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by istorical 5y ago
I find it absolutely painful that our recommender ML based content discovery streams like YouTube and Tiktok and Instagram don't have multiple 'hats' you can put on and take off, in the sense of saying 'hey TikTok, I&#x2
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by istorical 5y ago
Causal link or no causal link, this definitely lines up with what I've observed among people I've met. A lot of depressed and anxious folks that are vegan or vegetarian compared to the 'go to church twice a week and watch foo
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by istorical 5y ago
It seems as if you responded to someone saying "are you confident you know what components are needed and that all components have been identified?" with "one component we've identified is vitamin b12, it's possible
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by istorical 5y ago
Have things changed / improved with regards to file system related bugs and config hell that was sometimes popping up in WSL2 on Windows 10 in the recent past? Or is it a small improvement over WSL2 on Win10?
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by istorical 5y ago
Seems like you more than anyone would see that solving the types of problems FB is trying to solve eg: freedom of speech vs user safety / harm reduction is not some super simple problem, no? I wouldn't call Reddit evil despite the
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by istorical 5y ago
Zuckerberg IS facebook. He controls it. Who's to say even if the main FB app and IG app and WhatsApp apps all lost their entire userbases and revenues went to 0.05% of what they are now, that he wouldn't just run the 500 person sk
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by istorical 5y ago
I did this for a year but with countries, before ultimately deciding that for me and my given circumstances, my starting country was my choice to put down roots. But then after flying back to my home country, did a mini version of the same
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by istorical 5y ago
wish there was a modern day equivalent of medieval patronage (one rich patron you had to convince, rather than pleasing and amassing hundreds of small patrons with online astroturfing and self-aggrandizing spam marketing), I would love to
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by istorical 5y ago
The last two times you had flu with severity great enough to alert you that you had flu.
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by istorical 5y ago
this is a really interesting take that I surprisingly have never seen anywhere, thank you for sharing. would love to learn more about this perspective and body of knowledge, thought not sure where or what to google or what resources might e
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by istorical 5y ago
Yes, yes they are.
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by istorical 5y ago
Crime is not difficult. Every woman is already in danger. As is every human. Every animal. The world is dangerous. If level of danger caused by a company was proportional to punishment, then every gun or tobacco (secondhand smoke) or fossil
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by istorical 5y ago
I can't be the only person who has wanted to try bringing the wolfram physics project style hypergraph generation rules into some 3D game engine like unity or unreal but was too intimidated to start. I've done some cool stuff with
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by istorical 5y ago
That's essentially what university is. Learning and research for its own sake or for the sake of self-improvement without worrying about applications or real world value.
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by istorical 5y ago
The food pyramid used in the western world misled people to believe fruit is a necessary component of a diet. It absolutely isn't. Vegetables give you all the dietary components without the high amounts of sugar. And if you eliminate a
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by istorical 5y ago
I would say that for most meetings, the current state of VR is not worth it. So no to your question. But I would also disagree with "quite a lot of people can get quite a lot done with just audio or audio+video meetings" at least
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by istorical 5y ago
Reading these comments is like the "640k ought to be enough [memory] for anybody" quote by Bill Gates or the "Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop." Time Magazine quote. Social presence is the best killer
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by istorical 5y ago
It does if you follow rules #1 and #2.
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by istorical 5y ago
"The subway-cars can become a place to forni- and deficate for the homeless for weeks, making it unusable for citizens. But critique cannot make a dent, becaue it is guilty by association." this is the type of stuff people who don
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by istorical 5y ago
which part of northern europe? my experience was that it was cool but not particularly different in that respect
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by istorical 5y ago
If you've been programming for years and can't get an entry level job, it might be that your presentation skills / communication skills are the weak link. Might be worth doing a mock interview with a professional whose job it
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by istorical 5y ago
The long term trend in planetary sea ice still shows a decrease though, for more information on Arctic vs Antarctic ice: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-deciphering-the-rise-...
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by istorical 5y ago
People have been incredibly more ignorant in the past, it's the power brokers and influencers (wealth, media, political class, etc) that guided the unwashed masses to at least somewhat expedient futures previously, but who now seem to
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by istorical 5y ago
that's a strange takeaway to make without evidence. alternate hypotheses: remote work enabled more people to earn a high salary typically found in a large city or coastal area while moving to lower cost of living areas. also, people wh
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by istorical 5y ago
You seem to be drawing no distinction between the following two possible outcomes: 1. Slow carbon emissions now despite the incredible amount we've already added and hope that the damage we've done is not enough to completely ruin
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by istorical 5y ago
American democracy is just as capable, see Japanese internment, Guantanamo Bay, the Tuskegee experiment, warrantless wiretapping, etc.
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by istorical 5y ago
Quite frankly, that is why democracy will fail us. Most Americans will do just about anything to avoid their income falling for 10-20 years but do just about nothing to avoid the global climate from torpedoing the world's biomes, food
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by istorical 5y ago
One commonality between mouse+keyboard and smartphone is that small movements mostly in fingers and wrists are all that's needed for input. Contrast with Xbox Kinect - hype then disappeared, Nintendo Wii - hype then disappeared, and no
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by istorical 5y ago
A lot of people in these comments will likely miss a lot of the relative value in NZ as a bunker-of-last-resort: Factors: 1. Radioactive fallout patterns in a hot nuclear war between any of US, China, Russia, Europe. NZ has low target prior
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by istorical 5y ago
do you think your productivity or output or skill level increased 60% alongside the 60% raise or do you think your skill level increase / change in 'worth' was less? Or in other words once you got in, did things get way more

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