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by pen2l 7y ago
> Can confirm. My alexa went in the drawer after she was offering to call the crisis line for me during a spirited session of gaming. Wait, what? Please explain more. It feels like you're saying Alexa heard you being ... passionate,
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by pen2l 7y ago
> I've noticed this. I can reliably count on Uber/Lyft to price gouge me whenever they get the chance. Yeah but come on though, the cut the driver has to take, the cost of car maintenance, the cut Uber is entitled to for giving
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by pen2l 7y ago
The New Yorker is weird like that. They also insist on misspelling 'ensure' as 'insure': https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer... I think they're just abusing their
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by pen2l 7y ago
As a fellow-Asian, I usually like your contrarian commentary which brings 'our' experiences to this forum. But I've gotta say, this is starting to seem like some variant of the good ole' days fallacy. I had brown parents
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by pen2l 7y ago
Who really cares in this day if anyone knows your IP? It's not like that many of us are running servers from our home connection and thus vulnerable in some particularly pointed way. Behind a NAT you're pretty much fine unless som
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by pen2l 7y ago
Okay I'm usually annoyed by these things, but seeing pg's picture... and then thinking "Oh, hmm, YC-funded huh"... then seeing Marc Anderseen's picture... then... seen a lot of other pictures, and then seeing "
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AI Can Detect Language Problems Linked to Liver Failure(interestingengineering.com)
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Here's one paper I've found by quoted researcher, which I think is kind of relevant to the device/what this article is about: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30734558 I think they are creating microf
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by pen2l 7y ago
I share your feelings exactly. When I was in London, the ease of ordering a ride with your smartphone was a reliable comfort in a foreign land. Maybe if I hadn't undergone shitty experiences in Paris et al. being swindled by the train
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by pen2l 7y ago
I just want to chime in and say that Ned Batchelder is one of the greatest human beings alive. Or, at least, to me he is. This man helps so many people with nothing in return. He's a regular on some python IRC channels, he has personal
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by pen2l 7y ago
Why would you deny needy people, people trying to make ends meet and move up the ladder, people with revoked licenses, etc. the opportunity to partake and contribute in society? Wouldn't you agree that if we take this away, it would co
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by pen2l 7y ago
The trick is not to rely on Google translate for a finished translation, but to use it just as a tool toward reaching that goal. As someone who is learning French these days, it is an absolute boon. One of my favorite things is letting Goog
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by pen2l 7y ago
That's not the only single factor for them to consider though. I doubt Musk would move to Toronto, or that he would ultimately benefit from moving to Toronto in the long run were these taxes to go in effect. Of the sea of other things
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by pen2l 7y ago
I think if they were taught (i.e., if they looked it up on youtube), they'd be pretty good. I remember about 20 years ago being just fascinated by the folks hired by my dad who came to do construction at our house, the key thing I lear
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by pen2l 7y ago
Got it, thank you for sharing your thoughts. > it's to break down gatekeeping barriers to the profession What are some good ways to break down these gatekeeping barriers, in your view?
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I would like to apologize for the barb, and then pose the same question. Programmers getting paid well is a result of capitalism, they are valued and in low numbers -- if this was not so, if they were in great numbers, they would not be pai
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by pen2l 7y ago
1. I didn't say he was speaking about socialism/capitalism in this thread, I said he'd been speaking about it a lot lately. [1] 2. It wasn't meant to be a snark (though I can see that it came off in a bad way, and I regr
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by pen2l 7y ago
> So no, the data shows that these jobs are paid a normal amount, while programmers are vastly overpaid. You are speaking a lot these days about the ills of socialism in contrast to capitalism. Programmers being paid well is a great exam
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by pen2l 7y ago
I notice you tend to use semicolons more than anyone else I know. Is that also an affectation? I mean, are you sometimes reformulating your thoughts in order to avail yourself to the opportunity of using a semicolon? Because me, rarely does
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by pen2l 7y ago
It also sounds pretty unbelievable. You can't really just walk into some research hospitals and somehow find yourself talking to the right person who will get you in as a research intern. In my experiences, sadly, virtually all researc
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by pen2l 7y ago
> It’s weird to me that people are so unskeptical about assertions that things are somehow completely dysfunctional in one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world. As someone who hails from Asia like you and has seen pro
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by pen2l 7y ago
I've been struggling with this myself. But extrapolating from news that some Youtubers who got banned also found their Google accounts (i.e. Gmail, Drive, etc.) closed, (someone up above just commented on this), I feel I must err on th
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by pen2l 7y ago
This is not as terrifying to me as the other news brought to my attention by a post in today's Reddit's r/YSK, that if you use Adblock, your gmail can be closed. In the new TOS of Youtube [1], it states that if your account i
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by pen2l 7y ago
Here's a bad question from someone who doesn't really understand the differences of CPU architectures and is therefore apprehensive about making related decisions: Will I be hurting myself if I buy a computer with an AMD chip, in
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by pen2l 7y ago
Just curious: Have you visited China in recent time? The past few years it's made incredible gains, and it continues moving at a blazing speed. I think one force that can encourage Pakistan to move forward is China. I don't know i
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by pen2l 7y ago
With the news about Uber and Tesla accidents, it’s been making me wonder: why not equip these cars with one more sensor: an infrared camera. Combining thermal information with extant information will be a great boon in making intelligent de
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by pen2l 7y ago
DNA is packed in a fractal-like manner as well. That's actually one of the most important things we've learned about genome in recent time. Everyone knows that the content is important (ACGT, etc.), but what's also extremely
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by pen2l 7y ago
What made you close your BoA account? (Just curious, I have a BoA account and I have no issues with it)
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I happen to think it's a net negative. It had considerable part in setting back efforts to deal with climate change. They did a mea culpa, but still, I can't tell you how annoyed I was in college with the amount of people who woul
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by pen2l 7y ago
Nature, Science, et al. have two important jobs: 1) Being a good filter, increasing S:N, so you don't have to waste time sieving bullshit yourself 2) Choosing pretty fonts, promoting good stylistic standards and guidelines (which scien

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