SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
Maybe. That said, those chat centers where you get 90% copypasta from the human, plus 10% human smarts for when to step in, are a real thing. But do they allow their workers -- who are probably juggling 10 different conversations at once --
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by SamBam 3y ago
Nah. Satire was always safe when it's not pretending to have documented evidence of the thing actually happening. Two recent headlines: * Biden Urges Americans Not To Let Dangerous Online Rhetoric Humanize Palestinians [1] * Trump says
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by SamBam 3y ago
> but I've never had cars yell at me for walking ... over a crosswalk You don't live in Boston, I see.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I once rented a cabin on Cape Cod, right next to the beach. The path to the beach had big clumps of grass growing at the sides, with overhanging blades of grass. The first day we realized that every single clump of grass had numerous questi
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't use distilled water because boiled tap water is close to free, and is more environmental than buying water that someone else distilled and then trucked around the country. I'm not a full nettipot convert, but last year I d
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm unclear on your point. The small amount of salt that's added to nettipot water isn't enough to kill bacteria, so what does it matter if tap water with salt is or isn't called tap water?
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by SamBam 3y ago
This was absolutely my first reaction as well. I scrolled through the first few photos of White families where it seemed to turn even them into 1950s caricatures of "small town White Americans" and thought "hmmm, how's
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by SamBam 3y ago
Not bad, but I feel like a single tower would have been funnier.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Your anecdote, especially with it's reference to lectures, makes it sound like you're talking more about higher education. The author is clearly talking about K-12, and mostly pre-high school. As an educational researcher, I think
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by SamBam 3y ago
Why assume instead of reading the article? Can you find examples older than 100 years old that show a thing crossed out to mean "don't do this thing?" And how close are they to this representation? That's what the author
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by SamBam 3y ago
That doesn't necessarily contradict what GP said...
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by SamBam 3y ago
Agree, I couldn't really read it. It seems like probably a cool project though.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I am no master pianist, but I imagine much of the feel of such an instrument comes from the physical weight of the keys, and the feel as they strike the strings. Although good quality keyboards have "weighted" keys, they don'
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by SamBam 3y ago
Is Trump a libertarian or a far leftist? Because he's currently the cause of these discussions -- he's the one that people have the most doubts would agree to defending Latvia.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Forgiveness doesn't have to imply returning to the same level of trust. You can forgive your child for having lost your phone, and yet choose to wait until they're older before lending them the phone again. Forgiveness is more abo
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by SamBam 3y ago
Did you actually take a look at the text of the treaty? It's very short and readable. Article 5 is what you're looking for. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.ht...
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by SamBam 3y ago
Except that your natural saccade is also wired to your motor neurons in your head and neck. For example, there's a strong connection between the neurons that fire to turn your head 10⁰ to the right, and the neurons that fire to turn yo
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by SamBam 3y ago
That's a good point, but how would turning your head in a first-person perspective ever look good in a game? As you say, when we turn our own heads our eyes naturally saccade. But I'm not sure having this done unnaturally -- e.g.
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by SamBam 3y ago
What's the data corpus? I'm very surprised that the words "Be," "Of," and "And" are among the 25 most common first words of sentences.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Perhaps it's just a giant advertising billboard.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I remember reading a book by some kook with "PhD" in the author line, proving that the pyramids were alien technology. One of the key pieces of evidence was that the three great pyramids perfectly line up in the way that the three
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by SamBam 3y ago
That's why it would require alien technology to keep it perfect. Why they'd do this, though, would be a mystery.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, that contradiction is also in the first two rules. It's a leap year if it's divisible by 4, but not if it's divisible by 100, so what about 200? Best to describe it as a flowchart * Is the year divisible by 400? YES -
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by SamBam 3y ago
I've always felt it is a great sorrow that the world couldn't fit more than one intelligent hominid species on it for more than a short period before all but one were wiped out (killed, outbred, whatever). Imagine living on a plan
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by SamBam 3y ago
I wonder if Google Maps tags the fictitious streets in its metadata somehow, so that it doesn't actually send cars down those roads.
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's actually the over-cooking them, specifically over-boiling them, that makes the more bitter. I think very few people would find them bitter raw, even self-professed sprout haters.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sure, but the percentage of people with that gene hasn't changed, yet it is an oft-cited anecdote (I don't know if there's data) that more people like them now than they did forty years ago. This is often said to be because o
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by SamBam 3y ago
My first reaction as well. His bio [1] does seem to support the assertion, and I've heard of his work on prediction markets and the term the Great Filter, but that same bio is also all sorts of red-flaggy to me. He has "1100 media
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think that suggesting it's no different from people thinking that reading books was going to rot people's minds ignores the very real increases in teen depression, loneliness, and suicides over the past decade, as well as increa
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by SamBam 3y ago
I played Robot Turtles [1] with my kids, a boardgame with a similar idea: The kid can lay out cards that define what the turtle should do, and the adult moves the turtle exactly as instructed. Slightly different because, like in the origina

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