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by Fricken 3y ago
The grandparent specifically wanted to know who the authored the propaganda. The article is just about box office scores. It's not something a sane person would regard as propaganda. Hollywood movies however have long served as a core
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by Fricken 3y ago
Authorship typically goes to the director, in this case James Mangold. The article did mention him.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Here's the map we're talking about: https://imgur.com/V8YTjzJ
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by Fricken 3y ago
imovie is no good anymore?
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by Fricken 3y ago
Paraffin is a means, not an end. The end goal is to generate heat, and we have all kinds of ways to generate heat now that are superior to paraffin. The future of AI may not depend on diffusion models or even a silicon substrate, but the in
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by Fricken 3y ago
I'm a huge Cohen brothers fan, I thought the new version was excellent, but not as excellent as the original.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Because when we reached the limit of what we could do with paraffin, we moved onto other methods of producing heat. Now we make superheated balls of plasma as hot as the sun using deuterium, tritium, lasers and magnets.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Is there any reasonable assumption to be made that AI has reached it's zenith? I don't think there is. AI improves over time. That's all it does, and barring some civilizational catastrophe, that's what it will continue
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by Fricken 3y ago
If you passively accept whatever mass media is spoon-feeding you, you're gonna have a bad time. The good shit is out there but doesn't have the same marketing budget, you have to go looking for it.
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by Fricken 3y ago
A half billion years have passed since the invention of sex and they're still showing up. How long term are we talking?
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by Fricken 3y ago
The parent opened their comment with a false claim. At no point did the article conflate gut diversity with gut health.
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by Fricken 3y ago
The best argument against free soloing is free soloing. Mortals don't usually get very far before it puts the fear of God in them. The one's who do are wired different, and are outliers even within the climbing community. Myself,
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by Fricken 3y ago
I've been following climbing since the early 90s. Amongst the pros John Bachar is the only guy I can name who died while free soloing in that time. Dan Osman, Alaine Robert, Alex Honnold, Steph Davis, Catherine Destiville, Better Harri
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by Fricken 3y ago
r/ukrainewarvideoreport has Wagner already inside Moscow Oblast. The sub seems the best place to go to see this event play out in near-real time, and presumably it won't be long at all before Wagner is at the gates of Moscow.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I drink ~8 cups per day most days, but I only need one to avoid getting a headache.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I joined the reserves at 17 in 1994, and did ql 2/3 (Canadian basic) between my grade 11 and 12 year. They woke us up on the first morning, gave us 15 minutes to shit, shower and shave, but I had never shaved before. It was just wisps
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by Fricken 3y ago
The poisonous aspects of the internet could largely be alleviated by going back to dumbphones. I don't think you would have to change much else. Having the drug in your pocket at all times is what's making society sick. There wasn
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by Fricken 3y ago
His ideas weren't particularly marginal before. The notion that industrial civilization is fundamentally alienating has been around as long as industrial civilization.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Elon was personally responsible for that emoji.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Nadella has been talking up Microsoft's AI strategy for a long time, on a regular basis. He has kept up with the changes but his general tune on AI hasn't changed much in 5 years. What's different is that investors are now li
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by Fricken 3y ago
Da Vinci was a lefty, he solved the problem by writing from right to left. So long as you're the only one who has to read it later, it's a good solution.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Other social media platforms are by and large just more passive aggressive variants of 4chan.
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by Fricken 3y ago
The notion that industrialization and modernity in general bring about feelings of profound alienation has a rich lineage of philosophy and storytelling going back to the dawn of the modern era. Nietchze, Carl Jung, Marshall McLuhan, Willia
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by Fricken 3y ago
Reddit's competitor has until the 30th to get something off the ground
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by Fricken 3y ago
I need to see some samples across different art styles before I sign up for anything
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by Fricken 3y ago
A lot of intelligence is studying hard, but you can't control whether or not you actually have the desire to pursue such a vector.
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by Fricken 3y ago
A non-lazy rebuttal would include a description of the hypothetical killer app that Vision could support. Apple's got nuthin'. I got nuthin'. Nobody else has anything convincing either.
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by Fricken 3y ago
A lobster has half as many neurons as a mosquito.
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by Fricken 3y ago
We can talk about everything that can go wrong, but as it is a cop can kill you if he decides to. It comes down to whether or not the forces that be decide to. Possibly police will be less likely to use lethal force if they avoid taking wha
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by Fricken 3y ago
Twice now in the past 2 decades I've gone more than 24 hours without coffee.

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