imwithstoopid

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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
bzzzt look at concealed carry reciprocity, there is no precedent in the US for laws in one state to impact another, and in fact this is a cornerstone of Federalism
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I grew up in a town near Toronto and when I visit my parents I am shocked that I hear the N-word used in public...too many Americans think Canada is Berkeley but nation-sized and as you mention...Americans seem to have no conception that Ca
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
well the first obvious issue is...you need to be able to obtain some kind of immigration status wherever you want to move, so you can't just pick a fantasy destination and hop on a plane you could also just relocate in the US...figure
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
This stereotype is partly due to the efforts of the US advertising industry which worked with the military to rehabilitate Japan's image after WW2, given that the US intended to turn a bitter enemy into an ally. American ad man transfo
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
this is just a hipster affectation for a few elite kids in drama club...they just pull them out alongside their Bauhaus vinyl, walkmans, ironic parachute pants etc to look cool but they probably own iPhones too don't think for a minute
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> governments should step in and institute a moratorium HOW??? what does this even mean? does Kamala Harris get to put a camera in my house to make sure I don't watch Khan Academy videos on neural nets? half this list just reads of
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
ask Elon if he will stop working on FSD for the same period not all AI is LLMs take a deep breath folks, GPT does not have the launch codes
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
and then Jobs released a teal-colored computer so maybe no taste isn't as bad as awful taste
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
right, I doubt this guy is worried about COBRA coverage
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
heh yeah its probably time for something like the "HN Hall Of Fame" where this stuff gets enshrined, and from that time forward scrubbed from the top page
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
More like: " stop and wait for us to catch up! " Is Elon stopping work on FSD? On computer vision for his robot? Thought not. And does anyone really care what Woz has to say?
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Yes, you must deal with async It's not that big of a deal though Axum is popular but feels too low level to me, but some nice porcelain APIs might eventually be put on top of it
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Or Go, whose guiding principle seems to be "Pretty OK"
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> Internet-connectivity-related features Potential for remote shutoff is not a feature
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
the way I'm approaching it: I don't need to walk the walk, but I should be able to talk the talk (i.e., understand on some level what is happening even if I couldn't recreate it)
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> Newsflash: it's 2023. We still drive. ...but self-driving is still making incredible progress lots of techies seem stuck in a mindset of " it doesn't work today, so it never will! "
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
the people working on this stuff have been at it for decades, and they have very specialized education even prior to that why do you think you would comprehend it all in a few weeks? hats off to the folks at OpenAI etc...they made a lifetim
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
why shouldn't they be? a large part of their worldview is based on self-loathing they're taught systemic, structural racism, systemic, structural economic injustice, systemic, structural environmental injustice etc etc etc b
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
absolutely terrible what these internet trolls did but this is also why no one in their right mind makes a public declaration of a family tragedy on a service like Twitter
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
you probably aren't the target the target is uneducated (in the financial sense) consumers who are enticed into making purchases they might otherwise not make (and probably shouldn't make) Apple probably wants to get at the consum
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/HH_LS@GDD/CAN/GBR/US... USA is bad but not the worst, this is a global plague
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I hate this entire industry...Klarna, Affirm...now Apple BNPL sad that Apple has had to resort to "financializing" their own customer base
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
well sure, if you raise rates high enough, you can pretty much shut down economic activity but most people don't want to starve to fight climate change
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
within 72 hours of this tech being rolled out, we'll see "lifehacks" on the web showing how you can spray deodorant or air freshener in enough quantity to confuse the sensor which will lead to air freshener requiring a specia
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
FBI does indeed track unsolved homicides, as does your local PD
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
well to be pedantic, "classical" isn't even a style, its a time-period if you want to be nitpicky, this app should be called Apple Symphonic most of the symphonic music I prefer (late 19th century) would be considered from th
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
well good news...you can actually listen to pretty much "all" of symphonic music! yeah there is new stuff, but when we speak of "classical music", we're really talking about long-dead people Dvorak isn't going
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
the FBI has a very thorough crime database, I am sure you can make a public request afaik school shootings are a tiny fraction of youth gun homicides similarly, "assault rifles" represent a tiny fraction of all gun homicides
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
let's take a closer look at the declining "values": - Religion: we still act with religious devotion, but now it is directed towards consumer brands, not a supernatural entity - Hard Work: the US pretty much exists at this po
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Okay 1680

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