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by pwinnski 4y ago
Hi, I wrote the comment that you seem to be responding to, a comment that includes the phrase "Not saying the US didn't do it," so I'm not sure how that qualifies as "dismissed out of hand." My point was that
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There was no big gas leak, the pipeline had already been shut down by the Russians a week or so prior.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It is indeed sad how Hersh started out so strongly and went so bizarrely off the rails in his later years. I want to believe it was a natural progression, that having seen the great evils the US was capable of, he start to see US evil every
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There is debate and uncertainty online. I doubt there's any debate or uncertainty among the heads of state being sent the message.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most things, but mostly by omission. For some examples: https://newpol.org/the-nord-stream-pipeline-explosions-chall...
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Nothing about Hersh's story makes any sense at all. Unfortunately, while Hersh developed a strong reputation decades ago, that story reads like Russian propaganda. Embarrassingly so[0]. Not saying the US didn't do it, but that the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
How deep do they need to go? How close do they need to be? Let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be. Since we're well into speculation mode here, try this: footage of the aftermath[0] reveals an enormous 50-meter
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think looking into what their selling pattern was like in 2021 makes sense. If it was similar, then yes, there's nothing to see here. Worth checking, though.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that when I said "all" I should clarify that I meant "all platforms that provide a similar level of services, including subscriptions on behalf of third parties for which payment is made
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because I'm not sure counting is something that has been explicitly tagged or trained for. Clearly always-accurate counts are not an emergent feature, but if you tagged a large set of images with tags we think are too obvious to tag as
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Weird, I linked directly to the image as a PNG file, and checked it on my computer, it is just the image, nothing else. Based on your comment, I just tried clicking on my phone instead, and sure enough, imgur intercepts and redirects to img
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Anyone can launch a system to manage subscriptions on any platform other than Apple's, and yet somehow all of the systems people have launched on every platform other than Apple's are worse than Apple's. In Epic's case,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I suspect inability to count is a thing that can be trained for, although whether that will come at the expense of something else, I'm not sure. I appreciate the humor. :)
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Neither of them produced a result I could use. One or the other might be more aesthetically pleasing to you depending on what you focus on, but both are very badly broken in fundamental ways. If anything, I'd say v5 is more confident a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Let's try "chinese girl making heart with fingers --v 5", a prompt I had used before under v4. Result: https://i.imgur.com/jPgBqsX.png In image 1, the subject appears to be missing a digit on each hand. In im
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I tried the same prompt but with "--v 5" instead, and got this: https://i.imgur.com/eElOkjU.png I only see "stuff on the face" in the third image, which I guess is an improvement. I'm not sure I&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's easy to prompt for people with closed mouths and hands not visible, but with MidJourney at least, I would consistently get what I can only describe as "stuff on their face" with almost every prompt involving a human. Les
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> With current hardware, it's not a big deal. You should make this your marketing slogan. "Try our CDN, with current hardware the gross inefficiencies other CDNs spend a lot of time and effort eliminating are not a big deal.&qu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
What does that have to do with anything I said? Or is it just a reflex anytime anyone mentions Apple?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sometimes it's exponential over very short periods. The fallacy is in thinking that will continue.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Three things about "how Uber works": 1. It started out burning huge amounts of investor capital, basically transferring all of that money to drivers and in the form of subsidized rides, to riders. 2. It works today by a combinatio
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Mostly lawyers.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple makes it incredibly easy to manage and cancel subscriptions. Would that all companies matched them! One reason I don't begrudge them their 30% is that I could easily lose that much or more trying to get some vendors to cancel sub
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> The engineer who looks good on paper. This person will simply not list the certification on their profile – they have no reason to! I don't think I buy this logic. I finished an online course with a good test score, and it prompte
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Is your argument that landlords are by and large rational actors? Yes, I will concede that landlords are by and large rational actors, although I'm not sure that means as much as you seem to think it does. A landlord is investing, and
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You only have to move once or twice in 30 years for home ownership to not make a ton of sense. "Constantly" seems like hyperbole. This also assumes that you aren't facing high maintenance costs. One popular rule of thumb sugg
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Expecting progress to be linear is a fallacy in thinking.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Lucky Canada!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Those things are also true here! A "home equity line of credit" or HELOC is very common, especially when interest rates are incredibly low, as they were before last year. Also, most people understand that other than some edge case
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by pwinnski 4y ago
A landlord charges what the market will bear, and a unit sitting empty for a month is expensive, so sometimes they'll charge slightly less. If that doesn't quite cover their own costs, well, they're in this for the long haul,

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