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by kbenson 5y ago
> I think it is fair to say that it’s at least morally counter intuitive Only in that as a society, we seem to have decided (or come to through emergent behavior) that viewing sweeping socioeconomic changes and what might actually result
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by kbenson 5y ago
I point is that you say "drug dealer", when that's an arbitrary label that's dictated be laws and societal norms and acceptance, and then talk about it like there's well known harm from "drug dealers". Th
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by kbenson 5y ago
So, what, that guy that sold weed before legalization caused more harm from his actions than hanging him would cause, and yet we've legalized it and everyone is fine with it now? Or perhaps It's all arbitrary and decided by laws a
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Cutting edge speech models work perfectly for the perfectly average speaker, but that person does not exist! This is a well known pit in statistics, I would think, given there are extremely famous stories about this exact issue causing
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by kbenson 5y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, you might be interested in this tech talk[1] from Emily Shea. In it she demos a tech stack similar to what's mentioned here, to fairly good effect. It does appear that required a lot of tweaking on
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by kbenson 5y ago
> whether a group will take to a game or not will also depend a lot on who actually teaches them the game and how that person goes about it. Definitely agree on this. I was teaching a few different people at different times how to play
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by kbenson 5y ago
Interestingly, this announcement makes it sound like you might not even need 32-bit libraries anymore: - The 64-bit Windows-on-Windows (WoW64) architecture is implemented, and supports running a 32-bit Windows application inside a 64-bit
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by kbenson 5y ago
> It's because it chips away at people's egos. I mean, I'm not going to dispute there's a massive amount of luck that goes into almost everyone's success, but I also think in many (probably even the vast majori
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by kbenson 5y ago
> I guess at some point his instinct was so strong that he stopped seeing animals (including humans) as beings and simply as food to keep him alive. I think perhaps that would be a mental disorder. If not then, at least now. It might ha
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by kbenson 5y ago
It's almost as if over a decade or more if time that people can see the result of behavior they didn't see as problematic initially. Or that google might have changed how they operate in small ways as they are steered differently.
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by kbenson 5y ago
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that it's mentioned that people saw no sign of mental illness in him yet he ate live puppies and kittens, dead bodies from the morgue, and was ejected from the hospital when he was suspected
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by kbenson 5y ago
> I'm sure it would get muddy quick. I see what you did there...
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by kbenson 5y ago
It probably does, but it's not something you can affect, so not really of note when discussing what you can do to increase you odds of succeeding in something, which is what he was doing. It's also worth noting that the advice a
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by kbenson 5y ago
Do you provide an API, paid or not, for the same data? An API which might even have limitations on use makes scraping a bit less defensible in my mind, but if you're offering something for free to the public and then getting upset whe
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by kbenson 5y ago
I think the issue is that LARPing battle is a poor substitute for what the body can take and how people respond to real pain and damage. We might be getting to the point that we can get somewhat of a foot take on the damage with VR eventua
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by kbenson 5y ago
Storage cards for many fast nvme/ssd drives in hot swap bays? I haven't don't much with this, but from the outside view it looked like the PCIe slot woukd be the real limiting factor if your got a bunch of nvme based drives t
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by kbenson 5y ago
There are tradeoffs beyond just the company making more money, as Moxie's recent web3 assessment covered. Protocols take much longer to evolve, platforms are quick to evolve. Allowing platforms to innovate but somehow incentivizingn
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by kbenson 5y ago
I'm not sure. I'm a bit torn on that. If they can sustain themselves though some method, that's good, but I would rather that method be aligned fairly closely with their initial goals of security and privacy, which crypto p
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by kbenson 5y ago
Not necessarily just for that. It's also useful for people knowing whether they send you something Thursday towards the end of the day that's somewhat time sensitive whether to expect/hope you'll get to it, or if that
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by kbenson 5y ago
This post, and how it explains that there's 30 people working there now, made me realize that if I care about signal continuing (and I do, since I really like it, especially that it has a dedicated desktop client), that I should see ho
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by kbenson 5y ago
Well, that makes sense then. Thanks for the additional info. Honestly have been kinda scared of the whole class of medication that affects mood since this experience, but I've been lucky enough to not feel the need for medication nor
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Not just slightly different. It can be extremely variable from person to person. Not just SSRIs. I had a very bad experience with Mucinex D (or DM?) about 12 years ago, the first time I tried it. I can only imagine it was what clin
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by kbenson 5y ago
It's not all trojaned home routers and PCs, at least not in the sense that the user is unaware that they're running the program (even if they're unaware they're routing traffic). For example, all/most the mobile IP
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by kbenson 5y ago
> A sure recipe for success has been to take a 90’s protocol that was stuck in time, centralize it, and iterate quickly. Wow. That's one of those things you kinda know, then someone puts it to words like this, and the next thing I
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Both films have nonsensical MacGuffins as their central element Sneakers automatically decrypting something is a conceit of the movie to show what the device can do (find primes to break encryption), even if the way they go about showi
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by kbenson 5y ago
> I really don't like the singular use of "they" as it was drummed into my head in 12 grades of English classes that it was wrong, Yeah, that's the sad thing. At some point we decided that gender neutral pronouns wer
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by kbenson 5y ago
Hopefully it all settles down a lot more in the future. Around societal and cultural change there's always friction, and there's always people that take more offense to new norms (or what people want to be new norms) not being fo
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Is that such a terrible thing to have to deal with? For me? No. I imagine that someone that might deal with that 10 times a day or more might feel a bit different about it, and be tired of being in the situation of either correcting
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by kbenson 5y ago
That is just one of three reasons I listed. I'm not sure why you'd focus on that exclusively, it seems a bit silly to me. What's being asked of you is a common courtesy. Anyone that refuses this courtesy that takes so littl
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by kbenson 5y ago
I mean, not everyone interacts with people in person at work. I would go so far as to say that most these profile settings are used for textual communication, where it's not always obvious, but where some people still get upset over th

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