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Aren’t these venues small businesses that very much appreciate whatever publicity someone sharing their venue on social media gives them? I guess they can weigh that against their …

How many $1 million prizes were given out?

At on point I asked it for academic papers that said a particular thing, as best I can tell, only about 60% of the papers it cited actually existed

One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?…

fwiw, there's a building my sister lived in in Pittsburgh, the Penn Garrison, it's downtown, not totally sure what the history behind its development is, or what the window related…

I'm too old to have done this when I went through school, but I suspect a good practice is to go through your syllabus, and but the major unit covered into the youtube search bar. …

Short answer, yes. Longer answer - from my prospective - I enjoyed the first book Path to Power the most, which revolves around LBJs early life up to becoming a US Representative. …

The Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson detail his effort to force meme “LBJ” as a reference to him. (Mostly in terms of insisting various communications employees use it in p…

At one point I was getting a lot of facebook ads for MTalyor https://www.mtailor.com/how-it-works.html which I guess is a digital app that will measure you for clothes. I wonder if…

Are you sure online shopping is killing the planet faster? Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores. I didn't see anyt…

For those not familiar with that blog, She previously wrote a long series on Machiavelli which was a great deep dive into his life If interested start here: https://www.exurbe.com/…

The link doesn’t support the implication you’re making.

Another thought, How much of the content you consume comes out of this environment? Are you letting that content set what you imagine is normal behavior? As a society, what role do…

fwiw, ‘Storytelling’ is just one node of the larger ‘Pixar in a Box’ offering from Khan Academy. Most of the other nodes are more technical in nature. Might be closer to what you w…

Hmm, maybe its my browser, I'm still in Windows 11

Google maps used to have a feature where if you scroll back from street view you would get a 3D rendering before they gave you the 2D satellite view if you scrolled further back. N…

125 people can do a lot I bet secrets are easier to keep when they don’t seem fun to brag about, I suspect a fair number of war crimes and similarly un-fun secrets have been safely…

I tend to go through long periods of writer's block I have a lot of perfectionist tendency where I tend to be highly critical of early work I have it in my mind as being a high eff…

what exactly is someone who pays a (small sum) for a setup Twitter account expecting to receive?

I'm curious what exactly happens if say you get a 55K job doing 'marketing' at a startup are they collecting 17% of your paycheck?

I’m not sure either (My totally blind guess would be about half of your guess, which would be plenty high enough for your point to still stand) That said, corporate headquarters ge…

There was a thread a few months ago on HN about non-violent communication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263894 which elicited a lot of comments about how much they dislike…