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by gfaster 4y ago
Japanese companies are also stereotypically drowning in bureaucracy and have strict adherence to hierarchy. Maybe it was a manager that got annoyed and had an underling do it?
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by gfaster 4y ago
Yes? Of course? I don't think there is a solid argument against HN being social media either. Same goes with Discord, Telegram, and Signal. They are all media that you interact with and also interact with others via. The distinction is
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by gfaster 4y ago
I believe it is probably "merely" unethical, as I'm sure that was stated somewhere in the fine print. However, I personally don't believe the distinction matters to the kinds of discussion we're seeing in this threa
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by gfaster 4y ago
cheap is not a license to lie. I don't understand why people are defending this, if these companies weren't lying about what they're selling then nobody would be complaining. "1gbps for 250TB" or whatever it is simp
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by gfaster 4y ago
To give some adjacent channels: - Adam Something ( https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething ) - urban planning and eviscerations of transportation grifts with a leftist bent - Oh The Urbanity! ( https://www.yout
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by gfaster 4y ago
> roads already exist The implication in this is that railroads don't already exist, which is simply false. In fact, nearly every town in the Midwest established before 1950 were built on a railroad line. A few notable examples are
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by gfaster 4y ago
Worth noting that up to a point, removing obstructions makes roads more dangerous. When the street is a complex environment with many obstructions, trees, and/or points of conflict, people drive slow because it feels dangerous to go fa
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by gfaster 4y ago
imo it's more crazy that people thought of tracking users by using a font in the first place. The level of human ingenuity that has gone into spying on people is staggering.
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by gfaster 4y ago
Ignoring the folly of the automobile being the only way to travel, and that independent mobility is all but dead in the United States, you are not the target of regulations like this. The target is needlessly large vehicles that do little b
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by gfaster 4y ago
The conflict here is that while bigger vehicles are often safer for the occupants, they are way more dangerous for anyone not inside a vehicle that big, especially pedestrians. Namely, if you get hit by a larger vehicle, you're less li
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by gfaster 4y ago
On the flip side, I find that opening links in isolated sessions very valuable, if not just because I don't want links sent by others to affect the Algorithm's perception of me. 80% of the time, I want to be a blank slate when int
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by gfaster 4y ago
Anyone who knows or is learning another language can easily tell you that the "warping" methodology of MTL is insufficient. There was a really good video by Tom Scott [1] that talked about this but the short version is that there
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by gfaster 4y ago
I can't imagine with the added scrutiny the internet has gotten since then, especially from foreign governments, that NIST will be able to get away with anything like that again. But then again I may be completely ignorant as to the sc
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by gfaster 4y ago
or even better spend next to nothing and just ban cars in cities and save billions of miles travelled while revitalizing our urban cores
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by gfaster 4y ago
The pessimism here is because there is no real money to be made in carbon capture without significant and expensive policy change. Put simply, carbon capture is a public good, which will require significant public expense even in the most o
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by gfaster 4y ago
But then who does the copyright belong to? Does it belong to every artist who's input was used for training? Was it the user who set up the conditions and chose the image? Or was it OpenAI who developed the model? Given the court rulin
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by gfaster 4y ago
It doesn't? What am I missing from the article then? I think it says pretty clearly that human artistry is a necessary component of a copyrightable work.
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by gfaster 4y ago
Wasn't there a decision in the US that said AI generated artwork has no copyright? Something along the lines of it has to be made by a human? https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/21/22944335/us-copyright-
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by gfaster 4y ago
Another way to make resources more abundant that sounds less like the start of a 1960s dystopian novel is simply using resources more efficiently. So much of society in western nations and especially the US is seemingly optimized to be as w
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by gfaster 4y ago
> I'm firmly of the opinion that the negatives of group study out weight the positives and generally should be banned in college That's a... strong opinion. I'm genuinely at a loss of how you can think that. If studying in
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by gfaster 4y ago
Try the new Rebel Galaxy game. It does blue collar space game quite well, even if it didn't end up being my cup of tea
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by gfaster 4y ago
Yup, and the law applies to vehicles built after 1985. Also the law isn't new, the only thing new introduced here is automated enforcement
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by gfaster 4y ago
From how I see it, if your bike is loud enough that it is in violation of noise ordinances then you should take it to a shop and mod it if you expect to be driving around other people. Also, if I had to guess, the reasoning for the limit fo
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by gfaster 4y ago
I'm really happy to see governments finally waking up to the problems caused by noise pollution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise ). Another thing that I have maintained for quite some time i
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by gfaster 4y ago
I know Paris is doing something similar as well, which is definitely in line with their recent efforts to cut back on cars in the city
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by gfaster 4y ago
I also wrote an alternative solution (not a public repo), but I found that relying on site maps and other link lists generally gave unsatisfactory results. Instead, my solution navigated as a user and actually used next chapter links. While
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by gfaster 4y ago
I got "Gas prices" which is really just as good
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by gfaster 5y ago
That can only happen when those other OSs match the level of functionality, reliability, and support that windows enjoys. I would love to switch my main OS to a Linux distro but it is still unstable enough and not supported enough that I
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by gfaster 5y ago
Sorry to reply to an old thread but I am just finishing "Planet of Slums" and one of my main takeaways is that neoliberal reforms in third-world countries are absolutely not helping (and in fact hurting) the vast majority of peopl
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by gfaster 5y ago
From what I understand what YouTube does is super super difficult to do at scale as well as they do, I do not envy their competitors. Given that, I don't believe ever hoping for an actual competitor to pop up is reasonable, instead we

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