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by yowayb 3d ago
great explanation, thank you! aside, re: 'socialism', Moscow has no ads, and I have to admit it certainly helps with aesthetics.
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by yowayb 4d ago
This was cited in the Austrian school of economics. I've found the Austrian school of economics to be sensible. But...actual American economics is like the opposite.
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by yowayb 5d ago
I think this is true. I also think a lot of co-workers actually like each other.
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by yowayb 16d ago
I have fond high school memories at gas stations
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by yowayb 17d ago
I once paid $3500 for a very deep and low chaise lounger/sofa. It was very high quality. You did have to get used to having your feet on the seat because it was so deep, but it was a great guest bed. But more importantly, to me, at the
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by yowayb 17d ago
Simple but true. I think some famous people said something about this. I think true from every vantage point. I think this is also very compatible with the parent post. Some leadership are not very good at creating good incentives. Actually
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by yowayb 4mo ago
A lot of money is made this way. It'll take an act of Congress (or something on that level) but many of us are already "on the take" so to speak, so I doubt it'll ever happen.
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by yowayb 4mo ago
Years ago I joined a spiritual workshop called The Art of Living in San Francisco. There was a lot of mindfulness, and the instructor followed the curriculum, except for one particular exercise. The exercise was 2 parts. First, you put away
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by yowayb 5mo ago
There's never been a single day in history without war. Indeed, there's never been a moment in all of biological life without violent conflict. In high school, I had a visitor from West Point. My dad (Killing Fields survivor) was
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by yowayb 5mo ago
Vietnam is extremely safe because there are communities everywhere. There are old folks watching young folks. One viet friend said there's an expression "rice-powered cameras" which refers to people that start filming when so
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Gemini CLI accessed outside permited directory, then admits fault(twitter.com)
2 points by yowayb 5mo ago|2 comments
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by yowayb 5mo ago
I created a Gemini project and trusted just that folder. I custom built godot with a module in a sibling directory, which it shouldn't have access to, but was able to run 'strings' on the binary. When I asked, it admitted fau
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by yowayb 5mo ago
For me, this is the point of the article. People fought and the best decision was the result. And I suspect there's a fundamental cultural difference that makes the fight much less fair in America.
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by yowayb 5mo ago
I used to have bassdrive on. So good.
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by yowayb 6mo ago
Sorry I didn't mention maturity matters. "The game" is truly complex, so 2 more things: First, nearly every western girl goes thru a "hoe" phase. This is when they're figuring themselves out. And we go thru thi
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by yowayb 6mo ago
Yes "the game" is actually impossibly complex for any book to capture, and I agree much tech has made it more challenging in many ways. I do have to recognize that quite a few of my friends found their wives online. That said, I t
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by yowayb 6mo ago
In 2013, I went to Pebble Beach for an expensive car show. I met a couple guys that started newlydivorceddating.com. They told me they purchased thousands of fake starter profiles, so the site wouldn't seem dead. Tangent: I was a &quot
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by yowayb 6mo ago
This is going to sound a bit wild, and only viable under 70 or so, but I've met a lot of 55-70 expats in walkable southeast asian cities. There's obviously varying circumstances so do the research, but you can almost get adopted b
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by yowayb 6mo ago
I've personally found that the most comfortable human spaces incorporate layers of exposure as described in the article. I also find our cats' preferences to mirror ours (even when we're not around), with the added depth of h
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by yowayb 6mo ago
SCIP is a "nod" to SICP
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by yowayb 6mo ago
As a nomad, can confirm. Coming back to America, the scale and quality of materials is remarkable.
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by yowayb 7mo ago
There has never been a moment in the known history of humanity without war going on somewhere in the world.
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I wish there was a way for HN to sponsor scale up so that sites have more availability for the HN hug of death
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I've thought the same about a few of my founders/executives. "You either die the good guy or live long enough to become the bad guy" The "bad guy" actually learns that their former good guy mentality was too si
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I'm curious if there's any hard data on how LLM SEO compares to traditional SEO. My gut tells me that LLM SEO will be harder to game than traditional SEO.
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I cherish my UCSD education and (equally, if not more) all the socializing that came with it. The concept (and aims) of university faces the same headwinds of any business based on intellectual property in America: artificial moats of IP la
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I have a theory that corruption+nepotism are unstoppable forces of nature. Advanced governments only force corruption to distribute and obfuscate. I think this is why there appears to be some correlation between unpopular behavior and finan
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by yowayb 7mo ago
iirc, when Eliza came out, many people briefly believed it was sentient
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by yowayb 7mo ago
I think this paragraph from the wikipedia article captures it nicely: >Many observers disagree that any meaningful "productivity paradox" exists and others, while acknowledging the disconnect between IT capacity and spending, v
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by yowayb 7mo ago
How is this distinguishable from pump-dump?

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