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by pontifier 3y ago
I have a cleaning technique I call ant mode. A colony of ants can accomplish a lot. They can move immense amounts of materials, and create well organized groupings of things. In ant mode, I pick up one thing, and then I put it in a place it
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by pontifier 3y ago
I saw the makeup of the largest family, and immediately thought of the Duttons!
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by pontifier 3y ago
Reminds me of "Rainbows End". In that book, book scanning was done by throwing books into wood chippers and blowing the fragments through ducts filled with cameras. All the fragments were then reconstructed automatically.
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is enlightening to me. I've been giving strategy when people have been expecting plans. This could be the root of a lot of my communication problems. I guess I need to figure out how to translate between these better.
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by pontifier 3y ago
At some point there won't be any more suckers left. That's when crypto will really collapse.
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by pontifier 3y ago
Back in 2012 I was on a startup weekend team that built the opposite. It was a site to help landlords vet tenants. It's remarkable the amount of damage a bad tenant can do. We never actually launched it due to the possibility of it bei
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by pontifier 3y ago
I'd like to get all of it into Murfie... If I can ever get it restarted...
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by pontifier 3y ago
We need a better way to help these people live life without committing crimes. My suggestion is a type of UBI that is immediate, fair, and would immediately be effective at easing some of the desperation these people must feel. I propose a
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by pontifier 3y ago
This is very thought provoking. I think this is going to be one of those foundational pieces that I return to again and again when evaluating a situation. It helps to explain a lot of behavior that seems totally irrational on the surface.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I believe in Murfie. Despite the problems I've been having reviving it, I still believe it is the future of how music should be.
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by pontifier 4y ago
Automatic rejection is a tactic used by all sorts of con artists. If they say no and you never come back then they don't have to worry about you anymore.
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by pontifier 4y ago
It's the way the judge references the ReDigi case that is troubling to me. It's been a while since I read it, but I thought ReDigi found that digital copies don't have the same first sale rights that physical copies do. This
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by pontifier 4y ago
I'm a little bit worried about how this might affect Murfie. I've been an advocate for years for a model where people own physical media, and have access to the media they own in any way they see fit. The way this ruling is struct
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by pontifier 4y ago
There is a precedent that any work done in a data center on behalf of a user, because a user initiated the action, has the same protections as if the user had performed the action themselves. It has been used, in connection to copyright, to
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by pontifier 4y ago
If I wave my camera around taking lots of pictures, and then find one that I really really like I can copyright it. If I generate a bunch of AI images and find one that I really really like, I think I should be able to copyright that too. I
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by pontifier 4y ago
Art is in the eye of the beholder. We're going to be awash in so much AI generated content that the act of lifting something truly marvelous out of that background will be a creative action worthy of protection.
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by pontifier 4y ago
There's something kind of weird about banks. They get people to deposit money, then they lend that money out, and there's all these weird ways that they operate and make money, but deposits seem to be the weak link. At some point
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by pontifier 4y ago
I had some interesting results by asking it to interview me as if it was a writing a book about me. Somehow it really got me to think about some things I hadn't thought about in a long long time. I think it can be a very powerful tool
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by pontifier 4y ago
Oh I invested most of it, and now I don't have all that cash anymore. I have assets instead. I'm back where I can worry about spending a few bucks on something minor.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I totally had this happen. When I was growing up we didn't have much money, and I've always tried to be really frugal. I tend to agonize over minor necessary expenses like gloves or shoes. When I went from a couple hundred bucks i
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by pontifier 4y ago
I have the feeling that the next big thing we're going to see is cheap and easy ways to very effectively insulate old buildings. Then you won't need to heat or cool them very much at all.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I was thinking about doing something similar on a smaller scale to dump the heat concentrated by an air conditioning system. I was thinking that it might be useful for heating in the winter.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I can't believe nobody has shown how violent vacuum implosions can be. Here are some of my favorite vacuum implosions: Train car imploding: https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM Vacuum chamber imploding: https://yout
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by pontifier 4y ago
The National Upcycled Computing Collective ( https://www.nuccinc.org/ ) is a group dedicated to this concept. They are doing some very interesting work along these lines.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I have some friends at the National Upcycled Computing Collective ( https://www.nuccinc.org/ ) that have been talking about the untapped resource of older devices for several years. I highly recommend checking them out.
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by pontifier 4y ago
The scanner works perfectly in everything except Firefox. I've tried multiple scanners, I've tried different settings. I think I even tried setting an inter-character delay. Firefox is the only thing that seems to drop characters.
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by pontifier 4y ago
I switched to Firefox several years ago out of principal, but it's been a struggle to stay with it. 2 big issues I have are the tendency to freeze, and then say "restart to keep using Firefox" because it updated in the backgr
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by pontifier 4y ago
This article nicely explains something that most people just don't get when I talk to them about cryonics. Death is a legal construct that has changed meaning over time. Every new medical advance we make shifts that line a little so th
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by pontifier 4y ago
I seem to recall Xerox Parc was designed to foster serendipitous meetings between departments. Some individuals probably feel much more productive because they're able to work without interruption. My guess is that because serendipity
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by pontifier 4y ago
After "Time Train", I saw "Timer Tain" and couldn't figure out what a "Tain" or an "eTain" was. I even saw "Tim Ere Tain" before I saw "Time Retain". Maybe just keep that &quo

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