DFHippie

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by DFHippie 4y ago
I think it's static inasmuch as it isn't an inherently adversarial problem. The world isn't bent on thwarting self-driving cars. Bot authors are bent on subverting detection.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Point taken, but it's not wage theft so long as he's paying them. He's stealing from Tesla stockholders. Though I imagine the engineers he borrowed have existing priorities and deadlines, so the experience for them and their
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Dark Matter. Or maybe it's axions! This would be proof that dark matter, or at least some of it, is axions.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> this is called the natural order of things The natural order of things is only important inasmuch as it is a stable, desirable order. Lots of things we don't like happen in nature: starvation, disease, rape, murder, torture, isola
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by DFHippie 4y ago
You can grasp 270kg/600lb, though, right?
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by DFHippie 4y ago
According to Wikipedia it was insulin shock therapy, not ECT, that cost Townes Van Zandt his memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt#Early_life I heard a Radio Lab episode in which a sufferer of chronic
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Yes. A talent for winning elections is something. It isn't a talent for governing or evidence of policy wisdom, but it is a talent. Sometimes a lack of scruples or shame can be a talent, too.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> carb boat Heh heh. I imagine fishermen hauling in a net full of potatoes and pasta.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I agree about the danger of disinformation. But writing a law and claiming it combats disinformation is not the same as combatting disinformation. In Russia today you can go to jail for up to 15 years for stating that Russia is at war. Why?
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The problem is that if you already have a dictatorship, or something approaching it, "disinformation" means, in the eyes of the law as it is applied, information counter to the ruling party's interest. I agree that disinforma
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The Brattleboro co-op is quite successful. A co-op has a lot of positive externalities: better customer experience, better benefits, pay, and job satisfaction for the employees than at non-co-op grocery stores, the community it fosters, etc
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by DFHippie 4y ago
He also used as a reference the five years he spent at sea, sometimes on whaling ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville#1839%E2%80%931...
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Except the constituents of the decision makers in government who are not on board (in those countries with a marginally functioning democracy).
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by DFHippie 4y ago
One research quoted said he had tried and failed 6 times to reproduce the results.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I just want to stop for a moment and admire some of your metaphor pileups: > monkeys to shit out half-baked garbage > your shit stops chewing a hole in itself > half-baked tire fires Awesome. Terrifying, but awesome.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Kayaks are long and skinny. The shells of giant pumpkins are think. I think you'd have trouble getting enough flotation. You need something with a better surface area to volume ration, a boat more like a hemisphere. I'm thinking a
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> If this is really an existential threat, then it's counter-productive to use as just another political cudgel to score Twitter points on the "other" tribe. This isn't what is happening. When you see injustice, it&#x
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by DFHippie 4y ago
But here we want cells to eat themselves, not damaged organelles. I believe nuclear DNA isn't among the things cleaned up by autophagy.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it produces both.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
One of the biggest suppliers is boycotting them. Russia has turned off the gas to try to break the European resolve to assist Ukraine.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I haven't actually read the announcement, but I assume the tremendous temperature is in a tremendously small quantity of plasma. Basically, it's a few extremely fast nuclei.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The point isn't to prescribe behavior for cloudflare. The point is to show that "no censorship" doesn't provide a simple rule to follow in all cases. Speech itself can be censorship. In this case an entity like cloudflar
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This, I think, is a useful perspective for all those here talking about free speech: https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/kiwi-farms-cloudlfare-a... The point is that if you're using your speech to silen
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The problem in the US is that there's a huge chunk of the population that believes the chief thing the government can give them is vengeance against their uppity neighbors. Where this movement is ascendant, the government does little m
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Peanuts are actually an old world food. They are native to Africa.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
It's cold. Burn the house down now!
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Impressive how much propaganda can achieve. Alanis Morissette missed a lyric.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Rather, not for enough Americans. Netanyahu won the hearts of Republican voters by openly treating Obama with contempt.
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The relationship has been pretty sour since Netanyahu for a lot of Americans. He openly meddled in internal US politics, like Putin but with less gaslighting.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> What would be your opinion of US president, if he goes to to retire in Russia? Did Gorbachev retire outside Russia? I wasn't aware of this. He died in Moscow. The last time I heard about him before this was when he attended an RT

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