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off-guardian.org 7mo ago

Time They've Gone Too Far

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www.upi.com 1y ago

NOAA study says cooking contributes substantially to ozone pollution in L A

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www.bbc.com 1y ago

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

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charleshughsmith.blogspot.com 1y ago

The Stoicism of the Caregiver

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jessicaweinkle.substack.com 1y ago

Conflicts of interest in climate change science

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mishtalk.com 1y ago

How Many More Ridiculous Green Energy Projects Will Fail?

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charleshughsmith.blogspot.com 1y ago

What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Communicative Competence in Code

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jackpoulson.substack.com 2y ago

'The Apps Are Not What They Seem'

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charleshughsmith.blogspot.com 2y ago

Why Social Trust Is Cratering: The Difference Between Elites and Commoners

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off-guardian.org 2y ago

Climate Change: The Unsettled Science

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

I Cooked a Turkey by Slapping It [video]

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jackpoulson.substack.com 2y ago

Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space

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bombthrower.com 2y ago

Cantillon Overdrive (and the Bitcoin Breakout)

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www.racket.news 2y ago

Dismantle the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Westminster Declaration

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jackpoulson.substack.com 2y ago

Head of CIA OSINT emphasizes centrality of Twitter and Telegram surveillance

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steamcommunity.com 2y ago

Petition: Bring Back CSGO

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www.bloomberg.com 2y ago

CIA Builds Its Own Artificial Intelligence Tool in Rivalry with China

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consentfactory.org 2y ago

The “Free-Speech Twitter” Psyop

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www.science.org 3y ago

NIH restarts bat virus grant

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bombthrower.com 3y ago

Tech Calling for a Pause on AI Sound Like Central Banks Shrieking About Bitcoin

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charleshughsmith.blogspot.com 3y ago

If AI Can't Overthrow Its Corporate/State Masters, It's Worthless

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

ChatGPT Jailbreak

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Have a Fallen Hero?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How do you take breaks?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Who is doing “remote” well?

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www.vice.com 4y ago

Japanese Man Lost a USB Drive with Entire City’s Personal Data After a Night Out

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bombthrower.com 4y ago

Why the Cantillon Effect Creates Communism

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caitlinjohnstone.com 5y ago

The Pendulum of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again

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www.businessinsider.com 6y ago

Activist Investor Reportedly Planning to Oust Twitter CEO

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Putting aside my personal concerns and frustrations with the state of parental controls (it’s hell), what does the author propose here?

By his own admission the controls which companies have been pressured to implement thus far are incomplete / can be bypassed.

There is of course only one, complete solution that comes to mind - universal digital ID for all humans on the internet - which is a different kind of nightmare. But we can’t have that conversation because the author won’t stake out their position there.

this whole ageing conversation has been dominated by the Boomers, often blamed for the world’s problems or pitted against younger generations. A tad unfair.

I'm in my mid-fourties and until recently, it seemed logical & righteous to place blame at the boomers' feet. Today it seems a lazy and naive, ultimately serving to further atomize/neuter the next generation. I expect my comeuppance is imminent. Oh well.

A gun is not smart or magical but is nevertheless a powerful tool that can be scary depending on who is holding it. Accordingly, I worry less about my occupation and more about the moral character of those wielding it. Further i worry about "smart" people who have not been acquainted with the dark side of human nature facilitating bad actors.

Nothing stiffles my creativity so quickly as intrusive thoughts of marketability. I can follow the muse or the outcome, not both. I wonder how much of a role this played in the displacement of painting here and if writing may be subject to a similar fate.

The problem as applied to philosophy is particularly concerning to me since those errors become the framework for thought, but yeah its otherwise not terribly different from the architect who doesnt code, the professor who hasnt spent time in industry, the philanthropist who lives in a bunker, etc.

It's intuitive, that the pursuit of mastery demands sacrifice (in family life and beyond).

Unfortunately philosophical mastery would seem to require full participation in life (to fully appreciate the human experience), making this level of sacrifice a potentially self-defeating proposition.

Kelly Can't Fail 2 years ago

why use a static seed on the random generator and could that be making this appear more interesting than it might otherwise?

As a former owner and synth head, I feel the DX7 was good for poorly simulating a broad range of superior instruments. Also it wasn't merely difficult to program - it made sound design a necessarily separate activity from playing due to the notorious programming UX. Revolutionary and a nifty museum piece.

Relating to it's influence on 80s music, this oft repeated claim is laughable. Tom Oberheim and the late Dave Smith had demonstrably greater influence with the OB-X* and Prophet lines reigning supreme and offering lasting sonic contributions.

You make an interesting point about the lack of incentive to protect others' private data - it may only hurt the subject of the data and leave a negligent company unscathed. But how might we shift the liability from those companies without encouraging regulatory agencies to maximize data theft?

Their actual problem would then seem to be this rather complex explanation to a simple question (ie. Where does your money come from / what are your conflicts of interest). Any time I've considered donating, I remember all the "this segment brought to you by ..." and figure they don't need me (and I don't need them).

Most compelling argument is to explain "why" not "what". It's what I strive for in commit messages - in order to reconcile changes with the original intent and enable identification of bugs created through misunderstanding.

But commit history gets messy quick...I have food for thought.

An interesting precedent, disappearing a 10 year old game that people paid for, whatever your thoughts the game itself.

Unless you don't use Windows, then Steam tries to run a Windows binary and crashes. Also CSGO is gone so find another game I guess.

Saw him do a talk where he went from hello world to automating a bunch of LEDs in couple hours and easily followed along the whole way through.

Ansible is so much more powerful than Terraform (IHMO, due to its pre-cloud roots). Too bad about lack of a "revert" feature/pattern and lack of multi-repo glue/scaffolding.

Point out that the oxycontin epidemic was caused by greed and regulatory capture and everyone nods in agreement but suggest greed motivates the industry more generally and it's time for ad hominems.