AutumnCurtain

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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Somewhat reminiscent of the Watts Towers or the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Towers?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It outright states meritocracy is wrong...
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
https://archive.md/nq8Zs
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
I fear there is a whole new industry of worker surveillance emerging with the rise of remote work, like the already-implemented constant photos of the user's face via Webcam. Makes my skin crawl.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Particularly in the era of remote work, I anticipate LA moving towards a denser downtown and West Side and relying on expanded suburbs in the inland empire and OC to provide the classic single family housing neighborhoods for those who want
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
For Tenet specifically, lots of dialogue without masks was still nearly inaudible on my home theater, while gunplay was deafening. It's not a mask issue, or at least not exclusively - it's an audio mix issue. There are scenes with
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
The more I study the history of writing systems, the clearer it becomes what a tremendous organizational and cultural advantage it is to be able to commit thoughts to stone/papyrus/whatever media you choose.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It's really something to think that this treatise from 1500BC accurately documents the current medical recommendation for dealing with guinea worms. Sometimes a simple mechanical solution is all you need (for millenia)
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It seems beyond charitable to call him an Indiana Jones type to be honest, it glamorizes and romanticizes a man who spent his life bribing officials and robbing graves for his personal satisfaction.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
I once recognized a former football teammate from the stands years later when he was in full pads and helmet just from how he ran onto the field. No doubt an AI could be even more accurate, which is why I recommend wearing a mask and riding
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It is a "pugio", a sort of small dagger sidearm for Roman soldiers. I can't think of any reason to refer to it as a short sword in English as that conjures up the image of a much larger weapon. These are essentially the same
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Yeah, it's the sort of exercise that people do when they're trying to establish good habits (and in this case maybe diet? She's eating very lightly). Seems very much in the "Think and Grow Rich" tradition
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
I still have a freebie shirt they gave me in like 1994. Who knew it would outlast them
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
>In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%2...
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Of all the things to doubt in the Bible the ability to cover yourself with a fig leaf is not a major one for me
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
I have a DX7IID that has been in constant use since it was built in the late 80s and aside from a single battery replacement it's still in perfect condition. They are extremely durable.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
The memoir "Indian Boyhood" by Dr. Charles Eastman gives excellent examples of this. He describes life in his native American tribe as alternating between the best life can offer and desperation / extreme discomfort. They did
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
This is also how my two year old likes to spend his time. What a charming idea, and how wonderful to see them embrace it in a productive way.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
>Also shows that when the USA prevented people in nursing homes from even going outside (to get sun exposure) it was the worse thing they could have done. Is this something you feel is supported by the article or is this your own synthes
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
I guess I don't ascribe particularly high value to the category of games, I think even very simple games designed to take money from the player count. But I do agree on the mobile vs PC divide broadly in terms of what's on the mar
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
The lesson for me from modern mobile games and microtransaction models is that addictive gameplay is actually distinct from engaging gameplay and very few modern developers are focusing on the latter. It seems to be very nearly the exclusiv
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
A "wash trade" is a trade which generates no value because it represents a swap in kind. For example, if I sell a broad market ETF like VTI and buy a nearly identical asset at the same price from a different firm, that could be a
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
>Small town may seem idyllic but they are often hell for that one gay resident. Precisely. And that enforcement of the orthodoxy often takes far more severe forms than online criticism.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
>social media enables the construction and enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy. You hit on it, but this is the crux to me - what makes them think this wasn't possible before? Or, if they did think it possible before,
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Only stalk people in areas where there are only Androids, I suppose, which is pretty much nowhere in US cities at least
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Thanks so much for the response! It's really interesting stuff.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
>AlphaZero’s neural network evaluation function doesn’t have the same level of structure as Stockfish’s evaluation function: the Stockfish function breaks down a position into a range of concepts (for example king safety, mobility, and m
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
This strikes me as a very naive sort of romanticism, as someone who grew up in alternately a very safe and very dangerous locale.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Important to note than a seven year timeline with his calculations would take extreme penny pinching and would yield a fairly low sustainable annual income compared to your previous salary, but it's certainly possible.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
1.5 million seems woefully inadequate for just the security element of a pre-established plan. > The internet voting project is, for reasons unclear, categorized under the Open Source Voting project, despite “open-source” not being menti

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