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highstep

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About highstep

a lurker with much respect and gratitude for this community

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47530446

    otherwise know as mandatory identification

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    Comment #47503795

    Is it really that big of a deal to help/encourage a friend/family in these simple ways?? Do you have no time in life to smell the flowers?

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    Comment #44729838

    After one season of bee keeping I concluded the same thing. Its horrifying how poorly bees are treated in this industry to control parasites (forced exposure to acidic gas) I sold …

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    Comment #44117367

    Your job will disappear even faster with your head that deep in the sand. At least learning the new tools you can carve out a new role/career for yourself.

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    Comment #44102206

    but Social media companies suppress human curation in favor of their algorithmic recommendations; while human curation doesn't scale as a business model, it still competes for atte…

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    Comment #43804427

    you're right. Now delete that app!

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    Comment #43636709

    Vegas is fun, but not fun enough to justify having to worry about this stuff. My days of visiting the USA are over.

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    Comment #43464621

    Good thing you werent about to fall off the route! The older i grow the more I've come to realize that its not uncommon for people to lack awareness about risk and consequences. Th…

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    Comment #42965703

    highly agree. after using a cone anything else seems haphazard and cruel.

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    Comment #42830791

    that was enjoyable, but someone anxiety inducing :) reminded me of ProZD's take on TCGs: https://youtu.be/EBIsZlV1jHk

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    Comment #39817680

    that's the thing about resetting to default settings... sometimes your custom preferences were useful and they'll some time to reconfigure

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    Comment #38412412

    Not only ugly, but unstable and sketchy. I wouldn't go near that wall.

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    Comment #38140817

    you must be a be fan of chatgpt :)

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    Comment #37653002

    i found that it showed me the path to that happy place, and now that i know the route, i can find my way back from time to time. Of course without mdma i can't stay there for long,…

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    Comment #37476106

    Ask it to do a role play as a doctor, or maybe just rephrase your question so it's less of a request for advice, but instead a discussion of scientific data/facts. It should be eas…

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    Comment #37429283

    what strain of mushrooms?

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    Comment #36687312

    i think you might be focusing too much on ai risk presented in fantasy (killer robots), meanwhile we can already clearly see how LLMs negatively impact society via disruption or po…

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    Comment #36232035

    and yet you're willing to admit to your shady style on hn and describe that style as "best". its no wonder your industry is looked upon with disgust.

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    Comment #36090002

    don't worry, we'll be gone soon and some sort of life on earth will go on

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    Comment #34849856

    having participated in both activities, I can concur the frustration was very similar.

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    Comment #34005665

    well we know exactly what sort of message little girls receive in this patriarchal society, so in this discussion we need to be careful to not dismiss simple and non-extreme femini…

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    Comment #33817503

    a child is a ridiculously expensive, time consuming, and undependable insurance policy

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    Comment #33817421

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethyl_phthalate

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    Comment #33788248

    2 mustard, 1 mayo, 1 ketchup

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    Comment #31689682

    the load times were soooooo bad. Insultingly bad. It doesnt seem like you understand the true extent to how horrible rockstar managed this issue. I definitely quit playing for exac…