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Storytelling is a wonderful human faculty that challenges generative AI, particularly when it comes to long, original works. One thing missing from these discussions is a rigorous …

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It looks interesting, I'd be interested in finding out more about your business plan.

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Hi, I'm 55 and am finished with a startup I co-founded because the hard work is done, and we're not headed for geometric growth. I don't have a compelling new idea; have ample tech…

We had the exact same issue. Turns out cycling (all) the keys stopped it immediately. This was after looking through docs and many emails with stripe that never mentioned this as a…

I defend and elucidate. Worthlessness I would define here relative to the amounts of public and of policy attention the nudge findings have received vs net value add modified by th…

Wow. As a former social scientist with an axe to grind this hits hard. I like to provide that HN community with some context as to what this means. There are some 300 “research” de…

Definitely is a societal problem; to me that means we need a societal solution. Namely individuals have to call out bad behavior to the point it’s regulated. Not so much in this ca…

Just wanted chime in with second a second anecdote that I was going to post. We needed a Django developer. Put an ad on Upwork at the high end of the recommended salary range. The …

Yes I'm sure. They were made with Windows (probably XP) software and works something like Apple's Time Machine. So if your put in the first cd it will give you an option -- assumin…

The backup was created using the included windows software at the time. The computer I bought is pretty useless

Given the volume of the data and previous experience, the disks would restore the computer into the same state as when the were created, including all the user files at the time.

Its a copy of all the files on the computer at the time: letters, photos and anything else she was working on or we sent her.

I found a set of 6 windows recovery cds in my mother's effects that I made on Jan 6, 2008 on a Compaq mini tower. The original computer is long gone. So I bought another mini tower…