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by hammock 1y ago
It is 1000% being done by smart TVs. They listen even when you are not using the voice remote. And the data is used to target ads (anywhere)
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by hammock 1y ago
For better or worse, we didn’t have to make such hard choices for the first 80 years of aviation. And Greyhound etc require photo ID these days as well
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by hammock 1y ago
The TSA photos are worse. They use a stereoscopic camera to take a 3d image of your head, which makes facial recognition up to 10x more accurate. You can opt out, just say you do (and preferably cover the camera with your hat or bag)
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by hammock 1y ago
The article omits a real, serious source of microphone data though: your smart TV. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my TV (a Toshiba Fire TV, although I’m sure many do it) is listening to every conversation I have within earshot, even
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by hammock 1y ago
Second this. I have learned so much from this guy over the last five years. He is an expert at reading between the lines of studies In addition to his sub stack, his Twitter is great and very accessible
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by hammock 1y ago
Bell curve meme Neanderthal: "I know I'm a great designer but no one understands me" Midwit: "If I tweet enough I'll get well known and become great" Monk: "I know I'm a great designer but no one unde
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by hammock 1y ago
When he was initially appointed by the same guy, yeah kind of. Unless you can spin a good story about how you thought Trump was good but changed for the worse (which is a tough story to make believable right now, and will also burn all your
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by hammock 1y ago
This is a good summary of psyops currently in use by all sides of US and foreign governments and private interests against the American people, and applies to all forms of media, not just Twitter.
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by hammock 1y ago
>I think we are in a situation where none of the above is happening What leads you to believe the guy hasn't fought? He literally said "I have done all I can." Do you want him to create so much conflict that he is forced t
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by hammock 1y ago
NSF director is a political appointee, as such serves the will of the President. We don't need those people "fighting," we need to elect the people we want to make the right appointments.
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by hammock 2y ago
I clicked expecting to see AI's concepts of what a car could look like in 1908 / today
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by hammock 2y ago
Effort is usually quoted as a minimum ("It takes 20 minutes to drive there" "It costs $100 to buy this") which leads to a strange quirk that the negative is then interpreted as being a lower minimum, rather than a higher
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by hammock 2y ago
Submit a credit card chargeback. They cannot charge you for a service not rendered
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by hammock 2y ago
Multiply by .37 to get PERCENTILE change, not percent. If you were average happiness, and you improve that by 1 stdev, you are now happier than 87% of your peers (when you were at 50%ile before). 0.6 stdev improvement would be vs 72% of you
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by hammock 2y ago
Very cool, have drones not also already been used to scout and get closer, more up to date beta on routes?
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by hammock 2y ago
You ought to visit Iceland. Knowing that the entire island went from 30-40% woodland to being basically 100% deforested in a span of 100 years (the first 100 years following the Vikings arrival), and with the bare ground being fields of bar
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by hammock 2y ago
Learning how to light my home office/ zoom background really made me pay 10000x more attention to lighting design in movies.
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by hammock 2y ago
I agree with you. I can't stand any of these modern superhero movies because they are all hyper digital / green screen. For all I know they might have amazing acting and storylines etc, but I'll never know because they are ba
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by hammock 2y ago
> We’ve gone through rounds of working out if the leafy vegetables absorb the heavy metals or if it’s mostly in the dust and last I read we’re back to the latter. It depends. For leafy vegetables it makes sense that dust > soil. Howev
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by hammock 2y ago
Lomi doesn't really "compost" your scraps, it dehydrates and grinds them. The actual compost activity happens (on an accelerated timeline, due to the pre-processing) in the soil you amend with your Lomi "compost." I
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by hammock 2y ago
I get it though, it’s crazy that I know so many people who now say “I don’t like old movies” or “I don’t want to watch this movie, it looks old” when what they see and are really saying without realizing it is , it was shot on film. It’s es
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by hammock 2y ago
When did “cozy” become such a buzzy word? How did that start? That one snuck up on me
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by hammock 2y ago
No and it misses a lot like chancery court
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by hammock 2y ago
You got it right
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by hammock 2y ago
Idk what is worse, that or benzene and dioxins
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by hammock 2y ago
And crucially, there are leaked emails, other evidence that demonstrate (at the very least historical and occasional) corruption of this dual- (multi?) agency arrangement. Among the allegations: The Google ad exchange favored its own platfo
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by hammock 2y ago
If we weren't on HN, I might be inclined to agree
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by hammock 2y ago
Not always but it's a start
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by hammock 2y ago
>AFAIK, there's no way to filter heavy metals out products, unfortunately. For food, you can use lead-free soil in clean-air areas to grow practically lead-free food/feed. You can't well filter it out of the finished produ
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by hammock 2y ago
Most people are more moronic than one might think

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