bobcostas55

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by bobcostas55 5y ago
America got crushed by a handful of 70 IQ inbred religious nutters after spending over $2 trillion. The alternative to withdrawal is permanent occupation, but the US might be the most incompetent colonial master of all time, so it doesn&#x2
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Maybe they should try putting up a fight, then.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
If it doesn't protect against physical access what's the point of TPM?
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Don't Make Me Think(zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com)
7 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|1 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>because it assumes that projecting power over interstellar distances is easier than defending yourself This seems really obviously true to me. Accelerating a rock to relativistic speeds is pretty easy, defending against a rock potential
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Banning Payday Loans Harms Borrowers(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|1 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
All human knowledge _is_ at one's fingertips. Virtually all books are available through gutenberg or libgen. The vast majority of academic research through sci-hub. The truth is that people are simply not interested.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
AFAIK every study on preventive care finds ~0 effect. No effect: https://www.cochrane.org/CD009009/EPOC_general-health-checks... No effect: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23413 Potential 0.2% saving
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Microsoft have signed multiple rootkits(twitter.com)
157 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|25 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
I wanted to use this for a project but quickly discovered that it's quite limited. Just trying out a bunch of easy words often failed.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Really makes you wonder if the people at google actually use their own product. Anyone who has ever used google image search in the past couple of years will have noticed that it's filled to the brim with garbage results from pinterest
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
In other words, lobotomize yourself for work.
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Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling(mattlakeman.org)
2 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|1 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
The idea that Watson "stole" his major work from Franklin is absurd. Franklin was on a completely different track and thought Watson & Crick's approach was a dead end.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
When the 3060s are flying off the shelves at $1000+ and AMD raised their prices by 50% over the previous generation, why the fuck is there any need for government funding? It's an obscenely profitable business.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>Back in the 19th century there was no birth control, and women were in a constant cycle of pregnancy and breastfeeding This is really not the case, in the western world fertility dropped steadily through the 19th century. People had som
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
And the Orson Welles masterpiece F for Fake.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
This is exactly how we ended up with someone charging you $50/month to run a browser on a supercomputer.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Just go on ebay, you can find great pbt double-shot keycaps for ~$20 or even less, usually shipped from China. The enthusiast shops only carry the most expensive stuff.
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An AI-powered Linux shell using OpenAI(youtube.com)
4 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
People keep bringing up dieticians as if there's some kind magic, secret food they have access to that normal people don't. It's complete nonsense. Bodybuilders and actors and athletes eat the same chicken breast, rice, and b
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
Isn't that what docker does? I have found it very easy to get self-hosted stuff running on my VPS.
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
Surely you must have observed a few bad decisions made by these professionals over the last year? Enough, perhaps, to doubt that they are actually selected for competence, to doubt that their goals align with those of society?
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
Fermi to one of his PhD students: "You know how much faster I am in thinking than you are? That's how much faster von Neumann is compared to me."
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Skepticism Re the Crypto Utopia(strangeloopcanon.com)
2 points by bobcostas55 6y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
It's pretty obvious that what she wanted was not for her to go back to work, but for _him_ to go back to work and earn more money.
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
>which have been doing everything that they can to stop this Except, you know, order enough vaccines for their population. Other than that though, everything that they can!
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
A reply by some economists: "Economists’ views on the ergodicity problem" https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-02...
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
Check out Max Tegmark's writings on the mathematical universe, some very interesting stuff in that direction.
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by bobcostas55 6y ago
>We can sense them directly What does this even mean? Unless you're talking about some supernatural "atomic sense", there's obviously no way to "sense them directly" - we sense them through their interaction

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