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torsday··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
I consider myself a feminist and I strongly recommend the book. It was my therapist that recommended it to me. The term "nice guy" has been co-opted to mean something different (though related) in the meme world.
torsday··on Glenn Greenwald on Wikipedia's Neutrality
It's almost like you're intentionally leaving out context from the stated quotes that create a clear argument of his beliefs.
torsday··on Ask HN: Is there a browser plugin that will fade AI generated text to gray?
There are ones that purport to, but none actually do. The false positive rate is crazy high.
torsday··on Ukraine in NATO Would Be a Disaster
> it would be impossible to know whether one or other member of the Ukrainian delegation was actually working for the Russians.

That. That's the big argument. And it's a terrible argument.

torsday··on Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer on the spiderweb formation of the game's 17k endings
Although I haven't had the chance to experience the game's precursors or indulge in Dungeons & Dragons before, I must say, I'm truly excited about this upcoming release. The concept seems intriguing, and I can't wait to dive into the world of possibilities it offers. As a newcomer, I'm eager to see what this game has in store for both veterans and newcomers like myself. Kudos to the developers for creating such a captivating experience!
torsday··on R/place will be back on July 20 and users are already planning to protest
I've never contributed to it before, but will make sure to be a pixel in the Apollo logo.
torsday··on Why Can People Live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Now, but Not Chernobyl?
This is the big part:

> Little Boy had around 140 pounds of uranium, Fat Man contained about 14 pounds of plutonium and reactor number four had about 180 tons of nuclear fuel.

torsday··on Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests
Yep. This is increasingly pushing me away from Google Maps. Once offline mode comes to Apple, I'll move over completely ...just wish i could bring all my saved locations over.
torsday··on Cities are ending fares on transit. Here’s why
As a user of free transit, i must disagree. It's great. The first poster isn't just correct in principle, but also practice. And it certainly doesn't deteriorate service. A sense of community ownership/responsibility grows from it not being pay walled.
torsday··on Millions of US military emails ‘sent to Mali by mistake’
> None of the misdirected emails have included classified intelligence

Well that's good. Though it seems time to put a domain check on outgoing emails.

torsday··on Moscow halts grain deal in what UN calls a global blow to people in need
I don't think anyone expects much of Putin other than acts of a tyrant, but it should be pointed out that one was a military target and the other feeds the poor.
torsday··on Ask HN: How worried are you about AI taking over your jobs?
Oh yeah.

In the long term because of it actually replacing jobs without creating enough new ones.

In the short term, because C-Suite folk overestimate its ability to replace workers.

(I'm a software engineer, recently laid off with a couple thousands other people with a CEO that's big into ChatGPT and worked under a director that wanted to ChatGPT all the things, even where it didn't remotely make sense).

torsday··on Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’
Also it's crazy ignorant. Durango is filled with white people, all the way from poor to god level rich (their tiny town aquarium has nurse sharks in the back for the mansions around there).
torsday··on Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible
...you mean investigative journalism? Of such matters as the deaths of hundreds of people? Possibly at the fault of government officials?
torsday··on Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
You just defined every third party app that works with an API. Are all such apps cash grabs to you?
torsday··on All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
What do you like about it?
torsday··on Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
Creating a great product that makes money isn't a cash grab.
torsday··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
Looking at you Economist .
torsday··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
There aren't two realities, I would start there.
torsday··on Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert
I created a transcription for my notes, thought I'd share:

https://gist.github.com/torsday/258250b13996a686fb615ee04a55...

torsday··on Netflix Infinite Runner
I wish we Netflix Canada here in the US. You have more than we do :/
torsday··on Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus
Problem, and the thing that makes it special.
torsday··on Italian boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes
Some interesting drowning facts:

- Clean and cold water is ideal: pneumonia and metabolism.

- If you revive a drowned person, insist they go to the hospital: CPR can push the fluid in their lungs into their blood, only to return later on, drowning them all the same, "parking lot drowning."

- Quite often, water doesn't enter their lungs as their vocal cords spasm.

~ Paramedic in another life

torsday··on Dave Goldberg Died After Falling from Treadmill
This is why I'm excited about the development of the Apple watch and similar ubiquitous metrics. From the heart rate alone you could determine many significant cardiac events, e.g. A-fib, PSVT, heart blocks...