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by jkic47 3y ago
You are correct that there were more demands than the one I referred to. The point I was making was that Ukraine sadly appears to be devastated by this war and is arguably worse off today by the choice they made to engage instead of finding
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by jkic47 3y ago
It kind of depends, doesn't it? The authors have (allegedly, and according to you) committed a GPL violation. The "sins" of the country they live in have nothing to do with the situation. Reverse engineering closed-source sof
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by jkic47 3y ago
Simple. While not all activities depicted in porn are damaging to all people, some activities can be damaging some people. Doesn't have to be black or white. Make sense?
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by jkic47 3y ago
There is no point arguing with people unwilling to engage because their minds are made up...
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by jkic47 3y ago
"Allowed people to experiment..." So, they experimented by trying new things, correct? Which, by definition, is a change (i.e., a distortion) in their sexual behavior. If you try to read the "distortion" as being a non-j
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by jkic47 3y ago
Ukraine lost the minute they refused to take Putin's early offer to eschew NATO membership. No power is going to tolerate a hostile actor on their doorstep - Russia won't with Ukraine, China won't with Taiwan, and the US didn
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by jkic47 3y ago
The free availability of online pornography has distorted sexual behaviors, with some women feeling pressured to indulge in activities they see on screens to "compete". If AI porn can "learn" and create increasingly tail
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by jkic47 3y ago
I tried this out and it helped me (a non-programmer) calculate the driving distance from several towns to locations we are considering relocating our office to. I, for one, was impressed
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by jkic47 3y ago
I think that's an oversimplification of the argument being made. For people early in their careers, face time on site can be invaluable. They get to learn from people who get things done, and emulate them (or not). On-site, they learn
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by jkic47 3y ago
I agree that my examples are about parody and commentary, and I apologize that my intent wasn't clear. I was trying to convey that a derivative work made by studying the original (Mondrian / Biden / Trump speech) should be OK
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by jkic47 3y ago
Take a minute to extend your argument, and it will fall apart: SNL is "screwing" Trump/Biden because their jokes wouldn't exist without Trump/Biden. Movie critics are "screwing" actors, because the review
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by jkic47 3y ago
Do you think so? I can see the AI being trained with crowdsourced input like "does picture A look more like a Mondrian than picture B".
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by jkic47 3y ago
great graphic. if you zoom out over all time, the curves seem fairly similar
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by jkic47 3y ago
In my experience, even the poorest of the poor get vaccinated and have at least some access to modern medicine in government hospitals. People who work as "servants" have cheap cell phones, TVs, and some commute to work on cycles
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by jkic47 3y ago
ugh. just ugh! what a biased article! The IITs are hard to get into and the sad fact is that no matter how high they raise their standards, there will be more than enough candidates who exceed those standards. In what is fairly close to a p
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by jkic47 3y ago
most people don't have unique skills that provide bargaining power. they can leave, of course, but there will likely be scores of people with the same skillets. They don't get to opt-out because the value they provideto the employ
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by jkic47 3y ago
surely being 80x faster than humans is less relevant than how it performs relative to herbicides? Spraying crops is likely faster and cheaper than using lasers, but externalities are not being factored into the cost.
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by jkic47 3y ago
I did the same and rediscovered rss feeds. no more sifting through low-effort comments and the thoughts of people who may not be qualified to have an opinion on something but respond anyway. much happier
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by jkic47 3y ago
Not the OP, but I suspect they meant that the immigrants will likely be young, and start families in Canada, adding to the population. Over time, this will likely change the demographics of the country "replacing" the "origin
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by jkic47 3y ago
I moved to Canada from the US for 5 years. TBF it was in a big city, but I had the novel experience of having a physician "follow" me. if I missed an blood test, they called. if they saw something suspicious, they made a decision
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by jkic47 4y ago
I for one, use the 30 or so minutes on a single-lane highway to prepare for or decompress from work. Driving can be mindless because I avoid multi-lane highways and I get home in a good place mentally. I had, like lots of people, a 0-minute
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by jkic47 4y ago
Spot on. Every time some new technology arises, the doomsayers raise the alarm. When the problem becomes imminent, society / technology generally finds a way to address most of the downsides
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by jkic47 4y ago
A friend adopted an objectively ugly old dog from the pound. He'd spent most of his life in a cage, being passed up time after time. When I asked her why she picked him, she said "it is easy to love the pretty ones". The dog
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by jkic47 4y ago
I've used this editor for years and am always amazed at how such high-quality tools can be developed by people with a passion to create something useful. Don, thanks so much for this body of work.
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by jkic47 4y ago
Really impressive pictures. might I suggest thr option to purchase them at different price points?
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by jkic47 4y ago
about 10 years ago the EPA had a mandate to reduce use by 95% before 2011(?) and eliminate it by 2025(?). I may have the dates slightly wrong. went through the process on tens of thousands of SKUs. so far so good. The reason I am conflicted
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by jkic47 4y ago
it is interesting to draw a parallel to the government's recent response to covid vaccine exports. Balancing the local need with the world's need is a tough line to walk.
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by jkic47 5y ago
My company (med devices) is asking everyone to come back to work full time. Attrition is expected and hiring has been ramped up pre-emptivly to compensate. I suspect flex roles will eventually find their market price at reduced compensation
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by jkic47 5y ago
I actually found it fairly intuitive to use for an admittedly simple use-case, but I agree with you on CQ-editor being sub-optimal. The docs could have provided an example of displaying / saving assemblies to popular image formats
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by jkic47 5y ago
Being able to try it without signup is such an underrated feature. Thank you for that!

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