Mizza

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by Mizza 5y ago
I like Sabine, but I found her "takedown" of the multiverse/MWI ignored the most compelling argument for it, the computational argument proposed by Deutsch, and that was enough to make me skeptical of her other positions. Any
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by Mizza 5y ago
I submitted this, but for some reason the title has been changed. The name of the report is "Time to Ban Surveillance Based Advertising." I don't know who changed it or why, but this was done without my permission. The organi
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The case against commercial surveillance online [pdf](forbrukerradet.no)
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by Mizza 5y ago
Wow.
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Yeah, but you'd be given room and board rather than a wage. It's indentured servitude with extra steps.
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by Mizza 5y ago
"Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of
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by Mizza 5y ago
Are there other cool things we can do with this magnet tech? For instance, can I build a railgun to shoot things into orbit?
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by Mizza 5y ago
What a wonderful answer! :) Thanks for sharing!
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by Mizza 5y ago
Out of curiosity, did you use any of the code produced by Echo Nest? They were a Boston audio tech company that had lots of features like this, but they got swallowed by Spotify many years ago. I built some tools on top of their service, I
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by Mizza 5y ago
Of course it does. It's an ancient rhetorical trick. I could say, "famous world leaders like Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot and Barack Obama." It's technically true, but it implies a second categorization which is
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by Mizza 5y ago
"I’ve invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I’m proud of my work. I invited those speakers not because I ag
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by Mizza 5y ago
Alan Sokal is well known for the Sokal Affair, which happened in the 90s, they copied the methodology. The media called it "Sokal Squared", which is a dumb name.
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by Mizza 5y ago
Weird to compare Occupy Wall Street activists to flat-Earthers and climate change deniers in the opening. If you've heard this guy's name before, it's probably from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri
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by Mizza 5y ago
Curious about these "micro-needle electrodes". If I try on my buddy's helmet, is there a chance I'm going to catch hepatitis?
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by Mizza 5y ago
Braindead bourgeois horseshit from a venture capitalist without any social or philosophical foundation. It's not even a book, just a bunch of half-formed drivel. Fundamentally, the problem is that he believes that capital is _real_, th
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by Mizza 5y ago
I very much sympathize with Taiwan and have known some wonderful Taiwanese people in my life who will suffer greatly if there is a war. I just don't think America should get into a hot war with China over the island. We didn't for
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by Mizza 5y ago
I don't really want the world to end just to say we tried to save a tiny island that exists mostly to produce video game parts.
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by Mizza 5y ago
Nifty! Simple, exciting and aesthetically pleasing idea. I've known people from Alaska who have to get their supplies flown in, so it's cool you're covering that use case from the start - although apparently that whole servi
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by Mizza 5y ago
Why is this a necessary constraint? (Not trolling, just curious if this has been investigated.) Our neurons don't have a global clock, it doesn't seem to be a problem for us. My intuition is that as long as the input is changing c
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by Mizza 5y ago
A shocking indignity. Not only must we be relentlessly subjected to Corporate Memphis, soon we must embody it.
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by Mizza 5y ago
I'm skeptical of this common claim. Perhaps that was true when they were an insurgent force needing funds, but I don't think it will continue now that they are in power. Afghan heroin production was at its lowest - essentially non
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by Mizza 5y ago
I see this a lot but don't understand why. China has every motivation to prop up the Taliban. A sister comment already noted the mineral resources, but don't forget the main function of Afghanistan as a nation: production of heroi
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by Mizza 5y ago
I ended up creating a lighter version of this for one my projects, https://github.com/Miserlou/chords2midi I think that something that Alda looks like it lacks right now is doing things around intervals rather than not
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by Mizza 5y ago
If you're going down that route, you might also want to consider that there have been two other incidents of SARS escaping from labs in China: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
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by Mizza 5y ago
Would love it if you could detect hemorrhagic vs ischemic so people at risk could keep tPA at home!
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by Mizza 5y ago
I ended up making this (NSFW?) one a while back: https://i.imgur.com/TLASiRG.png I found it really interesting that people discovered that you can get improve quality by including strings like "Blender HD", "
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by Mizza 5y ago
Does anybody know of the best practice for creating large images (ex 3840x2160) on a single GPU (ex a 2080/3080)? I played with stitching some years ago when all of this stuff was still in its infancy, but wasn't super thrilled wi
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by Mizza 5y ago
I've been really interested in Phoenix since seeing some of those 1 million simultaneous connections demos, but I also know that it's possible to build unrealistic demos that produce great statistics. So, I'm really curious i
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by Mizza 5y ago
Wow, this chart perfectly illustrates my original point. There is a great gaping hole in the upper right of that graph - there is no high-quality, right-skewed news, even though this is where I would assume just over half of the bulk of Ame
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by Mizza 5y ago
Maybe some of this is regional. I listen to WNYC from New York and WHYY from Philadelphia, maybe the coverage is different in other regions. To give some examples, Bob Garfield and Brian Lehrer were openly hostile towards Trump in such a wa

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