windowpains

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by windowpains 8mo ago
I’ve always defaulted to no.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
I wonder if a similar thing makes managers dumb. As a manager, you have people doing work you oversee, a very similar dynamic to using an AI assistant. Sometimes the AI/subordinate makes a mistake, so you have to watch for that, but fo
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by windowpains 8mo ago
This is a lot of it. Urban liberals see rural working class as backward and racist and uncultured. Just having a non-coastal accent (eg southerners) is treated as a marker of low character in our media. I recall how GW Bush’s accent was tre
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by windowpains 8mo ago
If only we built reservoirs to keep the water for the drought years it would be great news.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
I worry more about Indian scammers than Chinese scammers, not that Chinese are more moral but so many Indians work in call centers already it’s extremely difficult to tell which ones are not scammers.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Turns out, Putin was a genius after all. And maybe the optics of Gaza wasn’t helpful either, that seemed to be the moment Macron et al finally turned against the west.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Someone here probably works for Alex Karp and can give us the low down. I’d imagine it’s a virtual clone of some sort which can be put into simulated environments and observed.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
You say “a CEO” like it’s just a fungible human unit. In reality, a CEO is much much more valuable than a median human. Think of how many shareholders are impacted, many little old grey haired grannies, dependent on their investments for fo
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Can’t they just watch everyone? I mean too much data is only a problem until you have AI.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
We also pay the counter tariffs. As Americans, we basically pay for everything, even for other Americans. I read Modi was going to tariff lentils at 30%, idk for Putin’s oil or something (?), didn’t really read it closely since it could be
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by windowpains 8mo ago
The best thing these countries could do would be to increase military spending to protect against Trump (and actual enemies like Putin whom they’ve enabled by their idiotic energy deals and “not my problem” approach to defense spending). I
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by windowpains 8mo ago
The cold weather there may be a great way to prepare for the assault on Greenland. (Mostly joking :)
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by windowpains 8mo ago
The non-sequiter conclusion you make will hopefully make others dismiss your post, as they should. You have normal cholesterol, the atherogenic hypothesis applies to those with high ldl, or more precisely high apo b. The bmj editorial you l
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by windowpains 8mo ago
I remember how popular the Yugo was, and then the Geo metro. Nobody wants good cars, they want cheap transportation.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Let me tell you about real life. I’m a caregiver and leaving the home is simply not an option. Short trips to the store, a walk around the block, maybe, if it’s before sundown, provided the person I’m caring for is in the right mental state
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Despite everything we now know about Wikipedia, I still think it’s one of the better websites of the early 00s.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
I doubt the downvotes are political. This is hn after all.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
That line on the chart labeled “profit” is really going to go up now!
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by windowpains 8mo ago
In the 90s you’d get flamed on Usenet for posting pseudo-anonymously. Even in early 00’s sites like /. Carried that forward with “anonymous coward” iirc.
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by windowpains 8mo ago
Always give the benefit of doubt. Perhaps him acting aggressively and blocking you was a misunderstood attempt at humor. A lot of comments I make online are tongue in cheek but people take everything very seriously. Adding emojis doesn’t so
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by windowpains 8mo ago
He was from a kinder more tolerant time, when people thought being non-anonymous online was safe. Sort of the same problem that others from his generation, Julian Assange, many others had. But I wonder if time won’t prove these people right
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by windowpains 8mo ago
I like jpow so I’m biased for sure. But when I zoom out, I think the thing some people are missing is the arbitrage aspect. With US politics, we typically get a choice between two people. Often it’s a choice between the lesser evil. Many of
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by windowpains 8mo ago
The EFF, FOSS, Stallman, Barlow, so many things seem childish or naive now, but not back then. Maybe it’s just me. I wish I could go back.