Aeronwen

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by Aeronwen 6y ago
You certainly didn't have a brain or nervous system at the moment you were conceived. So there had to be some point in your development where you made the switch to being "conscious to pain".
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
I round up to 320.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Diamonds aren't rare. The preposterous nature of the whole diamond-jewellery industry is that it's based on hiding that fact to create false scarcity.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
They make versions that have the logo without the name for cases where the name's a deal-breaker.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Rent-to-own has been a thing for ages. While predatory, it's apparently acceptable in contracts.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
You can't really make a case for unusual, given the state of the US prison system.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
How about a more cautious approach of not driving if you don't know what you're doing?
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Just like having a trained bear chauffeur you around. Except people see that as a bad idea.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
>I don't think their play is to get my Oculus data to make better targeted ads. They already have that data. Their play is getting people to strap screens to their heads since it pretty much guarantees a captive audience.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Now you're ready for merchandising.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
The massive LED array is on the front of their trucks, blinding the shit out of oncoming traffic.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
They angry mob will refuse to let you build the replacement, and demand the old one be torn down since you admitted it's so unsafe.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
You can drop the price later. At launch, it's time to milk the fans who have to have it before everyone else. Johnny Tightwad can wait six months or a year if he wants a deal.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
No need to worry. You'll even feel smart when this superhuman AI takes your advice. You won't even realize what that actually means.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
fire
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
George Jetson tried to warn you, but everyone laughed at him.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
It shouldn't, because the best people at playing the etiquette game are the ones you shouldn't trust. Which is why it's an important skill to learn. Because you too can exploit it for personal gain.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Microsoft wouldn't make back the purchase price doing anything with OpenAI's IP that they can't do now.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
You can't buy them in-game without buying them with real money first. Once you unlock the car pack, or spend 1/3 as much to unlock that particular car, you can buy as many extras as you want with in-game money.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Someone decided the algo was producing usable results when it was picking the highest contrast areas.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
>Ask yourself the question, would you give up Hawaii? What if they wanted to go independent, and reinstate their monarchy? What would you do? If the vote represented a majority of the Hawaiian citizenship, and they had a plausible plan t
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
More like: VW set to acquire Rimac.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
In 2015 when this was written, 90's kids with their millennial problems were now adults and became part of the problems they spent the last 20 years complaining about. They also found out they're not any better at solving them. So
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
He's the safe choice in that this election is going to come down to Trump/Not Trump. So all he has to do is literally not be Donald Trump. It's not that the party thinks he's their best bet to win the election, it's
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
I'd use #1 and try and pick up serverlesspage.com while you're at it, if you can. Because you know people will go there instead. If you don't think people will end up going to serverlessass.com if you use option #2, you clear
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Especially when the Earth is getting effectively zero of the sun's energy now, and humanity is so incapable of harnessing even that minuscule amount, that killing off their entire planet is still a much talked about possibility.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
This. It's the next ALGOL. Let the next dozen popular languages cherry pick the good parts from it and don't worry about people using it directly.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
That he never made that quote about memory.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
God wants your exclusive devotion. The freezer doesn't care what else you're doing to help you to cheat death, so you can spread your faith around more and hedge your bets.
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by Aeronwen 6y ago
Basically, everything after the cloaca is the tail. If you look at a snake skeleton, you'll can clearly see the tail is the part at the end without ribs. Snakes evolved from lizards, and pythons still show vestiges of a pelvis and rear

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