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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>at the whims of a foreign corporation that will stop at nothing if it means 2 cents more on their bottom line, or gets them on the good side of a government entity. Or if it gets them out of a flash-in-the-pan PR issue fomented by the l
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
There's consistently a lot of shock and outrage about foreign interference in American elections, however there seems to be no feasible solutions to the problem. If, as people seem to be doing, "election interference" doesn&#
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The article doesn't seem to give a direct link to ElementAI's findings. Summary: https://www.elementai.com/fr/news/2018/recherches-sur-twitte... Detailed findings: https://decoders.amnest
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Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better(palmerluckey.com)
145 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|94 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
For now, at least. Some companies have massive annotated databases of people's faces from different angles, and the ability to do plausible 3D reconstruction of the faces.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Does anyone know if there's anything about the unlocking method that requires the model to be 3D-printed? It seems like you could render the 3D model of the head on a monitor and point the phone's camera at the monitor. If the pho
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Agreed! My favorite Christmas carols are the ones that aren't just marking a jolly merry festival, but have that "foreboding" melancholy potency you describe. I think G. K. Chesteron did a good job of capturing the sense of
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Love Is a Battlefield(medium.com)
1 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
I think the person you replied to was looking to make a "Great Leap Forward" wordplay.
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Lying with Gun Data. Again(medium.com)
4 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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The Steward of Middle-earth(weeklystandard.com)
2 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Epik welcomed Gab.com(epik.com)
5 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|4 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Also potentially relevant to the tech community here and anyone who works on currently-non-dominant social media platforms: politicians are already demanding that Gab be held criminally liable for the speech and actions of their users. From
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Related: Gab had also posted a public statement [0] on Medium after the shooting in Pittsburgh. However, Medium has now suspended Gab from their platform, so that the only way to read the statement is to use an archive link [1]. Hopefully t
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
I think it's actually the reverse. Your critique is that the NPC meme ignores that lots of liberals/progressives exist. The rightist promoters of the NPC meme would agree with that statement -- but they would say that it's
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Is it really that hard to understand? At its simplest level, the NPC meme is an extension of "I'm a member of [insert outgroup here], look how dumb I sound" trolling.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Mark Hofmann is my (ex-)uncle (by marriage, not by blood). Needless to say, the whole affair isn't something we really bring up at family gatherings. From a historical/detached standpoint the events are all certainly interesting a
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
You don't need academic knowledge of anatomy if you grow up in a culture (that of medieval peasants) where hunting, cleaning, and cooking animals was likely common. Much can be inferred from analogy, in the way the non-human dissection
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
We should keep in mind that these tips are specifically chosen because of their unusual and laughable nature, and so should refrain from attempting to generalize about the nature of medieval medicine from a biased dataset.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
I grew up LDS and remember a church youth speaker saying something like "It's OK to pull the ox out of the mire on Sunday as long as you didn't push him in on Saturday." :)
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The article raises good points about the need for formal societal taboos against constant work. The ideal (often violated, though) in our modern society of the "40-hour week" as a reasonable amount is one of them. Having regular t
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Hacker culture and the politics of process defense(esr.ibiblio.org)
4 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The same ideological mindset that agitates for the current change also has issues with many sorts of ingrained hierarchies in general. They're probably find titles of nobility gendered and thus 'problematic'. Euphemism treadm
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Is there any evidence for your claim? Do programmers who view the word "slave" and "master" in a programming context poll higher on support for slavery? Should we expect that the ones pushing for changes, because they se
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Why fake miniatures depicting Islamic science are everywhere(aeon.co)
8 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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YouTube shuts down official Syrian government channels(twitter.com)
4 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|0 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Direct arxiv link to the preprint in question: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184 Kudos to the author for being brave enough to detail these events. Academia and the process of science has enough blind spots without need
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God's Own Cryptosystem(jacobitemag.com)
14 points by DanAndersen 8y ago|1 comments
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
One thing I would love to see in a city generator like this is a simulation of time and how gradual evolution shapes a city. There's a picture book called "Barmi: A Mediterranean City Through The Ages" by Xavier Hernandez a
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
If you do actually have kids, please understand that such an action is extremely traumatic and leaves scars that never fully heal.

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