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by bsanr2 6y ago
Well, now you have to pay for building the warehouse, and hope that the tech it's built around doesn't become outmoded before the upfront costs are made back + profit.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I'm 30 and it's already happened. The spoils of being tracked into low-paying, dead-end work.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The people involved in the insurrection came from out-of-state. They were planning an attack on the country's seat of government; somewhere in there is reaaonable suspicion of some sort of federal offense (hence the arrests after the
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by bsanr2 6y ago
FBI has law enforcement duties. It's, um, primarily law enforcement, in fact. In the alternate universe where our authorities did everything correctly, they showed up on January 2nd at the doors of the riot organizers and everyone who
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by bsanr2 6y ago
FBI isn't under the DoD. The problem is an institution-wide reluctance to take right-wing and white supremacist radicalism seriously, dating back, at least, to the 1930s. Whatever the reason, it clearly colors the FBI's responses
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This is similar to the situation with Global South coffee exports, wherein actual growers only receive a fraction of the revenue from consumer sales (despite the relatively cheap and easy value-add of roasting or conversion into instant cof
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I've always thought that one sadly unexamined aspect of mecha is how incredibly vulnerable pilots are outside their machines, and how incredibly dangerous they become once they manage to get in. AOT did make some strides there, by spen
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Unless you yourself believe, and expect that it is customary for most to believe, that people will undertake drastic, even suicidal, action in hopes of achieving a preferred afterlife, this is little more than a long-winded rationalization
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed quite a few of the others - Valvrave was a glorious trainwreck, IBO finally committed to and even doubled-down on subverting the expectations of gunota, and Majestic Prince was a solid action dramedy t
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Depending on who you ask, pretty much everything but the Gundam Builds. I jest. But, to be specific: Valvrave and Cross Ange were criticized for their depictions of rape; several series feature racy imagery, sometimes of underage characters
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This unnecessarily others the people on that side of the conflict. They are desperate because their credible and civilized protests of apparent apartheid, let alone global recognition of their claim to sovereignty, are ignored.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
There was a small boom this past decade that seems to be over atm. Nothing groundbreaking, but some decent entertainment (and also some I would never, ever recommend, either due to quality or objectionable content). Off the top of my head:
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The value of an NFT is in its provenance, just as with traditional works. If you forge a Mondrian, it won't be worth as much as an original Mondrian. It's even worse for NFTs since anyone can own the file data; the value of the NF
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by bsanr2 6y ago
"The study, published today in Science Advances, involved the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia." Not to provoke or cause undue consternation, but: sigh
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by bsanr2 6y ago
You need to quantify what that means for energy usage, as that is the main point of contention. Fossil fuels are the primary contributor to global warming as they're used now, but no one should have any problem with, say, a portable ga
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Those are unauthorized. Too bad to the collectors who gave their money to scammers, but those NFTs are worthless the moment the artist declares them forgeries.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Rather than having a ridiculous number of computers competing to be the fastest to complete the calculations that underlie blockchain activities (the source of the power usage), blocks are instead given to a single node to complete, and you
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Complaining that NFTs don't prevent art theft is like complaining that my physical dollar bills don't prevent muggings. Ultimately, it's up to policies and mechanisms on the level of the action to prevent that action. Moderat
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Art collection is often not about the art itself. NFTs function like traditional art purchases ACTUALLY do: as proof of support for an artist and their expression.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
http://sterlingcrispin.blogspot.com/2021/02/crypto-art-sky-i...
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Can't tell if downvoted because people are mistakenly reading this as racist/homophobic, or if they're incensed at the completely accurate insinuation that machine learning datasets focused on "attractive" people ar
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Thankfully, I will be among the large subset of the population which will be immune, as, per deep learning tradition, the data set the GAN will be trained on inevitably won't include any fats, blacks, or non-binaries.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I think it's simpler than that, in this case. What OP is describing is essentially a *control panel* (a small interface of grouped inputs for common tasks). This is an artifact of engineering design, where physical space and materials
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Been there, essentially they have two shrine sites side-by-side, with one being in-use while the other is being rebuilt. This was in 2006, so there's a good chance that if I never visit again, I'll be looking at the "new&quot
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Pay for security rather than progressive social welfare policy? I take it you've never heard of the NYPD or LAPD? "But they're not private security." Boy, I guess you got me there.
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The liberal approach is to subsidize to maintain that base level, because of an awareness that the social outcomes tend to pay dividends in higher social unity, better health, etc. Some people would rather pay for private security than for
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by bsanr2 6y ago
You were lucky. By that, I mean that a non-trivial percentage of the people in your circumstances at every step of the way (soup kitchen, GED attainment, degree attainment, buying your Corolla, buying your house, applying for your $200k&#x2
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by bsanr2 6y ago
They're called NFTs, not NFA. Even real-life artwork is fungible (consider the multi-million dollar appraisal industry, which exists in part to establish provenance of prospective purchases). You're not paying those exorbitant cos
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Those figures never weigh parental wealth, income, and credit access.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
A great deal of GME's move before last month was fighting back against a short attack that had artificially pushed the price down. $5 was not the natural price. $5 was the price as hedge funds attempted to drive Gamestop out of busin

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