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beardyw
10,034karma·5,272submissions·February 10, 2014
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Yes, it is definitely other people, even before I saw your response. Imagine you are literally the only person left, what would be the point of anything.
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Some people only seem to look at the front page. But of course stuff wouldn't get there without engagement. Problem is if a site like this reveals the answer it would just get gamed.
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There was a story on here, I think, of someone who could no longer enter their password because an obscure character in it was no longer supported by their device, presumably Unicode. Can't find …
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But on the other hand there's those billionaires screaming "FEED ME".
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No, the story of the tower of Babel was: "we can, so we should". It ended badly.
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"The U.S. is the only country where fossils excavated on private land can be sold".
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This has always been so in my experience. You can't just add any old thing, much as you would like to.
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Some of us folks here did startups before there was Reddit (or HN). Launching for free wasn't a thing. So things turn around.
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It's not an arms race, it's a stomach race.
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"Wednesday’s outage was caused by a software fault with Telstra’s time-telling systems, which then told the rest of its network that it was November 2006. This lead to what one expert said would …
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Did the author consider if communists are fairly represented?
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I think this has some valuable ideas in it. Has this approach been used in a model?
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Via Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2026/07/11/to-build-more-believable-bot... …
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> pick and chose which parts of scripture to stand by OK. Next time you read the parable of the good Samaritan I want you to reframe it as "The Good Drag Queen". That's how you are …
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Thanks, learned something.
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Overqualified generally means your boss to be ought to be working for you.
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I will try out a game with a timer, but it will never be a keeper.
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Used to be the Monster Raving Loony Party in my day. Still, it's good to know politics moves on.
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Yesterday.
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If there is a smart shortcut we will take it. It's how we became the humans we are today. Unfortunately doesn't help with deliberate learning. Sadly most students have not been taught how to…
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To provide a sensible answer: people tend to not be so anti things as having different priorities. I have tinkered with AI, building models etc, but have lost interest because I find the way it is bei…