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reactspa··on The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
The answer may be a bit more mundane.

A theory: they needed an existing PDF to test PDF rendering. The Bitcoin paper was (1) handy, and (2) has a diverse variety of content in it, including images and math symbols.

reactspa··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Then upvote it please.
reactspa··on Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)
Seems like a case of burnout.
reactspa··on Changes at YC
Makes me question their hiring.

If they were good, surely these people could be absorbed in other areas of YC?

reactspa··on Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
I was astonished that Roku has half a billion in cash.

Then I learned this was only 26% of its cash reserves.

I thought cash was considered wasteful because it loses value via inflation.

Has the thinking changed? Can someone knowledgeable please help me understand this?

reactspa··on Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
Curious about this. Could you give me some idea of hourly and yearly* wages for cook, pedicab, junior software dev in your area please? I want to understand this phenomenon better. Thanks.

*The reason I mentioned hourly and yearly is that I'm wondering if a pedicab driver can put in 8 hour days like a cook or dev.

reactspa··on Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island
I suppose the fact that "native americans" were also from Siberia/Asia makes it complicated to separate Polynesian/Asian DNA from "native american" DNA.

The Mapuche people look stunningly Polynesian/Asian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche

reactspa··on Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island
Polynesians are Asian in origin.

Easter Islanders are believed to be Polynesian.

Here's a strange thing: there's some Asian-origin DNA in some of the indigenous people of Latin American. For some strange reason this is not discussed much.

reactspa··on Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur
I've noticed an uptick in car accidents in my area.

Students sit in the classroom scrolling tiktok.

I don't think we're going to make it.

reactspa··on Seattle becomes first US city to ban caste-based discrimination
Most of India is not Upper Caste. It is telling that the vast majority of India finally had functional sewage systems reach their village (99.9% coverage), electricity reach their village (99.9% coverage), cooking gas reach their village (100% coverage), and is now having clean water and fiber optic cable reach their village (currently ~75% coverage for each), only after the first non-Upper Caste person became Prime Minister (Modi).
reactspa··on College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
I'm heavily on the spectrum, and sorry, but I don't see anything wrong with using chat GPT to polish up communication.

My guess is these deans too are heavily on the spectrum.

Many times in my life what seemed normal and okay to me, was severely offensive to others. It's a cross I have to bear.

reactspa··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

reactspa··on How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workplaces and beyond
For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

reactspa··on Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults
> Shameless chatgpt response

LOL.

Follow on question for anyone reading this: Is there any evidence that pranayam (yogic breathing exercises) can heal mitochondria?

reactspa··on Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults
Is there any way to prove that the arrow of causality is the other way? (i.e., depression causes damage to mitochondria).
reactspa··on After Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera, what?
Much appreciated, thank you.
reactspa··on After Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera, what?
Excellent advice. Will do.
reactspa··on The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?
You just know that it's going to be another WTF experience just like the Windows Media Player UI.
reactspa··on India pledges $4B for green energy to cut carbon emissions
For anyone reading this (especially Donald Trump Jr. [DT's son]):

India will remain in the top three greenhouse gas and emissions producers forever.

If you don't understand why, please learn a little math.

reactspa··on is Chrome recording keyboard inputs and passing them to YouTube?
Your point is good.

I seem to remember, after ChatGPT gave me a result (a list of only 103 words/phrases), I searched for the Spanish "Zipf's list" (highest frequency words) on Google Search (to compare it with what ChatGPT gave me).

reactspa··on Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality
You'd be surprised at how protectionist France is. Especially when it concerns content in English.
reactspa··on Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality
Look up "The Twitter Files by Matt Taibi".

Twitter uncritically and submissively followed directives from FBI and CIA.

I read some headlines that Meta/FB too uncritically and submissively followed the same directives.

reactspa··on Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality
When American innovations are banned in countries like Iran, Russia, France, and China, we laugh at them.

If the shoe fits...

reactspa··on Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality
How does FB know if someone's an American citizen? I wasn't asked my citizenship when I opened my account.

You could be a foreign student living in America for years without becoming a citizen.

reactspa··on Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality
The West is butthurt that China produced an app that their kids love more than homegrown ones.

Companies like TWTR, FB, IG are probably secretly pushing this ban.

Some years ago, France tried to enforce some law that at least 75% of the content available on the internet in France had to be in the French language.

The day Tiktok is banned in the USA, that's the day the American decline starts.

reactspa··on Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps
Is there any difference between "server side" and "headless" in this context?

https://www.google.com/search?q=server+side+react+framework

reactspa··on Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps
I've read the word "headless" used in different contexts.

How would you define a "headless" CRUD framework please?

Thanks in advance.

reactspa··on Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal
Regarding the "cyclic sighing" technique (called "Physiological sighing" in the graphic):

I have been doing it for a couple of years without knowing it was a thing. I have studied common Pranayama techniques, and I stumbled upon it via trial and error. I do it because I find it anxiety-reducing. I used to refer to it internally as "double inhale breathing".

After reading the OP article, and noting that they referred to "Yogic breathing", I decided to do a little research and discovered that this technique is called "Dirga Pranayama" or "three part breathing". The authors should have mentioned it in their article.

reactspa··on Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools
> how the HTTP protocol and Session management work

Anyone have tips on the best source material for learning these?

reactspa··on Indian Kanoon – The Genesis and the Legal Thirst
the word "kanoon" is related to "canon" ("a general law, rule").
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