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lupire
2y ago
Blockchain and NFT took over the Super Bowl. That's pretty mainstream. There are Bitcoin ATMs.
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2y ago
Those numbers are approximately zero, because demand will immediately 10x as soon as AI makes that affordable, as computers have always done. So, profitable (if the AI can cost less than a human for the work), but not changing how the econo
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2y ago
It's that "free will" isn't as free as people think".
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2y ago
It's a job that pays money. And people can become zealots for what they believe is best for others
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lupire
2y ago
On the flip side, you're only a capitalist state away from propping up a tortured husk and milking all its family assets before tossing it to rot.
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2y ago
You feel now that you don't want it live like that, but how can you know what you would want, then ?
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lupire
2y ago
Most of the points are in bonuses and bongos, so you don't have to care much about the short words with common letters.
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2y ago
Bourne was a hit man.
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lupire
2y ago
This was debunked within hours, as commented on that thread last week.
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lupire
2y ago
Twitter was where the original misinformation was posted, so Twitter seems to be a good place to rebut it.
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2y ago
Nonstandard analysis is the mathematical description of your special case. Same thing.
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2y ago
Daily Mail misspells his name consistently through the entire article.
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2y ago
In current year, bicycles should have medium brightness LED rope lights for visibility.
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2y ago
"ads, Christmas lights, broken light fixtures, etc" are not safe to crash into
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2y ago
Instead of veering repeatedly and blindly in a dangerous situation, consider slowing to a stop like an AI car does.
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2y ago
Blinking lights grab attention. That makes them useful during the day
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2y ago
Volunteer accepted! 1. Watch the video with subtitles in your language. 2. Record audio of you reading the subtitles in time with the video. 3. Upload your recording as YouTube video or to an audio hosting website 4. Post a link to your rec
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2y ago
I remember one event vividly. Exec asked for some business information information while traveling. I replied promptly, sending a link to a webpage, within the proper process for secure data sharing according to company policy. This requir
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2y ago
Then they immediately turned around and started charging money to show your post to your friends. Lies piled up on lies.
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lupire
2y ago
Tomato, tomahto; Naive, cynical; potato, potahto. "Best" in a Darwinian memetic sense of "optimized for reproduction and dissemination", not "accurate" or "helpful".
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2y ago
Living rent-free in my head for 30 years: "The family that transmogrifies together eats flies together!"
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2y ago
Also the manual contained the copy protection "proof of analog information" challenge answers.
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2y ago
Catan brags about its Overview, Game Rules, and Almanac. https://www.catan.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/catan_base...
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lupire
2y ago
And Google's etymology feature says that con- and -ation are English, while -urb- is Latin. https://www.google.com/search?q=conurbation
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lupire
2y ago
Welcome to the messy real world! There are no "standards of the industry", do you don't need to meet the "highest" ones.
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2y ago
Also, this is how mental arithmetic is taught in modern elementary schools! Lots of focus on "ten friends", and performing addition and subtraction by splitting into parts to make "ten" and then adding or subtracting the
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2y ago
I think it was a bad argument, perhaps due to weakness in Crick's knowledge of information science. The argument goes like this; Suppose you built a library of chemical reactions, to generate a DNA codon from an amino acid, and did th
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2y ago
I am not familiar with any "magical other undefined Zero". Please familiarize me :-) What is your, uh, definition of this undefined* number you are familiar with?
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2y ago
No. 1/x^2 is undefined at 0 but has the same limit behavior , because limit behavior is not a function from "pairs of (functions from R to R, R)" to R Infinity is not a real number.
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2y ago
Because exceptions are expensive, and functions with holes are dumb. "Dumb" is purely a matter of aesthetic preference. Calling things "dumb" is dumb. > Normally, when you divide by a small number, you get a large num
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