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by imgabe 2y ago
Do you think the ruling class wanted Trump elected?
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by imgabe 2y ago
The UN isn't going to build you a house or grow you any food or really do anything. It doesn't matter what they say. I can write lots of pretty words about how everyone should have a pony and never be sad when I'm not respons
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by imgabe 2y ago
You talk about them as a "threat to democracy" in hopes some homicidal lunatic will take it to heart.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> What people actually want does not impact the way in which our government functions, despite popular belief. The US just elected a president despite a years-long coordinated media and legal effort to make him disappear, along with mult
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by imgabe 2y ago
See this is why people need to get married. If I have no idea what to do, my wife will surely think of something.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about both evolution and markets, which is that either one "optimizes" something. Neither needs to create a perfect outcome. An organism doesn't have to be the best, most effici
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by imgabe 2y ago
The short-throw projectors only need to be a maximum of 12" from the wall. That's for the largest size, so if it's 12" away you get a 120" screen. You can move it closer for a smaller screen. This should work with m
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by imgabe 2y ago
Get a projector. I have a Phillips short-throw projector. It has no OS beyond settings. It can have up to a 10' screen. Works great with Apple TV.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Yes, the ads infiltrating Windows, for example. Linux and Mac seem to be holding the line for now.
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And having cheaper economy means it is accessible to more travelers. For some reason people think you can just force companies to offer things at a loss. Requiring all these things you want as mandatory in economy doesn't mean that p
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by imgabe 2y ago
Writers love the em-dash though. It's a thing.
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by imgabe 2y ago
How can the banners be necessary because of “naughty things” when the banners do absolutely nothing to mitigate those things in any way? All those things are still happening AND people have to waste time clicking useless banners.
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by imgabe 2y ago
From what I know of UK and Australia, I'm pretty sure you have parents who would do Jell-O shots at 10am too.
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by imgabe 2y ago
There are many bad things that can happen to you that you don't choose voluntarily.
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Why is it always about banning things? Just make the self-driving experience good and most people will choose it voluntarily. No need to ban things. Almost everyone would rather take a nap or read a book than sit in traffic or stare at the
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by imgabe 2y ago
The power differential between the US and the rest of North and South America pretty much guarantees that nothing like WWI could happen. Europe had hundreds of years of plundering the rest of the world. WWI happened because Germany wanted a
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by imgabe 2y ago
American social networks are already banned in China and have been for a long time. Even TikTok doesn't operate in China because they have a different message they want for their own citizens. Douyin - the Chinese version of Tiktok - p
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by imgabe 2y ago
Elon has literally paid billions of dollars in taxes. Yes, he "avoids" taxes by using every legal strategy available to him, as does every single person who pays taxes. This is called "paying the correct amount of taxes you l
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by imgabe 2y ago
A billionaire American lives in America and generally benefits if America benefits. A foreign country is not aligned to America’s interests and may be outright hostile to them.
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by imgabe 2y ago
It is not about the data. It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see, and their ability to shape public opinion through that. Like imagine if China owned CNN and the New York Times and
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by imgabe 2y ago
The only reason there are US military bases in your countries is because TWICE you idiots started wars that almost destroyed the world.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Yes, a nice boring decline into global irrelevance. Sorry, but being leader of the free world does not allow much room for boredom.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Do you notice how nobody in America cares who the leaders in Europe are? Because it doesn’t matter. Which should tell you that you guys are bad at picking leaders.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Is there any benefit to fine-tuning a model on your corpus before using it to generate embeddings? Would that improve the quality of the matches?
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by imgabe 2y ago
This reminds me of the Monkey Selfie[1] dispute. A photographer set up a camera in a forest and a monkey came by and activated it and took a picture. The resulting picture became famous and PETA tied up the photographer in court for years t
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by imgabe 2y ago
> If the goal is to have a system where everyone can have passive income, then achieving that goal is the end of the world. Not if we build robots to make things.
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by imgabe 2y ago
You carry around the key to your father?
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I got this fancy key holder that the keys slot into and they fold out like a pocket knife. It optimizes for my metric which is the keys take up less space and don’t poke me in my pocket.
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I thought Godfather III was a good ending that made an important point about how hard it is to escape a cycle of violence once it’s begun. I think a lot of the hate is from people who thought the point of the movies was “gangsters are cool”
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Is there anything particularly different about mainframes compared to working on a server besides it probably being a different operating system? I assume it has a command line and you ssh into it somehow (or something similar)? Or are they

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