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Finland proving the supremacy of "Subs not Dubs". Noted for future reference.

Almost anyone who has a semi-useful technical or trade skill and can manage communications, marketing, sales etc is liable to become extremely rich. Almost anyone with no skills ex…

Pilgrimages were still a big thing among early Christians. For example, in Acts 20:16 it notes how Paul was trying to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost. Now this was around 55 AD.

Re: Smart TVs. An old laptop running a browser with an ad blocker and some fancy controller setup (perhaps a wireless multi-button mouse or a specialized remote control) can get yo…

Nice. Looks like a way to have achievable live text transcripts via tiny devices without using APIs.

Regenerative farmers posting on hacker news gives me hope for humanity. Thanks. Apparently anyone in US/Canada can just ask for a farm and practically get one at this point. Either…

Gulag Archipelago and various China / Vietnam / North Korea prison memoirs are really good to study also. This is stuff tens of millions of people went through.

Less "social" media, more social research paper / life hack resharing makes the world a better place. PS: Always hide the best meme in endnote 14 so your fellow meme scientists kno…

Plato: Writing will make people forgetful.

Been mucking around with huge doses of B Vitamins (especially B3/Niacin) and 5-HTP (a serotonin precursor). Both of those are rather, uh, effectful. 500mg+ Niacin will turn you red…

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Open up the GIMP and start making joke meme comics. Laughter is the best medicine.

I feel like I'm in a similar boat. Like 6 different mental disorders including constantly pulling my hair out. I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on th…

Endless mountain of todo lists on desk: Index cards. Put them in a box when there are too many and let the unreasonable goals expire. (Optional: Trade them with your friends after …

PS: The domain www.particleacceleratorferrets.com is currently available as of my posting this. I'm not necessarily saying we shouldn't domesticate raccoons, but we have to be real…

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I recall looking at a stable diffusion metric https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffu... And between this and some Whisper benchmarks on data center GPUs I wor…

Yeah, you have to force the results into strict JSON, enforce it, and handle a lot of error cases, and be prepared to give up or reroll on failure. It basically takes a 2nd LLM pas…

Make the information easily accessible to customers. But actually sell the categorized review data to the restaurants themselves. They will appreciate the feedback/info and can aff…

This is why I love jobs where you get paid based on a sales commission rather than in mystical dollar-hours. Get 10x the results, get 10x the pay.

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I've wanted to see something like this, but as a browser add-on with a crazy amount of connectivity between sites allowing search/discovery. If you do anything "social", it either …