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by rcme 3y ago
Ok, but plenty of old people do work menial jobs out of necessity. This particular old man can be a symbol of that to the author regardless of the specific circumstances regarding the old man’s employment.
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by rcme 3y ago
I don’t think Reddit has the strong position it thinks it has. Ultimately, Reddit is a waste of time for many people. Sure, there are helpful aspects of the product, but ultimately engagement is mainly driven by smartphone addiction and peo
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by rcme 3y ago
> Firstly we live in a world where limiting yourself to ASCII characters is increasingly untenable. I agree. But your original comment bemoaned the difference between using ASCII and Unicode encodings. I was just pointing out that any Un
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by rcme 3y ago
None of your complaints make any sense. If you limit your usage to ASCII characters, then all of your complaints of Unicode no longer apply. E.g. character length matches your intuition of “number of characters”.
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by rcme 3y ago
> Convenient non-plastic solutions need to be developed. PFAS coated paper?
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by rcme 3y ago
Ok sure, but that’s not really answering the question of whether or not acute exposure to campfires is worse than acute exposure to wildfire smoke.
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by rcme 3y ago
What is the “hazard” though? Is going outside really that much worse than hanging within a few feet of a campfire for hours? Obviously PM 2.5 is bad, but the actual amount of hazard from acute exposure hasn’t been contextualized, for me at
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by rcme 3y ago
I doubt lack of social space has anything to do with it. As a kid I would hang out at a literal dump with friends; what else were we going to do? It’s just too easy to waste an afternoon on TikTok.
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by rcme 3y ago
In addition to training larger models, I'm sure there are many use cases that AI could serve that are currently cost prohibitive due to the cost of running inference.
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by rcme 3y ago
I didn't mean to compare JPEG XL to JPEG. I'm more curious if there is any advantage to JPEG XL over WebP or AV1.
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by rcme 3y ago
Is there any benefit to JPEG XL (over other formats) other than old JPEGs can be losslessly re-encoded?
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by rcme 3y ago
This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.
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by rcme 3y ago
Coinbase's argument hinges upon a blockchain not being a "common enterprise." The rest of their arguments are even weaker.
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by rcme 3y ago
You could be buying it to interact with a smart contract.
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by rcme 3y ago
What is the conspiracy theory?
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by rcme 3y ago
Things in finance can happen slowly then all at once.
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by rcme 3y ago
What candidate is Dorsey endorsing and what conspiracies does this candidate believe in?
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by rcme 3y ago
A half-face P100 respirator is a much better choice for any serious dust. Also, surprisingly, P100 respirators are effortless to breathe in while offering superior protection.
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by rcme 3y ago
Job opportunities in the bay have clearly soured over the last year. So yes, real value has been lost.
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by rcme 3y ago
In this case, I think the idea was chosen for media publication not because it was surprising but because it appeals to our senses. "We" (the collective 'we') like the idea that nature is a network of things. "We&qu
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by rcme 3y ago
Walmart refuses to use AWS, for what it is worth. And no, I don't think there is a functional difference between what AWS does and what is described above.
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by rcme 3y ago
Really? Most businesses don’t seem to have any trouble uploading data to AWS.
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by rcme 3y ago
In this case, it seems like the sending of positive letters was erroneous, not the test itself. That is, the test takers tested negative but still got a letter stating they may have cancer.
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by rcme 3y ago
Are cement trucks equivalent to loved ones? I would love to know how I could replace a loved one if they perish.
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by rcme 3y ago
Hospitals have regional monopolies are are being consolidated by private equity companies. The doctors have way more leverage with the hospitals.
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by rcme 3y ago
I’m not saying it’s impossible to house the homeless. The OC was saying that the homeless is not housed because building houses for the homeless would lower real estate prices. I was just pointing out that it’s likely the opposite would hap
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by rcme 3y ago
The structures built on land usually depreciate over time. It’s the land value that appreciates. So building new stock would still increase demand for land which would increase prices everywhere.
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by rcme 3y ago
> The fact is, if we gave homes to the homeless, it would drive down the prices of housing Giving homes to the homeless would increased demand for housing, which would increase the price of houses, no?
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by rcme 3y ago
300M MAU product
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by rcme 3y ago
That doesn’t sound super successful.

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