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by beloch 3y ago
If every facial recognition camera was set up by a professional wedding photographer we'd be golden . But seriously, the minimum requirements for contrast and low-light sensitivity for facial recognition cameras should be raised, and
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by beloch 3y ago
If you walk around Gamla Stan (old town) in Stockholm, you can almost pretend you've gone back in time. Every building is hundreds of years old or made to look so, and all in a unified style. If you walk around Kyoto's Gion dis
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by beloch 3y ago
It may not matter to some, but it will to others. Can cheaters rely on finding employers who don't care? The deterrent still works.
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by beloch 3y ago
What we're seeing now is a bit of an arms race between cheaters and teachers. Why don't teachers "cheat" a bit themselves? Namely, why don't universities extend the statue of limitations on academic misconduct to s
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by beloch 3y ago
I'd say he's pretty decent, provided you keep his slant in mind. He's a radio journalist and not a historian, although he does have a history degree. He hasn't written books on the Mongols, but they're one of his
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by beloch 3y ago
>Most of the professional science we produce right now is bad. Seriously, pick a paper at random and see how well it holds up. This is utter BS. Occasionally, a high-profile fraudster is found out, but the overwhelming majority of paper
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by beloch 3y ago
I'm just plain impressed someone could actually recognize who that was. It's pretty blurry!
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by beloch 3y ago
1. Just because it wasn't a formal profession doesn't mean people weren't doing it at an amateur level. 2. By your reasoning, electricity isn't a key part of city infrastructure because we had cities before electricity.
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by beloch 3y ago
This is a highly compromised and imperfect attempt to solve a very real problem. It's not exactly new information that journalism is in a tough spot right now. As subscriber revenue has dried up, national and multinational companies h
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by beloch 3y ago
The problem is that many people have come to think of reddit as a public utility. People expect a public utility to, perhaps, not be that innovative and maybe a little poorly run at times. What they do expect from a public utility is long
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by beloch 3y ago
Who's driving the current protest? Who are the primary users of Apollo? Mods. Reddit mods are anonymous and completely unaccountable to users. They decide what users see and what they are allowed to say. Their influence should not be
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by beloch 3y ago
Reddit might be able to force mods to keep their subs open, but there's no way to stop volunteers from volunteering somewhere else . Anyone who has ever dreamt of making a reddit competitor, but didn't because reddit is an unstop
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by beloch 3y ago
Such myths are likely based on classical Rome rather than bronze age discoveries. For several centuries after the Western empire fell apart, Europeans lacked the capability to build settlements or structures anywhere close to the size typic
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by beloch 3y ago
By your reasoning, Linux should not exist. Yet, it does, and companies make money contributing to it without resorting to ads. A distributed, open-source, collaborative approach to forums could work. It did work in the past. Somewher
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by beloch 3y ago
The article lacks detail, but sounds like it's talking about something like an atomic gyroscope[1]. There are a few types of passive quantum navigation systems, but the principle is similar to a using a stopwatch and an old-school gyro
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by beloch 3y ago
Some people think of the qatsi trilogy, Baraka, Samsara, Chronos, Visitors, etc. as documentaries without words, or just pretty pictures and music. I think of them as audiovisual essays. They're not just a delight for the senses. Eac
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by beloch 4y ago
>We’ve recently had to strip back what the Quietus does, closing down our film and arts sections and have reluctantly put our books section on ice. In order to protect our music coverage we need at least another 350 people to subscribe
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by beloch 4y ago
It is still being updated here: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu I'd love to hear about other alternatives people are enjoying, but this has reliably shielded me from what MS has done to their start m
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by beloch 4y ago
The main problem with Metaverse is that it it's an amusement park without any rides. Disney is the sort of company that might have made some interesting rides. A Mandalorian spin-off series of interactive VR episodes that can be exper
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by beloch 4y ago
If this sort of thing is of interest, check out John Ware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ware_(cowboy) Ware started life as a slave in the American South and ended as a respected rancher and member of the communit
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by beloch 4y ago
It's important to appreciate that there are several different breeds of audiophile out there... There are those that are obsessed with objectively measurable sound quality. They want to reproduce the recorded waveform as accurately as
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by beloch 4y ago
Why do you call nuclear winter a "scare-theory"? The short-term impact of a major nuclear exchange is fairly well supported by science. Nuclear explosions, particularly thermonuclear explosions, are powerful enough to propel fine
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by beloch 4y ago
The F-35 is behind many older planes in traditional "fighter plane" metrics, like speed, manoeuvrability, etc.. It also didn't fare well in initial dog-fighting trials, mainly because it was a new plane whose envelope hadn&#
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by beloch 4y ago
Thought experiment: A drug* that reduces people's weight and massively boosts physical fitness with no negative side effects is discovered. The discoverer of that drug declines to patent it, making it a cheap generic available ever
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by beloch 4y ago
If Europe's luck had been a little different, the Mongols might have arrived after the black death and stayed rather than immediately leaving because of internal dynastic struggles. I can't even imagine how different the mode
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by beloch 4y ago
I certainly wouldn't assume a linear relationship between talking time and likeability. There has to be a drop-off at some point, since few people like being ambushed by someone who won't let them say a single word. Familiarity
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by beloch 4y ago
"But from a scientific perspective, if you want to make progress in our understanding of natural law, I’d say it’s a waste of time exactly for that reason, because you can’t test it." Science is doing what works, and you can'
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by beloch 4y ago
But time is already on the X-Axis... Having both axes represent time quantities would be... weird. Maybe these are just bad diagrams.
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by beloch 4y ago
Question: Time appears to be the X-Axis, but what is the Y-Axis in these graphs? e.g. Canada is described as "similar to Americans", but their plot has a completely different shape. Why?
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by beloch 4y ago
The requirement that payloads must be able to survive such brutal acceleration does initially appear to be a limiting factor for this kind of technology, but it does have compelling advantages too. First, there's the brutal tyranny of

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