drngdds

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by drngdds 9y ago
Technology helps asses act like asses more effectively.
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by drngdds 9y ago
Mastodon or other decentralized platforms. Or nothing. That's a pretty good option too.
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by drngdds 9y ago
The thing you're describing is coincidence/confirmation bias, not a real phenomenon.
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by drngdds 9y ago
Can't you avoid this (on recent Android versions at least) by disabling all permissions? That's what I did. (I'm sure they're still analyzing the messages I send and how I interact with the app, of course.)
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by drngdds 9y ago
They also say that gynecomastia is rare, which is not true.
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by drngdds 9y ago
Spotify uses ML to give music recommendations: https://hackernoon.com/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-...
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by drngdds 9y ago
>Frankly, just my opinion It's an incorrect opinion. Please do a little bit of research
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by drngdds 9y ago
>Obviously it will have less quality than a FLAC/CDDA original but not less than MP3 (unless you actually set the bitrate too low). This is incorrect. Lossy-to-lossy transcodes always incur a quality loss. It is known
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by drngdds 9y ago
It's probably worth noting that the "consensus statement" cited here was only signed by 52 of the 131 researchers it was sent out to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intell...
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by drngdds 9y ago
The problem with MLMs isn't just that they're pyramid-shaped. It's that they trick people into thinking they'll get rich when they'll probably just lose money. (If they succeed in making money, it will probably happ
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by drngdds 9y ago
The dollar value for cryptocurrency is because they can be owned in a meaningful sense (having private keys) and people are willing to give you money if you transfer ownership to them. There's no equivalent sense of ownership for open
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by drngdds 9y ago
>why isn't open source code described as being worth a certain amount of money? The value of a cryptocurrency is just how much money people are paying for it.
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by drngdds 9y ago
I feel like preventing fraud and money laundering (incidentally, two things you can't prevent when using cryptocurrency) is actually not wasteful
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by drngdds 9y ago
If you keep going after that, it turns into Dragonforce
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by drngdds 9y ago
I feel like there's a simpler explanation that's still not 'good intentions': 1. Lots of people are using adblockers to block all ads, including Google's, and they don't like that. 2. People mostly install adbl
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by drngdds 9y ago
They basically do this, but they also take into account things like the book's condition and whether the content is relevant and valuable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeding_(library)
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by drngdds 9y ago
How incredibly convenient for them that their choice to use underpowered batteries leads to a situation functionally identical to planned obsolencense having a valid technical justification.
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by drngdds 9y ago
I agree with this. "Echo chambers" (i.e., communities with the kind of people and content I like to interact with) are great as long as you know when you're in one.
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by drngdds 9y ago
>I have no idea why someone would want to watch a performance from behind a screen. Sometimes people like to film or take pictures of things that are really cool to remember them by or show their friends
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by drngdds 9y ago
Look at these lucky people who can afford to just not do an interview because they dislike the process
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by drngdds 9y ago
Where can I read the actual report?
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by drngdds 9y ago
This is good for some other reasons too: - There are some good Switch exclusives that are worth playing even non-portably - Eventually, this will probably let us play Switch games in higher resolutions with better textures, post-processing,
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by drngdds 9y ago
That's an hour long video, can you summarize its arguments?
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by drngdds 9y ago
No, not necessarily. It probably won't. Crypto in general continues to be pretty bad as currency, particularly because of security issues (your 'best' options for storage are a physical wallet or a sketchy and/or uninsur
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by drngdds 9y ago
Criminalizing speech isn't inherently fascist. It's not really new, either. Most liberal democracies have anti-hate-speech laws and they've never lead to anything resembling fascism. (Besides, banning libel and true threats i
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by drngdds 9y ago
So if I'm understanding this right, you can get permanently banned from all of these games ( http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=8 ) just for having a certain username? That's crazy, no matter what
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by drngdds 9y ago
>"fuck everyone" trying to speak people into drug-free alternatives. It's actually really annoying being told that you don't need drugs to fix your condition when, based on your own experience, you really do
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by drngdds 9y ago
What he's saying is that Adderall boosts anyone's ability to concentrate. The dose you take boosts your concentration levels from "really low" to "normal." It would boost a non-ADHD person's concentration
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Ironically, the only thing that came up when I googled Lyra Communications was a digital marketing agency with the same name. That's unlucky.
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>I already did it for bcash but it took about a week to download the forked blockchain Explain? I just imported my private keys (for Bitcoins I got before the fork) from Electrum to the Bitcoin Cash version of Electrum. Is there somethin

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