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by gregw2 2y ago
This deception in labeling and artist-anonymizing and hiding the existence of this PFC program is the antithesis of fulfilling their core value propositions, foremost to the consumer which is exposing them to music they do or would like and
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by gregw2 2y ago
Its the deception. They dont call it "Spotify Easy Listening" and have a store brand the consumer can easily identify, the same song has 50 names and 50 artists, and its in Spotify's financial interest to keep doing that.
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by gregw2 2y ago
I've had this... The Longhorn Steakhouse "kids menu" steak (not cheap) given to my kids was actually inedible.
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by gregw2 2y ago
You are right about supermarkets charging for shelf space in various ways, and to add to that I think it's even worse. I've heard the supermarkets and other retailer dub certain brands for certain products as "category leader
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by gregw2 2y ago
Fair point. I could/should have been clearer on that.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Any support for data sharing or querying (s3+)iceberg on the roadmap?
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by gregw2 2y ago
Maybe Kurzweil's brain research predictions are coming along...
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Scientists learning to 'write' skills to human brain noninvasively, like Matrix(interestingengineering.com)
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by gregw2 2y ago
I tease non-Texans that Texan English is actually superior to normal American English because it supports second-person plural via "Y'all" exactly as mentioned in this article... "you guys" is, to some ears, sexist,
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by gregw2 2y ago
OK, I have to ask... so practically speaking, could someone use AI to create a dozen new TinTin books based on the old ones and/or background historical tidbits knowledge?
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by gregw2 2y ago
Did Giuliani actually step up after 9/11, or did he just read Churchill bedside (as was reported at the time) and imitated what he didn't have? I used to give him the benefit of the doubt on the above question, but based on the la
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by gregw2 2y ago
I think mental health is more stressful nowdays because people have fewer in-person hangout friends outside of jobs+school. So when they lose a job, there is less of a social network to process it with. Just my speculation tho.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Fair point. Another option is that the FBI knows more about the nature of the drones (size, lights, other identifiers, etc) either via visual identification or other sensors (classified, at related military installations nearby) sufficientl
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by gregw2 2y ago
I was wondering this too and poked around. Just 8 colors. And since a 16-dot pattern has 17 colors there were 17² ordered dithered colors, ie 4,913 possible pseudo-colors. They had 8 primary colors (Black, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan Magenta Yel
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by gregw2 2y ago
Interesting! Around the same time, mention of such a dragon fly-shaped/sized drone device came out in a kid's fictional book I read at the time: Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy. It actually envisioned the social and military implicatio
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by gregw2 2y ago
The locals are right to be pissed. But the logic seems a bit flawed... when you spend 2.1 billion in funding and then write it off on taxes, you are not saving 2.1 billion, you are saving YourTaxRate% of 2.1 billion, right? The environment
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by gregw2 2y ago
"How can anyone know these aren't a threat without knowing whose they are?" Easy. They didn't say they don't know whose they are. They could belong to a private contractor who is paid by the military but the militar
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by gregw2 2y ago
Fair point. There is no substitute for keeping your eyes open.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Pardon me another story. In the early 2000s, I wrote software for a startup where the founders and initial equity-holders had pledged 10% of the founding stock to a certain charity. This was part of the marketing approach for the company-
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by gregw2 2y ago
"God does not play dice with the universe" said Einstein. But he hasn't met my Dungeon Master...
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by gregw2 2y ago
or "internet OS with bundled hardware"
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by gregw2 2y ago
FYI, there was a semi-related discussion on architectures and bit widths on HN a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41773559
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by gregw2 2y ago
Interesting. It was private for me too. But I clicked to read the full list of the 474 4-star reviews and scrolled and found it. From there I found a direct link to his review which still works (as of a few hours after his name leaked) a
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by gregw2 2y ago
Other links: https://github.com/lnmangione https://x.com/pepmangione - more of a reposter than a commenter, for example * reposts link on mental health titled "Seasonality of brain function: role in ps
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by gregw2 2y ago
The key wording in the title and throughout the article is "day to day" testosterone associations. If you understand what they are implying and not implying by that, the paper makes sense, but it is very poorly written in its omis
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by gregw2 2y ago
yes related tidbits: * UHC only acquired CHANGE 2-3 years ago hoping for AI gold. data is sometimes nuclear waste, eh? * unconfirmed by me if CHANGE was UHC vendor prior to acquision but seems likely * Biden DOJ blocked the acquisition sin
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by gregw2 2y ago
The timing is interesting, this happened within 48 hours of the largest US Healthcare CEO being assasinated, the same firm the hacker got a 22 million ransomware payment from when he hacked their subsidiary CHANGE containing 100+million Ame
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by gregw2 2y ago
UnitedHealthcare knows about HIPPA but somehow this past year or so leaked (through one of their business partners iirc?) the Social Security Numbers PII of 100+ million Americans, an act which while perhaps inevitable can never be undone,
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by gregw2 2y ago
Its remarkably non-obvious from the online catalog book cover picture, but the Frankfurt book is among the smallest and shortest I have ever read. Note the book dimensions and page count. You will find it a quick read. It'd be interest
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by gregw2 2y ago
One of my impressions as a Scala newbie coming from a perl background years ago was that Scala practitioners' culture in a corporate setting tended to end up with code bases that reminded me of corporate perl code bases - suffering fro

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