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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> I'm learning stuff from it: There's an Indian epic that's 10 times as long as ... From a cursory websearch: > At about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the O
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> I thought it would discuss replacing GIFs with small and well-compressed videos but nope, it's mostly about what youngsters find cringe and what other people deem art. The first <50% of the article (7 paragraphs) was devoted to
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
The free ToSDR browser extension might be what you’re looking for: https://tosdr.org/
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
The people charging both your car and your wallet. Fuel isn't free, why wouldn't chargers become a vehicle^ for investment? ^ not intended but I'll leave that in there
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I agree with what you're saying, and I think you've said more accurately and with more detail, what I was trying to convey. Edit: One thing to add... Google's history of 'solving highly technical problems' has real
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I agree with both those takes.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Larry and Sergei This may be part of the problem. Google was founded by algorithm nerds, and that's now part of the DNA of the company. Apple (Tesla/Starlink/etc) was founded upon vision - what could the future look li
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> problems with very high demand for a solution that weren't yet tackled well Emphasis added. It took putting the right money and the right minds towards doing it well. There aren't a lot of SaaS ideas that scale to close t
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> When you own a whole ecosystem Google virtually own Android, and yet they haven't innovated or taken the initiative in a way that Apple has. A distinction can be drawn with Apple here, as they've opened new markets by making
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> As a gamer, I think Stadia failed because the system they created doesn't make sense. Google, Facebook, etc. are victims of early success. They made their billions on low hanging fruit, by throwing a lot of resources at problems
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
If you believe you could realistically affect change in this arena, and this is the most effective use of your resources to do so, you ought to.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
This isn't the plant-based meat or regular meat products that you would get off the shelf: > Meat and plant-based meat analogue diets were prepared as follows: Firstly, all visible fat and connective tissue were removed. Pork or bee
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I was maybe being a little facetious. The moral question isn't important as much as how it will play out in practice. i.e., it will be available to the highest bidders, at first, and from then on, the best life extension will be ava
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Good luck with executing on your plan. May it reap all the benefits we need to shift us away from climate catastrophe.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I'll concede that the square footage seems an extravagance, and it ought not to be a thing, but once again, this is probably table stakes to rub shoulders with people who have power to change things. You don't invite investors
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Are you advocating accelerationism for The Purge?
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Telepresence (at least by today's standard) is not the same as being there, and being literally present with decision makers. Overhearing conversations, hallway encounters, inspecting physical infrastructure, having individual agency
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
You have to think of the counterfactual. If 1x emissions are required for, say, government advocacy, that reduces emissions by 100x, you would lose 99x of emissions reductions by avoiding the advocacy. It’s not hypocrisy so much as pragmati
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Nothing precluded the book being sold intact. That was at the moral discretion of the seller.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
If you’ve watched They Live, you know this is the opposite
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
OP article makes a compelling argument that there's an untapped market for faster-than-shipping and cheaper-than-air freight: > The new airships can carry heavier loads farther and cheaper than helicopters can, with lower emissions
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> but forgoing the front end for a graphic design tool might prove difficult How so? Offline support? Collaborative tools don't really have a good offline story by nature. Ping times? If you use fly.io you're going to have gr
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Cattle (and crop production for cattle feed) in Brazil is decimating the Amazon
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> React does not allow us to build a new Figma (consistent undo/redo in collaborative settings, immediate low-latency mutation of app state to reflect user changes and building fundamentals to SaaS interoperability) If I wanted to w
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Seeing what's happened with Figma, I think it's important to have at least one other major player. There's always a market for an alternative to <dominant player>, and they are more suited to smaller companies looking
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> While AAC and OGG codecs are very similar on paper, the way they compress music is very different as AAC uses psychoacoustics to encode music which retains more audible parts of the track. It’s about this point in the article where I l
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Wouldn't most if not almost all of the homeless just remain what they are and the new housing would be used by new people moving into the city? There's truth to that as the new stock would only go to those that could afford t
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Do you believe there’d be no legal ramifications if they stopped moderation all together? Civil lawsuits? Class actions?
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
No large social platform will spend a dime more on moderation than they are compelled to by law.
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The loneliest trees: can science save these threatened species from extinction?(nature.com)
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