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meditation, if you want to try a drug free approach. Make it simple. Stare at a clock with a big second hand. Take one breath every 15 seconds. Then, after a minute or so, push it …

natural consequence when results are the sum of random processes. if you add random rolls, you get a gaussian, thanks central limit theorem. if you sum them, you get a lognormal di…

> A lot of it may be for the auto disappearing messages, except that the conversation in question, and similar such conversations, are required by federal law to be archived. So ex…

"governments" may not, but the political parties running them certainly do. And changes in political parties can change what services government delivers. Heck, you don't even need…

Sounds like a certain LLM I've read about

Important to remember that his maternal grandfather and mother were ardent nazi supporters, which is why they moved from Canada to South Africa.

Sell their tesla shares, and the sooner the better

with kindness and respect. Ideally, "hacker news" is for people who have a hacker/engineer mindset. Look at the actual facts of the situation, not the flashy sales brochure. Odds a…

Yes, this point should be emphasized more. The aid the US gave Ukraine was the US government buying expensive things from US companies. The money stayed in the US, created US jobs …

I thought the US lost in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Am I misunderstanding something in your post?

Yes, but if the government were to spend say 10% of their GPD on defense and infrastructure (Hi, German!), some of this spending might be in grants/tax breaks to help companies mak…

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Drone delivery is a bad idea especially in exceptional cases like a medical emergency because it is much less robust to inclement weather. emergency systems need to _just work_. Yo…

Road-based delivery requires less energy than air-based delivery, under the assumption that the roads exist (which they do, because of other reasons). This is simple physics. I see…

Makes me wonder what it would be like to be a bat https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

> We do attribute great value to organisms that have this image of self. My impression is we attribute great value to organisms that can effectively push back against us. respect b…

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No, it is not a government agency. No, it is not tasked with audits. It is not performing any audit before its actions, nor is it producing anything resembling an audit. No, audits…

You forgot to add "without proper security controls/clearances and data governance".

> official statements say he's (Musk) not the DOGE administrator, but no one knows who is That's because they believe in maximum transparency.

And here I thought it was an educated population who cared and held their representatives accountable to some kind of moral/ethical standard, and concepts like "rule of law". I sup…

Well, yes, because 1 is pretty close to zero, on a scale of 0 to infinity. However, if you look at their actual technical skilz: The incompetence at DOGE is staggering. Absolutely …

> The pushback seems to mostly be “I don’t like Musk in particular, and thus I don’t like that Musk in particular has this access” You are either delusional or purposely misreprese…