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by excalibur 6mo ago
Mafia Don shaking everyone down for their lunch money as usual. We used to be better than this.
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by excalibur 7mo ago
> Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home. We're not going to space. We're filling our own orbit with ever-increasing quantities of space junk and
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by excalibur 7mo ago
Well done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.
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by excalibur 7mo ago
You must be fun at parties.
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by excalibur 7mo ago
When you're walking around with your finger over your face all day, you should extend your thumb as well, so everyone can tell you're a Legend.
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by excalibur 7mo ago
Let's send them thousands of tiny violins.
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by excalibur 7mo ago
> Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals. Hey, I find that type of lingo nauseating, and
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by excalibur 7mo ago
The robots featured in the embedded promotional video appear to be mostly useless. This is the opposite of impressive.
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by excalibur 8mo ago
Poorly reasoned. Offers assertions with nothing to back them up, because "that's not what we designed it to do". Yudkowsky & Soares tore all of these arguments to shreds last year.
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by excalibur 8mo ago
If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that? https://ww
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by excalibur 8mo ago
I think the smart money is still on nuclear war, but the competition is getting fierce these days.
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by excalibur 8mo ago
I don't know what changes have been made more recently, but I know there was a definite change to the Twitter algorithm a few months ago that filled the feeds of conservatives with posts from liberals and vice versa. It seemed to be sp
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by excalibur 8mo ago
Copyright law has always been excessively restrictive, and is long overdue for reform. The informal practices that people have been following (i.e. free creation and distribution but no monetization and no confusion with official releases)
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by excalibur 10mo ago
Surprised that nobody else commented on this, it is a very sad tree.
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by excalibur 10mo ago
The bit about the gmai.com mailserver is disturbing. One would imagine there are many other typo squatters with a similar setup.
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by excalibur 10mo ago
> Also is “doubling down” the new “deep dive”? Similar, but I think it might actually be dumber. When you take a deep dive you're jumping headfirst into things you don't understand, with the outcome largely unknown to you. When
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by excalibur 10mo ago
That's a good point. Private Equity is a fairly broad umbrella term that encompasses a variety of investment strategies and business models. The type of Private Equity that most here are referring to is the type that buys up existing b
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by excalibur 10mo ago
The unsafe and extremist content is coming from INSIDE the Kremlin.
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by excalibur 10mo ago
Always amazed to see people who don't hate AI.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
We're gonna need a source on that one.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
> I don't understand that. 98% of devices over 15 years old have either died of old age or are completely obsolete. Something can be said about unlocking deprecated devices, but it would only ever be used by a tiny percentage of peo
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by excalibur 11mo ago
It's not enough to not use Apple products. You either have to convince everyone around you to not use them either, or you have to have compatability.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
It's detectors all the way down.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
We can't let Canada beat us. We need to step up our disease spreading game. I propose we look into the feasibility of developing reverse vaccines to overfit the immune system to specific measles variants that it's unlikely to enco
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by excalibur 11mo ago
Copper is expensive. If I were looking for a plastic alternative, I would follow the beaten path and start with aluminum.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
When I see a text screenshot in Teams, it's typically a snippet of a conversation in a different Teams chat.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
The article's mission was to summarize the most important and most interesting information in the video so I don't have to spend an hour and 45 minutes watching it. Since it failed to do so, it has no purpose.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
(2020)
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by excalibur 11mo ago
Ty to everyone who pointed this out. I have a feeling I've googled it several times, and then promptly forgot. Maybe it will stick this time.
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by excalibur 11mo ago
> It’s fair to say that few of us now marvel at moving walkways, those standard infrastructural elements of such utilitarian spaces as airport terminals, subway stations, and big-box stores. You've gotta be referring to escalators h

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