Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
The problem is that it's very difficult to see the far-reaching consequences of policy that affects entire generations. People in the 1800s observed that using fossil fuels in abundance doesn't burn down the world around them, but
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm most upset by internet monitoring. If I had had access to school devices and it had monitoring then I wouldn't trust the school with anything, because they wouldn't trust me with anything. Clear backpacks is such an absur
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Apple has its own share of potentially monopolistic behavior But I rarely see Apple being included in these calls for breaking up the tech companies. Also, I'd be surprised if Apple even has a billion customers, let alone a billi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Europe is really diverse in wealth and business climate. The wealth gap between different European nations is so large that the US probably seems like the pinnacle of equality. It's hard to talk about Europe in general in this sense. I
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by Mirioron 7y ago
"Hate speech" is such a glaring flaw in "freedom of speech (EU version)" that it invalidates the concept. These laws differ by country, which makes it a nightmare to follow. Some of them have historically been quite sill
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Turn the relevant parts of it (the ones which are affected by network effects, or other barriers to entry) into an open platform that can be accessed on an equal basis. Doesn't this run counter to private property though? Or what
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Google can keep Search, but Ads, Doubleclick, Analytics, Waze, GCP, Google Home - all of that needs to be broken up. > Some of the resulting businesses may have to update their model or may not remain profitable, but historically b
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by Mirioron 7y ago
As a European I wouldn't trust any European search engine either.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm not too experienced with GIMP, but I noticed that all the transformation of a selection in GIMP is done with a tool. In Photoshop if I quickly want to scale, rotate, and reposition a selection then I can do that with the controls a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> because where’s the money in being the provider of dumb pipes? In longevity. We will always need dumb pipe companies. If you can keep a decent reputation then perhaps it'll be easier to continue offering that service. You're
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think I've only briefly seen short division once. It was long division until fractions here.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> In the US, we call these bureaucrats "judges", and the falsehoods they might combat "libel" and "defamation". No it's not the same, but this doesn't exactly sound like 1984 either. Libel laws in
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by Mirioron 7y ago
They haven't. Wikipedia is essentially a battleground when it comes to recent topics that are politicized. Sometimes an admin will essentially lock editing of the page and whatever version was up at the time is essentially staying ther
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I get what you're saying, but that would then mean that you couldn't advertise essentially anything. Chances are very high that you will never get an endorsement/advertisement deal for a product that you do understand well.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
So, essentially layers in image editing? One layer for code and another for comments?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'd like to mention that if you're interested in looking at more information like this then the US Department of Agriculture has a great database for it: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov I recommend searching for things such a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Even then, can't you tailor the whitelisting in a way where it only whitelists specific services on AWS? You could even make it timed so that other IOT devices can't exploit it.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The VPN providers pay the bills for them. Why would they not shill them?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
In a more realistic space battle scenario weapons would have to be able to miss. You would pick your engagement range based on it. It's kind of like sword fighting in that sense: you want to be close to the enemy, but far away enough t
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Helium can escape Earth's atmosphere though.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Helium is light enough to escape Earth's atmosphere though. Eventually the atmosphere will run out of it.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> the legal teams at these respective companies would never allow them to be demonstrably false Why? It's not like there are any real consequences for these companies when they screw up and either the data gets leaked or they'
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by Mirioron 7y ago
At some point I wonder if we might not just start whitelisting domains instead. I think that it could be possible to design a UX that wouldn't be much of a hindrance to using your computer and phone on the same network. Eg any websites
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I would argue that it would be a dead society. It just takes one person who feels that being hurt themselves is worth it just to hurt others for whatever reason.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Couldn't irradiated silica dust get into your lungs though?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> I surmise that it will look quite a bit different once you have, oh, a bbc.com implementing its underlying protocol and pumping out content onto it. I hope this never happens. It's rare that something doesn't become worse wh
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think the idea many people have is that being hardworking is something you decide on your own and not related to your genes. Being lazy is seen as a character flaw that a person could change rather than something more innate. I think they
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I had not heard of the term, but the ideas behind it are what I've considered. My own guess is that it's a mix of both genes and behavior. If being hardworking was based purely on the environment then I suspect that we would see a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I've wondered for a long time whether being hardworking is a "talent" that some people naturally have more of. Self-control being heritable would be some support for that idea.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I finally started looking into fast.ai and the setup seems to be a lot of hassle. It doesn't help that the course dismissively just says "just buy server time even if you have a GPU for this."

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