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by ebg13 6y ago
> It's my understanding that relatively few people live out in the boondocks. Is that an incorrect understanding? The majority of Americans live in suburbs. The majority of counties are rural. https://www.pewsocialtrend
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by ebg13 6y ago
I think you're misinterpreting both the numbers and the argument and then taking away a backwards conclusion from that misinterpretation. > If you look at municipal budgets infrastructure is usually around 10%. The article says ex
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The best dumb TV is a monitor Can you find a monitor as large as a good TV for a reasonable price?
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by ebg13 6y ago
You're bringing up very real issues that I think really have nothing to do with whether we decide to measure, report, and learn more about cardiac anomalies or not. I agree that we should be careful about how we report and apply inform
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by ebg13 6y ago
And there are actual real deaths from undertreatment. You don't have any reported reason to believe that anyone is dying because of their Apple watch reports.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> But most people don't ask these questions. And so it really is a measurement problem Putting the burden of asking these questions on the patient is wrong because patients don't go through a decade of training to become pati
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Do you go to your doctor for an annual checkup? Doctors will rarely subject anyone to thorough evaluation for things if they aren't over the common danger age and don't report specific symptoms. Your typical annual checkup
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by ebg13 6y ago
> how many of those people get invasive treatments for things which would not have actually become problems? That's really the doctor's issue to address, not the device's. Sticking your head in the sand isn't the ri
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by ebg13 6y ago
This article is best read in reverse. The last line says: > I expect deep fake programs to become good enough to fool FakeCatcher in a few months. Yes. If you can test for it, they can too. Anyone who claims otherwise is selling bridge
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by ebg13 6y ago
This site constantly reloads itself several times per second on my iphone. Is that normal?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Not in battery saver mode it isn't.
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's endless like an Ouroboros.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I think the best part is that every message back from support is from yet another new person. That tells me that nobody owns problems. And if nobody owns problems, nobody cares about fixing them.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Ah. It looks there are supports that I didn't see in some of the animations, but it still looks like the feet do contact the ground.
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by ebg13 6y ago
This looks like it will fuck up your floors very quickly. The feet are basically daggers and they slide around while the chair is transforming.
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by ebg13 6y ago
YARA sounds a lot like a typical antivirus definitions file? Is the difference that it's not a proprietary format? So then YAYA is like a non-proprietary basic virus scanner?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I very much favor the platforms that allow...participants to make up their own mind That's a pleasant idea, but it blatantly ignores the fact proven time and again throughout all of recorded history that all people are easily ma
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I don't live in fantasy land, somebody has to pay for it. Well, I hear that the air force has so much extra money sitting around that they are working on yet another fighter jet. Maybe we could dig in the military industrial cou
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Every nuclear power plant in the United States has been a money pit Let's pretend that this is unequivocally true. Sometimes doing things for public health and safety costs money. It seems like the main question we should ask is
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Somehow considering or even listening to a different idea has become viewed as weakness and something to be avoided. Important distinction: This is not about weakness and avoiding harm to the self. It's about caring for and prev
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by ebg13 6y ago
HTML is not known for providing print-ready layouts. This is just a different way of viewing documents that are designed to be print-ready. Whether they choose to implement the output of the conversion in HTML or some other method isn'
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by ebg13 6y ago
> For device-dependent rendering, we have HTML. It does not sound like the goal is device-dependent rendering, though. This is exactly parallel to Reader Mode, which is a temporary user toggle. The goal of PDF is still to produce docum
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by ebg13 6y ago
You may as well be saying that there are better options for producing readable text than HTML, because that's what Reader Mode is for. Yes, but entirely irrelevant. Reader Mode is for the reader to use, not for the writer to use. Liqui
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by ebg13 6y ago
Agreed. It seems that a lot of people aren't getting past the title, so now there are a bunch of misguided comments peppered all over the thread about needing to use AI to read PDFs, which is definitely not what the announcement is say
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Christ, we need AI and ML to read a static document now The article doesn't say that. This is like Reader Mode in your browser. It presents the same content in a different way based on an understanding of the document structure.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Given that, shouldn't we trust corporations less rather than more. Why are we pushing for corps to make decisions about what we are allowed to see and hear? I'm going to loop back to your previous comment and address a prob
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by ebg13 6y ago
> If a tragically large numbers of people are really unable to consider two sides of an issue it implies that democracy itself is not viable Your use of "viable" here is imprecise. Democracy isn't doing the right thing o
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's possible, but history's repeated proof that behavioral modification by repetition works (we call it brainwashing in more extreme contexts) and that fan worship is real suggests that yours is not a meaningfully valuable rebutt
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by ebg13 6y ago
Except that the higher up you get with your needs, regular person needs, where instead of constructing universes from subatomic particles you place pre-fab buildings, the less ambiguity matters. If I want, say, a window that adheres to the
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by ebg13 6y ago
I find that Dijkstra's essays often rub me the wrong way. He readily admits that high-level programming languages are a huge improvement over machine code, and then says (I'm paraphrasing) "BUT YOU MUST NOT TRY TO GO FURTHER&

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