moduspol

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by moduspol 4y ago
> The risk/reward ratio doesn't justify it in their lives. It's also a pernicious ratio because there is almost no way to increase the "reward" portion, just decrease "risk." Eh, my non-tech savvy frien
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by moduspol 4y ago
It doesn't need to take over the world, or even be practical for spending. Simply being a place one can park money that cannot be inflated / printed away is enough to justify it. And besides, twelve recession-free years doesn&#x27
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by moduspol 4y ago
> There have been numerous Bitcoin theses over the years and they’re all broken. Indeed. https://www.bitcoinisdead.org
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by moduspol 4y ago
Are you doing it on a Rebel T7 or a different camera? I tried doing this on mine but it didn't seem possible.
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by moduspol 4y ago
> EDIT - For your case perhaps using camera settings to minimize the data (ISO/aperture/shutter etc) being shown on on the screen works well enough to use what you have? I saw a few threads with that suggestion, but I wasn&#x27
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by moduspol 4y ago
Kind of, yeah [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413073 EDIT: I mean it'd probably be OK if I were just shooting a video--I can fumble through it connecting unreliably, or just do another take if it unexpe
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by moduspol 4y ago
It can, though it doesn't seem to support my Rebel T7 either.
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by moduspol 4y ago
Yep. The reference I saw actually says ~3 meters, but even in seemingly ideal conditions, I don't see it reliably work except within probably just one.
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by moduspol 4y ago
Eh, I've had mixed results with Canon's EOS Webcam Utility and my Rebel T7. I didn't see this documented anywhere, but apparently it's built only for Intel-based Macs. It'll still work on Apple Silicon, but only if
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by moduspol 4y ago
I just failed at this recently. Apparently the camera needs to support "clean HDMI out," which many don't. Mine (for example) has HDMI out, but it's for like a "preview" screen for a photographer--it doesn&#x27
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by moduspol 4y ago
A single quarter? Perhaps, though every arcade had a few wizards that, through mastery of the game and its mechanics, could play for much longer on much less money. I couldn't tell you how many were literally impossible on a single pla
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by moduspol 4y ago
Old games were designed similarly to arcade games, where the "true" goal was to get you to keep inserting coins. Then there was kind of a slow transition away from that, but they still relied heavily on the player spending a lot o
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by moduspol 4y ago
Apparently the Apple Watch does it when using the "unlock your Mac" feature. https://networkingnerd.net/2016/09/21/apple-watch-unlock-802...
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by moduspol 4y ago
IIRC this is how the Apple Watch's feature that unlocks your Mac works. It's not vulnerable to repeaters and only works within ~3 feet of the watch and the Mac.
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by moduspol 4y ago
Do they even define "users"? I'm a lurker on Twitter. I follow people but don't tweet. Do I count as a user? My behavior is probably difficult to discern from a bot (using a third party app). The bots everyone is concern
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by moduspol 4y ago
I think there's another category: 5. Users with plausible names and a profile photo of a person that are bots I don't remember the study but when there were studies coming out of believed Russian-controlled accounts supposedly amp
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by moduspol 4y ago
It's rampant tin-foil hat speculation, but the ordering of events may not be what we've seen. Yesterday the big story was that two higher-ups in Twitter were fired unexpectedly, one of whom was on paternity leave at the time. Some
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by moduspol 4y ago
I think you're completely right. There are, in fact, numerous topics for which I don't have the resources or expertise to fully comprehend and make judgments about. That's why I, like most people, ultimately depend on news me
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by moduspol 4y ago
One might argue that if he's specifically following the direct instructions of the ATC, who is a licensed pilot in this case, that the ATC is "the pilot," and his allowing of a non-pilot to push the buttons on his behalf was
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by moduspol 4y ago
It's definitely censorship, just in the same way that a police department might also have rules about officers not swearing at children. Yes it restricts speech, but no, it's not inappropriate or stifling of discussion. A more pro
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by moduspol 4y ago
> "mainstream media" (I am generally wary of people who use that term tbh). It's just a shorter phrase than "ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, all late night comedy shows, SNL, and nearly all newspapers." It becomes a bit of
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by moduspol 4y ago
It was two years of incessant media coverage, fully including open discussion of whether or not Trump or his family members would be indicted. If you expected anything less, you were not consuming mainstream media [1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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by moduspol 4y ago
Well, and they also disagree on where the censorship should occur. One side is trying to prevent kindergarteners from having teachers discuss gender and sexual identity issues with them. The other is openly claiming free speech is problem
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by moduspol 4y ago
I don't think anything during the Obama years comes remotely close to the 2+ years of wall-to-wall coverage of Russian collusion that failed to materialize... and that's just the most obvious case.
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by moduspol 4y ago
The left was calling him a fascist pretty regularly long before 2020.
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by moduspol 4y ago
HN's algorithm is open source, right? That's not to say it's never been gamed, but it doesn't seem notably more "gamed" than Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
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by moduspol 4y ago
Using it several years ago, to me it sure seemed like a reference implementation of an MDM. It just lacked the robustness and flexibility that'd be required pretty quickly once you scale beyond a dozen or two devices.
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by moduspol 5y ago
Prominence just makes it tougher for the platform to avoid ambiguity in their justifications. Some moderation is valid but other times it can be too much. None of us have the time to spend personally reviewing the claims of every contributo
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by moduspol 5y ago
> Do you think pre-Internet mass media — one-way communication from corporation to consumer — does not propagate groupthink and shared narratives? It certainly did, but not as quickly, and not in a separate channel from the media itself.
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by moduspol 5y ago
> I'm also quite skeptical of the "slippery slope"-style argument regarding IP connectivity. The number of available ISPs, web hosts, domain registrars, etc is pretty large. We've already seen the goalposts move when

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