bostonwalker

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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there are
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
What’s the difference between Honecker and a telephone? No difference! Hang up, try again.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
It was dystopian, invasive tech back when the Glass-holes were doing it in 2013 and it's still dystopian and invasive now [0]. The two major differences are: 1. The product execution is better this time 2. We've become more compla
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
No government should rely on Facebook to provide life-saving emergency information to its citizens. Of course, the Canadian government doesn’t really and this is just shitty political theatre.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Great question. Going to assume you mean English language and share my own findings: - CBC: Propagandic, unoriginal, unimportant - Global News: Clickbait, gossip, unoriginal, unimportant - Toronto Star: Hyperbolic, propagandic - The Globe a
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
> solutions What problem is Instagram solving?
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
You are eagerly reading an agenda into what is probably just an artifact of the plotting software intended to make the plot easier to read. Hanlon’s razor applies here.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Source please?
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
I wouldn’t go so far as to claim that we have hard evidence of aliens crashing here or visiting our solar system, but you’re going completely the other way and making an extraordinary claim without evidence. Absence of evidence is not evide
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Would China allow US to spy on hundreds of millions of its citizens everyday? Answer: no, reference the Great Firewall.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
For reference: this specific fallacy being invoked by the CCP astroturfers is called “whataboutism”.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
A word of caution: Sodastream bottles aren't dishwasher-safe and can warp in the dishwasher.
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Garmin MonkeyC: SDK update breaks all static methods, still unfixed 5 months on(forums.garmin.com)
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Here’s an additional piece of nuance that these conversations always overlook: how much waste heat is actually waste heat? Where I am in Quebec, we have hydroelectric electricity in spades and since it is so cheap many homes have electric b
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Right, absolutely fair comment. I would also add however that people don't realize how much of our understanding of physics needs to be broken for these objects to have a terrestrial technological origin. Consider the following aspects
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Right, I think my reasoning still applies whether it's coming from DoD or the White House. We still need to know why because they could have just continued the coverup, it's only since 2019 that they've changed their policy.
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
It isn't until we rule out 1), 2), 3), and 4)
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Excluding otherworldly forms of speculation about why possible aliens are visiting us, this subject really boils down to four tangible questions about how we arrived at this footage and the eyewitness accounts from Fravor et al: - Is it ali
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
> First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind Seems hard to say this on one hand and allow for useful generalizations on the other. > Another point: They also continually conflate "
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Do you really believe that we cannot make generalizations about the layperson's understanding of AI? Unless you have a related degree in math, statistics, engineering, or comp. sci, i.e. a tiny minority of people, it's probably tr
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
I agree, I think my friends and I were suffering from the same fear of confrontation that the article attributed to the younger generations. Learned a lot from this experience too.
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
> Clinical psychologist Camilo Ortiz, a professor at Long Island University-Post, began noticing a few years ago that some of his young patients, mostly children being treated for anxiety, would “fold very quickly” at the first sign of a
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Like you his article about the army reserve made an impression on me. I myself am a serving officer in the Canadian Army reserve and I reached out to him to connect. He was generous with his time and we were chatting about work, life, and a
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by bostonwalker 4y ago
Rucking is great, but it can be just as bad if not harder on your knees if you’re not careful.