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by krisoft 2y ago
> While the author doesn't explicitly define what is "great", I 100% believed that what it is defined as. I understand that is his definition, but then talk about that. Instead of saying that the exhibition ended up "
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by krisoft 2y ago
The problem here is that I don’t trust the author on being able to tell who is the “best artist”. Clearly he has opinions. But for example in point 3, he says he can predict which exhibition will be great based on how easy it is to work wit
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Hearts is a trick taking game. Just as an FYI: from the perspective of someone who very rarely plays card games this sentence is absolutely incomprehensible. The explanation would have been better without it. (For me.) It leaves me thi
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by krisoft 2y ago
> If you end up with a 20-page rulebook, perhaps the problem is not how best to organize that rulebook, but that you have 18 pages too many rules in the first place. Exactly. My pet peeve is when a game is launched as a kickstarter and t
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by krisoft 2y ago
Or in Malaysia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
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by krisoft 2y ago
> gets blasted out into such far reaches the two races are never within a distance (in terms of space or time) they could communicate? I know this is not directly related to what you say, but we do have right here and now whales to talk
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by krisoft 2y ago
Please tell us more. How do you imagine what do you say being possible?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Instead of video, what if our bodies and property emitted points clouds all the time If instead of practical and widely available technologies we are discussing scifi concepts which have no realistic prospect of materialising then why
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I am stating what is, right now. Excelent. Then the next question is where (in which jurisdiction) are you describing the law? And what are your sources? Not about the weed, i don’t care about that. Particularly the “being able to inge
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by krisoft 2y ago
Are you describing what the law is or what you feel the law should be? Because those things are not always the same.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I guess I should have used the phrase "common sense stealing in any other context" to be more precise? Clearly not common sense stealing. The Intercept was not deprived of their content. If OpenAI would have sneaked into thei
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by krisoft 2y ago
Hmm. I’m feeling a bit worried about discussing this topic in this much detail. I’m sure it is just pure intelectual curriosity for you but many reads this forum. If someone is thinking about any of this beyond a thought experiment please r
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Or is it that in some cases people can not get to the hardware store for a painters face mask, the corresponding hose with the 40mm NATO connector, some duct tape and a tank of nitrogen? Certainly part of it. Some people by the time th
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by krisoft 2y ago
> No, it doesn't rely on you knowing the recipient. The point is not that you need to know the recipient, but that if you don’t know them you can’t say if they will enjoy this kind of humour or not. I know people for whom such a let
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by krisoft 2y ago
> The guys are printing physical letters and hand-inserting them in envelopes with stamps These things can be done at massive scales cheaply. > for free! That increases my level of concern, not decreases. > Yeah maybe they should h
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by krisoft 2y ago
I'm not sure if they changed it after your comment, but right now there is clearly two options. One where you can get a google doc and just use theirs as a template, and one where they send it for you.
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by krisoft 2y ago
Yeah. It is one of those kind of things where one might think that the recipient will first carefully read the letter and then form an opinion on it. But in reality people will form an emotional response just based on the appearance of it.
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by krisoft 2y ago
Does your reasoning also apply for laws which ban underage smoking or underage alcohol consumption? Do you feel the same way about those prohibitions too?
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by krisoft 2y ago
No. In the in-movie fiction both the tunnel and the entrance was in Greenland. But in reality they were shooting the entrance scenes somewhere else. In Iceland in this case. This happens quite frequently in movies. Toronto or Budapest frequ
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by krisoft 2y ago
> why would anyone be stupid enough to do that To prove their "credentials" that they are a real world "though guy", in the hopes of gaining social clout in among their peers. Same reason why some posts classified in
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I'm convinced that most people who enjoy podcasts don't really actively listen to them, Or you know not everyone is the same. Just because you struggle with something doesn’t mean that it is not easy and effortless for others
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by krisoft 2y ago
> anyone who bought games would laugh at you if you said every game that you paid $80 for would also have endless amount of small items that you can buy for real money. > kids that grew up with Fortnite and Roblox just think that&#x27
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by krisoft 2y ago
> That's what a Fed would say to discourage Signal use. What? No. That is exactly what a Fed (or anyone else) would say to encourage Signal use. "Presumably you don’t hear about the ones that use signal for a reason…" The
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by krisoft 2y ago
> They're running an imperfect-but-legal experiment, with the gov't's okay & funding, as a work-around for the gov't own bureaucratic rules on cash income reducing benefits. And that is fine. But then the Guardian
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by krisoft 2y ago
> would you write that you were the author of some open source project They didn't drift out a message to sea. They wrote it on their handiwork. Would people write their names on their open source project? Yes, they would, and they
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by krisoft 2y ago
> "Nevertheless..." so you basically agree its extremely unexciting? No. I don't agree. I find the message extremely exciting. > That's the point. I hear you making the point and I'm disagreeing with it. >
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by krisoft 2y ago
> imbedded disdain a lot of tech minded people have for anything frivolous My disdain is not for things frivolous. I'm a big fan of frivolous things. My disdain is for those who wish these long departed engineers did things in orde
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by krisoft 2y ago
> The person would of course want to know So would I! > and of course be disappointed to find out it's essentially the credits for who built a lighthouse I wouldn’t be disapointed. This is very exciting. We learn how many of them
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by krisoft 2y ago
> people in some other region or time can get a glimpse of the world you're in. Yes. And we the people of a different time got a glimpse into the world they were in. > A list of names is extremely unexciting. Nevertheless that is
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by krisoft 2y ago
That is a sad truth. But it is not just the title. It is the whole article. It talks about giving cash and researching how giving cash works, and quotes the researcher about giving cash. And in one of middle middle paragraphs they just ment

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