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by bicubic 8y ago
Yes, seconds of video. That's the price you have to pay on Twitter to not have your content turned into a blob of smudge. 15mb is the total bucket size you need to fill. How you fill that bucket depends on: Length Palette Dithering set
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by bicubic 8y ago
Can we talk about the awful video compression on Twitter and how the only workaround to Twitter shitting on your video is to submit it as a perfectly crafted gif which takes dozens of trial and error iterations to produce? It's 2019. E
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by bicubic 8y ago
Eh. With gene drives we already have the technology to selectively target or not target particular ethnic groups. Bio weapons are amongst the top threats we pose to ourselves as a species. There’s a youtube series by a guy who made a virus
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by bicubic 8y ago
There's an infinite number of ways to asymmetrically attack a system. A single person in Australia caused millions of dollars of damage by just sticking needles into strawberries in supermarkets. People have rented and driven light veh
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by bicubic 8y ago
Are you saying sugary foods and drinks are essential products?
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by bicubic 8y ago
Airborne pollution and sugar are both orders of magnitude worse than vaping could ever be. The authorities certainly seem to pick and choose which battles they fight.
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by bicubic 8y ago
tl;dr: sometimes algorithmic puzzle thinking comes in useful. I don't think anyone is debating that. You don't need to write an essay worth of anecdotes. And your anecdotes don't really address the complaint: these algorithmi
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by bicubic 8y ago
If a single developer was able to cause a 'nasty' anything, your engineering process is completely wrong. It should have been caught at architectural discussions. It should have been caught during performance benchmarking. It shou
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by bicubic 8y ago
Related: Simpson's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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by bicubic 8y ago
I applaud the technical community rallying against the bill like this, but I fear that technical solutions are ultimately useless for this issue. If the political climate stays the course, all the technical solutions for overcoming surveill
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by bicubic 8y ago
ML and automation have been a big thing for a few years now. The evolving technology has enabled an increasing number of use cases and business models so in that sense the hype is justified. 'AI' on the other hand is a buzzword
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by bicubic 8y ago
> 1) You could use ML to assess the on-time reliability of each of your delivery agents (contractors or individuals) Keep in mind that there may be flow on effects and ethical considerations. Once you assign a metric to individuals, some
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by bicubic 8y ago
Have a peruse through Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish". It's impossible to take these moral absolutism claims seriously after spending any time studying the history of crime and morality. Almost every culture at
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by bicubic 8y ago
Morally equivalent? Who is the arbiter of moral valence? This sense of moral superiority or having a better judgement than others, is exactly the property that blinds individuals and entire cultures to the absurdity of their own morals.
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by bicubic 8y ago
For the most part, social media doesn't change people's opinions or beliefs. The beat of individual metronomes is not changed, instead social media acts as a filter that only lets through the loudest views, where loudness is a fun
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by bicubic 8y ago
> I find it a bit ironic that all the opposition is from Westerners who love to feel outraged [...] Why not let them decide what they want for their country, rather than shoving your ideals on them? I don't think you understand what
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by bicubic 8y ago
Ahhh yes, the 'we're in the dystopian dictatorship so deep that it's too big to fail' argument. There's always a human cost to revolutions. That doesn't justify supporting and perpetuating one of the biggest th
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by bicubic 8y ago
'Vincent is in the lobby, do you want to meet them now?' Them who? Vincent and his unannounced friends? Maybe Vincent is actually 3 kids stacked on top of each other in a trench coat? They is not singular. Replacing gendered prono
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by bicubic 8y ago
Tech industry in 2018: ML driven automation widening wealth disparity? Eh. ML ushering in the age of the persistent surveillance state? Eh. ML being used to manipulate elections and hijack democracies? Eh. ML might auto-suggest wrong gender
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by bicubic 8y ago
If you really want this at low latency, you can also take the hdmi output of the dji controller and plug it into a capture card.
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by bicubic 8y ago
This doesn’t solve the fact that a single fusion pulse (all existing reactors are pulsed) currently consumes more energy than it produces.
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by bicubic 8y ago
> Anecdote of my own: In my country, monetary fines in traffic infringements are explicitly not for revenue . They mix into the total state revenue [...] You're contradicting your own claim. Just because someone in a PR position
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by bicubic 8y ago
If the primary motivation anywhere was to alter driver behaviour, a points based penalty system is all it would take. Monetary fines in traffic infringements are entirely for revenue. Anecdote time: a friend from one of the nation's
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by bicubic 8y ago
> The solution to fines is to simply get rid of fines and instead use a more aggressive "point" system. You're assuming the problem that fines address is modifying driver behaviour. It isn't. The primary problem fines
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by bicubic 8y ago
>forcing people to not behave like a jerk It doesn't force people to not behave like a jerk, it could just as easily lead to a nation of jerks. It forces people to strictly act within a tiny zone at the center of the Overton window[
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by bicubic 8y ago
While what you say is true, the above method is the only method to archive arbitrary web pages. Yes it depends on user interactions to some extent, but it's possible to reasonably let a page load until fetches stop, and consider it r
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by bicubic 8y ago
I've been doing it for 3 years. Smallest font possible, white coloured text, just a list of keywords. It has worked pretty well and I'm honestly disgusted that these kinds of strategies are being rewarded. This list of keywords we
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by bicubic 8y ago
> Harassing retail staff for what is a corporate process problem is really inappropriate and pointless It's a natural human reaction. If you build a system that treats customers like shit, they will take it out on your front line st
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by bicubic 8y ago
For societies that crumble, the data is always retrospective. Organisations and societies are entities where people tend to pretend (believe, even) that everything is okay or at least everything is manageable during catastrophic events, u
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by bicubic 8y ago
...Like discrimination by gender or race? https://www.wired.com/story/new-lawsuit-exposes-googles-desp...

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