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by briga 6y ago
>I've wondered if solar panels will start to look like pine trees at some point. Interesting thought, but I'm not sure there same factors that led to plant evolution will play out with solar panels. Plants reaching up into the
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by briga 6y ago
This is good to hear. I assume location must play a large part in this? Solar must be more cost-effective in, say, the Mojave desert, than it is in Alaska. I sometimes wonder if the widespread adoption of solar is going to have an environme
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by briga 6y ago
I think it tastes just fine, and from my plebeian uncultured perspective it's just as good as a $20 bottle. Better, even, because you're not paying a huge mark up. I'm half convinced that wine connoisseurs are fooling themsel
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by briga 6y ago
Much easier said than done I'm sure. With most newspapers struggling to get hiring full time moderators is probably a luxury they can't afford.
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by briga 6y ago
You realize Intuit owns Credit Karma now, right?
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by briga 6y ago
Plutonium is fairly rare, so I'm not sure it could be scaled up easily, even if there was a demand for it. Not to mention we probably don't want the raw material for nuclear bombs to be inside easily accessible home appliances...
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by briga 6y ago
I've found that instead of looking for positive reviews I'll first search for negative reviews. Can't really trust the professional reviewers because they have an incentive to bend the truth. But you also can't really tr
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by briga 6y ago
Perspective in art is a relatively recent invention--it didn't really become widespread in the West until the Italian Renaissance. But then the people who made these paintings didn't have the same visual language that we use today
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by briga 6y ago
Occasionally I'll walk in and order food from these places--the people working there always seem surprised that I'm not a DoorDash driver. One place I went had seemingly everything on the menu: Indian curries, fried food and burge
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by briga 6y ago
It's because the model weights are the valuable thing here. The fancy new architectures are nice and everything, but transformer models are a dime a dozen these days. Seems like they're using this as an example to point at and say
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by briga 6y ago
>I was always very slender in my life Have you ever considered that some people are genetically predisposed to being overweight, just like you are probably genetically predisposed to being slim? I'm not saying that's the only r
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by briga 6y ago
All English speakers share a common writing system, but if you compare, say, the Scottish highland dialect with African-American Vernacular English, you get close to the point where the two variants could plausibly be considered different l
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by briga 6y ago
I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who loses large amounts of money on risky gambling like this. Especially for anyone willing to put their entire life savings on the line--if it wasn't this they would find some other stupid w
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by briga 6y ago
If the amount of guided tour groups is any indication, tourists do love being treated like cattle. In fact, they pay a lot of money for the privilege. Anyway Venice isn't really a city any more so much as it is an amusement park for we
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by briga 6y ago
That seems like a fine solution for a relatively small and unified country of ~6 million, but I don't necessarily think it scales to a country the size of the US, let alone the global news economy. Ideologies are so fragmented these da
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by briga 6y ago
If we need regulation, the question then becomes: who does the regulating? Tech firms in Silicon Valley? Big government in Washington? Big business on Wall Street? Putting that editorial power in any one group's hands is going to lead
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by briga 6y ago
Probably would have solved maybe problems--that is, if it was implemented half a year ago. As it is now it seems like too little too late.
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by briga 6y ago
I think this was as much about the big tech companies protecting their own business models as it was about protecting the US government. Can Facebook and Twitter really afford to have half their user-base jump to a competing platform? This
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by briga 6y ago
If it's built on user data, it's likely just showing historical phrases that Bing users have typed in the past. Whether this is because Bing users are prone to suicide, or because some people are intentionally skewing auto-suggest
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by briga 6y ago
But it seems like local governance doesn't work especially well for the state as a whole. I get the impression that the state has systemic problems that no tax will fix. Local governance is a problem in the state because all the wealth
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by briga 6y ago
I mean, that's great for you, but people are bashing CDPR for a good reason: the last-gen console versions are unfinished buggy messes. In a few hours of playing I've had multiple crashes, constant bugs, drops to 15 FPS, just gene
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by briga 6y ago
Perhaps it's a losing game for Europe because Europe isn't really a free market. European powers have constantly been imposing all sorts of taxes, restrictions, and sanctions on tech companies that make it an inhospitable place fo
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by briga 6y ago
Agreed, especially when you consider that the same basic elements that make up our solar system are widespread throughout the universe. My guess is that microbial life isn't even particularly rare in other solar systems, we just haven&
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by briga 6y ago
I think California has created this myth that constant sunshine = perfect weather. I personally like things like summer thunderstorms, snowy winters, mild cloudy days, and rain. It's definitely not bad weather, but the lack of variety
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by briga 6y ago
Reddit has really been emphasizing its social aspect lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if it introduced a Friends/Followers section and shifted towards a more personalized front page.
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by briga 6y ago
I don't think the poor and down-trodden are buying up homes in Vancouver. The issue is rich foreign investors buying up real estate either as vacation homes or investment properties. The only way these people contribute to the economy
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by briga 6y ago
I don't think the European explorers could be described as unhealthy--they certainly wouldn't have lasted long if they were. Their lifestyles of back-breaking labor and heavy drinking probably didn't help. Also, fun tidbit: t
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by briga 6y ago
There is another more nuanced argument, by Colin McGinn, that states that consciousness is a broadly mechanistic system, just not one that human minds are equipped to understand. Which could of course be another type of personal incredulity
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by briga 6y ago
Seems like a lot of these problems stem from a failing education system. Teach kids critical thinking and scientific literacy and about media bias. Seems more important ever to teach kids that they shouldn't believe everything the see
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by briga 6y ago
Seems like the only way for us to prove that they can see us is for us to see them first.

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