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by floxy 9mo ago
>I know it’s unlikely That sounds like something a guesser would say. I'm only going to ask for something I'm already likely to get (going back to the original MetaFilter thread).
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by floxy 9mo ago
Asking for too much can damage relationships? Asking to have Greenland for one recent example.
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by floxy 9mo ago
From the other replies in the thread, it seems like there is a contingent of people who believe that if someone doesn't take the first "no" as a final "no" then they are no-true-asker, and instead is just an asshole
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by floxy 9mo ago
I'm going out on a limb and say that pretty much all human cultures are guess cultures. What if every woman was sexually propositioned thousands of times per day? Maybe I should ask every person I ever see if they'll give me $
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by floxy 9mo ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trial
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by floxy 9mo ago
Massive UBI trial hidden in plain sight is also know as social security in the U.S.. It definitely helps out the poorer. And it hasn't resulted in a bloom of over-60 artisans, poets, musicians, novelists, etc., and the other rosy pre
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by floxy 9mo ago
I'm beginning to wonder if typos, missing words, and other grammatical error in titles is an accidental thing, or if someone has discovered that it gets more "engagement".
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by floxy 9mo ago
or not: "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox": https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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by floxy 9mo ago
So you can continue to work with MS Office, etc. on your at-work machine, maintained by the IT department.
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by floxy 9mo ago
Here is where is is being discussed on HN as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682806 ...I fear that AI generated echo-chambers are going to be one hell of an addiction.
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by floxy 9mo ago
Saving on gas money is nice, but EVs are just generally nicer vehicles. Smoother, better acceleration. No screwing around with oil changes or filling up with gas. Etc.
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by floxy 9mo ago
Is that really saying much? Anyone have the shape of the distribution? I'm thinking many people have negative or close to zero net worth. If you have a dollar to your name, you might be richer than the bottom 48% of humanity combine
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by floxy 9mo ago
top 1%. So 52e12 / (0.01 * 340e6). I'm betting the mean and median are quite different.
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by floxy 9mo ago
I guess we are supposed to pile on, so I'll add that the author should read "The Art of Prolog" (Sterling & Shapiro) and then "The Craft of Prolog" (O'Keefe).
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by floxy 9mo ago
> staring at me open-eyed They were probably just envious you were rocking a Kershaw Iridium Dessert Warrior. Which also comes in at under $100. And the Iridium family are pretty nice knives. https://www.bladehq.com/ite
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by floxy 9mo ago
Project Farm on Youtube for the best reviews of items like tire inflators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbQ8eEBn68
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by floxy 9mo ago
Is the C++ language enshittified? Can you use the "numbers must go up" argument to explain it? Of course you can say the committee has to add new features to justify its existence. But that just seems like a superficial explana
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by floxy 9mo ago
Seems to me like the Chevy Silverado with the 200 kWh battery pack is the EV pickup to beat.
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by floxy 9mo ago
Do we need to come up with more internet protocols/services that don't require a negotiation process? So that it would work better with very high latency sneaker-net flash-drive networks? Especially for the already asynchronous
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by floxy 10mo ago
>They're only able to predictably respond to their training data. A blackout scenario is not in the training data. Is there anyway to read more about this? I'm skeptical that there aren't any human coded traffic laws in th
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by floxy 10mo ago
>either people complain that they go slow and are too careful, or they will video and complain about every small traffic infringement that they make. Is there a name for this (and related) effects? Obviously, in a group of several hundr
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by floxy 10mo ago
How often are you replacing washing machines? As we had more kids, we upgraded our toaster from a 2-slice to a 4-slice, somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 years ago. Can't imagine we paid more than ~$20 for it. Still going strong t
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by floxy 10mo ago
How often are you replacing toasters?
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by floxy 10mo ago
Boarding pass. For the airline apps, it probably is a good assumption that most people want to get a notification that their flight is delayed, or started boarding, etc..
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by floxy 10mo ago
1,307,674,368,000
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by floxy 10mo ago
I'm wondering if there is some sort of steganographic watermark that broadcasters are including in media, to enable stuff like this. Probably would need to be robust in the presence of re-encoding, more compression, etc..
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by floxy 10mo ago
Octal 02026 = AD 1046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1046
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by floxy 10mo ago
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_060886.p...
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by floxy 10mo ago
I guess time will tell, but I think most cities in the U.S. have areas that are affluent / on the "right side of the tracks" where robots could traverse unmolested, and then other lawless no-go areas for robots.
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by floxy 10mo ago
How far out are we from bi-pedal delivery robots? It wouldn't need to have AGI, just enough senses to keep from falling over, avoiding pedestrians and traversing minor obstacles. Or maybe a quadruped Boston Dyanmics robot?

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