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by pftburger 5y ago
Maybe an interesting intersection point is “systemic violence” Violence is a confusing and disputed term, often bogged down by the visual of two sides, one striking, one struck. Systemic violence is maybe more interesting here because it ac
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by pftburger 5y ago
Yea I use this manually some times as well. Great for low bandwidth tests Just displays clean “success”
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by pftburger 5y ago
The system is actually comprised of two apps, CovPass and CovCheck. Both are in the repo. The check app validates the pass in-app, and, as far as I can tell, doesn’t phone home or report any data. IE there is no logging of the scanned perso
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by pftburger 5y ago
The way I see it piracy is mostly a UX problem. Often the UX of pirating a thing is easier than legally acquiring it. Maybe not true for AAA games, but def true for most movies/series. If your outside of the US, often a lot of content
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by pftburger 5y ago
Personally I say fuck written language too! Who needs words! If you want to communicate with me, just grunt In all honesty though, we are going through an wonderful revolution in language where people are beginning to acknowledge communica
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by pftburger 5y ago
https://www.mariayablonina.com/milan-design-week Here's a friends wall climbing robot weaving a rope structure.
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by pftburger 5y ago
Solve it in software. This really seems like a UX problem. We’re trained in the UX of long exposure film, and tools to do it differently aren’t built into the cameras these people use. Pretty sure the iPhone’s long exposure doesn’t amplify
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by pftburger 5y ago
Sorry what? Is this articles title really a vagina joke? Can we maybe rather not?
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by pftburger 5y ago
ANY bonus card is basically paying you to be tracked. It’s the core mechanic. Even here in privacy conscious Germany the largest bonus card, payback Punkte, is simply giving you a 1% back just to get you to log your own purchase. Why else
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by pftburger 5y ago
Seconded. Visited the dentist recently. On my way I looked up directions in google maps, then for a week had dental insurance adds. This one is obvious though. That was on iOS with it’s pretty strict location tracking rules etc. I’d be int
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by pftburger 6y ago
OK thats interesting. For reference thats 59 Bruto (before tax) 36 after tax, medical, social contribution, mandatory pension etc. A friend just left for a 70K So to put that in perspective I live my partner, and pay 600 for rent, warm for
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by pftburger 6y ago
Where do you live? In Germany, 30k a year is a half time job in tech. I earn 59 working remote from Berlin for a company in Frankfurt. Im deliberately staying at this firm even though I could earn more elsewhere because I've optimised
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by pftburger 6y ago
this is a feature, not a bug. "Hey google, play five little monkeys ten thousand times on max volume and disable input"
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by pftburger 6y ago
So so very cool. Saving this in the reference pile, for when people argue “we are more advanced as a society” extrapolates to “I am more advanced as a person”
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by pftburger 6y ago
My gut feel (...) is that not controlling for time per unit of mass consumed invalidates the result, as hormonal signals are slow. IE, 25g per minute chewed 15 times vs 25g per minute chewed 40 times. This would be highly dependant on the t
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by pftburger 6y ago
What’s your revenue model? As the saying goes : If the product is free, you’re the product. “We plan to make money” doesn’t cut it. There are many good financial tools almost exactly like yours. Why do you believe you will succeed. Making
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by pftburger 6y ago
Or do it Amazon style, with different decisions ala AWS, but force open book keeping so that courts can tell if it is a real advantage or just an implied one
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by pftburger 6y ago
The article briskly skips over the indisputable fact that Britain’s colonial expansion enslaved, tortured and exterminated people of color everywhere on this planet for longer than a the US has existed in its current form. It attempts to de
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by pftburger 6y ago
Exactly my thought. Also the nicest way I could have possibly imagined to mention the personality stereotype
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by pftburger 6y ago
Yes! I am now imagining a vive tracker built out of two candles spinning at 300hz What could go wrong!?
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by pftburger 6y ago
I implemented it once as well, all the way down to single but storage. Turned out to be a huge security nightmare though, because it kept decompressing into other people’s files! Another problem was telling the compressed bits apart.
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by pftburger 6y ago
Wouldn’t this be a normalized / unitized float? Or at very least an absolute normalized float
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by pftburger 6y ago
I am continually annoyed that I can’t compete with VC Funded startups with 20 to 50 employees in my spare time after work while maintaining a healthy social life. As ridiculous as that sounds I mean that seriously. I can’t shake the feeling
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by pftburger 6y ago
The killer app here is tele-operated cleaning, with a monthly subscription model. I actually dont think it will replace your aforementioned 4h/week cleaner, just augment it with daily tasks. Trying to stay as ethics neutral here. We wi
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by pftburger 6y ago
Just out of curiosity is grid based green energy available in your area? Here in Germany we can choose providers, and most have fully renewable options. For a little backup energy autonomy a home solar system is definitely fun but you will
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by pftburger 6y ago
I’m reasonably certain an actual interface would have more than just two thruster strength settings... It got a little twitchy near the end there.... really hard to keep the target on the green dot all the way in. Only after two nervous abo
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by pftburger 6y ago
Morrison regularity brings me to tears. Go read or listen to her Nobel prize lecture. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/l...
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by pftburger 6y ago
There is no wind there is no flag there are no monks only your mind. Its really not just semantics. Skip the Buddhism and go read Andy Clark's Surfing Uncertainty. Its humorously written, its current science and it'll blow your
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by pftburger 6y ago
* (Theory) Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark Basically a unified theory of consciousness. 100% must read. * (Theory) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes A bit long winded but it really changes
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by pftburger 6y ago
Oh man, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is AMAZING on so many levels. A common thread with these books seems to be exploring consciousness and definitions of self. As a bonus it does stuff I find more from women authors, like quietly questi

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