Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
And this is how an unregulated world looks like. Unstable currencies, scams, price manipulation, all investments are high risk investments, ... your money is safer under your bed producing nothing than in the self proclaimed Web3. Edit: on
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by Hokusai 5y ago
So, it has a sensor that is also a solar cell. > We believe such a device can play a vital role in emerging fields such as wearable imaging, sensor networks, smart environments, and the Internet of things. How is this better than to have
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Although there's no prize or verifying authority for completion. And that solves many problems stated in the article. Rewards are tricky and create a willingness to optimize on how to obtain the reward instead of enjoying the expe
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Do you think he doesn’t know, or do you think he doesn’t care? I don't know, and I don't care.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Actually, I think I just saw a GPT-3 application that allowed you to "lengthen" text. And a browser extension that shrinks it. And the AI wars continue.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> researcher who is very excited about the underlying technology , Mixbox I love the channel, but he is very excited about absolutely everything.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Additionally, dollar-pegged stablecoins backed by adequately safe and liquid collateral can potentially serve as a digital safe haven currency during periods of crypto market distress. That's the Federal Reserve being themselves.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Does anyone actually know a real "5g causes corona" person? I've seen them at marches, that's about it. The people that I know about will not express such a strong opinion. But they are not sure about what to believ
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I just read that as 486 capital, I'm getting old.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
One on ones are a very good tool. In someone with good training and in a good job environment are incredible to gather feedback, make sure that the company environment is good, and it's an opportunity to help individuals with the kind
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Trust is necessarily to work in groups. I see too often companies giving individual bonuses on productivity, that creates a "if you fail I win" mentality. Punishing people for mistakes is also quite common. You end with colleagues
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Just because it's an ID doesn't mean anything... at all... It's to use ID, widely used as short form for identification, part of the joke? I'm missing something. Enough characters to add "... at all..." th
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Americans debating every day whether strongly authoritarian and invasive measures are OK, if they save lives. In Europe seatbelts are mandatory, and it is forbidden to smoke in most places. I think that these are reasonable measures. I
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That's the "ninjas joke": Japanese ninjas are the worst. All countries have ninjas but only the Japanese have been discovered.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Precipice:_Existential_Ris... I find the logic flawed as it seems to imply that extrem suffering of some is justified if it benefits many others. "You can kill a person to harvest
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> When was the last time a driver update broke game on a console? Ever had to install support software to make a game work well with a particular controller? Issues with overlays and system feature integration? Unexpected performance los
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Well, Windows at some point decided to switch audio outputs on you. You may have a lot of them. Line out, headphones, a bluetooth headset, a virtual out for streaming software, a monitor with built-in speakers I agree that I have found
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by Hokusai 5y ago
This is being done because of that. Google does not want to lose the PC market. Amazon will get it, if there is no Google alternative.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> there's untold little quirks you have to deal with when using a general-purpose operating system "Though initial iterations of the software for the original Xbox and Xbox 360 were based on heavily modified versions of Windows
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by Hokusai 5y ago
In 2022, to find entertainment is extremely easy. The challenge is to be able to get bored. I can imagine that being different in the past.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> If it hurts the bottom line for America it just gets down-played and treated as a nesessary evil. American companies? Corporate profits and citizens well being are often misaligned. > How does one prove global warming is based on hu
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Next step is to pay employees with Amazon gift cards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip )
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> The National Association of Manufacturers, an industry group, made an even more sweeping argument in a brief filed in support of the companies, writing, "state courts are not positioned to decide who, if anyone, is to be legally a
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by Hokusai 5y ago
The problem is usually complexity and opportunity cost. Once you have a team that can keep Android patched, someone at Google is going to use them to speed up another product or create a new one. Why not add another team more? First, the si
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> You've probably noticed this if you've tried to search YouTube for videos which don't align with the official narratives of western governments and media lately. You want your unpopular ideas to be promoted, and you thin
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Getting a new Tinder account involves getting a new phone number. But when the same happens with an online videogame linked to Playstation, Xbox or Steam accounts, being kicked off can mean losing hundreds of euros in downloaded games
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I try to minimize my cynism. But for this one I will go with "leaked" a.k.a. free advertising.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That's all the point of crypto-currencies, they need to go up and down to enable speculation. Pump and make it go up. Dump and it goes down. Someone is cashing the difference. A stable crypto-currency will not attract so much speculati
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> I sometimes wonder if all this complexity is a necessary consequence of that power. For many use cases you do not need all that knowledge. C++ is fast enough to not have to care. It's when you hit a wall that you need to get the e
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Many skins are just picture backgrounds. I stayed with the original ones, as they felt more coherent. But there are rarities like https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d... It feels well designed a

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