drugstorecowboy

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by drugstorecowboy 16d ago
So, I read those links and it seems to me your basis for calling Snowden a "tinfoil hat wearing high school dropout" with "high school dropout reading skills", is that he misunderstood that slide to mean that the US gov
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by drugstorecowboy 16d ago
Ok, but nothing in that leaked slide says anything about a court order or disproves much of anything about PRISM. I'm not saying you are wrong, in fact I sincerely hope you are 100% correct, but all that slide says to me is that the &q
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by drugstorecowboy 1mo ago
Thats a good point about multiplayer, I was really thinking single player only. I guess the main thrust of my point is that the reason there isn't more ML in games isn't related to performance, its that the goal of game design(sin
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by drugstorecowboy 1mo ago
In my completely unqualified and baseless opinion, I think the reason machine learning in games isn't more popular, is that ruthlessly difficult enemies that learn and adapt to the player just aren't.. fun. Level playing fields be
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by drugstorecowboy 3mo ago
To be honest with you, you haven't convinced me. Secret messages do in fact require "targets"... I would love to hear an example of a situation where someone might want to send a secret message with no "targets" in
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by drugstorecowboy 3mo ago
But.. unless your mother or the people she was sharing them with were the intended target of the secret messages how would you be a mule? Do you think terrorists were depending on you to save the memes so that later they could break into yo
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by drugstorecowboy 5mo ago
I really don't think this is the same thing. A closer analogy would be you enjoy your meal at a restaurant, and at the end the waiter tells you the chef was a robot. Why should the provenance of something make any difference at all? If
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by drugstorecowboy 5mo ago
History is filled with examples of this going very wrong, because it turns out that everyone's "observable reality" is different, filled with bias they are blind to, and people in general are very bad at differentiating betwe
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by drugstorecowboy 5mo ago
Oh absolutely, we don't need "science" and "evidence" to decide what to do, it's so much easier to use the "well I just know it" standard. Historically, that kind of thinking created a wonderful utopi
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by drugstorecowboy 5mo ago
I think in much the same way that your life has been touched by a murderer and it has influenced your opinion, if you were wrongly accused of a crime it would likewise have influence. That being said, I'm sympathetic to your point here
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by drugstorecowboy 5mo ago
Exactly, and to make sure that never happens again why not just arrest all 12 of those people until they prove their innocence? With enough constant surveillance we can be positive that no bad person ever gets away with anything. Honestly,
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by drugstorecowboy 6mo ago
This might be a little pedantic and certainly off topic, but Coke ads really aren't intended to convince you that you need one right now, they are intended to make sure they are the first drink you think of when you think of sodas. Eve
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by drugstorecowboy 7mo ago
I think you meant to say "It is incredibly less profitable to run an organization where everyone is mission driven."
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by drugstorecowboy 7mo ago
It really does only work when deployed against someone of a lower status. Just for example, if you imagine a sterotypical homeless man complaining that he felt unsafe against a sterotypical Karen, in the US there is no real chance he will b
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
This has been my experience exactly. I really like how the pharmacist who knows literally nothing about me, my diagnosis, life circumstances, family history etc... is supposed to be "the last line of defense" against all those sil
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
This expands the definition of "bullying" to include things like not inviting a co-worker to lunch with the rest of the group... while it could be a little rude, thats not bullying. Neither is a boss putting you on the spot in a z
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
> That's generally not true. Try banning <insert specific race here> and see what that gets you. I can't speak for other countries, but in the US you are free to ban any race you like from your private residence for any r
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Thank you for saying this, I work in the web space and there is just zero excuse for how poorly it works, none. I don't believe any amount of tracking or anything else would cause things to be as slow as they are. I have often thought
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Buy a can of CRC Precision Electronics Parts Cleaner Its electronics parts cleaner spray that pretty instantly and cleanly evaporates. Solved my drift problem with one use and have never had another problem.
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
As stated elsewhere, learning COBOL really isn't that hard. It's a different paradigm than you are likely used to but once that clicks you can be relatively proficient in basic COBOL in a few weeks. After getting some confidence y
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
United States Department of Agriculture? Just based on the name no you really can't assume anything nefarious. It's literally not in the name.
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
I know it's not the point you are trying to make, but whether or not marketing actually does anything isn't a settled question. When company A does marketing and company B doesn't in the same industry, it seems to have some e
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
According to Wikipedia Juul was founded in July of 2017, in December of 2018 Altria bought a 35% share valuing the Juul company at $38 billion. So A. I think they would have had some influence and B. Altria just didn't notice all this
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
I don't believe Altria was ever interested in Juul doing well. I suspect this entire incident was planned. If Juul had exploded in popularity Altria wanted to be in a position to take advantage of that but otherwise had a direct intere
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
At least in some cases, the anti-vaping ads are funded by settlements with the tobacco companies under the guise of preventing "tobacco use". Its genius on the part of the tobacco companies, managing to pay a settlement and direct
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
And what exactly would stop that from happening now? Do you really believe the only thing stopping a teacher from a rampage is the fact that its illegal for them to have a gun on campus?
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Thats an absolutely excellent point. Maybe the cost to start/stop fracking is too high AND/OR they don't think this will last long enough to justify getting started. Otherwise you are very correct yet I have seen no evidence
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Yes, which completely ignores the difference between a person who has had this situation forced on them (A teacher or school administrator) and someone who has to choose to enter it. I think it might be quite a bit easier to confront a shoo
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Isn't it implied? If you remove my ability to protect myself am I not forced to rely on the police to protect me? Unless they are arguing that gun control will solve all future violent crime I don't see how you could say this with
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by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
If you and your coworkers are solving the problem you posted "day in and day out" just hire me and you can get rid of them :) You are right though I have no evidence they are contrived other than your example problem. The unrealis

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