Electricniko

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by Electricniko 1y ago
I saw the link and was kinda hoping his name was Joseph T Hacker.
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by Electricniko 1y ago
Most of Disney's works are protected by IP law, but Disney himself is public domain.
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by Electricniko 1y ago
There's a solution for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLy27bK-wU
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by Electricniko 2y ago
OpenAI is currently valued at $300 billion, and their product is largely based on copying the copyrighted works of others, who weren't paid by OpenAI. It's a bit (exponentially) different from a "me and you" example.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
It isn't that they weren't authenticating the items, it's that they weren't authenticating previous ownership. A lot of the items were stolen, as you can imagine there was a bit of wildness in the Middle East at the time
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by Electricniko 2y ago
Oh great, now I have to brush my eyes before I go to bed too.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
For classic books like those you mentioned, Project Gutenberg has text versions along with pdfs/epubs/etc. For instance, Discourses on Livy: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10827/pg10827-images.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
This video of Angelo Badalamenti explaining how they came up with Laura Palmer's theme is a neat little look into his creativity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I like to think that today's clickbait data pools are perfect for translating ancient texts. The software will see modern headlines like "Politician roasts the opposition for spending cuts" and come up with translations like
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by Electricniko 2y ago
The DNA-collecting businesses have already been hacked.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
Probably the news from a few weeks ago that the government issued whale hunting permits through 2029.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
The first couple of years I found Honeycrisp at my local market, which would have been 2001 and 2002 (because I'll never forget a lot of things from September 2001), the apples were HUGE. More like a large grapefruit than an apple in s
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I'm guessing that they're referring to the practice of investors borrowing with low interest rates to buy large amounts of stock in a company, then milking the company of all its value for short term gains. Unless there's a s
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by Electricniko 2y ago
Alphabets have symbols that represent sounds which are strung together to make words. Other types of writing might include symbols that represent words or phrases, with an example being like Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese characters.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
The air purifier review site Housefresh dug into why sites like theirs were seeing less traffic back in the spring, and it amounts to a handful of companies buying up popular magazine/blog brands and using them as affiliate farms that
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I was recently reading Washington Irving's first book, from 1809, where he mentioned Darwin arguing that humans are descended from monkeys, and I thought "that seems a little early." Turns out he was talking about Charles Dar
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by Electricniko 2y ago
> There has been a point in my life where I ended every day in the dark, staring at a wall for an hour or two straight, trying to figure out why everything felt awful. From his post about burnout and mental health. Also worth a read. ht
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I liked the absurdity of one of the top comments on the Verge article, which was that under the requirements of this ruling, Apple could open up an app store for Android and Google would be forced to put it on their Play Store.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
It seems like this could ultimately fall under the category of financial fraud, since the allegations are that he may have favorably misrepresented the results of drug trials where he was credited as an inventor of the drug that's now
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I don't know how difficult it would be to detect these in customs, but I'm thinking more of an organization posing as a fly by night Amazon/Aliexpress/Temu seller who wants to cause some chaos in a country.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
Cell phones that, if distributed from the organization like the pagers were, could be compromised as well.
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by Electricniko 2y ago
Apple AI selfie drone with a monthly contract for your own livestream channel to stream everything you do, with Siri as the AI stream moderator, and an asset/app store to upgrade different parts of your streams. Maybe even 30% cut of t
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by Electricniko 2y ago
The Citroen Oli (corrugated cardboard honeycombs with fiberglass) and Honda Sustaina C (acrylic resin) concepts are the two most interesting I've seen with small vehicles making a use of new lighter materials. I don't think either
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by Electricniko 2y ago
There are also some cool animations out there that show the drifting, smashing, and more drifting of the plates. I like ones like these that provide some modern landmarks, or showing it in reverse, so you can track individual places through
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by Electricniko 2y ago
"in a single sphere"---- shows three spheres
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by Electricniko 2y ago
With this being served by Aramark, you have to question if the critic got something different than what's normally served to prisoners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramark#Food_safety_issues
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by Electricniko 2y ago
"Your baby is crying because you often raise your voice and make unreasonable demands of those around you. Would you like to add insurance for a lifetime of psychiatric help to your cart?"
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by Electricniko 2y ago
"Scan complete. Smug look on face detected."
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by Electricniko 2y ago
The brothers did the act while in the US, so they're still under the jurisdiction of the US legal system. You can agree by contract to have contractual disputes handled under a certain jurisdiction, arbitration, or within the contractu
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by Electricniko 2y ago
I feel like the people who wonder why this is a crime are missing something pretty important: this isn't the SEC attempting to regulate a crypto market by prosecuting securities fraud, it's the DOJ prosecuting straight-up old fash

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