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by labster 2y ago
I remember a time when YouTube was limited to 10 minute videos, and we watched Hollywood movies on there, 10 minutes per segment.
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by labster 2y ago
Heh, everyone has a different no idea of the line between SoCal and NorCal. I saw a talk someone from ESRI who did a survey of Californians on where the line is. The only hard and fast rule is that “nobody wants Hanford”, apparently. But yo
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by labster 2y ago
This kind of UX reminds me of the days when you’d hear radio ads saying “Just point your browser to HTTP-colon-backslash-backslash-WWW-period …”
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by labster 2y ago
They are in fact Russian any more, the Dutch company that owned Yandex sold to Russian investors last July.
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by labster 2y ago
Citizen, please report to DOGE for reeducation at your plusearly convenience.
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by labster 2y ago
Hallucinated histories are much more useful than historical facts, that’s why so many politicians use them.
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by labster 2y ago
I’m sure that will come up next year when they privatize NASA.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s probably less partisan than that, just a realization that ignoring Russia’s misbehavior will not make them stop, and appeasement doesn’t help. And Europe doesn’t need the nat gas any more, and the Baltic is now a NATO lake. The geopoli
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by labster 2y ago
In this sense I meant hodl as in “hold”, “refuse to sell”. Completely unrelated to the lost Atlantean technology hidden under the ice, which can compute hashes 100x faster.
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by labster 2y ago
Being from the US, I would say that US media does not portray Denmark at all. Except once every few years as Greenland hodlers. Pretty much everything I know about Denmark is from watching Danish language TV on Netflix.
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by labster 2y ago
Prior probability estimates of p = 0.083 are not extraordinary. As the sibling says one out of twelve past pandemics was a known lab leak.
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by labster 2y ago
We’re all family, but the family is undergoing some restructuring. So we’re going to have to let some of our poorest performing sons and daughters go. I’m sure you understand, kiddo. Please leave all family property at security. Also if you
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by labster 2y ago
Ottoman harem emoji is valid Unicode now.
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by labster 2y ago
You just set an arbitrary bar that that is higher for the lab leak based on an “everybody knows” argument. That’s not science, it’s faith.
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by labster 2y ago
But the calculators last much longer than smart fridges because they don’t rely on central server existing to continue operating.
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by labster 2y ago
The deception works well though. Some German POWs got a map of Arizona and tried to escape by rafting down the Gila River. Naturally all escapees were found in less than a week.
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by labster 2y ago
This reminds me of the scene in Return of the King , where the One Ring tempts Samwise by offering him infinite gardens, paving the countryside in lawns, hedges, and flowers. Which seems mighty attractive, until he realizes that all he tru
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by labster 2y ago
You’re assuming God didn’t get tired of having the species around so He decided to do some exterior redecorating in His great wisdom. Also you don’t understand physics, the proof is that you can make predictions and then verify the results.
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by labster 2y ago
Actually your example of creationist species isn’t circular at all, it just has no predictive power. Unless you want to say that God really likes beetles, I suppose. In the end evolution is random, but exerts some pressure towards fitness i
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by labster 2y ago
I rented Eraserhead and watched with some friends in college. I loved it, and so did the other Lynch fan. The other two, well, the first words spoken over the credits were “What the actual fuck was that?” Let’s just say it’s a divisive film
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by labster 2y ago
It’s cordial here, yes, though some other things happened in my life which I shouldn’t have let intrude into this discussion. HN in general does not like humorous tones, or at least has a mixed reception, I notice a lot of times where my co
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by labster 2y ago
I never called any vegans assholes. Personality quirks are not wrong, they actually make life fun. I guess the thing I’m getting from you is I shouldn’t comment on my own observations because of toupee bias, and I shouldn’t comment on other
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by labster 2y ago
Late stage capitalism is almost indistinguishable from a mental disorder, though.
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by labster 2y ago
And then we can develop systems that save user prompts, automatically and dynamically regenerating page content as the AI models are updated.
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by labster 2y ago
I look out my window and see the fires and the smoke and the homes lost forever. I look at Google News and half the stories are about cryptocurrency. The end of human civilization is much, much easier to imagine than the end of capitalism.
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by labster 2y ago
Cool idea, but it’s based on my own experience in life, from a girlfriend and various people in college. And even a newspaper article I read literally this morning. Vegan folks who I knew and talked to every day. That said I could have used
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by labster 2y ago
Spacebar heating was great for my workflow, please re-enable
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by labster 2y ago
See sibling comment lol
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by labster 2y ago
In 1999 we had obits and mail, just like in 1899. Of course now all of the newspapers are gone (what’s black and white and dead all over?), so notifying the local community is much harder than 25 years ago. Also some people back then would
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by labster 2y ago
Hopefully we’ll fly like an eagle

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