companies. The money stayed in the US, created US jobs and US economic growth.
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by whymeogod 2y ago
I thought the US lost in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Am I misunderstanding something in your post?
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Yes, but if the government were to spend say 10% of their GPD on defense and infrastructure (Hi, German!), some of this spending might be in grants/tax breaks to help companies make this transition. I think you underestimate what a cap
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Drone delivery is a bad idea especially in exceptional cases like a medical emergency because it is much less robust to inclement weather. emergency systems need to _just work_. Your "take a bike" solution is far superior. Thanks
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Road-based delivery requires less energy than air-based delivery, under the assumption that the roads exist (which they do, because of other reasons). This is simple physics. I see no advantage to drones in areas with a road network. Vanity
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Makes me wonder what it would be like to be a bat https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> We do attribute great value to organisms that have this image of self. My impression is we attribute great value to organisms that can effectively push back against us. respect based on force. Not saying I want things to be that way.
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by whymeogod 2y ago
No, it is not a government agency. No, it is not tasked with audits. It is not performing any audit before its actions, nor is it producing anything resembling an audit. No, audits do not require root access. And in fact root access (the ab
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by whymeogod 2y ago
You forgot to add "without proper security controls/clearances and data governance".
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> official statements say he's (Musk) not the DOGE administrator, but no one knows who is That's because they believe in maximum transparency.
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by whymeogod 2y ago
And here I thought it was an educated population who cared and held their representatives accountable to some kind of moral/ethical standard, and concepts like "rule of law". I supposed guns could be used to do that, but they
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by whymeogod 2y ago
Well, yes, because 1 is pretty close to zero, on a scale of 0 to infinity. However, if you look at their actual technical skilz: The incompetence at DOGE is staggering. Absolutely no security on their .gov webiste: https://news.y
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> The pushback seems to mostly be “I don’t like Musk in particular, and thus I don’t like that Musk in particular has this access” You are either delusional or purposely misrepresenting facts
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by whymeogod 2y ago
To add to hrow0101c's list USAID was investigating Starlink Consumer Protection Bureau has numerous investigations open vs Musky companies Treasury is involved in regulating Muskys X for Finance thing
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> Bureaucracies are just organizations of humans, who have the same motivations, biases, and incentives ans everyone else, everywhere else in society No, the biases and incentives are different in government than in business. Yes, there
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> I don't consider this to be a lie, per se, is because they make promises around goals with incomplete understanding They didn't even try to formulate an understanding. All of their actions show willful and deliberate disregar
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by whymeogod 2y ago
> I don't think they have ill intent Perhaps you could read their statements? DOGE communications are filled with ill intent, and their publicly stated goal, and the goal for which their supports seem to support them, is the destruc