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Re: on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:39AM (#39442572)
But think of the children!
I usually don't like to make such a meta comment, but in this case, it appears HN fails basic heat transfer and thermodynamics.
' As a consultant, this should make my expertise even more valuable. '

Consultant logic at its finest.

Re:Australia's 'Bluey' conquered childrens' entertainment on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:01PM (#38883159)
I tend to view parenting discussions on HN with a strong gell mann weight.
I supposed generalization outside the training set structure may occur by chance should the outside set share enough of the same 'structure'. Basically if you can find magical maps to your training set then perhaps generalization may occur.
Yes, this is a big deal. You can think an analogy to the photoelectric effect where a photon excites an electron and for the photomolecular effect, a photon with the proper 'excites' a molecule, breaking the molecule free from its bulk.
Re:Encrypt. Now. on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:14PM (#37918255)
Perhaps it was never a liberal 'free' democracy in the first place. Or if it was, then it resides at an unstable point, and the stable points are full of nightmares.
Re:Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:34AM (#37161327)
You can have social convention without the debt. The social convention in the US is to have debt.
Sure, any system with a false negative and false positive rate 'works'.
Re:The Hypocrisy of Mandatory Diversity Statements on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:31AM (#36586394)
As a prof, I use GPT for any boilerplate statements such as DEI required as part of grant/fellowship/scholarship applications.
And are you following the same approach with your own kids (if any)?
How about the ones that were allowed to do whatever they wanted? Where are they now?
Re:Ask HN: How are you a good dad to your kids? on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:29PM (#35966578)
Let the kids choose but help them understand the the consequences of their choices.
Sounds like an ideal labor force.
cough cough ... do things that don't scale....this industry is a joke.
Re:Globalization is dead and no one is listening on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:31PM (#33959060)
Well, how does futurism fit into this statement? After all, it is about the future so eternally theoretical.
In your example, both sides are equally acceptable and we just pick one. How does this apply to the present case?
If you are willing to throw out the moral reason, then the legal reason is just an empty rule.
Re:The Insane Study Routine of Sir Isaac Newton on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:34PM (#32074639)
He was also human.
I mean that possibility is implied. Backward and downward.
It is kind of interesting to look at bitcoin as part of the 'virtual colonization'. Much of big tech can be said to colonize the data of its users...