GhostVII

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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think the Zodiac killer must have wanted this to be broken at some point, maybe they overestimated the difficulty though. It's not hard to make an unbreakable cipher (one time pad, or just doing a large number of transformations), se
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Imo they should instead put one of those disclaimers on all election related videos, linking out to a set of reputable sources for election results. Removing it just fuels conspiracy theories and directs people to more extreme platforms, do
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Google's UI's in general are shockingly slow. I don't understand why my Google Drive and Gmail have input lag and choppy animations on my 5 year old xps13, it's not that hard to make navigating a filesystem or list of em
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Why should the US have an extremely costly lockdown (which will almost certainly fail) to stamp out a virus for which we will have a vaccine being rolled out in a week? Mask orders and other low-impact restrictions are great but I don'
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by GhostVII 6y ago
For sure, I include how much you eat as a part of your diet. The vast majority of people could eat mcdonald's every day and be a healthy weight by just controlling quantity.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it's more likely diet rather than exercise that makes the difference. Can't outrun (or outwalk) a poor diet, and you can be a healthy bodyweight while eating "unhealthy" food and not exercising by just limiting t
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Why wouldn't you just setup a traditional market like we do with other commodities, rather than a blockchain? If you are trading in something that exists in the real world (like energy savings), you already need some central authority
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by GhostVII 6y ago
You can counter misinformation on a particular topic scalably by gathering a set of authoritative sources of information on it, and presenting them in places where there is discussion about that topic (ex. YouTube putting COVID info links o
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it is important to keep the temperature increase down so that we don't drive as many species to extinction (ex. Coral reefs are already severely damaged). But the climate "apocalypse" fears seem overblown. Florida was
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by GhostVII 6y ago
If you want to shift gears using the carbon drive you have to use an internal gear hub, which has a lot less range than a traditional derailleur and is less efficient. So if you are riding a racing or mountain bike a chain system is probabl
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking by avoiding their software and websites. For me Google tracking me is a reasonable trade-off for free youtube and email, I can always inst
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Not in the article for some reason, but Tesla already did a recall in China for this issue. They claim that the road conditions in China are different, so this isn't an issue in other countries, but the suspension in the US is the same
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by GhostVII 6y ago
This reminds me of the WinFall lottery [0], where if no one got a grand prize, the prize money was rolled over to the next week. As a result, if there were enough prizes rolled over to the next week the lottery could actually have a positiv
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by GhostVII 6y ago
The government receives revenue from gas taxes, and they spend money on EV incentives and renewable energy, so in a way the taxes do pay for reducing CO2 emissions.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Same reason as why Google offers anti-semitic messages. Ultimately those voice assistants just act as a search engine for most queries, so they are going to respond in a similar way to a search engine. As long as they properly attribute the
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by GhostVII 6y ago
If there were two shooters, wouldn't they have to be incredibly coordinated to shoot directly on target at pretty much the same time? Seems pretty difficult to get two shots to the head/neck from long range in the time between the
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by GhostVII 6y ago
People who work there will tell you that they provide liquidity, which is a valuable thing to have in markets. I've always been a bit skeptical of how much value they provide there though given that they don't hold on to anything
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by GhostVII 6y ago
People will buy sequestered carbon if there is a market for it. Some kind of cap-and-trade system for emissions would make it profitable to do carbon capture once cheaper methods of reducing emissions have been exhausted.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Pfizer is partnered with a German company
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Only 2700 people were in the 1.5 dose variant.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
When I say "irrationally offended minority", I mean "minority" as in a small number of people, not "minority" as in racial minority, although I see why they isn't clear given that I use the word in two dif
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It's their choice, but I still don't like the precedent it sets. I don't really care what they call it, I just don't want this kind of thing to become an expectation, resulting in me either having to do a bunch of renami
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I hate this, we shouldn't be accommodating people being irrationally offended. Sure it's not much work in this instance, but what happens when people move on to being offended by blacklist, or sanity check, or one of the other tho
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by GhostVII 6y ago
We haven't lost anything, but we've gained the expectation that we should be accommodating a tiny minority of people being offended for no reason. Sure it's not much work to switch "master" to "main" (alth
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by GhostVII 6y ago
They got more data so they updated the number to 95%, if a member of the public doesn't understand that they are just being willfully ignorant.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
In my anecdotal experience the split happens pretty early, in early high school at the latest. All the people who were interested in computers in my grade 9 class were male.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
There are less women in the tech industry, so it is very possible for them to be more likely to get a callback and still be underrepresented.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Sounds like it's time to pick up an old pixel and start funnelling your photo library through it.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
You can also just duct tape a phone to your computer screen with your notes. Webcam can't see it, and it's right in your field of view when looking at the questions. Locked down browsers are dumb, no matter what you do there'
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by GhostVII 6y ago
If the markets react that means it is probably significant news, since the people who have millions at stake think this is enough to increase the future outlook of the top companies. You should take them seriously because the markets reflec

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