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by shkkmo 2y ago
There are constent issues, but I have a large number of hours spent playing on my steam deck with a PS5 player.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
It absolutely is a general purpose computer, one with it's capabilities hidden and restricted from the user.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Sure, but you are in no way forced or pushed to do that. You only do it if you really want to play their exclusive games. Personally, I think exclusivity deals need to be banned. The are an inherently anti-competitive practice that doe
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Not only this, but I am not convinced that Arrowhead are entirely on the up and up about blaming Sony. I've seen too many places where the Sony messaging is pretty clear about accounts not being required. It seems very strange that Son
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Sony was/is selling steam codes on their own store with a QA that clearly explains that PSN accounts are not required for PS games on PC > https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-games/helldivers-2-...
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> you will need a Steam account to redeem your voucher code. This is an official page where Sony themselves sell the game via providing voucher codes for steam. You can buy the game here without ever visiting the steam page. This clearly
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Do some traveling and broaden your horizons. It isn't a particularly novel or even rare opinion. "American" is one of the idiocies of the English language, and you'll notice it is the only language that presumes that tha
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by shkkmo 2y ago
That seems like a biased source given they nake money killing rats.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
You've literally provided zero evidence beyond hearsay from an alleged statistician friend. The prediabetes level is drawn from where you see a huge uptick in the risks for developing diabetes mellitus. You want data? There is plenty o
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Travel to some other american countries and ask them what they think of the appropriation of the word. Not everyone is a fan. I don't really get how you think a company using the name of the country is wrong but somehow a country appr
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by shkkmo 2y ago
I think a lot of SO's problems comes from it trying to pretend it was building a knowledge base when it was really only ever a question and answer site. It was nice to use early in its life when every answer was fresh. These days, the
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by shkkmo 2y ago
They also prioritize price, especially at the low end. If sodium batteries are significantly cheaper, it will be used to produce low cost devices.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
> it will actually, for the first time ever in living memory, be possible for someone to fully federally legally possess a THC-active form of cannabis without further Congressional action. Interesting point of history, the Federal US Gov
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by shkkmo 3y ago
> There are literally millions of actions associated with a product, and I would again argue that >99.9 are made in the favor of patient interest. That isn't even true at non-profits, let alone for profit companies. You seem to h
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by shkkmo 3y ago
This critcism is about a decade out of date: > In 2014, after Hong Kong protesters demonstrated to the world how effective a tool it was, news blogs quickly pointed out that FireChat messages were not secure. By 2015, Open Garden updated
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by shkkmo 3y ago
The quality of the article is what should drive voting and flagging. Your personal opinion as to what level of AI tooling was used in crafting the content is a low value signal and posting that speculation without meaningfully engaging in t
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by shkkmo 3y ago
Did I say that? Putting words in people's mouths is a juvenile debate tactic. I do think that newer more expensive products provide worse patient outcomes at rates significantly higher than 1 / 1000 times. However, the comment I o
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by shkkmo 3y ago
This is going to become one the the site no-nos. What does this assertion add to the discussion? Is there any argument that serves as refutation?
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by shkkmo 3y ago
> 99.9% of the time, the way to make more money is to make a product that saves or cures more people. That is laughably optimistic.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
Should there be? A single example isn't going to change a prevailing trend. If laws change to by and large hold companies responsible and make them liable for their outsourced ethical violations, the mindset will gradually change. IMH
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by shkkmo 3y ago
So the TLDR; is don't trust any corporate open source that requires a CLA and don't contribute to those projects unless you are prepared to fork if the rug gets pulled.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
That is exactly what study 2 of this paper looks at and the answer is that if you control for age, gender and ethnicity, individual raters can't do much better that guessing (r=.02) but if you aggregate the ratings you start to gain ac
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by shkkmo 3y ago
Anytime you read an article about a study, it is worth taking the article's claims with a large grain of salt. This article at least provides a link to the full text of the study paper in the opening line.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
Sure, there are other issues with this study too. However, simply asserting that something explains the results while not addressing the ways that the study actually look at that factor is not a valuable contribution to the conversation. Yo
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by shkkmo 3y ago
The study cropped hair styles, shaved facial hair and controlled for age and ethnicity. They even looked at it BMI could explain the predictive accuracy. The conclusion is that facial shape alone is as strong a predictor of political affili
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by shkkmo 3y ago
Since they controlled for both ethnicity and age, all you have to do is read the study to answer your questions.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
You could read the study and find out. The simple version was is that there are statistical methods that allow you to control for known factors in wheb doing statistical analysis.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
They expressly look at the predictive power of BMI in Study 4 > How does the predictive power of the lower face size and BMI compare with the predictive power of the facial recognition algorithm estimated in Study 1? Would the VGGFace2-b
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by shkkmo 3y ago
The article explicitly corrected for age, and several other factors to try to expressly focus on facial features.
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by shkkmo 3y ago
It isn't hard to correctly convert from camel case, you just tree any sequence of one letter words as a single word. However, without a standard for camel case acronym calculation, when you convert back you won't necessarily get

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