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by ethbr1 1mo ago
There are ways of more cleverly nudging testosterone (and estrogen) production without directly supplementing. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5009465/
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Well that's just like your opinion, man.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Do you really want to gamble against steganography and one-time pads with a system that understands bitwise noise at a native level?
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Never has "old man yells at cloud" been so literally appropriate. https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/old-man-yells-at-cl... (Don't get me wrong, I agree with the guy on many, many points. But
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Agreed. Anyone advocating for heavy AI use in primary and secondary school education obviously doesn't remember their own motivations at that age. I never cheated, but it's far too high a bar to expect adolescents to be able to re
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
It is a key point... if splits are encouraged and made easier (and I agree it'd be healthier for the market if the largest companies did), then liability needs to be handled carefully. One doesn't want to create a 'snake shed
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
I'm not sure about the last two, but Amazon nails the first two in spades. Bezos made it abundantly clear the company was about efficiency and scale... and fuck anything else (employees included).
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
What are your five largest threats to functioning democracy in the US right now? Because I question any list that doesn't include a substantial chunk of voters being ignorant on concerns of critical importance to the country. And if th
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Once circular funding scales, VCs become the Fed.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
There's always going to be 'the actual Internet' accessible by kids, as in non-corporate, non-walled gardens social forums. Chans, IRC, etc. What this effectively does is disadvantage large corporate social media companies to
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Functioning democracy seems pretty important, and a healthy shared reality and news is a key component of that. Social media, as currently implemented, directly harms that.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
This is why blunt legislation is needed. The existing parental control features are deliberately mis-designed, because there's a lot of money at stake and Meta / Google aren't stupid. Does anyone really think they didn't
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
He was chosen as CEO in 2011. There's a bit of power difference between SVP for worldwide operations (read: component supply and international manufacturing) and CEO.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Apple of Jobs' era also realized their price premium came from a combination of 'their devices worked for most users' and 'cool' -- Cook inherited an Apple that was already a behemoth, and completely ignored (or nev
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business I did tech consulting early in my career, so got to see a large number of companies as I was working for them. Some
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> As games were pressured to be bigger and prettier and use 3D graphics, suddenly the lack of managerial experience (partly) caused the later games to spin out of control This generalizes to the industry, not just Origin. Corporate gam
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> Also, the Navy is using Ospreys to resupply submarines at sea because they have the range and helicopters don't. Afaik, modern submarines handle terribly on the surface, so I imagine direct ship-to-ship UNREP is rare. Also, too
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
The relevant phrase is underway replenishment (aka UNREP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underway_replenishment It's been the basis for at-sea supply of long-endurance ships since ~1910 when refueling oil became a
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Hard to turn off when one's professional job/value is 'worry about things and find ways to efficiently minimize risk'
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Let's be honest, the number of people who are doing that << the amount of OpenClaw-preinstalled hardware that's being sold alone
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
I'd assume anything empowered to read+send email from my personal accounts and read+modify my calendars to be security critical.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
OpenClaw is designed for people who are okay with "Don't worry about it" being an acceptable answer to "How does this work?" Which is why it's so big with the PM/PO-turned-vibe-coder crowd.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> Security is not the only reason someone might want to use Graphene I was thinking about this and am curious if the Graphene team are specifically treating 'more secure than stock Android' as a non-negotiable for the purpose
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> People want high speed internet, good food, professional security and not having to put up their own tent. That's daycare for adults, not an experience.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> fun/artsy people create fun environments, fun environments attract others who genuinely appreciate fun/artsy but are professionals themselves, professionals attract other professionals but shallower with more money. This. T
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
The fundamental issue here is the same one that led inevitably to Google's corruption: profit motive. Flock's customers are data consumers. Flock has every financial incentive to knowingly over-represent the reliability of their p
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
It's not the question of if objective physical green pigment is objective physical green pigment, but rather if what I see when I look at it is what you see (and not in the color blind sense, assuming neither of us are).
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Because the easiest way to boost profitability is to ignore laws and user rights via technologically constructed workarounds.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
A fascinating thing about dreams I realized as a midlife adult after getting into ML is how coupled brain storage : dreaming is. Example: If you appreciate a good sunset, have you ever had a dream about just a sunset? With the full color ex
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
At the end of the day, it's the "Is your green my green?" question and is unknowable. You cannot describe something that someone lacks or has a substantially different subjective experience with, truly. The best we can do is

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