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by mateo1 4y ago
One thing I hate about these opinion articles is that I can never find the offending video and watch it with my own eyes because it is not on the open web.
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I've tried this myself for some historical maps, it only goes to show how inaccurate they are compared to modern ones
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Why would you need them? What problem do they solve? I can see why I would use AR/VR glasses for specific tasks related to work or education, maybe even entertainment, but I don't see how the always-on head-camera version would he
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by mateo1 4y ago
I can't help but notice that these articles are written in a way that suggests the proliferation of these devices is inevitable, which is not the case.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Coincidentally today I removed Facebook's app from my phone (actually just disabled it since I'm not really allowed to remove it...) because I logged in to check out marketplace and somehow ended up losing a couple hours of my lif
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by mateo1 4y ago
Paper is tangible, permanent and owned by you. Digital "memories" are rented, volatile and owned by someone else.
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The thing about the UK is that the state doesn't use the technology to harass people "they" dislike. And the thing about the US is that the same (and worse) is done by completely unaccountable corporations. What's wo
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by mateo1 4y ago
Imagine the VR version of tiktok. People are trying to develop digital heroin.
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If a total war breaks out, we'll all be getting phone calls from our "relatives" tell us to do whatever $CURRENT_POLICY says. If not, in a few years advertisements will be narrated by someone who's voice eerily sounds l
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by mateo1 4y ago
Turns out I didn't remember it because it's part of those combined vaccines. I hope my immune memory is better than my cerebral.
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I'm concerned too, I don't think I was offered a polio vaccine, ever.
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There is another aspect to this. Treating all hospital records as an infallible and comprehensive record of truth, carving them in stone and having them follow you for the rest of your life is plain dangerous. They are to be interpreted in
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>Google will succeed at healthcare only after medical decisions can be reduced to A/B tests. That is to say, never. Never, or literally tomorrow if they take over. "Personalised medicine" decisions made with "AI&quo
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by mateo1 4y ago
I am perplexed by the guardian's rosy framing of this decision. Unless the bank of England is somehow absolutely certain that the interest rates won't go up more than 3% in the coming decade, in my non-expert opinion it seems like
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by mateo1 4y ago
I don't disagree.
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Someone's taking shitposting too literally.
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At least as these stories start to surface, this madness will subside. I've never met anyone over the age of 25 who agrees on the insanity of sterilising children based on what they say they feel like. And no, I am in fact very left le
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by mateo1 4y ago
Yet another article asking for the erosion of basic democratic concepts. >A system of laws and protections developed by and for humans can never fully incorporate the needs and desires of nonhumans. Not only is this incorrect, but it nul
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by mateo1 4y ago
Heroin addicts don't watch ads.
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Also good luck landing this thing with strong crosswinds. Or god forbid rupture the pressure vessel with a hard landing... It's an interesting concept but looks very impractical.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Unsurprising really. It seems like a mortgage gets you the best roi pf any conservative investment right now when you adjust for inflation.
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by mateo1 4y ago
A petrol stations running costs are very low. They break even with 2% margins. Even if they go away, a 2m^3 tank at home will last you for a year or more. And if your typical full tank range of 500-600km is not enough, you can toss a fe
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Moreover, it's incredibly naive to project human qualities (like desiring socialisation and freedom, having empathy or experiencing pain and suffering) on a machine, even if it is "self-aware", whatever that means.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Nobody holds the new yorker at a high esteem but a critical analysis of thomas the tank engine as a "big gov" propaganda tool is just laughable.
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If that transcript is accurate, lamda is really, really impressive, but still just a language model. Don't forget it's trained on the entire corpus of digitized human literature in english and hundreds of millions of real conversa
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by mateo1 4y ago
These lenses are awful and still need sanding.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Why in the world would you need to 3d print a lens and what would it change?
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Although I've seen it before, I didn't mind seeing it again.
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I am in awe that so far eu politicians are still reluctant to move back to whatever fossil fuels exist in the continent, and instead still push hard for the unachievable fantasy of an emissions-free europe. When is the renewables revolution
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"Already covered"

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