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t0rt01se··on You could have invented transformers from memory
Wow!! I wish I had this perspective 13 years ago during those dull courses describing the mechanics of an MLP.
t0rt01se··on Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
I broadly agree with your thrust but I'm going to assume you're a bot. Who would benefit from such a perspective as yours?
t0rt01se··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Is calling that which calls everything a psy-op a psy-op also a psy-op?
t0rt01se··on Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage
The word you seek is 'sarcastic'. The ever so slightly neuro-divergent don't do sarcarsm. Nor do linkedinlunatics.
t0rt01se··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
Chin up. There's always the civil service.
t0rt01se··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
Do you have any data to back up the claim that it's "quite common" to work remotely across countries within the EU/UK. Almost nothing in the "common/single market" works uniformly across the "common/single market". For instance this guy (OP) doesn't have a hope in hell of landing a job anywhere in the EU even though he's in the UK.
t0rt01se··on EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
Ooc what did you mean by 'their own' industry? The industry of making regulations or the food industry?
t0rt01se··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Didn't read but they could've gone for a more catchy title eg. some bad apples spoil the barrel
t0rt01se··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
I apologise in advance for making light of the situation in your country, but did you find the peace awards more meaningless than Hinton's award for PHYSICS?!!
t0rt01se··on Whales dying from consuming plastics
Out of curiosity, is packagingnews.co.uk a site you visit frequently for industry news or the first that come up on google when you searched for coca-cola's recycling activities in the UK?
t0rt01se··on Whales dying from consuming plastics
> most of the pollution comes from seaboard cities in developing nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys

t0rt01se··on Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music
It's not difficult to spread something that's already popular.
t0rt01se··on Are We Prisoners of Geography?
I don't buy the "flatlands to the west" either. I'd sooner buy they want some more coastline with warm water. I imagine Canadians on average will be less pleasant if they're stuck with a hostile U.S. to the south.
t0rt01se··on Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
Please read my comment again. Perhaps you aren't suggesting the opposite.
t0rt01se··on Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
The "zero evidence" claim is a blatant attempt to shift the burden of proof. In my opinion the burden of proof remains with those hypothesizing zoonotic origin.
t0rt01se··on Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
Can't wait for these to be launched in my city! Love from Dhaka.
t0rt01se··on Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
More cobras in the wild! Result! As as aside, you'll find a cobra isn't an apex predator - a King Cobra ... now that could be considered. Every incentive humans have ever dreamed up has had perverse/unintended outcomes - what's your point?
t0rt01se··on Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
The credits get mined based on proof of existence and then can be traded. 'Given' was the wrong choice of word.
t0rt01se··on Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)
This seems like the more sensible approach - to understand/learn how to protect ourselves from malaria/dengue/etc. rather than gene-drive systems to eradicate (certain types of?) mosquitoes.
t0rt01se··on Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
The 'science' isn't conclusive that salts of glyphosate are harmful to insects. Please stop with your anecdotal experiential evidence. Hopefully you've been in the 'home of the brave' long enough to get sarcasm.
t0rt01se··on Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)
Screw carbon credits. Countries should be given credits based on the number of (non-human) apex predators in the wild within their borders and any carbon-intensive/polluting economic activity should have to be offset against these very expensive credits.
t0rt01se··on A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
The same can be said of numerous products/industries 'disrupted' by YC/HN types. Kettle/pot? Specialized are no angels themselves. There are no sacred cows anymore - sorry but screw your small/local/artisanal shite - this from someone who would've ordinarily supported your sentiment. But these aren't ordinary times - the quest for economies of scale will bring scorched earth to everybody one way or another.
t0rt01se··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
I know and I appreciate your effort to educate / warn. But you do realize that most of these posts are made by shills ?
t0rt01se··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
Can you please do the Kiwi accent instead?
t0rt01se··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
So long Moderna, short condom manufacturers isn't a good idea?
t0rt01se··on How mindfulness could make you selfish
Well neither of them were successful so we're both clutching at straws.
t0rt01se··on How mindfulness could make you selfish
Ha! Good catch! My comment above won't do? Research funded by the University of Life.
t0rt01se··on How mindfulness could make you selfish
A 'decent controlled study' suggests that 'decent controlled studies' measuring 'charitable impulses' are not all that decent or controlled.
t0rt01se··on How mindfulness could make you selfish
Nazis probably had great big charitable impulses towards one another and those that looked/behaved like them. If they were mindful they probably would've observed their biases.
t0rt01se··on How mindfulness could make you selfish
A recent study suggests that the BBC uses phrases like 'a recent study suggests' when they actually mean there's some anecdotal evidence.
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