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7 months ago
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on: More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves
After one season of bee keeping I concluded the same thing. Its horrifying how poorly bees are treated in this industry to control parasites (forced exposure to acidic gas)
I sold my hives and will probably never buy honey again, much in the same way I avoid factory farmed meat.
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9 months ago
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on: AI: Accelerated Incompetence
Your job will disappear even faster with your head that deep in the sand. At least learning the new tools you can carve out a new role/career for yourself.
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9 months ago
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on: Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails
but Social media companies suppress human curation in favor of their algorithmic recommendations; while human curation doesn't scale as a business model, it still competes for attention—and is thus marginalized.
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10 months ago
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on: The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
you're right. Now delete that app!
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11 months ago
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on: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.
Vegas is fun, but not fun enough to justify having to worry about this stuff. My days of visiting the USA are over.
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11 months ago
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on: The belay test and the modern American climbing gym
Good thing you werent about to fall off the route!
The older i grow the more I've come to realize that its not uncommon for people to lack awareness about risk and consequences. These days it takes me many outings with a climber partner to truly trust them. This is why it always blows my mind when i see people going out on multi pitch climbs with people they've never climbed with before.
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1 year ago
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on: Eggs US – Price – Chart
highly agree. after using a cone anything else seems haphazard and cruel.
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1 year ago
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on: Dwarf Fortress Steam Version Just Got Even Better
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1 year ago
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on: For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
that's the thing about resetting to default settings... sometimes your custom preferences were useful and they'll some time to reconfigure
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2 years ago
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on: Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall
Not only ugly, but unstable and sketchy. I wouldn't go near that wall.
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2 years ago
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on: Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence
you must be a be fan of chatgpt :)
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2 years ago
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on: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
i found that it showed me the path to that happy place, and now that i know the route, i can find my way back from time to time. Of course without mdma i can't stay there for long, but when i do visit its sublime and doesn't involve the multi week depression afterwards
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2 years ago
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on: A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis
Ask it to do a role play as a doctor, or maybe just rephrase your question so it's less of a request for advice, but instead a discussion of scientific data/facts. It should be easy to get around thus guardrail.
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2 years ago
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on: California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
what strain of mushrooms?
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2 years ago
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on: AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
i think you might be focusing too much on ai risk presented in fantasy (killer robots), meanwhile we can already clearly see how LLMs negatively impact society via disruption or popular opinion, politics (recommendation algorithms), and rapid uncontrolled scientific discovery. Such disruptions could potentially result in nuclear war, human created plagues, etc. You might be getting down voted without comment because you're message comes across like cheerleading that only examines one future distant risk. Your framing as "extential fear" is particularly dismissive and doesn't seem to be in good faith for such a serious and subject.
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2 years ago
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on: The entire finance industry will repeat this quote for a thousand years
and yet you're willing to admit to your shady style on hn and describe that style as "best". its no wonder your industry is looked upon with disgust.
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2 years ago
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on: Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain
don't worry, we'll be gone soon and some sort of life on earth will go on
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3 years ago
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on: Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor [video]
having participated in both activities, I can concur the frustration was very similar.
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3 years ago
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on: Why did so many US men quit working? Social status may hold the key, study says
well we know exactly what sort of message little girls receive in this patriarchal society, so in this discussion we need to be careful to not dismiss simple and non-extreme feminist values. Are we really seeing an "extreme power imbalance"? Or is it just a leveling of power with a bunch of men freaking out because their inherited privliage is disappearing?
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3 years ago
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on: Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought
a child is a ridiculously expensive, time consuming, and undependable insurance policy
