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If only the energy posting the 5 trillionth "ngmi" meme could be applied to achieving one 9 of uptime for claude

for a film interpretation of this paper: playtime by jacques tati

there's an interview with graeber about the book that covers a good deal of the book's content pretty succinctly: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-ja...

for more like this, cal flyn's "islands of abandonment" is an interesting read featuring several surprising example of how ecosystems have adapted to varying levels of human destru…

Wilson Hall is the total opposite of depressing for me. Especially the interior is quite beautiful: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UOpsfRLRr_I/VbhWuR4OeBI/AAAAAAAAB... https://live.sta…

not sure it's realistic to expect children to have the opsec of a tech worker

Miami Vice has acquired a pretty substantial cult following in recent years, and among the people i know who are "into" Mann, it pretty commonly ranks as their favorite as well. Fo…

Did the Dominican Republic have to pay outrageous reparations to their former enslavers? You know, the thing this article was about?

The article is about Haitian slaves having to pay reparations to their enslavers. Nobody brought up reparations being paid to slaves except you.

They would have fared a lot better if … France didn’t saddle them with reparations for their independence … like what the entire article posted was about

Do you mean to suggest they’d be better off as slaves?

> This study was done before vaccination was widely available. Is there any indication that, for example, breakthrough infections would have a different result long term? > Yes. We…

> P.P.S. The reason you don't need algos in your day to day is because you are not good enough at algos to get a funner, better paying, more impactful job where you do there are a …

pretty interesting that nowhere in the article does it mention that any of these CEOs have tried, say, offering higher compensation/better benefits compared to similar remote-frien…

The article makes a pretty specific argument as to why those things are different.

What do I do when not a single candidate in any election that I can vote in has even heard of, much less taken my preferred position on, this issue?

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything th…

liberalism and marxism at the same time? impressive!

Checking pockets isn’t enough. Pitchers have been hiding the substances on their hats or gloves or other sneaky places for years. It’s not like they just bring a jar of spider tack…

learning how to fall is huge. of course falling down onto asphalt/concrete always carries some risk but once you get comfortable falling safely, it's pretty unlikely you'll do any …

it's very charitable for you to accept at face value that that's what the TSA security theater is for

how do you think they measure (roughly) how many people got the flu in previous years?

from the article: > People occasionally conflate these shell-company reverse mergers with the current boom in special purpose acquisition companies, but they are really very differ…

seems like its both?

It’s so common that within 16 hours of soliciting anonymous tips about the prevalence of it within Amazon, the intercept was able to fill an entire article with evidence of how com…