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by nfoz 7y ago
But are they vaping instead of those other things, or were we witnessing a decrease in the other things until vaping happened?
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by nfoz 7y ago
You can still buy dumb TVs, and a highly recommend it. For example, LG has a (hard to find) "commercial lite" line; my 55" 4k dumb TV works great. US: https://www.lg.com/us/business/hospitality-tvs&
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by nfoz 7y ago
Don't you consider this unethical -- if not against the site itself, than against the other users of the site whose data you're scraping?
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by nfoz 7y ago
Well I'm somewhere in that 99% of Americans, and I can tell you that "what keeps prices low for me" is very far from the top of my list of priorities. People have values and principles, that are important to us.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Sure jail for a day or few maybe. Would cause tremendous discomfort and embarrassment IMO. But years?? For either of these crimes, sounds crazy. I see jails as a way to remove people who could be violent out of society while they can re
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by nfoz 7y ago
Ah I see what you're getting at now. Sure, ads are unethical and they shouldn't publish them, but since they will anyway, and it would be too heavyhanded to prevent them (by making it illegal, say), we should look at ways to de
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by nfoz 7y ago
If you want to provide TV content, go for it. But if your content has ads, don't be surprised when people skip all the ads, because ads are offensive, and they're free to skip them. So that's an awkward business model to re
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by nfoz 7y ago
Advertising isn't ethical. It is lies and manipulation.
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by nfoz 7y ago
And you have the freedom to block/skip ads from your TV, too.
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by nfoz 7y ago
If you don't want to provide free content then stop publishing on the web, a free medium.
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by nfoz 7y ago
"Progress" is a rhetorical device used to paint whatever actually happened in a positive light. But coincident with the positive elements of the rise of western society, is a whole lot of tragedy. Wars with unprecedented brutali
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by nfoz 7y ago
Choice is good, alternative implementations are good. But I think competition is bad. It is wasteful and antisocial.
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by nfoz 7y ago
I disagree, I find it perfectly constructive. There's no animosity in the statement. You wrote some code, they don't understand it. So the ball's in your court, with a few possibilities. Maybe your code is too complex, or
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by nfoz 7y ago
HN is just another slashdot. And slashdot looks like it's still going fine: https://slashdot.org/
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by nfoz 7y ago
> All it tells Mozilla is that you use Firefox. And where, and when. That's pretty sensitive information.
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by nfoz 7y ago
None of this is about posts involving hypothetical people (like Alice&Bob in cryptography examples). You're the only one who thinks that. The topic is about when a real user asks that they be referred to with specific pronouns, an
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by nfoz 7y ago
I always disable shell completion after it burned me a few times: 1. Completion that blocks the shell, by doing a lookup across a network (e.g. to complete a remote path). Can hang for several seconds. 2. Completion that gives me a mislead
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by nfoz 7y ago
Veganism is often a moral/ethical stance rather than a dietary restriction. It's not a food preference, it's a worldview. So this can be an attempt to attract attention to the movement and normalize it.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Related, I love the site https://www.asciihex.com/ for giving some nice history into many of the ASCII characters. And stylin' to boot. It's my go-to ascii table when I don't have the `ascii` command-line to
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by nfoz 7y ago
OK folks, I'm with you that I prefer phat juicy travel on my keyboards and don't mind a thick laptop. But guess what, that's not the only target audience for laptops. The Macbook Air and recently-deceased Macbook are awesome
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by nfoz 7y ago
Where can I buy one?
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by nfoz 7y ago
Here's mine: https://www.lg.com/ca_en/commercial-tv/lg-55UX340C-public-di... You have to find your way to the "commercial" section of LG's website and even then find the ones that are dumb. I&#
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by nfoz 7y ago
Thanks very much for your reply, super helpful!! Sorry if that was difficult to answer. I guess I'm interested in how far we've gone from TTS engines like the LPC [1] engines we had in the 80s, or what you get from festival [2].
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by nfoz 7y ago
Cool! Does text-to-speech require AI, or is there any active work in non-AI methods? Which bits are the AI bits? Do "deep" methods substantially improve over whatever classical methods we might have had?
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by nfoz 7y ago
If this is useful, then it's something the browser could render, instead of the page itself. We could add it to desktop UI toolkits like Gtk/Qt.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Have you considered mosh? https://mosh.org/
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by nfoz 7y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about the `invalid` non-TLD. I've been using example.com. Still, it seems inappropriately opinionated for git to tie in and require an identifier on a specific communication mode, even if we can come up wi
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by nfoz 7y ago
One of the things I hate about Git is that it requires an email address. It doesn't let you just leave a blank value, it needs something that resembles an email address. I get that email is how the kernel-devs do it. But IMO it&#
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by nfoz 7y ago
> Is it illegal to lie and deceive to make money? No. What, really? Isn't that the definition of fraud?
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by nfoz 7y ago
How do you propose that we charge for FOSS?

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