Melting_Harps

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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> edit: if it isn't clear I'm a staunch opponent of cryptocurrency in any form. It's very clear, but your exposure to zealots, on both sides, shouldn't deter you from being objective and seeing what these technologies
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> I will take AI bubble over crypto bubble any day of the week. I've been in the former since '21 and have seen every single cycle since 2011 in the latter, I can assure their is more dumb money in the former than in the latter
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by Melting_Harps 2y ago
> You make it sound like it's just bare concrete walls. The pics in your link show they've at least attempted to make them look like sandstone that blends and fits much more than your description. Unless you're a local you
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> What, are the pictures and videos of people from the global south somehow not good enough to train AI due to their economic situation? I don't make the rules, in fact if you are seriously wondering what use 'darker' peop
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Whatsapp chats are encrypted While they claim E2E encryption, I seriously doubt they would offer this service entirely for free with having some backdoor or potential MITM breach that they likely tucked away in the ToS given the wide u
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Random link. Can't vouch for it Seems about right to me, Android dominates the mobile World by sheer numbers. But what is the value that they can derive from user data? A million Bangladeshi's texts from food delivery is prob
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Google having so many private photos in Google Photos must be a goldmine for them. While true, it's META who has won that arm's race long ago in my view; hell, they just disclosed that they have private access to DMs to Netf
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> There isn't much of a reason for Mexican nationals to immigrate illegally when USMCA and NAFTA harmonized the visa process That's not entirely true, there are may reasons; my friend has a startup in TJ working with profession
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> When someone asks me if it's worth doing a PhD I tend to say that you need to like the direction in which science is going. If you don't like it and are rather rebellious, it's better to start a company. While this feeds
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Unsurprisingly, this has lead to anti-immigrant sentiment in Mexico and their attempt at a border wall Is there a word for when something is so predictably absurd because of both it's irony and blatant hypocrisy?
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Where can you buy SpaceX stock? I misspoke and meant shares: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4488501-how-to-invest-in-sp...
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I don’t know if they overlap in general but for SpaceX and Tesla specifically there seems to be significant overlap/sharing of technology. Like development of metal alloys and, if I remember correctly, using Tesla motors as actuat
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Utter trash. She was spewing out garbage 6 years ago that we would be taking point-to-point rocket transport within a decade. SpaceX has blitzed 2/3 of their public cash to the latest launch which failed 60% of the mission but ev
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Cryptonomicon has such an epic build up... And was probably the most prophetic of all his work, to be honest Snowcrash was total satire, and fan-service: it was much like the Crypto-anarchist Sloath short-story he wrote (THE GREAT SIM
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This, and perhaps parent's driving skill has just been poor for a very long time now. No drop, just sitting at the bottom. I'm not trying to be mean, but the adage in poker of spotting the fool at the table here applies. And
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This is on top of the serious increase in parts due to supply chain issues. I understand you work in the insurance Industry, but I worked in the auto Industry before and after COVID and just went through 2 total loss claims with my ins
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
https://archive.is/TwGnF
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This disaster is the perfect counter-argument to those always saying Personally speaking, I think Equihax was the better counter-argument; at least with 23andme YOU as a customer had to DECIDE to use their services and weigh the pros-c
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
Do you mean progressives? But even so, those are loosely held ideals as the last few decades have shown that such trivial things will not get in the way of protecting their wealth. Idealism is set aside when it comes to ensuring inexplicabl
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Are you forgetting the enormous amount of carbon emissions from commuting? Or the large scale logistics to service, maintain, supply, and feed these metropolis': it's a centralized relic of a bygone era, and the sooner we ac
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> A friend is constantly bugging me about moving to SF. I understand it is tech central but the PR of the city is just really not great currently. Currently? The place is unrecognizable to us Californians since the late 90s; it's b
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I’ve got a recurring donation of $5/mo I set up ages ago Thanks for that, I did a one off 300 euro donation back in '21 during the bubble market; Meredith has been doing the rounds [0] and she hits on lots of good points, an
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Moving here from London was a shock: I thought London was one of the better places for vegetarian food, I wasn’t prepared for the huge selection of vegan alternatives in everyday Dutch supermarkets They are often the source for lots o
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Some of us still do! It's tricky to find it fresh, you usually only get it in small greengrocers or at the Auld Lammas fair. Used to be quite cheap for a bag. Very salty but quite edible and said to be nutrient-dense. I had some p
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> China, behind the surface, is very anarchic, bejing can make rules all it wants but the local government beyond surface placation won't honor the spirit and restart production of all kind of stuff. While I concede that population
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> By 2025, over half of the top OnlyFans accounts will be AI-generated models secretly run by men. Damn, well there goes my senior project idea... I got the inspiration from YT cracker: Push the gas - escalate the gauges Escalate hits o
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Phutureprimitive Ah man, his early stuff still holds up; but when he started to get into 140 (Dubstep) I just couldn't get into it; I had been in that sound since 2006 and while I appreciate him expanding as an artist, it was just
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I see a lot of H.U.V.A Network and Carbon Based Lifeforms. This [0] is more psyambient, isn't? I hate typecasting into genres, but I always saw that as the more chill-side of that version of EDM whereas psytrance was more like Alw
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Lmao hell yeah dude I fill up in the hood it’s way cheaper than filling up in Palo Alto. So... East Palo Alto? Gas got to $7/gl in LA recently (again) and I was wondering if there was any difference; when i lived in Sunnyvale I h
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
https://archive.ph/y8gBk > how do they dare to invade privacy like this /s Moreover, how adept is it at selling this surveillance technology the World over in order to circumvent privacy but were unable to deter th

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