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by hirundo 4y ago
Presumably they know when they are streaming for a given account. They could simply say an account can be used for a single stream, and decline to start a second concurrent stream for the same account. Include download playbacks as a form o
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists." Echoes of Lights All Askew in the Heavens: Men of Science More or less Agog ... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The bill first states that “[t]he spread of misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has weakened public confidence and placed lives at serious risk,” The goal of this bill is to increase public confidence by censoring
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Tesla’s biggest modern edge: the Supercharger network(roadandtrack.com)
8 points by hirundo 4y ago|3 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
> So I needed an insurance policy. This is the root of it. Those who wish for greater state control of speech feel that their perspective is ascendant to the point that their own core values are protected, and they can do without the exp
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by hirundo 4y ago
The OP didn't disparage them, because they're referring not to the skills of those employees but to the economic case for hiring them. He's disparaging the analytical skills of the people who hired them. Given the difficulty
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by hirundo 4y ago
"I can't believe anyone could take that idea seriously, here's link about people that take it seriously."
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by hirundo 4y ago
What's the objection to that? Who should play aliens?
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Economics professor bets AI won't ace his exams by 2029(betonit.substack.com)
1 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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Psychological Trauma Can Have a Positive Side(psychologytoday.com)
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by hirundo 4y ago
If you can't afford a dishwasher, you're rich.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Or 1815, on the theory that Waterloo was a cusp that ended the Napoleonic wars, and freed enormous resources for infrastructure ... like rolling out the steam technology that was in vibrant development by Waterloo.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm on book 7, thanks for the spoiler. Should I stop now? Skip the next five books?
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by hirundo 4y ago
A large fraction of Canadians lives where it's legal and practical to grow chickens. Rabbits are even easier.
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF11072.pdf obscenity incitement defamation fraud fighting words true threats speech integral to criminal conduct child pornography I don't agree with all of
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by hirundo 4y ago
> In accepting the case, the Supreme Court has agreed to answer the question: Does Section 23 exempt interactive computer services from liability “if they specifically draw attention to information made available by another information c
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by hirundo 4y ago
I just made up a couple of pegboard-mounted tool kits, which turns out to be unreasonable satisfying. I think that satisfaction is in the knolling. A pegboard is naturally knolled by virtue of the orientation of gravity and space constraint
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by hirundo 4y ago
Find a middle ground, e.g. offer a three-year license. I don't want another klingon creeping onto my credit card, and you don't want to make a commitment for the lifetime of your business. So pick a duration in-between that allows
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by hirundo 4y ago
Funny that yard work didn't make the list, it works for me. A decade and a half ago I bought a rural multi-acre densely wooded lot. In the last few years I've made a habit out of going out to tame it daily with chainsaws, wheelbar
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by hirundo 4y ago
"But being spectacularly wrong with the approval of a community of experts is much worse than being spectacularly wrong as a lone kook, because it means that the whole field of people we’ve entrusted to serve as experts on a topic some
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by hirundo 4y ago
Telling people what they want to hear is not a novel way to collect cash or votes. It would be bizzarro if there were people who wanted to hear it but nobody willing to tell it to them.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Mr. Channon, is there anything you can say at this point about the allegations in the indictment? Are they whole-cloth fabrications, misreadings of the law, accurate, something else? Is there a victim here besides yourself?
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Meetings are how humans share state. We've just found better ways to share state, like emails and chat apps. They don't require synchronous attendance, they allow more space for thought and correction, and they are naturally
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Maybe, there is a reluctance to accept that changes in lifestyle as opposed to pharmacological treatment can alter biological mechanisms. My doctor told me that he doesn't recommend lifestyle changes for, e.g. diabetes, because pa
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Home Insulation Makes Little Difference to Energy Consumption(theguardian.com)
2 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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The value of our survival is entirely subjective. But if you value it up to the point of Earth's destruction, why would you stop valuing it afterwards?
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by hirundo 4y ago
There is no goal our species can undertake that is more important than getting some of our eggs the heck out of this way too fragile basket of a planet. Learning to survive on Mars is one of the most practical ways to approach that goal. Ma
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by hirundo 4y ago
The story anthropomorphizes death as a dragon (dracomorphizes?). I'm pointing out that it is doing so to an essential mechanism of biological evolution. That gives evolution a moral valence, per the story. In general, it should be clea
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by hirundo 4y ago
Without death and scarcity we could never have evolved. That fierce and terrible dragon is mother to us all. Before killing mom we should figure out what she's good for. Like hugely accelerating biological adaptation. Do you think that
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by hirundo 4y ago
And the DCMA was filed against ... one of their own best sales videos, an enthusiastic tutorial on the software by someone enjoying it. And with whom they had an explicit sponsorship deal. And they did this as a response to a very calm and

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