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by kaibee 7y ago
The relevant locker pops open and yeets your package into the neighbor's dog.
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by kaibee 7y ago
I don't really see any issues with speech-to-text when I use google assistant. The real lack is in intelligence, even for basic things. I ask Google to navigate to Wegmans. It always insists on asking me which one. Yes it cleverly
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Unfortunately I don't think I can get a dutch oven during the lockdown. ymmv and I don't know where you live, but I was able order one off Amazon and get it in about 4 days about a week ago. Just mixed up the dough for my fi
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by kaibee 7y ago
The sense I get is that its more like some unholy combination of brainfuck, vhdl, and game of life.
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by kaibee 7y ago
I think the difference is that, better schools and private tutors, are at least in theory, teaching useful skills and ultimately creating a better person at the end. Being good at the SATs doesn't have the same excuse, so its much mor
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by kaibee 7y ago
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
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by kaibee 7y ago
Now that it's 2020, I've been looking for a new year to think of as "the future". 2040 seems too obvious and maybe too far away to really imagine, what just add 20 years? Boring. I think I'll take 2032.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> So now they gets taxed twice? I don't understand this argument. I've seen it so many times among a certain crowd of people, but I still don't get it. Yes, we, mere mortal humans have to form our systems of government u
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by kaibee 7y ago
The prices of real things change in response to inflation. Inflation is only a tax on cash wealth.
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by kaibee 7y ago
Low carb is generally considered to be under 100g carbs/day. Ketosis requires under 20g carbs/day.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> A single person might be able to slip by, but anyone trying to brainwash your patrons at scale is very likely to get caught. Sure, but a slight correction here. You're implying that once they're caught, they lose. But that&
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by kaibee 7y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-ad-blockers-extens...
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by kaibee 7y ago
Yep, did the same thing. Took about two weeks to take.
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by kaibee 7y ago
The DNC provides funding to both state level parties. I can imagine that they may have had some level of influence over which contractor was picked. What's the point of becoming a party insider if you can't use that to get your
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by kaibee 7y ago
Kerbal Space Program manages it. (by moving the world around the origin)
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by kaibee 7y ago
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is probably the best example of a "community driven" open-source game. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Does advertising cause people to spend more than they would otherwise, or not? Yes, it does, though not as much as they wish they could spend. Hence the unhappiness. However, it also distorts the allocation of that spending. > If
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by kaibee 7y ago
> So in an American context... NPR and PBS exclusively then? Because people have proven for quite a long time that they are not willing to foot the bill. New York Times, The Young Turks, etc. If people aren't willing to foot the bi
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by kaibee 7y ago
There's two things about recessions. First, they end. Second, it does not follow that banning/severely regulating advertising to consumers would trigger another recession.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> How should they be funded instead? > I assure you their editorial departments would be overjoyed if you've discovered a new business model that works without advertising. A radical take: not all businesses currently funded by a
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by kaibee 7y ago
> 3. Most advertising (there are very few exceptions) fund various types of media. With the exception of state-funded media, advertising is the reason we have TV, radio, newspapers, social media, online news, YouTube, etc. Generally spea
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by kaibee 7y ago
> You don't, as long as you don't mind a sudden drop in national GDP. GDP is a terrible measure of how economy feels for the median person. A sudden drop in the GDP due to the lower classes saving money as a result of not bein
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by kaibee 7y ago
> As someone planning on retiring early, I completely agree, but these men are dependent on government benefits, which, being taken from my paycheck, are lengthening the amount of time I have before I can retire. I mean, you're not
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by kaibee 7y ago
I wonder how much of that "increased spending around downtown" came at the cost of decreased spending in the surrounding area(s).
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by kaibee 7y ago
Do you have any source or examples of this?
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by kaibee 7y ago
There's two Lenovo docks that do this. One has an integrated GPU that I guess you can use if you have thunderbolt, one doesn't. Both provide plenty of displayport/hdmi out. I think this was it: https://www.amazon
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by kaibee 7y ago
Isn't that one cheaper? I could've sworn it was when I got mine.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> If the majority wants to be more authoritarian, and they would be save for speech restrictions, why would they not just vote to change the speech restrictions? They eventually will. However, that takes time and political capital. Hop
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by kaibee 7y ago
I suspect that once that fails, the next step is going to be having to join the Discord server or whatever chat-group exists for that niche. Then asking for a recommendation from some weirdo whose super obsessed with gloves or whatever. T
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Consider the average personal car is only in use 5% of the time. People are paying an enormous amount to own, house, and maintain a car that they are barely using. This statistic is silly. It's like the "you only use 10% of

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