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But if Musk actively identifies himself as a Nazi, how is that name-calling? His family left Canada to move to South Africa because they were in leadership roles in the Canadian Na…

Wonder if it will recommend creative uses of vegetables for hiding classified information https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126246

"freedom torches" was the exact phrase used. They were sold as a marker of female liberation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom The term was first used by psychoanal…

wouldn't that be _rectal ad absurdum_ in this case :)

LISP returns!

> we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive. Science would like to point out that rats also can learn to drive https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught…

ok, but how about if we stop funding ICE?

how good was Taleb at following his own advice? Had he tested it? As I recall he is pretty big on "skin in the game' as his differentiator.

he might mean Bernie Sanders or someone of that type

if college education produces a public good (a more competent workforce), then it should be funded through public funds-- government should pay for education. If it does in fact le…

Soooo many times in my career I've had to come back and "extract that variable into a function" that I just do it right away by force of habit. Point is, this isn't trivial, it is …

sounds a bit like https://thechoiceengine.substack.com/p/the-strip-mining-of-t... "The strip mining of trust" is a metaphor describing the unsustainable extraction of social capita…

or might find SOMEONE ELSE stranded somewhere due to vehicular breakdown. yes, obviously "put on your own oxygen mask before helping others" (so you remain an asset instead of a li…

or just shoot you while you are in your car.

I guess you don't live in Minneapolis, or another targeted metro area. It is hard to imagine what it is like to live in a city where 3000 masked and poorly trained people cos-playi…

if you have the grip strength to hold that, you have solid core strength already. And you are carrying in your hands, not balanced on your head-- which totally alters the stress on…

"when AI took my job I bought a chain saw" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/artificial-intell... Sorry, don't have an archiv link.

former practicing scientist at an institute whose name you would recognize. The field may not be fully constrained by ethics, which is just a way of saying that the work is done by…

gems and turds. The far right consipiracy stuff was filtered out, likewise the neonazi/technocracy stuff (and yes, there is clear historical links between technocracy and nazi idol…

changing "clay" for "legos" doesn't change the core argument. The tactile feel you get for the medium as you work it with your hands and the "artificial syntax" imposed by the medi…

and count on Trump to disrespect the extradition treaties. Which might be a reasonable expectation, but will have consequences, and Trump might not hold power forever.

Did you miss the "without their consent" part?

and you might have to think about and be conscious of the many things... like when would you need to take a picture, write an observation, record an interesting noise, wayfind with…

My hot water tank once fell off the wall. On Christmas day. Expensive repair. Hot water tank was in the basement, which was not insulated. So the mass of hot water contributed very…

wot, like a prompt injection attack? Impossible now that models don't hallucinate.