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by dirtyid 4y ago
Neat. A few years away from sending fiverr to outsource acting to a developing country while face animation and voice gets synthesized.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Understandable but would be interesting to have a "State of AI" writing post every once in a while to see how AI measures up. Once AI starts making competent short stories, I can imagine them being good enough to write quests for
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>US wants to ban Tik Tok for the same reason that China bans Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Except once again, PRC doesn't ban US services, they force them to comply with PRC laws that has onerous moderation overheads. And these
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Pretty much. Cheap engineered wood replacing increasingly expensive solid/hard wood that's not sustainable to harvest. I do notice the occasional better finish on 10x priced furniture, but seems like there's only so much wrap
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>it shouldn't be possible to ship an oak tree across the entire planet for practically nothing Why not? Modern lumber carrier vessels are massive. Optimizing for maritime bulk cargo transport to ship across world economically vs wes
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by dirtyid 4y ago
That's like saying low end PRC cars are banned in US for not meeting US safety regulations. Bing operated in PRC for years after other platforms were blocked and Google's Project Dragonfly was a thing precisely because there was a
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>just your vision of the country No, that's the OG 1C2S vision, and frankly anyone with half a brain should understand why. HK was to implement NSL on her own, with PRC having unilateral ability to implement if HK politics took too
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Nativist attitude predated NSL, when HK had their obscene privileges and responded to rapid shift in culture due to mainland immigration by shitting on the outgroup like many groups in the west in the last decade. The original post touches
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Great job. These projects remain as cool as they are non commercial.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Worse than the most atrocious watermarks.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
No one's swapping out the entire population. But populations change, when people move, demographics recompose, and local customs accordingly. HK nativism/localism rose after ~150/day “one way permits” from PRC to HK (for the
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by dirtyid 4y ago
The enviroment and biosphere will recover / regenerate in some form even if humans destroy everything and drive themselves to extinction. Sustainablity is an anthropocene problem, and just like climate, per capita is the only thing tha
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>dense cities, affordable housing in the city center, great public infrastructure and a modicum of agreement among the citizens ... >China fits the bill All those things may exist but sheer concentration of population = QoL / &qu
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>It almost felt like another Chinese city ... >If I were to live in Asia, it might have once included Hong Kong because of its unique British history OTOH this attitude is why PRC finally calibrating HK for PRC nationals/one-way
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Wonder if slate/astra will ever become required reading for schools. Shorter than shakespeare.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>unmatched by any other country The worlds largest country with largest ship construction capability has the biggest fleet. PRC distant fleet _underfishes_ per capita, especially relative to JP (3X more than PRC), SKR & ES (7x), TW (
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Bringing back a lot of memories, one of the few boxarts etched in my brain even though it's pretty ordinary in retrospect.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Japan is vastly better situated than South Korea or China for what's about to happen Depends how better situated is defined. Advanced economies like JP, SKR or TW (and most of EU) with relatively maxed out human capital (~80% skill
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by dirtyid 4y ago
More historically apt US had plans to annex British Canada when Canada was British proxy that threatened US security. Canada only coexisted with US when Britain conceded influence over Canada which was forced to become geopolitically aligne
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I want vending machines on every street corner that cut vegetables for you, and spit premeasured sauces / spices into a cup. Upload a recipe ahead of time and pick it up on way home. I also just want more vending machines in general.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>its kids trying to make money I'm sympathetic to this, but kids making money should not undermine adults trying to make a living. I'm fine with underaged kids working, but they should be documented and paid 2x/3x the rate
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Reader hit personally, hangouts / circles, convincing friends to move to failed google ventures hit socially. Nexus hardware also didn't help. While I still use a lot of google products, I would never recommend google services to
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I wonder how feedly is doing, their higher tier plans focusing on enterprise/analysis/teams suggest the demand for rss still among power users / consumers.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Skilled artists / machinist can train body to stupid degrees of precision, i.e. identifying colours, feeling out a thou. IMO something like that happening with audiophiles who are skilled at listening but when brain trained to discern
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>British expat would have little problem moving to US, Yeah it's the lack of integration/internal market/capital that really disadvantages UK who is #3 in scientific output, respectable per capita basis as well. Low switch
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Using kids to plug (certain) labour gaps should be permitted but onorously expensive, kids need to cost twice/thrice as much to employ. Most of extra pay beyond minimum wage should be locked away and made available after they turn 18.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yes most of fitness industry isbullshit. But simple =/= easy. Past , for 80% of the 20% rule, the easy simple methods are exhausted and progress generally requires increasingly complex methods when simple methods become too hard. Lifti
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by dirtyid 4y ago
One of the first things I do on a piece of new hardware is to scratch it somewhere less visible so I can use it knowing it's no longer pristine. Tools are tools.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
If Foxconn is going to follow the campus model, which is likely because Apple manufacturing cities draws labour from across country, that means building infra to house 2x-3x more workers, especially during surge production for new launches.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
This would be a great sleep podcast generator with some TTS support. Is bench press with big arch cheating? Result: basically every online argument but respectful. Waiting for ChatGPT to summarize entire comment flamewars in this format. I

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