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by qualitative 8y ago
Maybe it's because I code, and tend to prefer plain text, but I never understood mobile apps that do note taking. I have always just really wanted basic plain text on an SD card file system, but locked Android phones and iOS actively t
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by qualitative 8y ago
Yeah, I don't know why, but I really enjoy trivial mechanical errors like that. It's somehow so wrong, but so right.
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by qualitative 8y ago
Ha ha! That video is on another level entirely. The appeal of that particular channel has nothing to do with ASMR, and you know it.
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by qualitative 8y ago
It's pretty much just a cover fronting for a genre of soft core cheesecake pinup phone sex. It targets from two angles, the models don't really understand the cheap thrills listeners get from this audio, and the listeners retain p
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by qualitative 8y ago
Epic Games is actually a Chinese company? Bluehole is Chinese too?
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by qualitative 8y ago
I wasn't aware that Riot games is actually a Chinese company.
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by qualitative 8y ago
Okay, so what's the secret military method for curing hiccups?
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by qualitative 8y ago
What are Tencent's most popular gaming properties? Are they memorable and recognizable? They're worth trillions of dollars, but I've never played any of their games?
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by qualitative 8y ago
Okay, but there's the old Amazon's showroom problem. People go to the store, look at the thing, then, maybe buy it online anyway, for any number of reasons. Net effect, physical locations become showrooms that move very little act
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by qualitative 8y ago
Civilian crypto exists, but is likely poisoned. If anything their goal is to be open about backdoors that already assuredly exist. This way there's no cat and mouse sneaking around, it can just be a known quantity that being as private
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by qualitative 8y ago
cryptography is just a mathematically-true fact Sure, but it's research for and developed by humans, often with close monitoring and participation by uniformed government representatives and undercover plants presenting them
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by qualitative 8y ago
None of this technology is new. It's been done to death as terrain following guidance systems for cruise missiles, now reapplied in a civilian context. It's technology that already exists, but must be reinvented in a non-military
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by qualitative 8y ago
So, what if strong, general AI emerges, and invents crypto systems that effectively thwart these sorts of policies? In such a scenario, the intelligent entity is not a citizen entitled to rights. And so what, because it isn't required