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by qgin 4y ago
I believe specific groups can reject it, but that won't stop it from progressing. You'd need everybody to reject it.
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by qgin 4y ago
You're 100% right. But I'm convinced there's realistically nothing we can do to stop it. Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus (and Sapiens to a lesser extent) are about the possible future paths for humanity and computers that
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by qgin 4y ago
> As a society we can reject this technology. I don't see a lot of precedent for this. I actually can't think of one example where society has rejected a useful technology. I believe that affluent people will pay more for artis
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by qgin 4y ago
A lot of art-adjacent jobs are about to become toast.
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by qgin 4y ago
Anyone trying to personalize their optimal nutrition is already in the top 5% of Americans in regards to healthy eating. We are so, so, so far from even baseline semi-ok diets in the most generalized all-of-humanity guidelines.
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by qgin 4y ago
Seems the reason to not just increase the food fee, aka menu price, is the hope that some of these prices will come back down.
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by qgin 4y ago
I can imagine a lot more stories like the one of Billie Eilish and Finneas producing her first album at home... > This is no humblebrag bedroom studio that turns out to have been professionally outfitted. It’s just a regular bedroom, wit
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by qgin 4y ago
Semi-counterpoint: Walmart pays hourly workers more than any of the mom-and-pop retail in my hometown.
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by qgin 4y ago
Seems similar to the franchise model. Local people in local markets find the opportunities and take on the risk while the cost of the arrangement is passed on to the consumer.
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by qgin 4y ago
I mean, many people would consider her leaving to be an important event. For all intents and purposes, she ran one of the largest internet platforms for 14 years.
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by qgin 4y ago
People at her level don't work for 14 years with someone they don't have a good relationship with.
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by qgin 4y ago
https://twitter.com/giannis_daras/status/1531693104821985280 This one melts my brain a bit, I’m not going to lie. Whales talking about food, with subtitles. “Translate” the subtitles and you get food that whales w
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by qgin 4y ago
Never occurred to me that there were actual dancing bears. I was imagining some sort of fairy tale reference.
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by qgin 4y ago
So because of the way temperatures seem to you subjectively, you're going to say there is a worldwide conspiracy of everyone who works on historical climate research to fudge the numbers?
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by qgin 4y ago
We could be producing 100% of today's electricity consumption at near-zero carbon emissions.
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by qgin 4y ago
On average, people need about 100 hours of interaction to feel a friendship connection. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407518761225
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by qgin 4y ago
The guns really do back the USD. It's true that value is set by supply and demand for both crypto and USD, but there's a key difference. Yes, crypto and USD both have a limited supply (at any given time). But the demand for crypto
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by qgin 4y ago
> anyone who wants to use it That "anyone" isn't a fixed set. The guidelines Google is listing are pretty minor steps someone can take to try to maximize the size of that set.
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by qgin 4y ago
Have to say I agree with Jony Ive on all of these points. The idea of an AR wearable that is tethered to a fixed base station is so very lame. Why even bother with AR when you can only augment the reality that is in your office or bedroom?
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by qgin 4y ago
Being able to zoom in and out and pan around using a medium-sized viewport though.
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by qgin 4y ago
This is maybe the wrong place to post this, but with fire season approaching, a pretty decent high-volume air purifier can be made using filters, tape, and a box fan: https://www.texairfilters.com/a-variation-on-the-box-fan-
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by qgin 4y ago
> But a part of my brain says that I can't spare the 3+ hours that it takes to go to the theatre. That it would be unproductive. Why is it important to always be productive? What bad things would occur if you were less productive?
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by qgin 4y ago
Thank you, this helps quite a bit. The garbage truck really is the primary obstacle, which you wouldn't realize from the title.
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by qgin 4y ago
Are there public systems in Europe where specialist waits are multiples of what OP is already experiencing?
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by qgin 4y ago
> they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings Now it’s mostly the streets.
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by qgin 4y ago
https://esphome.io/components/sensor/vl53l0x.html
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by qgin 4y ago
Absolutely amazing for when preexisting zigbee/etc devices and sensors just aren’t quite what you’re looking for. Want to use a time of flight distance sensor to trigger something in an exact spot instead of a handwavey pir motion sens
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by qgin 4y ago
Latin American Spanish already has been living in the future with this one. There was no way to pick a flag for that.
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by qgin 4y ago
Basically no significant number of people (in the United States and Europe at least) wear sunscreen every day. Furthermore above 37 degrees latitude, almost no vitamin D will be produced by sun exposure even if you spend time outside expose
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by qgin 4y ago
Nobody owes anyone an “excuse”. You are under no obligation to prove your dedication to capitalism.

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