klafbang posted:

You mean there’s no OTA update for fixing Ebola?

fritz posted:

finexplained 9 minutes ago [–]

> there are people who don’t experience “this thing is good, i wish to contribute” or “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back”
I have literally never experienced this feeling. I've thought about why I haven't a lot, and for me I think it's because I have no inherent sense of "community".
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kitten emergency posted:

rocq around the clock

Penisface posted:

yeah, although i never felt rap and the associated clothing style is so obviously aggressive-violent when compared to metal (leather, studs, spikes, etc.)

can't imagine a rap album titled kill em all either

i guess the difference is that metal is overt and direct in it's messaging, rap not so much really? i don't know too much about rap so i'll not hypothesize further

dioxazine posted:

jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat

Jabor posted:

what if they're both good

fritz posted:

fallingknife 40 minutes ago [–]

> but doctors can't always predict this and aren't perfect decision making machines
So mass screen healthy people, collect the data, run models, and get better at it. People like you would rather not try, and this is the same reaction I get from doctors. Applying the same tech that we use to improve ad targeting to disease prediction is a no brainer to anyone whose cushy job doesn't depend on the current medieval state of medical technology.

fritz posted:

Tabular-Iceberg 40 minutes ago [–]

It's a marshmallow test on a national scale.
You're a public institution and the taxpayer gives you a marshmallow with the expectation of using it to create some public good. You can eat the whole marshmallow yourself and feel pretty good for a while, but after that you'll have nothing but a heap of dirt (and soon that heap will be washed into the sea).
You can take a bite for yourself and get a dysfunctional society, but at least you and your countrymen get some kind of half decent jobs, food on the table, education and healthcare.
You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society.
What happens if you save the whole marshmallow? Who knows.
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eschaton posted:

someone should make a text generation bot trained on the full corpus of HN comments (weighted by number of responses, of course) and then just set it loose on HN under an alias

feed it the story and other comments for a prompt

when someone replies, feed it the comment and reply for a prompt

etc

Jabor posted:

also describes adolf hitler

matti posted:

WalterBright 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [–]

In Seattle anyway, 90% of the homeless are either drug addicts or alcoholics. Becoming one is a choice under your control, not god smiting you.




is this loving clown for real

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

punished milkman posted:

i’m sorry but wtf are tree kids

fritz posted:

cogman10 1 hour ago | prev | next [–]

Asbestos encapsulates a problem with society at large. We, unfortunately, are simply too binary in our thinking "Oh, asbestos causes cancer? We better purge it from everything everywhere".
The context of when and why (and to who) asbestos causes cancer is simply ignored.
This sort of problem exists everywhere. If something bad happens or is caused by something (politics, economics, etc) we are simply too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
From a tech standpoint, I see this a lot. Postgres at my current company got banned because one team one time had a bad experience with it (after they misused it).
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ultrafilter posted:

A finger pointing at the moon and then immediately inserted in the pointer's butt.

Jose Valasquez posted:

i clicked on the profile to see what other deranged poo poo they post and holy hell

Grim Up North posted:

Yes, but no! Technically, horcruxes were backups, but the emotional weight of the concept came from splitting your soul, lessening your essence as you hedge against danger.
Partial backups follow the spirit of the idea better.
As an aside, I read the concept as an attack on promiscuity. "Whore crux". Contrast to Lord of the Rings' assault on marriage, where wearing the ring makes you invisible and slowly fade into nothingness, "like butter being scraped over too much bread".

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

how about some context? because i have no idea what they're talking about and they're pretty boring about it

kliras posted:

love too unironically talk like a deus ex character


goodluckchuck 6 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

Post-truth is the greatest step toward truth in human history. For centuries the clergy, government, media, and corporations have owned the Truth and defined the Overton window. Post-truth’s overwhelming flood of true, false, and irrelevant claims is empowering critical thinking. It’s offering freedom.

The printing press led to the renaissance. The internet is now leading a new one.

There will continue to be protests by the establishment powers, and unfortunately there will likely be conflict. The fall of monarchies was not without bloodshed. Hopefully we can find a way to achieve similar progress this time around without the same loss of life.

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