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Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier(reuters.com)
2 points by davesque 6y ago|0 comments
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by davesque 6y ago
Right and I don't disagree with any of what you said. I'm just asking, why is this surprising to anyone? Why are people suddenly acting like they care when this has been open and obvious for a long time?
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by davesque 6y ago
It's a bit surprising to me that this is trending so much. Apple has been making functionality compromises for years at the expense of hackers and power users of all kinds. Is it really so shocking that MacBooks aren't compatible
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by davesque 6y ago
This is brilliant. I actually was pondering just the other day how it seems like people have lost the ability to forgive in the public sphere. Unfortunately, I think a lot of world leaders are setting incredibly bad examples on this front.
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by davesque 6y ago
I've lived here for about 30 years and I really doubt Boulder would last long without the university. And when I said "home", I meant condo, not house. The average tech employee in Boulder is still a long way away from house
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by davesque 6y ago
Yes, this! Japan's population is 38% of the US population. And yet they have seen about only 1000 coronavirus deaths to date. I have to believe this is because they just do what they're told without defiantly rejecting the advice
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by davesque 6y ago
As a full-time resident of Boulder, CO (college town), this seems like an impossible situation. I can well imagine that the university here is under heavy pressure from local government to hold classes in the fall. This is because going a s
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by davesque 6y ago
What confuses me is why so much scrutiny is being placed on the practice of wearing a mask. It just hardly seems like much of an inconvenience. And common sense dictates pretty convincingly that it must have some benefit, however small. S
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by davesque 6y ago
In a way, I can sympathize with this viewpoint. However, (and this may very well not apply to you) what shocks me is how often it comes packaged with a resistance to wearing masks, washing hands, social distancing or otherwise doing anythin
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by davesque 6y ago
I still have a FB account strictly to do messaging with a certain group of friends. I would feel great about browsing FB too if it didn't feel so much like I was contributing to the downfall of modern society.
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by davesque 6y ago
Note that the author also requests that people be polite in doing so. Everyone please model the behavior you want to see in this reporter. Update : Thanks OP for updating to include a note about this.
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by davesque 6y ago
> Within educational contexts, being well-behaved is seen as rational and ‘good’, while resistance to authority is seen as irrational or ‘bad’. Since mindfulness encourages young people to be calm, complacent and attentive, it can promo
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Mongolian Death Worm(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by davesque 6y ago|0 comments
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by davesque 6y ago
There's a flip side to that though which is that the other side of the aisle is also a howling mob. The discourse across the board has become so radically polarized that it's impossible to reconcile the competing world views. In t
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by davesque 6y ago
Ahh, yep. I dropped the ",000" :/.
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by davesque 6y ago
> Adipose tissue (fat) is by far your primary super high density super high capacity battery pack. For example, as of June 2019, ~40lb of my 200lb weight was fat. Since fat is significantly more energy dense than carbohydrates (9 kcal&#x
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by davesque 6y ago
Here are a couple of anecdotal data points: I was traveling in Japan and Taiwan in October of 2019. I came down with a weird flu-like illness that persisted for three or four weeks (much longer than a flu would have normally lasted for me)
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by davesque 6y ago
Are state-controlled media outlets really the problem? I feel like the issue is ads being purchased by groups tied to state actors (but not necessarily in any official capacity). Also, fake accounts posting misleading information (but not
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by davesque 6y ago
I've heard octopi are pretty smart so they must also be pretty deep.
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by davesque 6y ago
Uhuh. Are you Ted Kaczynski then out in the wilderness right now using the internet through a satellite dish?
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by davesque 6y ago
> The distinction is irrelevant; were I speaking as a Google employee I would still be speaking from personal opinion, not in behalf of my employer. Seems like word splitting and I disagree. If you're working at Google, then your o
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by davesque 6y ago
Are you speaking as a Google employee or just from personal opinion? Also, this viewpoint is naive. Simply more information isn't better. What if all that information was about the flat earth theory and nothing else? Wouldn't m
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by davesque 6y ago
This analogy holds water about as well as a sieve. You can't shop around citizenship in most other countries. You can't just willy-nilly decide to renounce citizenship in one and go become a citizen in another. I'm sure pe
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by davesque 6y ago
I think this was a long time coming. However, I don't trust the current administration's motives for doing it. My instinct is that this is just some behind-the-scenes string pulling to eliminate an entity that is seen more as a
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by davesque 6y ago
It seems like everyone in here suggesting a switch to Firefox is missing the point. The Pushbullet team has already stated that having this Chrome extension pulled might mean the end of Pushbullet. So I'm going to trust that they kno
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by davesque 6y ago
It's a neat idea and kudos to them for executing on this. However, it also triggers my spidey sense a bit. It makes me concerned about a far-flung future in which people who opt-out of the VSCode integration get a sub-optimal experie
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by davesque 6y ago
> well what is the value add then of paying to physically go to college? Ivy league and other high end colleges are much more a brand than they are a product.
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by davesque 6y ago
Slightly off-topic but in the vain of ancient wisdom, about a year ago I randomly plucked this book off the shelf and bought it: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Friend-Ancient-Friendship/dp/0... There are many senti
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by davesque 7y ago
This has been happening for years. I personally remember hearing people complain about it as far back as 2010 or 2011.
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by davesque 7y ago
Maybe you mean, "Please don't imagine a pink elephant." Imagining a non-pink elephant seems pretty easy.

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