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by dbspin 8d ago
> an industry body that exists to protect the IP of artists for the mutual benefit of artists and publishers. This is the most unintentionally hilarious misunderstanding of what the RIAA does, and the power relationship between artists a
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by dbspin 8d ago
Does ones world view get upgraded to oil paint if one acknowledges that it's the same class of people - and in many cases literally the same people, PE firms and family offices - profiting from 2000s era record industry profits and on
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by dbspin 12d ago
The practical isn't being given due consideration here. We spend the enormous majority of our time in the built environment. Every single aspect of our homes and cities (from the size of doorways to the level of countertops) are design
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by dbspin 16d ago
Death Stranding 1 at least was a fairly large commercial success. 5 million copies sold, critical darling, and a hugely original put at doing something new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Stranding#Reception
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by dbspin 16d ago
This may be the case - although none of us have access to the real figures. It's also impossible to judge success relative to marketing budget, how well the game was pushed by Sony etc. Clearly a critical success and an objectively goo
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by dbspin 16d ago
Having lived in Berlin, FLINTA only apartments are a significant minority (up to half) of spaces seeking housemates through publicaly available groups on platforms like Facebook (as opposed to websites like WG-Gesucht). So there's quit
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by dbspin 16d ago
The fact that you can't perceive the equivalence is instructive. Group A generalises individual issues with members of Group B and forms an ideology of blame and exclusion. But Group B was evil all along, cry Group A. Group B have beco
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by dbspin 16d ago
I should have also mentioned DaVinci also heavily uses CUDA on Windows, and metal on Mac. I'm assuming the functions implemented in these frameworks do have fallbacks on Vulkan or similar, but I doubt they're as optimised. I know
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by dbspin 16d ago
Which of his ideas didn't stick? Pretty sure the guy hasn't had a failure in recent memory. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls596355504/
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by dbspin 17d ago
It's almost as if people can have a variety of opinions, and support institutions and states they don't agree with in every dimension. 'The left' is a wildly broad church, comparing 'the new yorker' with say &#
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by dbspin 18d ago
Resolve is extremely RAM hungry. For 4K video I wouldn't want to be editing with less than 12GB of VRAM. I'm guessing that excludes most integrated graphics. Source - I work as a professional editor (amongst other things). Please
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by dbspin 18d ago
The irony being that a lot of older practical VFX artists aren't able to tell when CGI is terrible. They're often so enamored with what the tech enables, that they're the last to see how quickly it becomes shoddy. Not sure wh
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by dbspin 18d ago
They're enormously risk averse, and realised the infrastructure (and perhaps more important external dependency cost of building out their own training data centres). Now that the utility of the technology is clearer, and OpenAI amongs
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by dbspin 18d ago
The thing that doesn't get written about is that precisely the same situation occurs for women. Decentering men is equivalent to MGTOW. The torrent of misandrist content on social media utterly dwarfs the amount of 'red pill'
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by dbspin 19d ago
This was true right when Weimar Germany fell to the Nazis also. There's a degree of inertia to politics. We're also talking about a region of Germany that has been economically depressed for decades, with an unemployment rate twic
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by dbspin 20d ago
Sadly we're all internet people, and have been for about 15 years. If you mean people on Hacker News... Then yes, obviously they're by and large better informed about the reality of surveillance, government and corporate, than mos
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by dbspin 20d ago
I find your comment bewildering. It seems so focused on the perceived effect of an issue that it leaves no room for the actual material effect of the issue. Frankly I couldn't give two hoots about the impact on sales of future robotic
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by dbspin 20d ago
> I think you’re going to have to PR challenges getting people to welcome robots into their homes. I think it's important that someone point out this isn't a 'PR problem'. It's a practical resistance to commodifi
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by dbspin 21d ago
> Prediction markets -- or really any price system -- aggregate the best available information about the future. The best information available to those participating in the market (in good faith). > Now, say that you somehow knew tha
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by dbspin 21d ago
That's an idiotic premise. There's no circumstance in which it wouldn't be better to load in the missing data computationally.
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by dbspin 23d ago
> the claim that prediction markets do not accurately predict the future. It's trivial to prove that this claim is false, because if it were true, it would be very easy for anyone to make a huge amount of money on prediction market
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by dbspin 23d ago
Expert as a stochastic parrot may be in impersonating expertise, grammatical or otherwise, I don't see how citing it is relevant.
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by dbspin 23d ago
Always, but perhaps not in this case. I wasn't correcting spelling, but coherence. The comment I replied to includes a sentence that is both ambiguous and non-nonsensical. It doesn't seem to be an issue of grammar, but rather clar
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by dbspin 23d ago
> Then maybe it's time you look up how unemployment statistics are calculated in Switzerland and you will be surprised that you counted into them. First off the sentence simply doesn't make sense. Specifically 'you will be
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by dbspin 24d ago
"Then maybe it's time you look up how unemployment statistics are calculated in Switzerland and you will be surprised that you counted into them." Not to criticise, but just to point out that this sentence doesn't quite
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by dbspin 26d ago
Strongly disagree. Most crimes are crimes of opportunity. Most 'pervs' don't start out that way either. Detecting increasingly easy to conceal sousveillance devices is probably essential for any kind of normative public spher
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by dbspin 28d ago
Antifa isn't an organisation at all. It's a loosely defined ideology / set of tactics that leftist movements (everything from black block kids to local democratically organised spaces) sometimes use or follow.
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by dbspin 28d ago
Doesn't do bike routes at all in my country (Ireland) for some reason.
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by dbspin 1mo ago
The scale is new. Obviously a nightmare or even a tragedy for individual people that it happens at all. But this happening to (tens of?) thousands of people all at once is a whole different thing.
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by dbspin 1mo ago
Fortunately there's a near infinite demand for boosterism too.

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