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1 year ago
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on: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
One thing you can do is shun employees of associated companies (Amazon, Tesla, Facebook) and refuse to give them a job. That requires some sacrifice though.
sleazy_b
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1 year ago
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on: Branded types for TypeScript
sleazy_b
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2 years ago
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on: The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
They got there by getting us to the point we’re at now, by burning fossil fuels and offloading many of their social ills to other regions. By all means, let’s improve education and get more money in people’s pockets. But degrowth is much more likely to be accomplished through fascism than by raising the standard of living globally in a way that preserves regional independence.
sleazy_b
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2 years ago
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on: The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
How is that easy to accomplish nationally let alone globally? What if there’s places that buck the trend, or don’t want to incentivize low birth rates in this way?
sleazy_b
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2 years ago
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on: The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
Do you have children? How do you propose to convince or force others not to have children without devolving into something that could reasonably be called “eco-fascism”?
sleazy_b
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2 years ago
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on: Tabletop RPGs we played in 2023
There are so many great games out right now but, like many others, I’ve found myself returning to games like Old School Essentials and other games from the Old School Renaissance. I’ve been inconsistently playing in this game -
https://attronarch.com/wilderlands - and dying a fair amount . That game is perhaps more lethal than most, but the stories I’ve come away with have made it maybe the best game I’ve participated in.
sleazy_b
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3 years ago
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on: Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
Catherine Liu's short book Virtue Hoarders has this thesis, arguing that the class that this language is a marker of is the professional managerial class (PMC), a social class originally posited by the John and Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s. I can't recommend the book too highly but I think it was correct in most of its observations.
sleazy_b
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4 years ago
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on: The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright
Missing from this article is any discussion of Wright’s This Other World, a large collection of haiku written while he was in exile in France toward the end of his life. For those who are less into his political fiction these poems are a great introduction to his writing.
sleazy_b
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5 years ago
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on: Eight Years at Roblox
I think the point is that people have different ideas about what the focus needs to be on.
sleazy_b
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5 years ago
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on: Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
I think they are real. Just because they are a temporary state or contradicted by other real feelings doesn’t make them not real. For me it has been helpful to remember that how I’m feeling now is not the only way I’ll feel and how I’m thinking about a subject is not the only way I have to think about that subject. Feelings and thoughts change, as you said.
sleazy_b
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5 years ago
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on: My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
That was really great and explained it really well, thanks!
sleazy_b
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5 years ago
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on: More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern
I’m not super educated on the subject but am I wrong to think that basically all large non-domesticated mammals will go extinct over the next few generations? It doesn't look like humans are inclined to do anything about the climate and these animals seem particularly vulnerable.
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: Computer Music with Python
I’ve been really interested in dsp for music and computer music for a while now but am kind of at a loss as to where to learn more after having gone through Xavier Serra’s excellent Coursers class. Can anyone recommend further resources for learning about the subject?
sleazy_b
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5 years ago
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on: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
A review of the plant’s page on Wikipedia shows that it did indeed have a number of low level incidents. Do you have any sources about those being the true cause of the shutdown?
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: What we can learn from Camus’s “The Plague”
This was the great lesson of this book for me, and it is a constant inspiration to me.
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
Glad to see this here. Really took away a lot of the "magic" that intimidated be about the lower level operations of computers.
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: Verlan: French slang that inverses words
Sure I think MF DOOM is a good place to start especially his Madvillainy album with the producer Madlib which is really well regarded. More recent stuff I enjoy is Mick Jenkins from Chicago, his 2014 The Waters mixtape was also really well reviewed. Aesop Rock is also generally thought of as a really good technical rapper. His album None Shall Pass from the Def Jux days is really good though I prefer Skelethon which has less word play but is also brilliant.
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: Verlan: French slang that inverses words
I'm not sure if this is what you meant but there's a ton of word play in American Hip-Hop, it's pretty core to the genre. Literally any rapper you pick will be doing some amount of word play.
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: Disk Prices on Amazon
This website appears to be messing with my history? After clicking some filters I can't go back.
sleazy_b
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Vim Plugin DoGe: [Do]cumentation [Ge]nerator (10+ Languages)
I'm always impressed when I look at vim plugins. I've fiddled with some vimscript and mostly bounced right off it.
