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by cbozeman 4y ago
You could do that... if you had no knowledge of geopolitics and demographics.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Things are going to get worse in China, not better. In 60 years, they'll have half their current population (One Child Policy). Not only that, but Western companies have seen the writing on the wall. Production is moving out of China t
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Even without a war, China will be down to 650,000,000 people in the next 30-40 years. Throw a war into that mix and China's demographic numbers become even more grim.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Supplementing with potassium, magnesium, and sodium can help alleviate the hunger pangs I've found.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
No, there definitely seems to be a "there" there. I went zero carb for 6 months and I was able to continually fast for 24-44 hours at a time, always with zero hunger pangs after the initial "break-in" period, which seems
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Depending on where you are, everything can cause cancer. This website is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Removing the NSFW and watermark modules from the model will easily allow you to run it with 8 GB VRAM (usually takes around 6.9 GB for 512x512 generations). With an RTX 3060, your average image generation time is going to be around 7-11 sec
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by cbozeman 4y ago
This is the easy answer, but I don't think this is the right answer. The right answer, I'd argue, is that this was Prometheus giving fire to the mortals, and then the mortals quickly discovered everything that could be possible wi
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Van Gogh was influenced by myriad artists before him. The Impressionists were influenced by myriad artists before them. Of course an AI could eventually be trained to develop a whole new art style. Someone already said it earlier... there&#
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by cbozeman 4y ago
If it is, then every human brain is guilty of copyright infringement.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I don't know if they saw it coming or not, but frankly I'm glad it did. This idea of "technology gatekeeping" sickens me. I'm tired to death of people saying some non-sensical horseshit like, "The technology is
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by cbozeman 4y ago
How can you ensure your economic status will not be affected? How were farriers able to ensure their economic status wasn't affected by cars? How were switchboard operators able to ensure their economic status wasn't affected by a
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by cbozeman 4y ago
> Oh, we don't do it for the software. We can hire 100 people out of Ohio State or Michigan and pay them midwest wages and get the same quality. No they can't... or they would. Deeds. Not words.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Too bad, so sad. They can adapt or die. Reminds me of a back and forth I had with an NYT staff writer who claimed it was "inhumane" to expect people to totally relearn a set of skills every ten years. People seem to forget that ho
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by cbozeman 4y ago
If we can afford $836 billion for defense spending, we can afford $11 billion to get some kids some fucking food. That's the only acceptable answer to that question.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Don't get a fake dog for home security. Get a real gun. Then go to a tactical trainer who has served in the military ideally in a small arms instructor capacity - they're all over the nation - and inquire about home defense cour
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I feel this way too. If you're breaking into someone's home, you're asking to die.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
What part of, "Don't advertise something as 'unlimited' if it isn't unlimited" is difficult for you? It seems pretty damn simple. Hetzner used to have transfer limits. It was 20 TB for cheap servers when I was
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Yeah, I don't understand why Twitter didn't take off around the world. It's excellent for what it designed to be: a "quick take" sharing site / link sharing site. It's awful (like most social media) for
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Then they should all quit their jobs and learn to code. Being a journalist is supposed to be a hard job with a strict code of ethics, and journalists are supposed to police their own, coming hard exceptionally hard on lazy journalists.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
One person's "adventure" is another person's $10,000 a day loss in revenue.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I'll be honest, I'm not interested in hearing about entirely fantastic experiences; indulge me while I explain why. When I'm traveling, if you want to entice me to use your AirBNB, you need to provide - at the minimum - an ex
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by cbozeman 4y ago
So here's how I attack these issues you've mentioned: Extended Stay America. Almost every large city has one ("large" defined as more than 100,000 - 200,000 people). You can book for months at a time if necessary. They h
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Yes... because this is just one in a litany of horror stories that I have: * Read about online * Heard about personally from friends & family Do you need to step in a pile of shit personally to realize it's unpleasant, or would you
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by cbozeman 4y ago
The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you. The host has the property, the host sets the price, the host assumes all responsibility (even if they often do not live up to those resp
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by cbozeman 4y ago
This is one of the best socio-political analyses I've seen on Hacker News. Thank you for writing it.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
That's because Google has shitty leadership that doesn't understand playing the long game. This is why Google's only real source of income is search, and by that, I mean of course, ads. Google kills any project that's no
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by cbozeman 4y ago
But you can dial it down pretty damn well. When I had Frontier in Texas, I rarely saw latency over 19 ms to any location in the United States. 35+ ms and I was fussy... amazing how quickly fiber can spoil a man.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Can't reliably run my personal cloud with just 100 Mbit/s. The best fiber service I had access to was Frontier out in Texas, and my location capped out at 500 / 500, which was great at the time. I could easily run my personal
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Mostly for my personal cloud... Plex Media Server, Nextcloud, etc., because any service that's offering a $300 connection will also let buy a static IP for a nominal amount.

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