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by jchook 7y ago
Lyrebird has had similar technology for a few years now. https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai
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by jchook 7y ago
80% to 90% of Google’s revenue derives from collecting your personal information, and you think that buying a wristband that tracks the biometrics of 25 million people is “just for the sake of it”?
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by jchook 7y ago
When I watched a goofy layman’s explanation[1] about the double slit, it stressed the importance of the effects of observation on the behavior or nature of the electrons. When observed to see “which” slit the light passed through, they no l
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by jchook 7y ago
Reminds me of a quote... "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
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by jchook 7y ago
> In supporting browsers (just Firefox at the time of writing), the single keyword values we know and love will map to new two-keyword values Really neat how FireFox seems to push the web standards forward here, in a world where Google s
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by jchook 7y ago
The Chinese government sure has given the Hong Kong protesters a lot of free press (no pun intended)
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by jchook 7y ago
Quite simple really. The government is a terrorist crime syndicate that happens to own the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence and no one should give them access to their personal lives, lest they be locked in a cage or treated with
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by jchook 7y ago
Voom
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by jchook 7y ago
One for each gradient descent.
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by jchook 7y ago
If I understand correctly, ecoforestry, biochar, reducing carbon emissions 50% each year, renewable energy sources, “green sand” beaches, etc together still don’t revert the damage already done in time to prevent a major ecological crisis.
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by jchook 7y ago
Probably normal symmetrical key encryption with some kind of companion software. I think the physical key has the same blade shape on either side. The companion software would decrypt the ciphertext but prevent exporting the cleartext, forc
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by jchook 7y ago
In which languages does ?: not work that way? For example in PHP, it works exactly like you describe.
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by jchook 7y ago
In JavaScript you can simply use the logical or operator x || y
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by jchook 7y ago
Another example that comes to mind.. headphone companies purposefully/artificially downgrading their sound quality on lower end models with cheap foam or something, while still using the same exact hardware as the higher end model.
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by jchook 7y ago
> they overcharge users for functionality that’s widely available in free or low-cost apps. The first thing I thought of here was YouTube charging me to play music with my phone locked in my pocket.
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by jchook 7y ago
David Brin’s (sci-fi) version sits in your mouth and detects minute muscle movements to determine which words you are thinking of saying.
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by jchook 7y ago
Another one: https://tosdr.org/
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by jchook 7y ago
I have seen many OSS projects that enforce exactly this. One example that comes to mind, HighCharts.js — free until you make any money. https://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts/
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by jchook 7y ago
Tim Ferris has an entire chapter on this in The Four Hour Work Week.
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by jchook 7y ago
> Oh, and by the way, would some JSON.parse statements for performance be the worst thing in your codebase(s) you guess? One thing I have seen from managers who don’t work regularly in the codebase — they tend to over-focus on things lik
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by jchook 7y ago
“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” Old military saying that I repeat often because I have relearned so many times that shortcuts cause more work (read: problems and rigidity) in the long run. Choose one: get it done right, or get it done
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by jchook 7y ago
On the contrary I think it basically serves the same purpose as the Ken Burns effect, except it tastefully incorporates the natural depth of the image. One might even argue Ken Burns would have paired the panning and zooming with this paral
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by jchook 7y ago
He mentions that “deterministic” means “discrete” or dichotomized, presumably opposed to probabilistic or “real” values. I found it funny he spends the entire article eliciting a dichotomy between thinking “deterministically” (dichotomized)
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by jchook 7y ago
> given non-negative integers k and n with k <= n, generate a list of k distinct random numbers, each less than n. > We reasonably ask that this be done in O(k) time and O(1) additional space. Finally, the distribution must be unif
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by jchook 7y ago
I wonder if e-residency in Estonia would help you
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by jchook 7y ago
Not if you care about the government getting some of it
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by jchook 7y ago
“Build homes for people, not cars” gets me very excited, but I think this article asks us to add a couple more conscious variables — “build environmentally symbiotic and financially sustainable homes for people, not cars”.
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by jchook 7y ago
Also they promised to open source Pocket in 2017, but seem to have zero intention of doing it. Instead, they prioritize controversial integration into the browser itself.
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by jchook 7y ago
Perhaps we all should have gone the route of Iceland in 2009 — let all the banks fail, endure ferocious poverty for 5 or so years, but in that time cultivate a rich humanity that results in: - peacefully firing the entire government - crowd
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by jchook 7y ago
I had to learn the hard way

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