chucksmash

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by chucksmash 4mo ago
> I'm embarrassed by the way you're trying to be offensive Oooor, try this one on for size: What if they're not out to cause offense and the malice you impute is just an illusion under which you yourself are laboring alone
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by chucksmash 4mo ago
What if there is value to society in removing antisocial individuals from the social compact, whether others are deterred or not?
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by chucksmash 4mo ago
The article is so facile. > Yet crime-data analysts have noted that Louisiana’s crime wave was in keeping with a national trend This is meant to be mitigating? What is this thought process? Who in their right mind is like "okay, a g
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by chucksmash 5mo ago
Yes. In the beginning they didn't ban opinion based posts (that's why you can still find some of them that were left up for "historical value"). I liked Joel on Software, I liked Coding Horror, and I liked the idea that
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
It would also be satisfied by magic flying carpets. Between flying carpets, functional public transport, and self-driving cars, only one of these three things is not utter fantasy in the near-ish future in the United States.
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
> That is, this sounds like the idea that telling people if bad things happen when you eat too much candy, then people will eat less candy. Just flat not the case at large. Seems like there's an effect but it just takes time. The yo
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005) (Linking that one as it's the first in which any of the teams completed the entire course)
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
> the perfect low effort way to send high value drugs They've already created a FedEx and an Amazon for high value drugs. They're called FedEx[0] and Amazon[1]. [0]: https://qz.com/1627572/drug-traffickers-
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
Wow, true. The David Gilmour note is plain as day. Only other one nearly as easy for me was EVH. The Jimi note sounded like Jimi but like the top comment says, a lot of the others sounded like Jimi too.
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by chucksmash 6mo ago
What is "explicitly eugenicist" in observing that the unprecedented way mankind has dominated its environment has changed the selection pressures we are subject to? My quest to survive to adulthood and pass on my genes looked noth
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
That's wild. Plumbing especially seems like a field where if you need a plumber you need them right now, not a week from now. I guess as a plumber having enough of the type of jobs that can wait a week that you can turn away the urgent
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
> It doesn't matter if Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook contribute or pay huge sums. It may not matter for your purposes (i.e. replacing Google-Maps-the-product in your daily use as a consumer). I'd naively expect that having hun
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
Amazon also uses and contributes edits to OSM.
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
He has
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
> some people are just not aware of where the ceiling is True of everything. Getting good just lets you see the skill gaps. I've sunk a serious chunk of time into both pool and chess. In both I'd be willing to take a bet that I
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
Consider the US in the late 2010s and where we are now. Making the (oversaturating) argument that X is basically Y is how we got here. The people who argee with you directtionally nod in agreement (because of course it is) and you alienat
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
If there's something wrong with how we've organized our society than we need to fix it on a societal level. Evoking what the comment in question evokes over uploading pictures of your kid to the internet is not the way to convince
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by chucksmash 7mo ago
Non-consensual? Abuse? The terminology you chose is tasteless, loaded, and detracts from your point.
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by chucksmash 8mo ago
It's a worthwhile point to make because if people believe that misconception then it lets companies wash their hands of flagrantly bad behavior. "Gosh, we should really get around to changing the law that makes them act that way.&
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by chucksmash 8mo ago
They ran contemporaneously and tended to come up on the same lunch table conversations.
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by chucksmash 8mo ago
Interesting. Different strokes I suppose. I loved this show but in the beginning they put too much emphasis on Lee Pace's character for my taste. Just kind of "ooooh, what will the brooding. mysterious maverick in a suit with a da
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by chucksmash 8mo ago
There's nothing that brings joy into this world quite like the guy waiting around to tell people he doesn't like the thing they like.
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by chucksmash 10mo ago
If you mostly use Netflix to watch licensed content, you're more likely to cancel when all the licensed content is removed from the catalog. If they successfully steer you towards Netflix produced content, you're less sensitive to
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
I believe they no longer allow new accounts without an email address. It used to be that reddit had a user creation screen that looked like you needed to input an email address, but you could actually just click "Next" to skip it.
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
Stephenson? Ah yes, the deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to stop his books mid-sentence.
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
Starlink has a use case. At Voyager 1 speeds, it'll take 70,000 years for a probe to reach Proxima Centauri. So you'd just be launching a probe a year for the next 70,000 years to create a temporary chain on a course to fly by o
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
centi = 10^-2
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
> Got no compensation Did you bring a lawsuit? In such a situation you don't need to rely on the kindness of people's hearts.
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by chucksmash 11mo ago
Why flag a list of books? Is it specifically because it's from A16Z? If it's just "I don't like the books they've chosen" that seems like a wild reason to flag a submission.
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by chucksmash 1y ago
At one point this morning, this thread was about 50% posts by someone repeatedly pointing out that it wasn't the founder of Project Gutenberg who had passed away and being maybe a little precious about writing their dates with a leadin

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