coolgeek

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by coolgeek 6y ago
A good analogy for thinking about psychosomatically-induced symptoms or illness is as the inverse, or the reflection symmetry, of the placebo effect It's a factor. But it's a factor in a relatively small percentage of cases. It&
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It depends on what "spent $1,000 on servers" means If you bought (and own) servers, you must depreciate and amortize them. These are capital expenditures, aka capex If you rented servers (e.g. AWS, GCP), you deduct the entire cos
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by coolgeek 6y ago
A+ obscure music reference!
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Love the URL!
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Word.
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> Man in a position to have reams of compromising intel on the current president hired by a man in an ongoing battle with the president. I want the NSA to know everything a US President does while in office. I want the NSA to know every
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Perhaps it's both? Some people/families are more genetically predisposed, but it takes the virus to actually trigger BPD?
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk Why do you say that? Also, cyberpunk broke into the mainstream (Blade Runner, Neuromancer) at a time of fascination with Japan. I say fascination because there was a spectrum - from philic to
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Church of the Subgenius? Kibology? alt.pave.the.earth? The epic KFC hoax?
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by coolgeek 6y ago
You misread that. He or she is communicating their distaste for arming cats. Or possibly (multi)dimensional rotation of cats. Both of these are existential threats.
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> I've talked to far-right people who would dispute that. They'd say there's a difference You are correct that they do this. I've heard it for decades. The primary problem with this is that people don't get to m
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Another data point on it being an Irish thing. My parents treated my sore throats with this as a young child. Presumably just a wee bit of whiskey.
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Oof... I caught one of those phone pole cables on the forehead running in the dark one night, and I caught the guy wire of a soccer net/goal under the chin one day during practice. Both very unpleasant experiences
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Also depends on where you look. As far as I recall, and understand, trolling and flame wars began in Usenet newsgroups edit: at least the terms, more so than the behaviors they describe
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I don't know what the criteria are for defining a planet (and I know that there is a great deal of controversy), but "rounded by its own gravity" seems like a good dividing line to me.
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It's notable because the field is mostly male. That's really all there is to it. It's right there in the subhead "an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms". Males who insist that t
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Seems like an expansion opportunity for Soylent (Since that's a name I hadn't heard in a while, I had to check to see that they still existed)
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Why are so many of the anti-USPS comments coming from new accounts? I'm not going to call them out directly, but most of them seem to be 1-3 months old
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> I've noticed > on a number of occasions > what appears to be > what I would consider (just setting the stage here... making sure we all understand the underpinning of the argument) > a very staunch difference in Snopes
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I get what you're saying, but 99% of those working in AI aren't even trying to create AGI. They're working on narrow AI, and they're perfectly willing to acknowledge that. Even the SOTA reinforcement learning folks know
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> https://tech.marksblogg.com/omnisci-macos-macbookpro-mbp.htm... Is this what a keyword-stuffed URL looks like? This is terrible! This does nothing at all to communicate semantic meaning about the post's content
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Or maybe they're just drawn to the security aspects? Remote, isolated, underground, designed to resist damage from weapons... As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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This comment works equally well as nerd metal lyrics.
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Dick Cavett thought of himself as a serious journalist, and he conducted himself as such. Letterman was foremost an entertainer (as was Carson). But he also (credibly) acted the part of cultural critic. Letterman laid some of the ground
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> the Supreme Court has made decisions which many people think constitute an obvious, willful misinterpretation of the constitution This is a good point, and one that I hadn't considered before my first reply. However, we're ta
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> Marketing going to market This is one of those situations where the vulgate enhances comprehension - here eliminating ambiguity: Marketing gonna market
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> But this hasn't stopped congress from overstepping their constitutional powers for the past 6 decades at least Should this be read as "they do have constitutional power, but I don't like it"? I mean if it is, in fac
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Do you not understand the difference between a rando making such an accusation and a law enforcement or intelligence agency making a documented case? This does, indeed, have the potential to be abused at some point in the future. But at pr
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This is fascinating - on two levels. First, that maintenance needs can be predicted by engine sound. Second - more mundanely - that this can be automated (via ML, or whatever). This is effectively a virtual hybrid of the "knowing whe
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We agree that the degree of fraud is unknown. Where we disagree is on your insistence that the possibility that it may happen is worth suppressing the vote of the "11% of U.S. citizens – or more than 21 million Americans – [who] do not

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