mirimir

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by mirimir 6y ago
> ... make content moderation more humane. Modest proposal: Find people who enjoy horrific content, and have them rate it. Then black-hole whatever they rate as most extreme. I was is a dark place after 9/11, both from the trauma
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh, I thought that gamers also like high quality images.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I wonder what sort of "video" you could get from the insects' visual systems. Maybe there's no imaging per se , just a bunch of feature-detection stuff. And in any case, it won't likely happen any time soon.
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by mirimir 6y ago
For the walls and ceiling, prime with 2-3 coats of paint that contains carbon black and graphite. It's black, so several finish coats will be necessary. For the windows, use aluminum screening. That also works well on floors, under eng
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by mirimir 6y ago
I live in a 42 m^2 apartment, so I really don't need that large a monitor :)
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by mirimir 6y ago
Seriously? Are there WiFi interfaces in monitors now? It's been a while since I bought one, I admit.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Why do I need a TV? Arbitrarily large monitors are available for gaming.
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by mirimir 6y ago
That's my answer. I'll never own a "smart TV", just decent gaming graphics with a large monitor.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sure. But those statements are also true if you replace "VPN services" with "ISPs". The point of VPN services is obfuscating your ISP-assigned IP address. And hiding your traffic from your ISP, which both knows who you a
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by mirimir 6y ago
Exactly. In other contexts, however, we'd call that a conspiracy. So why don't we here?
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by mirimir 6y ago
> ... even the Mexican government won't touch them. The distinction between government and gangs in Mexico is subtle. Just as in the US, many former military become mercenaries. But unlike US mercenaries, Mexican mercenaries operate
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by mirimir 6y ago
Not OP but likely because there was nothing they could do.
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by mirimir 6y ago
That already happened, back in 1984. President Reagan was joking during a sound check, and said the following: > My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. W
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by mirimir 6y ago
Also, if you look through their comment history, you can often find the comment(s) that got them shadow-banned. And if their ~recent comment history is good, with many vouched comments, you can ask dang to un-ban them.
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by mirimir 6y ago
"STP"?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yeah, I did that a lot, back in those days. It seems impossibly risky now. But when you're young, you feel immortal. And conversely, we were all expecting to die in a global nuclear war. So hey.
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by mirimir 6y ago
It's an old #! VM, so upgrading would break too many things. Also, I haven't made time to settle on which flavor of which Linux distro to switch to. Any suggestions, for someone who loved #!'s OpenBox desktop?
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by mirimir 6y ago
YMMV, but w3m is a very useful tool. Also, given your comment history, it's disingenuous to say that you "hate to be rude".
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by mirimir 6y ago
Those are some amazingly beautiful images. And for some reason, I'm reminded of the comet-core ship that surfs just above the Sun's convection tops in The Killing Star , by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. Also the ~an
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by mirimir 6y ago
I have an off-topic observation ... So I happen to be working in an old VM, and it has an old version of Firefox. And yes, I know that I ought to migrate. Anyway, this old Firefox just won't load some sites, including The New Yorker. B
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by mirimir 6y ago
Right. And if the answer were "yes", there arguably wouldn't be a question mark.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, it's not there's no physical gold, but there's still a shortage. So it's pretty easy to get spot price, even from a local shop. And if you have substantial amounts to sell, you may get spot price plus several per
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by mirimir 6y ago
For small amounts, to pay for VPNs or whatever, find an exchanger who you trust, and ~anonymously mail cash to them. Then anonymize the cryptocurrency. For Bitcoin, mix multiple times, via Tor (Whonix) and using a different wallet and mixin
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by mirimir 6y ago
Doh.
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by mirimir 6y ago
FYI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2448-9
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by mirimir 6y ago
Right, and so are children :) And I know that she sought community, at least in part, because she'd had no children.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I have another data point. A dear friend died last month, after about two weeks in hospice. She had no children, but she did live in a large cohousing community. We did our best to manage visitors, but sometimes there were 5-10 people waiti
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by mirimir 6y ago
TFA shows the US population increasing slightly by 2100. But there's no comment. I wonder about the basis. Is it projected immigration?
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by mirimir 6y ago
There's a DEA program called SOD. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R2013... https://www.deamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/042215-...
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by mirimir 6y ago
Not really. It shows what people using my current VPN exit have downloaded. And seriously, TPB warns people to use VPN services.

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