Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
Not just toxic sites. Wildfires can really do a number on your lungs. As bad as Delhi's air pollution is, for a brief moment the air quality was worse in Portland Oregon due to a nearby wildfire. Much as I love living out West, this
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I wouldn't be surprised if every person in Europe and every person in the Americas with European ancestry was descended from Mark Antony. https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/2.
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One thing I'm still struggling to predict is just how far AI art will really penetrate into society. Namely, if you've shown this stuff off to "normal" people, you've probably noticed that their reactions are kind
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Just because some trend feels inevitable doesn’t mean we shouldn’t oppose it. We shouldn’t be beholden to the march of technology like it’s some force of nature that we are powerless to resist.
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And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking? I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have
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I wouldn't discount something simply because the underlying technology has been around for decades. People said the same thing about Slack being nothing more than IRC. Didn't stop people from talking about how it was the future
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I wouldn't count on that. Sure, you can see increased productivity through farm automation, but that assumes that the farmer can afford said tools. Those that can might be able to grow more crops on less land, but they might be too p
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The end of the social networking era as we know it. Many of the big giants from the 2000s - 2010s have pretty much peaked by now. TikTok is the thing everyone wants to be, but arguably its not a social networking app so much as a social en
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Kind of wild to think that we have all these cities next to the Great Lakes and we're just sort of letting them decay.
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This actually makes me pretty sad. For all of Facebook's ills, it did at least do a good job of keeping me connected with friends before it got weird. Same with Instagram. Twitter is fantastic because it helps me discover new people
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I'm less worried about fatality and more worried about long-term health consequences. COVID worries me, but not because it might kill me. I'm more worried about long-term brain fog and respiratory problems. I'm more worried
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He was also a very generous patron of Albuquerque's game developer community. We had some great parties at his studio downtown.
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Well, if it truly is tied to cancer, I'll be sure to let Hacker News know. Back in college I was paid $50 to wear a backpack sprayer loaded with the stuff and go nuclear on a guy's weed-infested garden. Backpack sprayers leak, so
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Incidentally my first "true indie" game was SpaceChem. I'm tempted to play it again, maybe try and beat it this time. It's a very fun game, and cheap too, if you want to play along. Glad they got to go out on their own
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I’ve been thinking of that a lot as well. What’s the point of being able to read fast if you miss the fine details? What’s the point if you read so fast that you just sort of forget everything? One of the many issues I have with contempor
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To elaborate on what I mean. I think that someone will train an AI on racist literature, statistics, and rhetoric, and create an AI that is not only very racist, but very good at convincing other people to be racist. I think this will hap
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Maybe. One prediction I have is that AI will likely find its earliest widespread use in "content" generation, and this content will be geared towards clicks and engagement rather than creating something, well, creative. I think e
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I'm tempted to say plastics, but I'm also actually kind of optimistic that either we'll engineer fungi / bacteria to decompose it, or said fungi / bacteria will evolve on its own to decompose it. We're already
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AI/ML is a bit of a wildcard for me. On the one hand, I’m certain many companies will be eager cut costs through automation. On the other, investors will likely grow cold if the results just can’t live up to the hype fast enough.
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Albuquerque, NM is kind of rural. It's weird, since at 500,000 people we definitely meet the definition of a big city, but culturally people behave like it's a small town. Additionally, it's feasible to live in the mountains
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I can't help but feel like this could really make a mess of things. What I think would be nice is if there we tools that better allowed us to create "social gardens" on platforms like Twitter, platforms that allowed us to bet
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I think a more convincing theory for me is that society abounds with "IQ shredders". Sure, we're now living in an era of abundant information, but we're also living in an era of abundant distractions and hazards.
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This actually looks really interesting. I was worried that the positive reviews might be due to a right-leaning echo-chamber, but it seems like the praise crosses political lines. I'll have to check it out.
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Also, so this isn't just about politics, I think astrology is...interesting. I mean, rationally, it's hard to take it seriously. So, what, you mean to tell me that the planets, which are an unfathomable distance away from us, som
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I have to admit I didn't vote at all during that election, half because of how unlikable both candidates were. But the other half of the reason was that I kind of figured Hilary had it in the bag. She was simply better resourced in te
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And so there's still definitely a part of me that realizes that, yeah, rationally, you can't just ignore the influence of Russian interference or the flaws in modern polling. Looking back, it's obvious that we underestimated
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Since the pandemic started I've found myself believing less-and-less in mundane, worldly explanations for things. My favorite example is the 2016 presidential election. While there are many who would like to believe that Trump won due
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It's my favorite way to unwind at the end of the week. Each episode feels like storytelling as it ought to be.
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As much as I'd like to hear that BAYC is untouchable on account of being founded by Neo-Nazis (I think it's a very dumb project) I honestly can't buy the simianization argument. We've all heard the WallStreetBets crowd c
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Cat’s already out of the bag. Collectively demanding to work in an office is, well, kind of silly. Maybe we should collectively demand something else. Maybe we software engineers should get wise to the fact that, in theory, we’re as easil

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