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I'm trying to get as good at writing as I am at hacking so that I can write about hacking. Blog: https://katabas.is Newsletter: https://substack.com/@aaronmbrown
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But we would just go chill with this like 2000 pound wall of friendly muscle in their backyard.
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Specifically, one head of cattle plus one per some amount of additional land. Enter their beefalo. They acquired and raised a cow/buffalo hybrid in what, in retrospect was not a large yard. As a kid in a rural town this seemed well, not normal, but not super abnormal.
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I have to share with you my Unit story: growing up, my friend Rocky and her family lived in an enclave of unincorporated county land surrounded by our town. Mostly this was annoying (e.g. no garbage service). However, they realized that technically this meant they could keep cattle.
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Incredible. Please don't ever change (positive)
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Judging by my trans friends there's going to be just so many synthesizers and board games.
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Wait wait wait. Does this mean I could hypothetically create my own shit coin with a 1 million coin supply, sell myself a coin for a dollar, and suddenly be a millionaire for purposes of mortgage applications?
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baseball starting pitchers are evolving further and further toward gangly 6'8" teenagers who optimize their frame to throw 103 for 2 seasons before all their ligaments explode so you gotta hold onto every crafty 30-something you get who looks like any other guy you'd see eating lunch at burger king
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Unironically yes.
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Yeah, my ancestors "mass migrated" through New York and Boston. Their surname was Morrissey. Trust me, when it comes to putting the "Mass" in "Mass Migration" it's hard to beat Irish Catholics.
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Happy to look for / refer to Alphabet roles if you'd like. DMs open.
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We have a saying in the security world: "Every rule is scar tissue".
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Lol everyone self-censors at least some things at work because some things aren't work appropriately. My favorite line from the last book I read was a joke about poor kids using masturbation for entertainment. I wouldn't share that with my colleagues even though it was hilarious.
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I found David Graeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything" illuminating in part for this reason. I really drove home that people in antiquity also had moral outrage for abuses like this and consciously chose, in many cases, to build their societies in opposition to them.
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Smart move, boss.
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I spotted a a funeral of young goths (I think that's the right group noun) at the Spokane Valley Mall a few weeks ago. I felt like I should report the sighting to the IUCN in case it bumps them off the Endangered Species list.
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Amazing. I hope some day to have half the confidence of these authors in anything I do.
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This is fascinating! Did they address at all the problem of model collapse? (The phenomenon in which AI models trained on AI output tend to get worse over time, not better?) I'm assuming not, and it's hardly the worst problem with the approach, but as a professional AI attacker, I'm curious.
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And I bet it can't even recommend sick new local metal bands or tell good stories about busting people doing coke in the bathrooms.
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It's accurate, you're just a dip shit.
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I promise that I will have a safety day. (The only risky thing I've done so far is pick "hot" on my biryani order for lunch).
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One of the things that made me stop being a libertarian twenty years ago was realizing that they never actually stood up for anyone's rights. They just launder the background radiation of shame felt by bootlickers who want to feel like they're radicals.
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It was so good!! My modest contribution to the discourse: katabas.is/posts/i-want...
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No closure when I arrived at my destination, but the offer for dancing somewhere up north seemed well received. The problem was merely that all the dance clubs in Everett are "completely shitty"
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It seems the problem is that they're in Everett and don't want to come into Seattle.
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lol k
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You say that as if it's a bad thing. In my opinion some kind of dualism is pretty obviously correct, it's just a matter of what kind and to what degree.
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When I was in grad school, it was annoying that the test was misunderstood by a lot of popular commentators. Having it be intentionally misrepresented by self-interested capitalists is so much worse. Like I didn't find Searle all that compelling a response and now I am begging people to read him.
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Your first book was great and I'm looking forward to reading the new one. Take that!