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811.
by labster 3y ago
Writers don’t go to production any more. It’s all mini rooms these days.
812.
by labster 3y ago
> “AI” is a black box and not to be trusted. Someone will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. I know treason agains Friend Computer when I see it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some hallways to paint red.
813.
by labster 3y ago
Neofeudalist late stage capitalism would have let boomers continue to have “free forever” plans while prices increased for everyone younger.
814.
by labster 3y ago
More than that, there are \d+ of us! Or, since I’ve been writing Lua recently, %d+ of us.
815.
by labster 3y ago
What interest would the Mouse have in numerical models? They want entertainment IP, not weird programs that they have no experience marketing or hiring people to run. They’re not just going to transfer it over to Pixar so the guys behind Ca
816.
by labster 3y ago
Excellent troll, good sir, 10/10
817.
by labster 3y ago
As someone who has written a lot of regexen, I’m surprised it ever worked.
818.
by labster 3y ago
Headline: You’ll never guess what this worker got for hauling sixteen tons
819.
by labster 3y ago
Dude, those indios were gonna go to hell if they kept reading those books. Letting them be tortured for all eternity would be truly depraved. I think the word you were looking for is “narrow-minded”. But even then, Landa thought he had gone
820.
by labster 3y ago
I bet it costs three cubic acres of money to buy.
821.
by labster 4y ago
I don’t see why people are so worried about AI in the future. AI has been exploiting humans for 500 years already, and destroying Earth’s habitability for the last 150 years. I’m talking about our first AIs, the corporations. They maximize
822.
by labster 4y ago
That is kind of not how academia works. Prestige is everything. If you don’t attract the best students, you get less citations. Infrastructure crumbling? That means less grants, and therefore less citations. The worst part is that tenured p
823.
by labster 4y ago
The author is a Roman military history PhD talking about his personal experience in academia for the most part. It’s not hard to see the current system is broken, after all, but only if you’re in the middle of it. There are other sources if
824.
by labster 4y ago
The rewards programs use your information to market to you, and sometimes third parties. Terms and conditions vary. As always, consult a lawyer before clicking accept on any EULA.
825.
by labster 4y ago
Booking.com requires the cheapest price, unless you are talking about the price from the hotel’s rewards program, which they will push very hard. It’s a contract loophole that works out for everyone except the non-savvy (or privacy-consciou
826.
by labster 4y ago
I do wonder how economical it would be to run high energy processes like hydrolysis, aluminum extraction, and desalinization only when renewable supply is high. Like a peaker plant, but in reverse.
827.
by labster 4y ago
> Depressing human nature facts in any year FTFY
828.
by labster 4y ago
He had a really good escapement plan.
829.
by labster 4y ago
Dude, don’t be such a clock blocker.
830.
by labster 4y ago
A clock thief knows no peace, he will always have to watch his six.
831.
by labster 4y ago
Eating an American diet, I definitely cannot be considered organic.
832.
by labster 4y ago
Cost of 2000 cans << value of publicity
833.
by labster 4y ago
Always look on the bright side of life
834.
by labster 4y ago
Nice try, Nikola, but AC is too dangerous.
835.
by labster 4y ago
I don’t disagree with you. You asked for things those people said 40 years ago and I gave them to you. You can’t make any inroads on convincing people if you don’t understand their arguments, so I try to do so. Having studied climatology in
836.
by labster 4y ago
The world is not going to end Most everyone will still be driving gas/petrol cars No evidence will appear that will convince me [the denialist] that climate change is real Peak oil won’t happen until 2020 at the earliest As a meteorolo
837.
by labster 4y ago
I’m pretty sure the ‘thermo’ part of the thermohaline circulation is going to dominate.
838.
by labster 4y ago
When the hurricane’s storm surge enters your house. For now, the bigger coastal threat is from a longer, stronger tropical cyclone season. Moving extrema are always what you notice first.
839.
by labster 4y ago
Easily confused with a gerundtocracy: ruling by the present participle class.
840.
by labster 4y ago
> Instead, these pieces all rely on the implicit but unstated argument that Bitcoin has no fundamental utility. This unstated premise is intended to sneak entirely past readers’ critical defenses, as taken-for-granted as oxygen. Bitcoin

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