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by liability 6y ago
Premature attribution of cause to a fire also seems potentially harmful to arson investigations.
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by liability 6y ago
Unfortunately that's obnoxiously inefficient if you're trying to run it through text-to-speech in real time.
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by liability 6y ago
There are plenty of videos of Orcas and other dolphins playing in the wild. I don't think they're generally on a super tight caloric budget.
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by liability 6y ago
They might try to claim "not a pusher" wasn't a lie because they pulled it instead.
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by liability 6y ago
> The station they set up wasn't automated and took about 7 minutes instead of the the 90 seconds they previewed in the tech demo. I can see why people are skeptical of the demo and think the limited trial, which didn't showc
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by liability 6y ago
Care to back up that opinion? I'm quite curious to know why you think Hindenburg exposing this fraud to the world, and consequently saving countless more people from being scammed, isn't beneficial to society and legitimate busin
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by liability 6y ago
Exactly. Users rarely if ever go to tech support to show off things they figured out themselves. Tech support pros saying users are all dumb is like brain surgeons saying everybody has brain damage.
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by liability 6y ago
The second season of The Wire comes to mind; perhaps longshoremen are wary of digitization because it would threaten their 'supplemental income.'
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by liability 6y ago
They have language we haven't decoded yet. Even if their language is very simple, it could suffice for this. A young orca calf could say "Food?" and receive the response "NO!" They could then repeat this to f
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by liability 6y ago
I agree. Orcas are known to have multi-generational culture to at least a limited extent; perhaps orcas remember commercial whaling and know humans are skilled at killing whales when we choose to. Or maybe they could work that out just by
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by liability 6y ago
¿Por qué no los dos? Journalists got to Theranos first, and short sellers got to Nikola first. With both in play, the odds of a timely exposé go up.
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by liability 6y ago
I think this was one of the first red flags. It reminds me of ripoff movies that have names similar to popular movies to sleaze some of that popularity for themselves. Like Transformers / Transmorphers.
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by liability 6y ago
If Hindenburg weren't financially incentivized to uncover this fraud, it seems likely they would not have bothered and many more people would get scammed by Nikola.
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by liability 6y ago
Did you believe short sellers are "parasites" before Elon Musk started ranting about them, or did you get this idea from him?
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by liability 6y ago
For trucks you'd want synthetic diesel rather than synthetic gasoline. Biodiesel seems better though; AFAIK the feedstocks for synthetic fuels are still fossil fuels (gassified coal or natural gas.)
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by liability 6y ago
That particular video may have been an implicit lie, but the Hindenburg report reveals explicit lies from Nikola too. Particularly the adamant and explicit insistence that their fake truck was 'not a pusher' , claiming it was a
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by liability 6y ago
Anti-short hysteria has been bugging me recently. It seems to be a recent trend and when I try to think who might have triggered it, I come up with one clear answer...
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by liability 6y ago
When somebody decides to 'cash out' their reputation by conning people for years, I can't be sympathetic to their whining about nobody trusting them anymore. That's how reputation works and there's nothing unfair a
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by liability 6y ago
Huh. Not great... but credit where credit is due, some of those are much better than I expected.
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by liability 6y ago
Oh for sure, I fully agree. However, is this company's tech actually that good? It would be interesting to see how well it does with the DNA of real twins; how close can they actually get compared to two people with the same DNA? Co
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by liability 6y ago
Maybe so, but fathers can look a great deal like sons and they only share something like half their code and don't share a womb at all. Identical twins share their code and look even more alike. I think later life matters like obesi
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by liability 6y ago
Identical twins, sharing the same DNA, look rather identical but not truly identical. Even when raised apart. I am skeptical of reconstructing faces from DNA using current knowledge and technology though. It seems theoretically feas
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by liability 6y ago
The first chemistry lecture I ever had started with something to the effect of "Chemistry emerged from alchemy, and we'll not speak of this again!"
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by liability 6y ago
As far as I'm concerned checks are simple and low stress. If you don't prefer them that's as valid an opinion as mine, but why is the option of paying by check seen as so awful? For instance, elsewhere in this discussion (
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by liability 6y ago
Sounds like a private/religious university kind of thing; something a Mormon school like BYU might do. As for 'should'.. well it seems obvious to me they shouldn't. But I think they do.
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by liability 6y ago
What's wrong with checks/cheques? I prefer paying by check and I'd be pretty miffed if ever I had a landlord that didn't accept them. I don't understand why Europeans think the option of paying by check is so deri
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by liability 6y ago
I gleefully criticize my government. Do you dare publicly criticize yours?
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by liability 6y ago
Yes mpv uses youtube-dl via the builtin ytdl_hook.lua script. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/player/lua/ytd...
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by liability 6y ago
> but after the multiple terrorist attacks, 'Terrorist attacks' from who exactly? When French or Polish resistance members assassinated Germans, I bet the Nazis thought that was 'terrorism.' The Chinese governmen
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by liability 6y ago
At least shaming people for littering mostly worked. Maybe it was misdirected due to corporate interests, but there is definitely a lot less trash on the ground now...

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