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by jacknews 2y ago
These calculations read like an episode of Silicon Valley. Sure the banners are a stupid idea and a little annoying, but these figures have no merit. There's no way 500m hours of productivity are going to materialize from removing the
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That is my point, the system is broken and political.
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Indeed 'dictatorial power' was not quite what I meant - I did not mean that Trump or Biden demanded a certain outcome for example, I mean that the system prosecutes these kinds of cases seemingly quite unfairly, as with Assange,
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You cannot quantify it. IMHO emotional damage is not a thing, at least in terms of people merely saying things about you. Have you not heard 'sticks and stones...'? If someone claims false facts about you, and is credible, and tha
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oh f off. 'being radicalized' is not damage. That argument fully supports the assertion that this is a government/systemic effort. show some actual, material damage.
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This look like the same argument the record companies use for piracy. Oh "we would have made 10 billion if everyone downloading illegally would have paid." Except of course most people wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't
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I'm very much not a fan of Q-anon and related subcultures, but the sandy-hook award of $1.5 billion is obviously ridiculous, and is clearly just a government/institutional exercise in dictatorial/systemic power. There is no
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AI isn't the problem (yet, at least), the people controlling the AI are the problem. I'm not sure what tricks were used to get this response, probably some kind of RAG hack, but I'm sure it comes from other humans.
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Where is he saying that? He says "seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform." I'm saying you can actually use some of those edutainment 'learn X in 10 minutes' type things, if you actually pract
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I don't think there's anything wrong with edutainment videos themselves, but you only really learn by doing, so they should facilitate that. For example, my kids watch 'how to draw' videos on youtube, but they pause them
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100-mile high club consequences?
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"cacocracy" upvoted for this alone.
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I'm not so sure. The democrats keep throwing up these lame/hated candidates (Harris this time, Clinton in 2016) whom they appear to assume will prevail, because, Trump. And so faced with a choice of bad vs bad, the result ends up
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Indeed a percentage of the population have low empathy, and some none at all. The later we label sociopaths.
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Are there not charities that go around collecting leftover restaurant food that's still edible?
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Tempting fate with these names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus%3A_The_Forbin_Project
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"Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice. " ridiculous. "turn the volume down!" might not work too well for example. And are we expected to say "high beam", "low beam", "i
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by jacknews 2y ago
From a national security perspective, and with the recent Israeli exploding pager development, I think a move away from Chinese batteries, forced or not, is a good thing.
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Just use an elevator platform, or even a belt? What is the unique experience you hope to achieve?
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But typing without having to think about typing, is. It's the same as with driving. You can either drive very deliberately and consciously, where your whole focus is the road, or you can 'switch to automatic' where you'r
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by jacknews 2y ago
Why does this article include a link to a scam site, paidonlinewritingjobs .com (from reviews, it seems to be an e-course you have to pay for, and the 'jobs' are just links to job boards). Is the article even real, or just a funne
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"(room-temp. superconductivity) would deliver nearly unlimited energy, turbocharge compute speeds, and introduce new and better ways to use computers and other electronics." How so? It would save a few percent in transmission loss
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"producing as many of the components as possible in-house and integrating them." So the complete opposite of modularity and repairability, and therefore, sustainability. When anything on the e-axle breaks, you'll likely have
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This seems ideal for e-bikes?
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IMHO this is entirely miss-measurement or miss-characterization. Probably if you look at dollar gains of stocks, land prices, etc you'll find Americans leading, but look at the actual lives of average people, and they are not so much b
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"This makes it all the more important that we have legislation to force them to make proprietary parts available for riders to buy themselves" Of course this should be the case, but even then I'm not sure it would help, as th
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"business is about compounding unfair advantages" clipped into my book of quotes
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I'm sure microwave is not always the most efficient way to cook, even for the things it actually can cook. Pressure cooking seems way better for many cases. But anyway, I think we're about to enter an age of abundant sustainable e
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I hit the 'BUY' button while thinking 'how much is this worth, or would people be willing to pay' and settled on about $60-80. I'm obviously a cheapskate. Sure, some people will buy it even it was $2000, but I think
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"The wave of investment is minting a new class of millionaires across the country, one that small-business owners say is helping add more shine to working with a tool belt." How naive. PE does not enter a market in order to make e

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