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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Coral reefs are amazing things to behold. There all sorts of animals that defy your imagination, including fish of all shapes and sizes, there's coral everywhere, and EVERYTHING is alive. And if you don't want to go to the trouble
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Cthulu took a mooc! Run for your life!
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"Simply put, at this pace, there soon won't be enough data storage and compute material to go by. Which is why people have been looking into alternative storage media for data for a while now." If this is true, then why is cl
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>> I think Netflix will become the next Apple in India. They gotta think like an Indian company and not as an American company! Whats the difference between thinking like an Indian company vs an American company? You got me curious. &
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Wow, that shot of Jupiter looks amazing. I had no idea that it was feasible/practical to make graphics/games in Python. Is it becoming a thing to develop games in Python, or is it mostly just hobbyists?
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>>The world is the way it is now because humans are the only source of intelligent signal processing. That’s the only reason why humans enjoy the limited rights and privileges that they do. That’s the only reason why life has gotten b
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I'm curious as to why you think AGI will have an inherently bad effect on society. Personally, I have a hard time believing any technology is inherently good or bad. On the other hand, if a society's institutions are weak, it&#x27
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Maybe I haven't been here long enough to see the worst of it, but even with the political stuff I usually find the discussion is fairly nuanced and nowhere near as angry as the rest of the internet. But if there's another forum t
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It is true that not all therapists are good. Not all doctors or lawyers or engineers are good, for that matter. I will say that people are complicated, and as a person dealing with people it can help to have another person who understands a
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>>You are what you consume - People, music, news, etc. Real life > HN > tech news > political news >= crazy uncles on antisocial media
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Rather than giving up, maybe you should see a therapist. This sounds like a problem that would be up their alley. A good one might be able to help you deal with the things that are holding you back. It might not work but it beats not trying
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>> with most changes such as removal of the rating system being universally criticized Being a dinosaur, I remember when Netflix would let users write reviews for shows/movies they'd seen. Does anybody know why they disconti
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What's the case for building these kinds of systems in 2019? I would love to hear your perceptive on this. If I were to play devil's advocate to this article, (and this isn't necessarily my perspective) I would say that FB&#x
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Ready or not, here comes the future...
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Funny the occupants didn't mind it was bent. I guess those things must have been really expensive to rebuild. :P
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I bet Pac Man will be preserved for posterity. It has that a simplicity and a timeless quality to it.
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FB is banned in China but outside of China I definitely could imagine a fierce competition between FB and a Chinese tech conglomerate over payments. I think the challenge for FB will be govts. China is investing huge money in developing cou
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Why not both? Besides, the lions share of FB's current revenue still comes from US Ad spending. Amazon's dominance of e-commerce threatens this because people who want to buy something increasingly just go to Amazon.com. Amazon&#x
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If Libra takes off, FB's AIs will not only know you and your friends talking about the flu, they will also know if that conversation ends with somebody purchasing more Purell. They might even boost the visibility of your conversation s
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Isn't this currency play just a way for Facebook to get more data? Data about social interactions and how they influence purchase decisions would be very marketable, especially to e-commerce businesses that want to take on Amazon. It&#
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What I love about stack overflow is that when you have a technical decision to make you can get a really thorough understanding of all of the pros and cons. And if people are arguing over which solution is better, its even more valuable, be
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Does anyone have a system they would recommend for organizing physical notes that backs them up in the cloud? I take a lot of notes the old fashioned way because I find it helps my retention, but they can pile up fast when I'm particul
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And what are these 'basic rules' exactly? Asking for a friend...
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True. I would guess that mechanization and cheap building materials displaced craftspeople in the marketplace. I wonder if there's also a cultural explanation as to why movements like brutalism caught on. Even 50 years ago buildings in
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Whatever happened to architecture that is actually good? Boy, if any of the builders from ancient times were around to see some of the monstrosities we've created.
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Sure. I wish I had the time to really vet her work. I will say that in my book a deranged dictator running a insane scheme to try to scare Americans is still FAR more plausible than real extra-terrestrials visiting earth. Or perhaps there w
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You might be interested in Annie Jacobsen's interview on the JRE. She argued that the 'flying saucers' were actually just an elaborate Soviet attempt at psychological warfare. I have no idea if it's true or not but it&#x
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Have you ever been to any of the 'evening talks'? What are they on? Are they interesting?
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What's the market for Python devs like these days? I know there is a lot of interest in the language from people coming from other fields, but I realize that doesn't necessarily mean there are enough qualified people to meet deman
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Are the locals leaving or are these rental properties? I know there are a lot of places in the world where the wealthy will buy property and then only go there for vacations.

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