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lbebber
10y ago
American slavery (not just in the USA, slavery throughout the Americas) is a big deal, of which there are no parallels in history considering its scale and its racist character, didn't happen that long ago, and its echoes are still
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lbebber
11y ago
Well, exactly: it's very hard to drag yourself out of poverty if you have little money.
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lbebber
11y ago
They were not only "yes/no" answers, the bot used actual racial slurs, it seems. I think it also speaks about about, as a programmer, being aware of how your program is going to behave in the real world. Of course you can
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lbebber
11y ago
> I once lived in London and the two were almost equal. Life was less comfortable then but I certainly didn't blame the rich bankers for pushing up my rent and bus fares. I don't know your particular situation, but moving in a
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lbebber
11y ago
If this murder was ignored by HN then fine, but the point is that the community is commenting about this case and, by doing that, showing its values.
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lbebber
11y ago
- madaxe_again said that "our extinction is coming", not that it would happen within 30 years - nobody is, I believe, saying that. - The doomsday clock thing wasn't unfounded paranoia, there was real danger of nuclear war in
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lbebber
11y ago
Of course it should - if it gets severe enought, even if humanity makes it, lots of people will die.
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lbebber
11y ago
> There will always be human desires that cannot be satiated by machines Not necessarily - and even so, the work left to be done by humans might only cover a small % of the population.
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lbebber
11y ago
There were still plenty of jobs that could only be done by humans though. We might be reaching a point where there will be very few.
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lbebber
11y ago
I will - I have to clean up some stuff first though!
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lbebber
11y ago
Hah, it rained more than enough here this month, no video was needed.
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lbebber
11y ago
I did try that, but weirdly shaped drops looked weird on the animation! I was meaning to add a couple of drops close to each other to mitigate that but had no time for experimenting anymore.
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Rain Effect
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11y ago
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lbebber
11y ago
My phone understands my accented English pretty well - the problem is when I don't want to search in English.
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lbebber
11y ago
No, people should be accountable for their opinions as well - you can't simply say that black people are stupid (in the John Derbyshire example) and expect that people won't get mad at you.
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Morphing Keyboard Keys Animation
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lbebber
11y ago
Hahah, clever.
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lbebber
11y ago
I made an animated PNG glitching demo a while ago. http://codepen.io/lbebber/pen/EjVPao The approach is simple: just mess with the base64 string.
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11y ago
For me it's always like, 32.
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11y ago
I kept going because the questions were entertaining.
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Creative Gooey Effects
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lbebber
12y ago
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Motion Blur in HTML Elements (Experiment)
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Gooey Menu with CSS and SVG Filters
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Bump mapping effect with SVG Filters
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CRT Screen effect in CSS
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Realistic text rendering in CSS, with changeable focus
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CSS Realistic Text
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Alternative Gradient Interpolation Modes
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Curtain Effect in CSS/JS
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lbebber
13y ago
Of course, it's not so simple - for messaging, you have to use apps that other people use.
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