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It is very interesting to compare tiktok in China to the US. > In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes,” a tech expert stated that the U.S. version of TikTok — a Chinese-owned social…

question is _why_ are you bringing it on your run? the OP says they want their run to be time away from the phone. Not just because it is too difficult to carry physically. Ok, you…

What is also interesting is that the only sector thad added jobs was health care.

The two hang together. You campaign in your state to legalize something. Some other state, where you have very little influence, goes the other way. It isn't just cannabis. what if…

> I don't think a few years is enough to erase all trace of human intervention Appreciate you stating your assumptions. you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…

> an interviewer can't confirm basic knowledge of data structures and algorithms agreed. However, as I read the parent's post, they did not immediately see that DFS was an acronym …

also the canonical example of a commodity. Basically the claim that all units are fully fungible.

wholesale destruction of almost every biome. Overfishing (where 'fish' means anything that swims) with methods that destroy both the fish and the ecosystem-- have you ever consider…

Didn't we also create a very large internal jobs program to 'enforce immigration law'? instead of creating a very large internal jobs program to build/repair fundamental infrastruc…

Wait, how about an infinite speedup? A friend of mine couldn't code, and now he can. So he is infinity-x better at coding thanks to LLMS! Take that, you mere 10x-ers! Your days are…

> how agents do the same (far less mathematically) to seek an acceptable solution to software problems, except that there is no gradient towards 'better' software, at least not in …

hey, if you really are interested in the tower of babel story and what it is doing in there, I highly recommend this podcast: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-001-the-tower…

I read the metaphor differently. Doesn't invalidate your view, and I see that your view better captures the day to day experience. I read the author as saying that his mind is bein…

From the article > Graduates take an average of 5.6 months to land a job in the UK. This is almost 2 months longer than the national average also noting the average includes, at th…

dopamine fracking. https://igerman.cc/blog/dopamine-fracking/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440792

> breed much more easily. Humans seem to be forgetting this step. Birthrates are down

sorry you experience it as demotivating. I think this is because your expectation of who has what responsibility is not aligned with workplace expectations. The thing is, your mana…

wait, so the device has "good" blocks and "worn out" blocks... sounds like a binary format to me, maybe you could encrypt the data in that format... You can ship my genius award to…

> You were physically tethered to them through invisible waves through the sky We've got a thing, and that's a-called radar love We've got a wave in the air... Radar love

> Don't forget this [emacs] is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness How familiar are you with Emacs?

> deterioration of international shipping routes like a closing of a certain straight that was essential for a large percentage of a necessary resource?

I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute. I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds. 1 minute < 99 seconds.

> Technology has advanced enough that analog clocks have joined polaroid cameras and vinyl records assumption digital 'more advanced' than analog. unclear. How digital more 'advanc…

I appreciate you being upfront about the depth of your knowledge. Regenerative farming and/or permaculture offer ways to run industrial-scale agriculture without the monoculture. S…

fortunately, there is a lot of evidence behind plant's feeling and thinking; enough so that if you were to expose yourself to it, and if you were willing to update your beliefs bas…