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by antiterra 3y ago
I don’t see how that’s relevant to the idea that work (regardless of how useful or enabling of survival) is an inherent virtue.
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by antiterra 3y ago
It sounds like you might be suggesting I was conflating or blaming Protestant ideals for evil Nazi actions. Instead, I am pointing out an earlier cultural influence that persisted. In a way, there’s something far more sinister about the ide
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by antiterra 3y ago
This sort of Calvinistic ideal of work as an inherent virtue is what was behind the “Arbeit macht frei” slogans on archways at concentration camps.
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by antiterra 3y ago
A company’s employee backed my vehicle into another in a parking lot and it ended up being around $30,000 to fix. The high price was largely due to costs and required labor expertise to weld an aluminum body part that also functioned struct
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by antiterra 3y ago
Sony fought them hard on the earlier patents and lost twice before giving in. That has to be at least a little bit daunting.
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by antiterra 3y ago
I think it’s likely you’re projecting your personal experience onto others. I knew someone who was obsessed with the Red Room by Matisse. He was in no way pretentious or academic in inclination, but something about the actual painting itsel
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by antiterra 3y ago
This is about the ‘political, legal, and PR protection’ kind of alignment to avoid news stories about kids making bombs thanks to an enthusiastically accommodating GPT. Language models are set to be the new encyclopedias— what a model prese
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by antiterra 3y ago
There’s a lot of idiotic stuff I posted as a grade school kid too that I am super happy isn’t readily available.
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by antiterra 3y ago
I think that’s inaccurate. Secure Boot capability is an install ‘requirement,’ but you definitely don’t have to switch it on.
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by antiterra 3y ago
> Just sounds like a skill issue. So what if it is? Some people want to play games that allow them to progress a certain amount without establishing skill mastery and there’s nothing objectively wrong with that.
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by antiterra 3y ago
But does it work?
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by antiterra 3y ago
The argument seemed more that the value of bike sponsorship was significantly higher than the cost. Then, there’s the credible accusation that Citibank’s conduct has caused harm, and it is therefore reasonable, though debatable and possibly
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by antiterra 3y ago
> They don't publish the image, yes, and that is also their reasoning. No, their reasoning is that they only keep a link to the image so there’s nothing to remove. A more interesting angle would be copyrightable ALT tags in the fo
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by antiterra 3y ago
I’ve been in similar gaming groups that had plenty of people in their 50s. While they would center around an older game like, say, Battlefield 4, the members played newer shooters as well. Further, older players probably have more disposabl
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by antiterra 3y ago
Some moths have mandibles, but most sorts don’t. Further, ‘nectar larceny’ behavior is still the subject of study and appears to possibly help pollination or have a neutral effect in many cases. There also seems to be an indication that s
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by antiterra 3y ago
Per the image at the head of the article, they’re still not yet a growing force in stock photography. Which seems a reasonable explanation as to why it’s so incredibly difficult to get Midjourney et al to generate realistic images of elderl
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by antiterra 4y ago
I don’t think you thought this through any further once you felt you had a somewhat rational construct that meshed with your comfort zone. Human behavior has massive amounts of variation even within a culture, both sex and gender traits inh
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by antiterra 4y ago
The author explicitly states that analogies to human thought are inaccurate. The purpose of the analogies is describe a mental model of the kinds of things GPT-4 can do or not do.
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by antiterra 4y ago
Incel exists both as a descriptive term and the name of a kind of subculture. So, I’d recommend not using it to simply describe someone who just hasn’t consummated a relationship. Incel ‘culture’ usually encapsulates the online subculture t
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by antiterra 4y ago
Compare to the Stratechery article on Dollar Shave Club in 2016: https://stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disru... I assume Jeremy’s is a blatant attempt to mimic Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club which were
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by antiterra 4y ago
It might not be the case here, but lot of these are drop ship outfits that don’t do any kind of stock check and are susceptible to whatever the actual manufacturer in China is up to. I learned about it buying a moon lamp and it taking over
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by antiterra 4y ago
I wouldn’t say no interest > Dugin proposes that Finland be combined together with the Karelian Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation into a single ethnoterritorial formation "with maximal cultural autonomy, but with strateg
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by antiterra 4y ago
“We can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got mace or something.” “Nobody knows who stabbed who, and we can't even get up to business class right now 'cause nobody can breathe.” - Betty Ong, Flight 11 Not necessar
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by antiterra 4y ago
I believe relaxed mode requires the standard tier, which is $30 at monthly rates.
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by antiterra 4y ago
More immersive escape. The skull wand replica idea is fine but an adult needs to be able to mentally role play that it’s a real thing. Think adults who go to Disneyland regularly or pay for the Star Wars resort thing.
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by antiterra 4y ago
Comedy was definitely a regular component of D&D and other RPGs way before 2000. I don’t think the 2000 film was particularly targeted towards people who actually played RPGs.
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by antiterra 4y ago
I’m all for powering up the consumerist engines but they keep making really generically bad enthusiast collectibles like ‘the wand of orcus.’ They keep just missing the demographic of the lucrative rich middle aged adult looking for escape.
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by antiterra 4y ago
I interviewed with Google Cloud a few years back and they straight up told me they were behind both AWS & Azure as a product and were lacking in user support. They said they were trying to build out an org to address it.
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by antiterra 4y ago
There’s a bit of a basilisk with the cheaper LEDs (though sometimes also the ones permanently installed on ceiling fans, sometimes luxury brand car accent lighting) where once your learn you can see flickering trails following movement, you
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by antiterra 4y ago
It’s not ass simple as dimmable or not dimmable. Not all dimmable leds work with all dimmers, some do and make a horrible hum but are still highly recommended in reviews by people who don’t have those issues. The situation is a nightmare fo

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