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by buzzert 3y ago
Yes, how idiotic of them to want to keep kids away from addictive drugs.
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by buzzert 3y ago
The obscene homelessness situation in Portland is even more maddening knowing the tax situation now. Especially since it seems like a non-existent problem across the river in Vancouver.
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by buzzert 3y ago
I would not consider Cupertino to be "upscale".
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by buzzert 4y ago
> sashank_1509: I find a lot of hate directed on Autopilot, to stem from hate directed on Elon > ModernMech: disgusted at how Tesla in particular and Elon Musk especially are responsible Nailed it. It seems like ModernMech didn't
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by buzzert 4y ago
It couldn't be more different culturally, but Tokyo is definitely the "gold standard" when it comes to safe cities. I know it can't be copied wholesale, but there are certain aspects I think would be nice, such as having
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by buzzert 4y ago
> left stranded with no safety net I don't understand why this lie keeps getting repeated. The US has a very generous social safety net, even compared to wealthy western-European countries. Most especially San Francisco, which has r
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by buzzert 4y ago
Tokyo, Singapore, heck maybe even Dallas.
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by buzzert 4y ago
San Franciscans, including the homeless, already have access to free healthcare[0]. California also has free, universal healthcare[1], and there are more people in California than all of Canada. [0]: https://healthysanfrancisco.o
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by buzzert 4y ago
No, that couldn't be further from the truth. The police have extremely prominent placement in Japanese society. Look up "kōban" ("police boxes")[0]. If you visit Japan, you'll see these things everywhere, on ev
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by buzzert 4y ago
I'm calling it a distortion, because it's often used as a dishonest portrayal of how prevalent gun violence is in the US. Usually by the media, who wants attention grabbing headlines, and don't really care how the numbers are
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by buzzert 4y ago
I learned this from Steven Levy's great book, "In the Plex": https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/14...
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by buzzert 4y ago
> The previous president was largely voted in on his anti immigrant policy (both for legal and illegal immigration). We’re still undoing his damage to the immigration system today. The Trump administration's H1B reform was focused o
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by buzzert 4y ago
Suicide is often included as a cause of death to intentionally distort this statistic: > From 2019 to 2020, the relative increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths of all types (_suicide_, homicide, unintentional, and undetermined) a
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by buzzert 4y ago
Funny enough, this tracks the early history of Google as well. It was originally written by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both grad students at the time) in Python, then Sanjay Ghemawat rewrote the whole thing in C++.
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by buzzert 4y ago
> if it costs you three cents in computing power to have AI write the necessary code for something or draw good art, you can't reasonably expect anyone to pay you more than three cents for it I don't think that's true at a
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by buzzert 4y ago
> The real impact of AI is likely to be subtler: AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies. I don’t understand how the article can say something like this, but then further down essenti
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by buzzert 4y ago
Most meetings likely do happen over Zoom/WebEx/Jitsi/FaceTime at this point, so that would make him correct (minus the VR part, but I think the sentiment was "virtual meetings").
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by buzzert 4y ago
Yes, silly me!
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by buzzert 4y ago
> If you guys are planning to see the natural world in retirement, don't wait. Better to see it as it is now than what it will become. What exactly are you saying here? That in 30 years, the entire planet will be an arid desert?
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by buzzert 4y ago
I don’t know, I get the feeling people did not have to pay to hang out at Cyberdelia.
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by buzzert 4y ago
Safety? One of those things people say they want, but don’t actually want.
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by buzzert 4y ago
The best part about Pinballz is that it’s just an arcade . Not mixed with a bar, venue, or borderline gambling. Really great place!
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by buzzert 4y ago
Why wouldn't young people want to hang out at Cyberdelia?
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by buzzert 4y ago
Why hasn't this happened yet? Serious question. There are a LOT of Hackers fans here (as evidenced by the Hackers night at DNA Lounge), and a LOT of rich nerds. And the DNA Lounge is close, but it's still not Cyberdelia.
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by buzzert 4y ago
Serious inquiry: how do people with large families move around in places like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, where the primary mode of transport is bicycles?
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by buzzert 4y ago
GPT-4 summary, since I also found the narrator annoying and went straight to the transcript: > The growth of SUVs and light trucks presents a challenge to creating walkable cities due to their size, poor visibility, and negative impact o
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by buzzert 4y ago
It was meant to be!
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by buzzert 4y ago
> The LifeLog program was canceled on February 3, 2004 > On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com. If true, that’s a pretty crazy coincidence.
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by buzzert 4y ago
> after it opened a location in Puyallup, Washington that follows its larger suburban-focused format. Sounds like they’re focusing on the suburban market instead. Related to rising crime in the cities maybe?
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by buzzert 4y ago
You should also try to imagine that your friends and family want absolutely nothing to do with you also, and that would be a clearer picture of the problem.

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