corey_moncure

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by corey_moncure 6y ago
My favorite one, similar to this, is impossible colors. https://sciencenotes.org/impossible-colors-work-see/ By training your eye on a vivid color, then withdrawing the stimulus, and presenting an opposite or complemen
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Can you expound on the difference between “safe space” and “unsafe space”? I don’t think I understand what these words mean.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
A telecommunications monopoly is a strange thing. There are 725,000 people in Denver. If we naively assume that one sixth of them pay for an internet subscription at $100/mo each, that's $145,000,000 annually that the people coul
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
We have to make machines feel pain
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Didn't you read the NPR article? They clearly stated that it's been debunked.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Hiromi Uehara
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Nigerians today have to deal with the legacy of colonialism, war, pogroms and famine. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War "The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War and the Nigerian-Bi
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Lazy evaluation.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
There were sound effect samplers that went around on CD back in those days. Presumably purchasing the CD came with a license to use the effects in your projects. There was also a wind noise sound that found its way into many different gam
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
All of the performance claims are extremely hand-wavey. They are using the deep learning and compute features to equivocate about resolutions and framerates. 8K@60 isn't real, but with DLSS activated it is.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
A bakery is not a speech platform. Allowing speech on your speech platform is not the same thing as compelling others to speech.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
The CEO of Amazon doesn't have a bank account with $200B sitting in it. His net worth is his ownership of Amazon. And Amazon, minus the human rights arbitrage scheme that delivers us megatons of goods manufactured by disadvantaged pe
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
"The expatriation tax provisions under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) sections 877 and 877A apply to U.S. citizens who have renounced their citizenship and long-term residents (as defined in IRC 877(e)) who have ended their U.S. resident
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
You may still have to pay tax even if you renounce your US nationality, if the IRS finds that you have renounced your nationality so that you don't have to pay taxes anymore.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Being rudely awakened too many times in a night results in a driver who cannot drive safely the next morning.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
We're going to need a new system. The profit motive of corporations is directly in conflict with the duty to social good. As we proceed into an automated future, our labor protections are pricing humans out of the market. A great dea
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Approximately half of these quotes are completely void of race or hate at all. It's just that one disagrees with the politics of the other.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Also the "doesn't degrade/burn-in/shift whitepoint after a year of ordinary use" category.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
>there’s no way you can simply stroll through one on the way from one city to another Maybe! I could be wrong. My memory has been degrading for eight years and the situation has hopefully been improving! I'd go try to retrace the
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Speaking as charitably as possible, comments like these indicate to me that the poster has never been to China and has no idea about the actual conditions there. If you just step outside the select few favored economic zones you will see a
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
If you and I make a deal, and I profit handsomely from that deal, but you break the deal, does my profit invalidate the injury I suffer from you breaking the deal?
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Meanwhile, "site developers" are in a mad rush to tear down miles and miles of virgin forest and construct new cookie cutter houses they expect to sell for $300,000 each, in my city. This, in the midst of the worst unemployment c
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
How ironic given that the Net Yaroze, N64, and then PS2 were all black.
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Sort of but then no one can agree on things like whether particles are part of the word or not. To the fluent reader, the kanji/kana switching breaks up the text enough to lex it. I'm non-native and actually reading all-kana is
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Optical audio I/O. Many people might not know this, but you could actually plug in an optical S/PDIF cable into your Macbook Pro, on both the "microphone" input and "headphones" output line, to get digital aud
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
It's astonishing how far the MBP has fallen in ten years. My 2010 MBP was and still is the perfect laptop design. Look what Apple has taken away from us: MagSafe, SD card slot, optical audio I/O, RJ45, USB-A, even the top row of
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
I'm an SQL hater in remediation. In a given week I might work with all of the following: SQL, C#, Python, JS (Kendo, Vue, React), XSL, bash, and more. I'm a quick learner and I pick things up fast, always have, I've got a de
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by corey_moncure 6y ago
Look it's 300 micrometers thinner!
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by corey_moncure 7y ago
The Efficient Market Hypothesis is obviously, patently false. The markets cannot agree on the value of an asset from week to week, day, hour, minute or second. Equities in stable businesses with millions of shares traded daily see their p
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by corey_moncure 7y ago
Isn't India the real elephant in the room here?

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