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by BeetleB 4mo ago
So it's clear you're not going to bother researching into why people use it.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> This would be a great argument if there were any non-pervy application for these glasses. Have you even bothered researching it? Can you please go and respond to the comments in this submission and let them know you are denying their r
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices. It's not a reasonable characterization of the people that wear these devices, and that's what the sentence is implying. > Even if not st
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real. aka the "Digital photos aren't real photos!" argument.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Is this meant to be even close to a reasonable perspective? I could equally say "Bullying is exactly why Trump is in power and Elon Musk ran DOGE".
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> it's directed at people who are literally at the top of the world The very first sentence in the article associates people who wear these with "pervs". So no, this is not merely directed at "the top of the world&quo
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> zuck is trying to push bad, ugly glasses ... > i’m not sure how you got to “four eyes” from there I'm guessing you're younger than me. In my youth, having glasses meant being ugly.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
He doesn't like Zuckerberg's glasses, but he likes using his same dirty tactics!
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I'm not finding it to be any different from "Four eyes!"
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> sold a few million camera glasses for pervs I stopped reading. If you want to convince people, try to meet them where they're at.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> OpenAI also has this kind of check. Indeed, that's what motivated me to get an OpenRouter account!
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> You literally provide your name, email address, address and credit card number when you create an account and subscribe. I don't recall Anthropic's payment systems, but I use Paypal wherever supported. I don't think Payp
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
IIRC, he said the bulk of revenue comes from job listings.
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Xbox CEO Says Current Margins 'Cannot Continue' in Public Letter to Staff(engadget.com)
5 points by BeetleB 5mo ago|2 comments
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
What's wrong with Maps?
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> Gmail was a web only email client released in 2004 Well, Gmail was actually one of the last web based email clients people used :-) Yahoo mail, Hotmail, and so many others predate Gmail by years. > Web browsing was very much one o
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> There wasn't much demand for the extra capacity. Even low end cpus from a decade ago are plenty capable for just browsing the web and typing up documents. It stalled before the rise of PC-as-Internet-portal. I bought a high end PC
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> Ultimately it's all about market returns. If other indexes add it and outperform then eventually money will shift to those funds that do better. That's like saying that if Nvidia performs way better than an index fund, then t
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
Or ... for them to impress guys?
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
Are you suggesting that in that culture boys/girls did not value the other party unless they were academically similar...? I can believe it, but I don't know if it's true. Obviously not true in the US.
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
I'm not opposed to trying to make learning anything fun. At a larger scale, though, if that's the primary strategy, you'll barely move the needle.
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> Just to play devils advocate though, what are the downsides of not having 3 of the biggest 10 in the world not in your fund The same downsides as not having giant private companies in your fund.
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> we need to apply the same constant social pressure to mathematics skills that we do for learning to read. Ha Ha Ha! Cute you think society cares about reading abilities! I mean, OK, you are expected to be able to do basic level reading
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> It's hard to convince kids why they should learn advanced abstract math, beyond what is necessary to calculate the tip on a restaurant bill. When I was just a bit younger, I detested what I'm about to say, but now know as the
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> We’ve dug this hole ourselves, without knowing better, over the last decade or so. I tire of hearing this. We definitely knew better. I definitely did. Lots of people who did not opt into these services did. We were not silent about it
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> Do you think upper division college classes are somehow like high school classes with well developed curriculum and teaching professors who teach the same thing every quarter? I repeatedly said "standard course", which implie
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
> For sorting out >= B/3.0 grades, a curb can work since you are getting evaluated against your peers to see he is standing out vs just doing acceptable. I'm still not getting it. For a standard course, the criteria for what
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
Actually, when I read they usually graded on a curve, I lost all interest. I don't respect teachers that grade on curves. You should be graded by how well you know the material - not how well your peers don't know it. I'm alw
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
Spindrift not in the list?
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by BeetleB 5mo ago
As long as my employer is footing the bill, fine. For personal stuff this release is not noteworthy.

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