blueyoda

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by blueyoda 3y ago
What diet did you use exactly? I would love to give it a try.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
Which FAANGs in particular are you talking about? And where do the brightest go?
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by blueyoda 3y ago
Thanks for the helpful advice. What would you recommend to someone who is interested in learning about diffusion models? I have a CS degree but I have 0 knowledge about AI. Things like Stable Diffusion have blown my mind and I’m really inte
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by blueyoda 3y ago
Tried your app, I liked the product idea but think the execution could use much more work. Personally, I am obsessed with FaceApp’s filters. If you could make an app with even more interesting filters but with the same (or better) realistic
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by blueyoda 3y ago
They risked their money and reaped the awards of there investment. The success of a company is not determined by a dice roll, it is determined by the founder’s execution and product market fit. Given this, I’m not sure how you would conside
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by blueyoda 3y ago
This sounds exactly like me. Strangely enough, my hearing test was perfect. Whenever there is background noise, I cannot decipher what someone is saying. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked, “are you deaf?” Could it be some fo
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by blueyoda 3y ago
For the former reason.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
I propose a better title: relying on politicians to remove carbon dioxide is 'dangerous'
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> "Without addicts there would be no dealers." "Addicts" do not consume drugs out of their own free will. They are addicts , their condition is out of their control. The dealers have free will and willingly choose to
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by blueyoda 3y ago
You raise a good point - victimless crimes should not be punished. However, when someone is distributing drugs , I'd argue that is a crime with victims. The person buying it is not doing it out of their own free will, but out of ad
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by blueyoda 3y ago
I wouldn't mind them being banned as well. However, outlawing alcohol has been unsuccessful in history.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> "because when someone stole it you were on a date with a colleague from work, and didn't want your husband to know" I don't understand the logic here. Why not report it after the date ? A rather strange number of c
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by blueyoda 3y ago
So how did Singapore go from a staggering rate of opium addiction to one of the lowest in the world? Would they have gotten here with laws lenient on substance abuse? I'm curious about the evidence you speak of.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> "Given that Singapore ranks very low on human rights and press freedom" And yet Singapore is in the top 5 nations for highest GDP per capita (nominal). They also have one of the lowest rates of drug addiction. Surely they a
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by blueyoda 3y ago
Just searched for her name, and the first result was a NBC news article titled "Covid vaccines for children are coming. So is misinformation". Nowhere in the article is her name even mentioned. I'm curious as to how this is m
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> "I have a rock that keeps away tigers in my town. No one in the town I’ve lived in work my rock has ever been attacked by tigers. Would you like to buy my magical rock?" I'm not sure if the "correlation != causation
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by blueyoda 3y ago
He claims to have lost his phone, but at the same time, he never reported it as stolen. Also, "The Independent reported that Tangaraju had a prior arrest record in another drug use case, and that he was required to submit himself to re
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> “He was also questioned by the police without legal counsel, and said that he was denied a Tamil interpreter.” That is concerning. Regardless of whether or not you think someone is guilty, they still deserve the best possible defense.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> Daszak effectively silenced debate over the possibility of a lab leak with a February 2020 statement in the Lancet. “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that covid-19 does not have a natural origin,” Re
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by blueyoda 3y ago
> "“We’re not crackpots or conspiracy theorists, we’re husbands and wives and family members who have lost somebody – that’s all it is." The fact that they have to say this to begin with is upsetting. I have come across posts o
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by blueyoda 3y ago
A nice solution to this would be a new Parental Control setting. If I fear a parent may end up installing malware, then I would configure their phone to disallow 3rd party stores.
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by blueyoda 3y ago
If a substantial portion of society easily falls for misinformation, then the solution is not to bring in a centralized entity to "fact check". The solution is to improve educational standards so people can use critical thinking s
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by blueyoda 3y ago
I know tons of people from both political spectrums who are pro-free-speech. I also know people who support free-speech that only supports their views. Nonetheless, you are correct in that there are right-wingers who are hypocrites by claim
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by blueyoda 3y ago
Brilliantly put. I think AI has potential to do many wonders for humanity - but are we ready for its impact on our current model of capitalism? The industrial revolution automated a good deal of physical labor. Now the AI revolution is auto
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by blueyoda 4y ago
What's better is when their community forum "expert" redirects you to the first Stackoverflow link on Google - even though it is a band-aid solution that doesn't even solve your problem.
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by blueyoda 4y ago
I've had very similar experiences with Google products. Their "support" for many products tends to be primarily community forums. And on those forums, "if you don't like it then don't use it" seems to be t
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by blueyoda 4y ago
> "Getting vaccinated is easy but so is gaining weight. Losing weight is hard." And accepting the risk of severe heart problems is harder for many people. Especially young athletic individuals who have no prior medical conditio
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by blueyoda 4y ago
(Quick edit: when I say "I find their decision to be extremely selfish", I'm referring to the obese) Also, I wanted to thank you for engaging with me in this discussion. While we have different opinions, I enjoy learning abou
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by blueyoda 4y ago
> Therefore a person who is overweight has a heart attack deserves sympathy whereas a person who didn't get vaccinated* but ends up in the hospital because of Covid doesn't. A person who is obese willingly chose to gorge on l
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by blueyoda 4y ago
I don't know many people who are "against" the COVID vaccine. Most I have spoken with agree that those who are at most risk from the disease should take it. They are not concerned with the decisions others make and have never

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