Imnimo

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by Imnimo 5y ago
How can there be "self-regulation" on a platform that is "unstoppable, uncensorable, undeplatformable"? I certainly agree that there are plenty of valuable forums that are not run by tech giants, but they function becaus
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I mean that's the beauty of it. I get to choose whether I want to hear Twitter's version of discourse or NoFILTER's version, or neither. So when people I'm unlikely to want to listen to decide to go to NoFILTER, that&#
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>Anonymous voices & actions are sometimes the best voices & actions, but also horrific in equal measure. Is it really "equal measure"? Somehow I think this service will get a lot more "horrific" than "be
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by Imnimo 5y ago
They say it's "undeplatformable", but it's really just a way of screaming into the void because no one is going to want to dig through a pile of trash to find out what they're saying. I'd say it's a great
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Why is it that these garbage Bitcoin blogposts that read like they were written by GPT and contain no insightful information shoot right up to the front page? Is Velotio expecting that someone reading this would come away with a positive i
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by Imnimo 5y ago
But if we are "near the top", that doesn't really explain why Zillow Offers lost so much money. If we're still on the upslope, and the problem is just that Zillow expects a bust soon, wouldn't they have just been a
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Misleading title. >spent a whopping $153 during the primary portion of his campaign.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
All of this is perfectly reasonable advice, but I think it'll fall on deaf ears. The jobs these bad emails/messages are advertising are often terrible, and while making a better pitch will let you attract the interest of better c
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I looked up "synecdoche" (to see if it would give me this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-n1vGeVIXo ), and a few of the examples are of people saying "Schenectady" but mis-transcribed. I guess yo
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by Imnimo 5y ago
What I don't get is why they wouldn't just use MongoDB. MongoDB is web-scale.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
It's interesting the MW says, >The flop in teraflop stands for “floating-point operation” Without noting that, in some circles, the 'p' is taken to mean 'per', and only 'flops' is valid (Floating Point
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't think this strategy really worked for Ron Artest, but maybe it'll work for Facebook.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
You do not always know when you are a potential suspect of a crime, or that you will not be in the future. Nor do the police need to actually suspect you of a crime to harass you. If the police come to you and say "we suspect a crime
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I think the old adage "don't talk to the police" extends to not providing them a video feed of your property. People should be free to do what they want with their video, but you're putting yourself at unnecessary risk.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Resilient is not the same as immune, and it only takes one fork to create an arbitrarily large number of coins.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Printing more is always just a hard fork away.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
This is such a weird bit of research to me. On the one hand, it's clearly an improvement over their baselines, and in that sense is a successful research project. Insofar as the demo is helpful in conveying that 92% accuracy on a vet
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Okay, but the division of the Dakota Territory into two states was done, at least in part, to game the system and secure more seats for the 1870s Republican party. It's not just a matter of "well, there turned out to be two state
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by Imnimo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect (tests are re-standardized to keep the mean at 100, but the un-standardized mean actually increases over time)
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by Imnimo 5y ago
The lesson here is that you should make screaming at the top of your lungs about your god damn niece your opening line. Also good for an impromptu elevator pitch.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Presumably Netflix feels that those rejected people lack the skill and expertise of the people they hired instead. Would Netflix be willing to take the downgrade to avoid having employees protest?
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Sure, but I guess I view the breakup as a process, of which that decision is just one step.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>How could the growth of answering machines be connected to the break-up of AT&T AT&T enforced a rule that you could not connect "foreign attachments" to the phone network, which included answering machines not made by
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by Imnimo 5y ago
This feels like the story of how Pesäpallo was invented, except that it did work.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>For the hierarchical pack animal we are, hierarchy with an alpha King on top is a stable and understandable structure. Yikes.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't really grasp why inference speed of tiny YOLO models is still reported by using giant GPUs. I guess it helps to see the improvement from the previous iteration, but under what circumstances would I realistically want to run th
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by Imnimo 5y ago
If the companies being copied don't have patents on the products, are they really innovating?
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>Portrait of smiling african American young businessman in glasses pose in modern office hold use smartphone, happy successful millennial biracial male employee or director look at camera at workplace The "descriptions" on thes
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Certainly there's a lot you can do without understanding backprop - you can train pre-made architectures, you can put pre-made layers together to build your own architecture, you can tweak hyperparameters and improve your model's
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by Imnimo 5y ago
What would be the impact on consumer protections like chargebacks if banks were forced to process transactions they deemed to have a high risk of fraud?

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