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by croon 5y ago
I have an Nvidia Shield, and ran PiHole for a bit. It didn't block youtube ads for me, but might be regional ranges not being blocked. Eventually I stopped using PiHole since it broke some payment processors at times, and there was no
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by croon 5y ago
Numero Group made a compilation of "lost" yacht rock called "Seafaring Strangers - Private Yacht" a few years ago, which has some gems. http://www.numerogroup.com/products/seafaring-strangers-priv...
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by croon 5y ago
Some people win the lottery too, it doesn't mean it's actionable advice or good policy. It also happens to be statistically easier if you can afford more tickets.
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by croon 5y ago
And the name was the least offensive part.
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by croon 5y ago
I'm 80% sure this is a Doc Ock reference, but not completely.
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by croon 5y ago
> You’re not paying attention to what you’re reading. The parent comment is saying some users will do this on all newsletters, even ones they signed ip for. I was paying attention, I was commenting on specifically: > they hit the spa
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by croon 5y ago
I accounted for this in my comment. There's confirm steps and then there's confirm steps. When I want to unsubscribe from your newsletter you already know my address, I shouldn't have to enter it, I shouldn't have to lis
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by croon 5y ago
If you ingrain a culture of "actions have consequences" you disincentivize actions. This is why everyone is fine with letting nowhere projects run ahead, and adding to technical debt, or just keep on incurring running costs instea
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by croon 5y ago
Sometimes it's necessary to find who did something to find out what happened (maybe), but if the culture is good that's not a problem. I've had no issues admitting mistakes at my places of work, and vice versa: "This is
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by croon 5y ago
Is this annoying? Do you still want it if there's nothing in it you want to engage with? Or are you saying you want to read it, but take no related actions on it? I would absolutely love to be automatically unsubscribed from everything
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by croon 5y ago
> It happens. You have people in this thread explaining they hit the spam button when unsubscribe has a confirm step, even if they know they signed up. This is also not a user problem. I admit I haven't managed a newsletter, but if
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by croon 5y ago
> Similarly, DeepMind's software might be able to drive a car, would it have a similar neuron count, connectivity, perception systems and training you received. Admittedly I'm a layman in this area, but could it? AFAICT it woul
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by croon 5y ago
The interface to the car is a solved problem. > You can read a book on how to hit a ball with a baseball bat, you can even practice and get good at it, but that still doesn't mean you would actually be able to hit a ball thrown by a
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by croon 5y ago
Sure, it was somewhat tongue in cheek, but not entirely. There is a semi-established definition that does include what I referred to: > AGI can also be referred to as strong AI,[2][3][4] full AI,[5] or general intelligent action.[6] Som
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by croon 5y ago
> It is entirely not necessary for an AGI to be able to drive a car. "Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical[1] ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.&
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by croon 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
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by croon 5y ago
You don't know if an AGI will agree with your profit motives.
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by croon 5y ago
> Well, in this case, you're renting access to VW's autonomous driving service which presumably comes with constant updates and improvements Yes, which can be bought elsewhere, which was the entire point. > and humans behind
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by croon 5y ago
> Sometimes buying is better than renting. But sometimes there are economies of centralization. AWS isn't a scam on companies too poor to buy servers. Your example doesn't apply. You don't rent a server from AWS, you pay f
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by croon 5y ago
> It’s very clear that the original article was a hit piece/advocacy editorial more than anything else. If you don’t believe, go look at the cover of drudge right now, where he’s using it to go after his favorite target, Elon musk.
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by croon 5y ago
> Best case scenario is that you are shown a select few fragments of reality, strategically arranged. Worst case scenario is the fragments themselves are questionable. 1) Things happen around the world that you can't observe. 2) Peo
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by croon 5y ago
That's wild! I'm lucky enough to never having needed glasses, but the country of limited regulation being so captured by the eyewear industry of all things is crazy. My wife orders hers by dropshipping from possibly China and just
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by croon 5y ago
I've had this happen a lot by gulls. Every spring they nest at various rooftops, and anyone walking within 50 yards of the house gets swooped repeatedly. It's definitely my least favorite bird.
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by croon 5y ago
> https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1246131288664408064 This is Fauci (serving under Trump) saying in January 2020 that he didn't think it was a threat, or am I missing something? Are you saying that a th
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by croon 5y ago
> Well, I definitely remember left-leaning people ridiculing it when people were buying out the toilet paper, saying that there is no virus and stuff. I didn't even realize buying up toilet paper during early pandemics was partisan,
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by croon 5y ago
I don't know if that NPR article has been edited, but the only thing it's saying is that in january 2020 there was low risk of contracting covid compared to a regular flu, not that the virus was less dangerous, which at the time
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by croon 5y ago
> But we're not in disagreement that the positions switched at some point, right? I think we are in disagreement. I don't remember such a switch, nor can identify one browsing backwards. > I think it's to be expected, w
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by croon 5y ago
Fascinating how your PoV is so fundamentally different from mine, even when archive browsing the web a bit now. Regarding: > calling people fearmongers and racists (?) I remember asian (or of asian descent) acquaintances being spit on an
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by croon 5y ago
1) I'm assuming GP missed a negation, "not", before that. 2) Obviously if you can find workers for your compensation level that's some market definition of worth. But I would also argue that ones society is broken if the
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by croon 5y ago
Sure, let's just all blame it on the greeks!

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