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by polotics 2y ago
There's not been many studies, but no, it probably won't. A nuclear winter would involve heavy dust and soot, that won't stay up in the air for very long. After that settles down, the net effect is just more CO2 from all the
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by polotics 2y ago
Are there not already "right to repair" laws that clearly give the user of a legally purchased device that stops functioning because of a defect (even if the defect's origin is that Spotify has defectuous management) the righ
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by polotics 2y ago
Did you read the article? In there you will find the explanation of why you had a costly low-quality experience. Maybe this will clarify who the "'em" is. (It's not anyone you saw at the restaurant...)
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by polotics 2y ago
This "accommodate less skilled practitioners" you wrote is something that never fails to puzzle me from C/C++ practicing colleagues: the idea that in the problem space there is a high-risk high-reward zone of top performance
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by polotics 2y ago
Do you have a link to a video of Altman's voice shifting from controlled deep to nasal? The videos of Elizabeth Holmes not being able to keep up with the faked deep tone are textbook-worthy...
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by polotics 2y ago
The rest of the instructions surely was effective in ensuring that the banana rubbing would be done for long and hard enough!
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by polotics 2y ago
Why on earth would you aim for popularity? Can you imagine the agony of creating something that you know is objectively less good than other options, then have this become popular? You then would have to write something about "the good
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by polotics 2y ago
I recommend you check out https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineConflict/new/ ... but only if you're ready to see some fried Buryat...
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by polotics 2y ago
is it just me or does this website not copy the Metafilter theme?
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by polotics 2y ago
I don't think Putin can reasonably enter any kind of peace negotiations now: he's clearly losing Crimea, and the rest of the territory the troops under his command was able to invade does not at all resonate with the Russian peopl
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by polotics 2y ago
May I ask you to consider that possibly what you refer as ghouls are no more no less ghoulish than MBA's somewhere in the valley planning on maximum screen-addiction for ten year olds. At some point you have to face the possibility th
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by polotics 2y ago
I thought that by Doppelganger you meant a deepfake.
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by polotics 2y ago
Are you up to date on the "Airbnb is fantastic" evaluation? Ten years ago indeed this was te best. The number of disappointments, hidden fees from hosts, hosts that appear to be independent but actually are a secret chain unde
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by polotics 2y ago
Well Russia also signed that they would guarantee the security of Ukraine in exchange for getting Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons...
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by polotics 2y ago
Demographics is a very interesting subject. The first of many answers to your question is that there is a strong age-related effect: more younger men are lonelier, and more older women are lonelier too. Be very wary of your source when you
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by polotics 2y ago
maybe a caveat here. Also: citation needed! Using photos is only perfectly legal if this use is within the licence agreement of the photos. as I understand it using a picture of somebody you took on the street is allowed in the sense that y
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by polotics 2y ago
OOP implicitly says it is ok to have stateful information all over the place in your code: if it's in an object, then it must be OK... This is my main beef with OO: a good design will have good clean statefulness, and getting there is
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by polotics 2y ago
Your usage of the term "doppelgänger" and your claim that they have agency and rights... is extremely bizarre. Clearly it is the person producing the deepfake who has agency, and their right does not extend to the right to harm
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by polotics 2y ago
Do you really think any of the professionals actually using the tools being destroyed in the add actually are dropping their tool and using an iPad instead? May I propose to give Damon Albarn's aka Gorillaz "The Fall" record
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by polotics 2y ago
The issue is not so much destroying some hardware. It's more the lack of knowledge about the use of these tools. When does Apple expect a Vivaldi concert to feature the pianist only turning up with an iPad instead of a Grand? Same for
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by polotics 2y ago
Online communities with reasonable debate are under attack by state actors, HN is no exception. In this context, no matter how well meaning the proposal is, opening an avenue for acrimony here is not something we can afford.
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by polotics 2y ago
Thank You! these are hilarious. I love the helpful tipping math giving options for 18, 20, and 25% tipping. A hard sell is illegal in the as far as I know.
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by polotics 2y ago
Please stop using the term "red line" when it comes to Vladimir Putin. There never was any red line his is a war of conquest, there are no defensive considerations it is an all or nothing personal survival gambit. He will try anyt
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by polotics 2y ago
A few colleagues are fully enthralled by Hubermann, I forwarded the hit-pieces about his infidelities, the colleagues did realize that humans need more than drink green goo and see morning sunlight to feel right :-p
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by polotics 2y ago
Is this low-effort very short content perchance AI-generated?
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by polotics 2y ago
On a side note, you do not want the convenience of baby-clothes equipped with magnets for easy-on easy-off. Baby's also got an easy-to-the-mouth to consider...
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by polotics 2y ago
May I suggest that this quite interesting content will confuse readers that do no come with some context IMHO, It would be much more approachable if it started with the section "What is wrong with the World Wide Web?" ? Also, you
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by polotics 2y ago
Well after this you can read termination shock...
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by polotics 2y ago
I feel you so much on this. So many shops pressing for many more ways to allow tips, for example presenting a percentage with options 10%, 20%, 30%... to frame customers into picking the one in the middle! Does any of you'all know if t
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by polotics 2y ago
There are very well studied escalation scenarios where high altitude strikes, acting basically as EMPs, with good meteorological information taken into account to manage fallout, can mean nukes can come into play and be effective as defense

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