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by runnerup 4y ago
>> So.. earlier they encouraged foreigners to buy houses in order to get PR cards, now they ban it?? Yes, because at one point they thought they had enough property and could use more money. Either they were wrong or at some point tha
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by runnerup 4y ago
The USA still has no peers, only "near-peers".
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by runnerup 4y ago
Not to mention, the first procedure is partially/mostly illegal in the USA now. Localbitcoins.com doesn't facilitate in-person transactions anymore and coffee-shop brokers operating over craigslist have been prosecuted.
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by runnerup 4y ago
Not until they fill the FCC position that’s been open since Trump left office. FCC is pretty deadlocked as long as congress won’t vote for the nominated replacement.
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by runnerup 4y ago
Each other, mostly. But yes also our environment. Most humans’ social/conversational speech appears to be little more than a Markov chain. From schoolchildren to restaurant workers to office workers…there’s generally accepted call-and-
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by runnerup 4y ago
The old Firefox is a pretty big signal for anti-bot filters. They can generally figure out what hardware you’re on via canvas fingerprinting. Also IPv6 is generally downrated as well. Essentially, if your fingerprint looks different from wh
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by runnerup 4y ago
Fair enough. I hope I was clear that I do think that computer programs can understand. I just don't think that optimizing for solving the Turing test will generally yield a computer program capable of "understanding" or &quot
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by runnerup 4y ago
Thank you. I have absolutely no idea how I mixed these up despite being very familiar with all the associated concepts and their respective labels.
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by runnerup 4y ago
This feels so, so eerily similar to customizations that were common in the early 90's.
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by runnerup 4y ago
I like the heat here in TX. I moved from Michigan, where I also enjoyed the cold (but not the lack of sunlight, affinis Seattle). Saudi Arabia was a bit too hot for my taste, but Texas summers are very enjoyable to me. I may be an outlier
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by runnerup 4y ago
ChatGPT seems like it is "just" a very advanced Chinese Room(?). That is, it is optimized for the Turing test: for deceiving human and algorithmic classification to appear to write as "human-like" as possible. Very often
522.
by runnerup 4y ago
It depends on the region. In the southern states, the terminology is much more loose. "Freezing" just means "below 55F". "Below zero" can mean anything under 32F, it's very ambiguous (some use this correct
523.
by runnerup 4y ago
This was a much, much, much shorter cold spell than 2 years ago. It was below freezing for less than 24 hours in Houston. If it stayed below freezing for 3-5 days straight again, we'd be in an equally terrible situation as 2 years ago.
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by runnerup 4y ago
Better to be single than in a bad relationship. Take your time finding a good one. Then cherish only a supportive and kind partner.
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by runnerup 4y ago
Of course only inasmuch as your wages keep up with inflation.
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by runnerup 4y ago
> tiny AVR with 4kbit of RAM. It's more fun than you'd think. It’s also often more performant than you’d think. Even tiny microcontrollers so insane rates of calculations these days. I know these are much larger but I have trou
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by runnerup 4y ago
On this and many, many other things. Furthermore, if this is a result of correctly interpreting the constitution…our lawmakers should have, and still should, immediately change the constitution. We really need an explicit right to privac
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Supplement firm found not guilty. Prosecutorial overreach destroyed the company(thinksteroids.com)
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by runnerup 4y ago
Bonobos brand jeans have served me well. I highly recommend them. I too notice the decline in jeans quality. The cheap jeans I had as a kid in the 90’s were nearly indestructible. Sometimes I’d skin my knee but my jeans wouldn’t get a hole…
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by runnerup 4y ago
Actually the tragedy of the commons cannot be stopped by one government. If USA chooses to tax all externalities perfectly, both our production capacity and consumption will be a tiny sliver of its current quantities. By GHG alone we'd
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by runnerup 4y ago
3M isn't banning them, they're discontinuing production. Other companies can pick up the slack still.
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by runnerup 4y ago
And china can put them on products and send them to the USA anyways and mis-label them because almost nothing that is imported is actually checked for toxic chemicals/paints/etc.
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by runnerup 4y ago
I always thought that if our universe is actually a simulation, it's one of countless simulations trying to determine a solution to the Tragedy of the Commons. I suspect it's one of the hardest problems to solve in any universe.
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by runnerup 4y ago
> I'm actually not sure I agree there exists a pain severe enough to require the release of death. I think we’ll fundamentally disagree as a result of this. Like, based on each of our personal fundamental beliefs, our own ideal soci
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by runnerup 4y ago
Not in most hospitals.
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by runnerup 4y ago
> Reducto ad absurdum: If I get poison ivy and can't sleep for a few nights, should I be legally allowed to swerve headlong into traffic? I mean, you correctly labeled the fallacy here. Yours is a plainly terrible example. The pain
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by runnerup 4y ago
I’m not suffering that much and we shouldn’t make HN a place to spin a yarn for cash, or we’ll lose what makes HN great. The story is largely truthful, except for the character who has a pathological need to follow every rule. In reality, I
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by runnerup 4y ago
There are widespread reports that there is no shelter availability for single men in my metro area. I think I’ll be able to get a cot some nights, but I suspect that multiple times per week I’ll be unable to find a cot in a shelter within a
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by runnerup 4y ago
USA
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by runnerup 4y ago
There are widespread reports that there is no shelter availability for single men in my metro area. I suspect that multiple times per week I’ll be unable to find a cot in a shelter. Not sure what the legal thing to do then is. https:/

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