inthepipe

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by inthepipe 4y ago
Having no knowledge of this conspiracy theory, my guess would be that Ghislaine Maxwell is Israeli and harbored there after Epstein’s arrest.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
If that construction was part of a broader concentration of capital in the top 0.1% of society that was then deploying that capital to buy up as much real estate as possible, then yes.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Monkeys don't even have paws.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
I’m really surprised you’d need 600 million to run this company. Like why not start with one farm in the tens of millions of dollars range and run that profitably first? VCs would save a lot of money.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
The issue is that you often want to work around bugs in a browser. For instance, Safari technically supports a lot of features, but very often there are slight inconsistencies with other browsers. Would Safari’s capability be something like
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by inthepipe 4y ago
> When you need to support a claim, it can be tempting to support it with a statement from an authority figure. But if done improperly, this could be a logical fallacy—the appeal to authority fallacy. The key words are: “if done imprope
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Just curious: Imagine two people took the 1Password white paper and created two separate implementations. The only information you have on the two implementations is the background of the people who implemented them. One is a first year CS
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by inthepipe 4y ago
I’m not conflating anything. You’re saying the inflammation is beneficial, but what you’re describing is really a “lesser of two evils” situation, e.g. it’s better to have inflammation than it is to bleed out from a wound. But the best thin
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Proof definitely matters. But at this point, as ChatGPT, AlphaZero, and others demonstrate, NNs can solve any problem provided you can express the problem as a differentiable function and get enough training data to train the function. We m
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by inthepipe 4y ago
> I think what's interesting is that many types of creativity may really just be re-synthesizing "stuff we already know." This is obviously true, and yet we've invented so many things. From the wheel, to control of fi
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Books just seem like such a bad thing to counterfeit. There is a super long tail of products, they weigh a lot and are expensive to ship, and aren’t expensive or high margin to begin with.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Tissue damage, infection, foreign matter, etc are all bad. Inflation might help, but I think you’d need to show it’d be helpful without the presence of some worse thing to truly call it beneficial.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Interestingly, many of those studies are about the beneficial anti-arthritic impact of consuming Solanum nigrum. That kind of contradicts the “avoid nightshade” advice.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Maybe if you want the latest release of a popular author. In my experience, book inventories held by bookstores have decreased dramatically, which fits with the “carrying a curated selection” narrative. If I want anything released more than
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Gas heaters also have around 90% efficiency, I think. It seems like gas is strictly better?
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by inthepipe 4y ago
What about a wood burning stove? That would be more reliable if you are truly off the grid.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
It has occurred. See Real Page, which is currently being sued by the government.
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by inthepipe 4y ago
I was laid off four months ago. I haven’t started my job search in earnest yet, so maybe my opinion will change, but being laid off has been amazing for me. Here are my thoughts: 1) You should not be broke if you’ve worked a few years as a
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by inthepipe 4y ago
Is there really a player other than Nvidia? AMD has <20% market share. Nvidia doesn’t really have a competitor for standalone cards, especially in GPGPU.