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Show HN: Plurnk (Yet *Another* AI Harness)(github.com)
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by wikitopian 4y ago
California can't support as many people as you wish it could and replacing its SFH suburbs with cramped mixed income efficiency apartments would be an aesthetic, ecological, and socioeconomic disaster.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I hope the feds hunt down and arrest everybody who used multiple slurp juices on a single ape. There's XMR, some interesting little projects like DERO, and a vast sea of tokenomic pyramid scheme garbage that governments can and should
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by wikitopian 4y ago
JavaScript Creek
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by wikitopian 4y ago
We might have lost the ability to solve problems and create solutions with approachable yet powerful programming environments. But think about all the abstractions, frameworks, platforms, paradigms, and design patterns we now get to learn!
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I remember back when cryptokitties came out KNOWING that useful real world blockchain applications were right around the corner. Simpler, happier times.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
But why is the pop music industry stagnant, though? There are fewer producers, executives, and financial/logistical obstacles to creatively expressing ourselves with music than ever. Has everything been expressed? Are we as a people be
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by wikitopian 4y ago
We've got to learn that this is an inevitable consequence of our appetite for automation and scale. If your business is important enough that it can't risk falling into the endless hellpit of automated, anonymous, hyperscaled infr
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by wikitopian 4y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-...
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by wikitopian 4y ago
If anything, it's the middle aged who refuse to believe that technology and music can just sort of stop progressing, while the young are downloading old music and shrugging about all the the tech hype surrounding corporate stock market
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by wikitopian 4y ago
It's always the elephant in the room with invisible illness.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I believe that the diagnostic methods for testing chronic inflammation can and must be improved, and that chronic inflammation deserves far more R&D investment than it currently receives.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Long Covid is merely a small part of a broader story of chronic inflammation and how millions and millions of people are suffering from invisible autoimmune consequences of lyme disease, STDs, and long forgotten colds and flus that triggere
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by wikitopian 4y ago
> Unless you're saying that coercion is only justified on individuals if the benefit to society are well known, probable, and sizable enough to some "threshold". This point seems too obvious to me to even warrant defending
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by wikitopian 4y ago
You do not have the right to impose your optimistic opinion about vaccines on others. And I'll do my part to see to it that you don't have the power. Importantly, threatening coercion increases resistance to vaccination, causing p
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Your argument could perhaps hold water if it were centered on the Johnson & Johnson formulation. There is no precedent for a relatively novel technology being injected into everybody in a blind panic before a great deal of testing has b
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by wikitopian 4y ago
This period is best understood as a brutal hangover from several years of market subsidized growth. We had cheap Ubers, cheap meal delivery, and free web services all paid for by a speculative bubble which is in the process of popping. Meta
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'm middle aged and obese. It appears that it was indeed suboptimal for people younger and healthier than myself to take it. It's a complex question that involved a lot of rumsfeldian known unknowns and unknown unknowns at the tim
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I chose to get vaccinated and I continue to believe it was the right decision. More data may prove me wrong. We'll see, I suppose. But research like this underscores the point that we should not be forcing or coercing vaccination. We a
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by wikitopian 4y ago
For most of the American soldiers who were deployed, the Vietnamese were a barbarous and exotic other that were trying to kill them. It would do a disservice to all of the sides of the conflict to insist that each of the films exploring it
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Maybe we should bring back buggy whip craftsmen too, so we can truly turbo-charge this economy with people who are busy doing jobby looking stuff.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I think coding on my enclosed porch in a cozy country farmhouse surrounded by nature is a beautiful thing. In comfy pajamas, all day long. Will you subsidize my aesthetic preference or does it only work one way?
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by wikitopian 4y ago
A vast subset of our economy depends on parasitically feeding off of people commuting to work. If you think they and the government institutions and their politicians who rely on their tax revenues are going to politely shut up, you're
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'm going to go with the happiness I can remember how to spell.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Climate Change should be approached as an engineering problem that threatens everybody and not packaged as a "social justice" problem against the affluent. One could as easily frame climate change as a problem caused by the global
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Some anonymous trolls gaslighting you online do not grant you a license to hate, dehumanize, and harm everybody who disagrees with your politics.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The unsettling thing about people who insist that humanity is irrelevant because it's small relative to others things is that they must necessarily believe larger people are intrinsically more relevant than shorter and thinner people.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
There is, actually. The rich can be led to believe that reducing consumption is an elite status symbol, and an opportunity for posturing among their rich friends. Though rich people will always consume more energy than poor people, there ha
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Dehumanizing and othering the opponent as beyond reason and justice in wartime is deeply immoral. Doing it over peacetime class and partisan differences is deeply immoral and really stupid.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'll see your realism and raise you one. The belief that science, technology, and environmental policy can transcend partisan politics is necessary for western society to function. If you step over that in your eagerness to apply postm

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