joe-collins

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by joe-collins 4y ago
Whatever technical merit the rest of the rant may have had, screaming that long lines killed puppies certainly burned a lot of provisional credibility.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I could see it being a neat illustration in a high school classroom.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I appreciate the existence of referendum. California allows for initiated constitutional amendments to pass with only a simply majority, and those amendments can appear on the ballot after gathering a relatively small number of signatures.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Which is a subject worth considering , because it's a more specific claim. At a cursory search, it seems that evidence for notable effect from flavonoids is mixed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoflavone https:
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by joe-collins 4y ago
> It turns out the answer may depend on whether your priorities lie with your personal health or the health of the planet. This article never addresses the environmental claims beyond this introduction. It focuses entirely on the human h
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by joe-collins 4y ago
And then there's Uber et al. . . .
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Does anyone know of a means of accomplishing this without access to the account? A friend passed away last year, and I would love to archive those memories.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Right? "Worst" nothing, I felt Sir Terry's ghost while reading that.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
This analysis is now a decade old, but as of 2013, the claims that Lego was increasingly expensive just didn't pan out. Sets were getting larger, and there were more sets, but average price per set, and the cost per-brick and by mass,
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by joe-collins 4y ago
And on a total tangent, this fact played a part in worldbuilding done by the author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. > When I initially decided to write The Magic of Recluce in the late 1980s, I'd been writing science fiction exclusively... I
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I read ADITS, and then only got partway through AFUTD before getting distracted. You have me curious enough to consider a second attempt at reading through the latter. My parting impression of ADITS was just deep disgust and sadness about t
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by joe-collins 4y ago
> Some of you might assume that, as the author of books like "Singularity Sky" and "Accelerando", I attribute this to an impending technological singularity, to our development of self-improving artificial intelligenc
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Worth noting the author's warning on TMoPI: "This online novel contains strong language and extreme depictions of acts of sex and violence." This is very much not a routine notice, and it runs the gamut from elder abuse to se
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by joe-collins 4y ago
In kindness and for future reference, the word you're looking for is spelled "ulterior".
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by joe-collins 4y ago
> It may sit for a month or 6 waiting for a buyer. Gotta love that oh-so-efficient market.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
They've changed it recently, to "reduce friction". https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equi...
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by joe-collins 4y ago
As another comment said, this dam has been producing power on the scale of a single modern wind turbine. Its power generation is barely worth mentioning.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
You have an apt username, at least.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
A knife is just a sharp edge with good marketing. You can't remove sharp edges from the universe. No such guarantee exists for technology of this sophistication.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/elon-musk-would-... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1524881263470993435
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I don't feel like I do much either, but I loathe advertising, so I do run a (to me) modest suite of defenses. I run uBlock Origin, set to default block all third-party content, and DuckDuckGo's extension in Firefox. I have the Tor
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Solaria can be very good. There's a song, Dawn by Circus-P, that I've used on a few occasions to startle people with its apparent authenticity. It exhibits an unnatural range, but there are only a couple of moments (unfortunately,
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Bestiary, not bestiality.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Well, looking at a few of the top instances, we once again have proof that the Internet is, in fact, for porn.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
That's... a perspective I hadn't considered before, and now I hate it even more.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
See also: the stereotypical pizza party.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
That sounds rather similar to superdeterminism.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
The Vons near my work had contained a Panda Express, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo. When it converted to Haggen, it lost the first two. When Haggen closed, the building was partitioned and the Wells Fargo remained open in the front corner for
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I think that's backwards. The AI doesn't "forget", it never even knew what novelty is in the first place.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
You're quite right! If only so much of the viable, desirable land wasn't already occupied.

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