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by rdiddly 5y ago
The Times has become one of the biggest online bullies. To be consistent the author would have to quit working there. Consider this article therapy, part of her process of working it out.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I don't think that's the only thing going on. Twitter has code written and an ML model trained to actively and intentionally surface material of indeterminate quality that is likely to drive engagement. HN has people using moderat
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I don't want to cast the central concern as trivial, because it's real, BUT, c'mon, "beating China in AI is imperative?" Grow up. To "beat" anybody (and for that matter to have any sort of claim to deservi
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Guessing at "the problem" before reading the piece, I figured it would be that it's weak in tension. Not quite what they said, but that does happen to be the reason you need rebar in the first place. Concrete however does an
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yep and even that zinc coating has a lifespan.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Watching your cognitive dissonance work itself out is funny and sad at the same time. You might be about ready to read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Anyway, this "meme" is coming from the facts. Th
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by rdiddly 5y ago
All I know is, if "intelligence" about my medical records ever gets released I'm gonna be pissed. These are human beings with rights, even if neither China nor the US recognizes that.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Building useful stuff with a "user base" of one falls under that too. I'm my own customer.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
They are all in this together? Paying more means you fill your vacancy. Edit: The cheapskate can follow suit and maybe that convinces one person to undertake the 8-week cert. No more shortage. Or maybe they don't pay more and are DDoS&
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I'll save you a lot of reading: They still read photo geotags.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
It's great. Lose the oversize "frunk" and poor visibility, most of the cockpit distractions, all the electronic surveillance crap, 80% of these features, and cut the price in half, and I might consider it! Because of the ren
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I admire the spirit of this comment but can't quite get onboard, because "the trenches" can be kind of a demoralizing place, especially when you're not winning the war. I've spent 30 years bike-commuting for example
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Absolutely, why do you think the first jock called the first nerd a nerd for the first time? He was projecting!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Given how long this particular article goes on about how they don't know anything, they're baffled etc., I'm guessing the value of it is in concealing how much they do know. Maybe an adversary is responsible and they know per
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Kind of silly. Whatever he didn't predict, he would've watched happen, adapted to, profited from, and probably taken credit for retroactively.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The hedonic treadmill has a slow setting too!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
That would help. Although there's some cognitive load involved, and the question for me is "What's the upside?" I suppose I've done exactly what you're suggesting, but I've drawn the line at social media i
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Traffic is also miserable and public transit is reportedly pretty inadequate, so yeah there are other costs/considerations. You can't ever really talk land-use without talking transportation. (Although this pandemic has brought us
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Say n = 3. You've got 3 people, all of whom are equally wealthy. Now make one of them richer. The other two are now poor. They weren't before, but now they are, by comparison if nothing else. It's a wealth distribution. You
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It's not just that Joe is rich while Bob is poor. Joe is rich because Bob is poor. And vice versa. It can't be any other way. Grasp that and you've got the whole thing. Sure, focus on living standards and opportunity, but
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by rdiddly 6y ago
They seem to leave out the obvious, which is that there's just no way transporting you plus 1-2 tons of car from A to B, is ever going to use less energy than transporting you plus a 20-pound bike, or you plus nothing.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It seems to me excluding even convicted criminals, is discriminatory. Let's pretend we're talking about an "ordinary" crime like armed robbery, instead of one of the ones the news media like to obsess about (which would
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by rdiddly 6y ago
They seem to be trying to be nothing at all, and getting closer with each passing year!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The best liars, like the best actors, actually believe what they're saying though, so I don't think false confidence is the answer.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"pee labor" LOL
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I'm late to the thread (had to find it satirized on n-gate.com) but I'm against all conflation/confusion. Against conflating/confusing master (as opposed to copy) with master (as opposed to slave). And especially, since
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Or three per. Use a triangular spreader/yoke to keep them from having to pull laterally against (away from) each other. Single pivot point in the middle from which the load is suspended, allowing for imperfect coordination during hover
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The containers are typically rated for no more than 40,000 lbs each. Skycrane can lift 20,000, so you'd use two per.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yep. Throw a bunch of these and a bunch of fossil fuels at the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-64_Skycrane
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Absolutely, I was already thinking Wilhelm Scream as I finally arrived at those words in your comment! Edit: What we need is a satirical movie full of in-jokes, like opening a wilderness long-shot with a Wilhelm Scream.

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