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by atchoo 3y ago
Use "reading mode" in your browser to avoid the popup. Same as NY Times.
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by atchoo 4y ago
It's a biased sample. American police forces attract gun enthusiasts who want to carry and use guns on people. Go to a police forum and see how often they share and gush about weaponry and moan about what their jurisdiction won't
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by atchoo 4y ago
They voted for an NYPD Captain as mayor so it would seem if they do care, then it's supportive, desiring more NYPD power over government not less. Which seems insane to me...
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by atchoo 4y ago
I fear it's more like "a butler for our minds". The more it serves us, the more indulgent, flaccid and incapable we will become. When our butler invitably degrades, we will have forgotten how to serve ourselves. At least with
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by atchoo 4y ago
Poor environmental controls? I hear more about don't drink or even don't shower orders in Michigan and Mississippi etc. than I do in Europe. Also groundwater contaminations like PG&E hexavalent chromium or Palestine vinyl chlo
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by atchoo 4y ago
Electric mowers are probably more common than petrol in the UK. They aren't battery powered but corded which makes them light and cheap. Not many people have lawns longer than 40m or so or whatever the extension cables max out as. htt
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by atchoo 4y ago
> companies are going to continue allocating a similar percentage of their budget to tech I think your argument requires a paradigm shift like teletype -> web to soak up the new productivity. I don't think we have that today. For
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by atchoo 4y ago
Nope. They went up this month. "UK house prices defy gloom with an average £3,000 rise" 20/03/2023 https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/20/uk-house-price...
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by atchoo 4y ago
Espresso was first known as crema coffee. It was a sensation that people queued for rather than a mundane efficiency improvement or "fast foodification" of an existing product. The crema and intense flavour made it special. I thin
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by atchoo 4y ago
I fear how buggy that could make future games. Some essential NPC interaction gets stuck in a weird loop / starts speaking Chinese / gets triggered into a Tay like paranoid Nazi rant while adamently denying the existence of the ke
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Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI(theguardian.com)
352 points by atchoo 4y ago|364 comments
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by atchoo 4y ago
You seem so poisoned with anti-English xenophobia that you are spreading disinformation. Denying the existence of The Terror is just weird. It was condemned at the time by fellow Jacobins like Danton/Desmoulins who were then executed t
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by atchoo 4y ago
Yep. Sounds similar to the shared phenomena of the "Hat Man" entity that a lot of people suffering from sleep paralysis report. https://thehatmanproject.com/ I am curious about what humans experiencing sleep paral
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by atchoo 4y ago
Are you locking your bike to something angle grinder resistant when out and about? The last bike I had stolen was from an underground bike store, behind two armoured locked doors and locked to a permanent bike-rack embedded in concrete. Thi
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by atchoo 4y ago
If that's the strategy, it's weird that not even WaPo (a Bezos property) is on Kindle Unlimited when announcing sun-setting newspaper subscriptions.
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by atchoo 4y ago
It's part of the story. They had a non-diverse group of interconnected customers prone to herd behaviours led by a small influencer elite. Few banks represent such a high risk of a run.
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by atchoo 4y ago
I won't say which city but London cabs are about twice as expensive as here which will be a factor. I only ever took one Uber in my city - it took a really bad route and cost more than a normal cab for the same destination. If it had t
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by atchoo 4y ago
It has been known for a long time. There were laws. Y'all need to rollback Citizens United and have sensible caps on political spending before all your state constitutions have been rewritten for you. A related necessary measure is for
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by atchoo 4y ago
Uber taxis have died in my UK city. The quality was always weak compared to the very good taxi services which was perfectly fine pre-Uber. Uber had vouchers and a marketing push that made it a thing but people can't get rides now. Rent
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by atchoo 4y ago
It is about improving the packing of grounds by breaking up the subtle clumping that occurs during grinding to reduce channeling where water finds an easy path so part of the puck is over extracted and other parts are under extracted. If
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by atchoo 4y ago
> an avid "Elite Dangerous" player, which is a perfect use-case for VR I wouldn't call it perfect. It's a brilliant first experience for things like docking which does feel mind blowing - true fantasty fulfillment typ
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by atchoo 4y ago
The irony here is that Musk resigned in order to pursue his own closed-source for profit AI businesses and is now complaining about OpenAI being closed-source and for profit AI. If people are feeling conflicted about who the asshole is in t
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by atchoo 4y ago
It sounds like a variety of road rage which is an interesting psychological phenomena. There is something about that act of driving and the environment of a drivers seat that breeds maladaptive emotional responses. I think it's partly
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by atchoo 4y ago
I was curious about "thesaurus" given that is not a dictionary but still a "word book". According to Google Translate, apparently Wörterbuch also means thesaurus so OP is correct, it is more ambiguous than dictionary. Th
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by atchoo 4y ago
Not just OS updates but language/framework updates too. For something like Rider, .Net releases a new version every year so the Jetbrains deal tastes pretty sour to me at the moment and makes me regret getting tied to a commercial subs
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by atchoo 4y ago
I never had a problem with a Note 4. The way you could buy cases that replaced the back cover meant for a much thinner profile phone than the typical metal case wrapped in silicone. Replaceable batteries are glorious. I never plugged-in my
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by atchoo 4y ago
Nova Anglia. Perhaps better to say "might have created settlements". There is a tantalising number of crumbs from place names to travellers reports but little written record. The alleged location would make them the first victims
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by atchoo 4y ago
> Duke" ... started to be used in England from the middle of the 14th century -- long after the Viking Period. Therefore it would be very anachronistic to translate "jarl" with "duke". Apparently the Anglo-Saxon
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by atchoo 4y ago
Other random facts... Even without the Norman invasion, the British Royal family would be descendent from Norsemen through Godwinson's mother, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard, grandchild of Harold Bluetooth (King of Denmark/Norway and
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by atchoo 4y ago
I haven't heard of it, I will take a look, thanks. I remember being very disappointed in Civ 5 compared to Civ 4 but I can't now remember much about it. I think I liked the slime-mould like spread of culture/religion compared

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