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by nearbuy 6y ago
Yeah, absolutely. It also shows though how you can easily accidentally bias a blind test. If an artist did manage to create a perfectly realistic render but forgot to add in one of the subtle unrealistic effects that cameras cause, people w
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by nearbuy 6y ago
It seems like your point is not so much that we can't technically render photorealistic scenes, but that artists don't put in the work to recreate the incredible level of detail we have in reality.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
The full version also has artifacts from the camera that ironically give it away as a real photo. At full resolution you see this characteristic noise plus noise-smoothing effect that cameras apply.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
You're comparing average/median rents with the income of people earning minimum wage. Wouldn't it make more sense that people earning the median income would pay median rent and people with the smallest wages would opt for so
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Every year struggling farms go out of business[1]. If expenses are a bit higher, a bit more farms will go under. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/02/10/us-far...
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by nearbuy 6y ago
It's not an American perspective; it's an economic perspective. The parent comment isn't talking about people's psychological wellbeing, but "how people actually live" (in terms of do they live in poverty or li
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I think you're double counting the advantage for wealth if you consider resilience an advantage, but don't consider not spending money to be a disadvantage. Keeping money reserved for hardships is a lot like having spent the money
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I think we're just interpreting how the hypothetical choice works differently. You're right, I wouldn't want to live in the 18th or 19th century at all. But I'd prefer to not be able to vote (in isolation of other factor
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Those examples don't contradict the claim you're denying. The claim wasn't "men had it worse than women". It was that capitalism originally hurt men (coal miners, specifically). The commenter was arguing that capita
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> Given that women didn’t have a vote when the Industrial Age made coal mining into a primary power source, and given that marriage was seen as making the concept of rape logically impossible until 1992 in the UK [0], I disagree. I'
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by nearbuy 6y ago
That says they were dumping. It doesn't say they were breaking any government regulations. In fact, it sounds like the government was lacking regulations on PFOA.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Presumably they aren't dumping beyond the legal limits. That's how our system works. The EPA or other agencies attempt to determine what's safe, the government makes some regulations, and if you follow those regulations, you
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by nearbuy 6y ago
This actually bugs me about articles on new discoveries: they almost always try to talk about potential applications, no matter how far-fetched they are. Sometimes the most honest answer is that we currently don't know any potential ap
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Yep, that's my point. It was designed assuming both people know the phonetic alphabet. It's not so great when you're trying to use it over the phone with a tech support person who isn't familiar with the alphabet.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I'm not sure it's so great when the listener doesn't know the NATO alphabet. A number of the words sound very similar to other english words, and some of the words are obscure. For example, Charlie (pronounced char-lee or sha
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Yes, I wrote it before you added the quote from Ernest A. Fortin in an edit. I think "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." is the only famous quote about bees by
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Edit: You added the quote in an edit, which is different from the one I thought you meant by "Einstein's famous statement about the importance of bees". In my defense, I would still consider the quote I listed to be Einstein&
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> It's like doubting Einstein's famous statement about the importance of bees and his credibility in general because there's a photo of him sticking out his tongue. That's an unfortunate example to choose considering
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Mining is the big reason to launch mining robots into space. For now though, there isn't anything we can economically mine. Mining helium-3 from the moon has been suggested. It could potentially be used for fusion power. But we current
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by nearbuy 6y ago
How do you figure? You need to build structures that can withstand pressure, but that's not a problem. We sent people to the deepest parts of the ocean 80 years ago. Bottom of the ocean is on average about 3.5 km deep. You can pump air
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I do see a uuid cookie though.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Right, because the federal minimum wage is calibrated to be low enough that it doesn't make much difference. In Texas, where the state minimum wage is the federal minimum wage, there are still only about 3% of hourly workers earning mi
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> And those are bad because? I'm not against these things for warehouse workers at all, but just to answer your question, potential downsides include: 1. The money has to come from somewhere. Since Amazon keeps fairly small profit,
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Only about 2% of hourly paid workers earned federal minimum wage or less in 2018 in the US [1]. This percentage has been dropping over the past few decades. I think this implies that minimum wage has been calibrated to be low enough that it
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by nearbuy 7y ago
The trade-off is that the bugs flagged by static type checking are usually quick to fix (eg: function expected an int but was passed a float). With dynamic typing, the subtle bug that arises from the function unexpectedly truncating your fl
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Surely you don't think they went through the trouble of having this diversity exercise in order to encourage discrimination? This is a case of someone who's trying to reduce bigotry being stupid, not unethical.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It's trending that way, but this decade still sold more PCs and laptops than the previous decade. 2018 sales were around the same level as 2006 or 2007.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
This doesn't really relate to my point. The blog post asked why is it that we can handle games (fancy 3D simulations, sometimes with hundreds of players and millions of objects) at a smooth 60 fps but not scrolling a web page. The pare
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I'm both a web developer and a game developer, and this comparison doesn't ring true at all. Games usually have tons of arbitrary dynamic content to display in realtime. Minecraft will load about 9 million blocks around your chara
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I wasn't trying to imply any point beyond that James Damore followed Page's and Brin's advice and was fired for it.

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