cwkoss

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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm also interested!
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It's amazing how little we know about the benefits of plants that cannot be easily monopolized.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
in the words of everlast: 'some people will rob their mother, for the ends'
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The strengthening dollar is going to make it hard to convince suits to not just keep importing more and more, unfortunately.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
not giving a shit doesn't scale well either. see: our currently corporatist hellscape of a country which allows companies to defraud customers en masse and only receive a slap on a wrist fine in the unlikely case they are punished at
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Does time move faster the deeper you are in a gravity well? If a civilization was trying to compete with another in another galaxy, could they coalesce as much matter as they could into a single star, increasing gravity, and relativisticall
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by cwkoss 4y ago
So, are the smudges' light coming from behind the objects in the center?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Can someone with some astronomy knowledge explain why the center of the images has a bunch of concentric-ish smudges? What does it mean?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Energy usage is only loosely correlated with transaction volume, most of the energy goes towards securing the network.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
DefenseStorm | Seattle, Atlanta | Full Stack Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE or ONSITE https://www.defensestorm.com DefenseStorm is a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial instituti
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by cwkoss 4y ago
youtube effectively has abandoned moderation policy, and just has automated report-driven systems. I bet the video was removed because fractal woodburners with delusions of safety felt angry for being called out, and reported it.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'd be interested in trekking through those weeds. Anyone have a contender for worse deadly art?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
gross incompetence
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think you're overly discounting the chance of the US devolving into overt authoritarian fascism. We paint a thin veneer of democracy over political actions today, but our rights and protections in the US are disappearing rapidly alr
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Your comment seems like a disingenuous attack rooted in sour grapes rather than principles. Stock options are regulated and less new, but they are also sophisticated, poorly understood by the average people, and manipulated easily. The idea
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by cwkoss 4y ago
nah, i'm a freedom of information maximalist. restricting the free flow of information between citizens of countries whose corrupt leaders are engaged in a dick measuring contest only benefits the corrupt leaders. advocating that we ne
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The only concrete claim in that article that I see is insufficient age verification. How does youtube age verify users who are under 13 and trying to create an account? Does google search/ad tracking have a mechanism to avoid tracki
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by cwkoss 4y ago
US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged. US has heavy surveillance infrastructure, and a kafkaesque 'private&#
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Meta, Google and the USG are all much more relevant to my personal threat model than the CCP. CCP has little power (or motive) to imprison me as long as I don't travel there.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
What data is tiktok collecting that google isnt? Is there a fairly applied rule here, or is sinophobia driving this?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Disinformation is very common in traditional news media. This technology just democratizes this tool and allows anyone to engage in it. There will probably be a net increase in disinformation, but citizens will likely also get better at be
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by cwkoss 4y ago
hyperemesis can occur acutely. source: myself as a dumb teenager, as well as several friends
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Looking forward to seeing 20x more cigarette butts instead?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Much of the rope market is synthetic fiber. I wouldn't be surprised if many modern ropes spew a cloud of microplastic particles whenever they are bent.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Notes should have the back button you get when you use a thread. First time I've used browser back button on twitter in a while.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> Now I understand why I've been seeing so many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon. Is there a law like betteridge's law of headlines for commercials? I.e. Anything a commercial tries to assert is proba
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If Coinbase is operating USDC as full reserve, as they have claimed, is there any risk from it? Seems like there would only be risk if they lied about how they are running it.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The world would be a better place with fewer monolithic walled gardens. It would encourage CEOs to build $999M businesses that interoperate with other businesses on the free market rather than acting like a cartel controlled within a singl
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by cwkoss 4y ago
What is your evidence that the average human brain performs any meaningful computation? A lot of our mental lives is the regurgitation of past tropes. Does failing to have a novel thought disqualify someone as having sentience?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Do you think all humans are sentient? This thread has me wondering if people with dementia, anterograde amnesia, etc. would be able to pass the proposed sentience tests others have suggested.

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