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by simbolit 3y ago
PSA: if you have bad eyesight, you see everything a little bit blurred all the time, so the effect won't work well (or at all) on you.
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by simbolit 3y ago
What does the article really contribute? The announcement was 10 days ago. I can't find anything in the article that gives me new actionable information. Can people who upvoted this please explain why they did? Thanks!
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by simbolit 3y ago
We are talking about a gun manufacturer, not an owner.
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by simbolit 3y ago
So (a) subscription doesn't work at scale (b) advertising has turned the web into a hellhole (c) media being a billionaires hobby has obvious democracy deficits (d) ....?
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by simbolit 3y ago
"Just like we will always need jails." citation needed
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by simbolit 3y ago
Three years ago, Tom Scott made a road trip visualization of a billion dollars: https://piped.video/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg Around the same time this rice visualization went viral: https://piped.video/watch?v=qS
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by simbolit 3y ago
What do you even mean? What we currently call "ai" is a practical application of technologies in the paradigm called "big data". It really helps to learn a bit about the actual technologies instead of just following the
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by simbolit 3y ago
Question: What is the relation between O̶p̶e̶n̶AI and this website? Isn't Sam Altman also part-owner of YC?
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by simbolit 3y ago
If they so scared of AI, they could just stop building it.
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by simbolit 3y ago
And I think it's fair to say they don't, per conventional understanding. Good for both of us.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Can confirm, this (scribblediffusion) is much better!! I doodled a cat, and then prompted it with "cat", "bird", and "snake". All three look like my doodle, the cat looks great, the other two look forced, just
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by simbolit 3y ago
try doodling a cat and prompting 'bird' or vice versa and you see what I mean.
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by simbolit 3y ago
it doesn't work. it just creates images based on the prompt, it has nothing to do with the doodle at all. Edit: after some trying, there is sometimes some rough shape matching, but it's often very much off.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Why are you posting this to very second comment? What do you mean by "actual science"? Like it's not based on chemistry? Boy, have I got a surprise pharmaceutical industry for you. It seems you don't have a good understa
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by simbolit 3y ago
You are spam-posting this bullshit. Please stop. I answered you above when you posted the exact same two paragraphs. Please read up on the science before claiming "is not based on science". Thanks!
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by simbolit 3y ago
You start with therapy "potential to do more harm than good", which I agree with. Then you claim 'therapy' is "not based on science", which (a) suggests you might have a very narrow STEM-y view of what "sc
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by simbolit 12y ago
it seems, given the existence of a market for commercially archiving/indexing ala lexisnexis, this means that europeans will have the right to be forgotten by their neighbours (using google), but not by their neighbour's lawyers (
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by simbolit 12y ago
I use http://owncloud.org and am quite happy. But also happy for more competition :-)
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by simbolit 12y ago
i did not read the text before. and i have a flatmate who sometimes knocks on the wall to alert me to something. i actually did stop the audio file and went over into the other room, only to find that he was not home. SPOOOKY. even after i
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by simbolit 13y ago
in germany you get paid if you bring paper to commercial recycling centres. virtually nobody does it though, because the regular municipal waste disposal picks it up for free. and yes, it really is free, you only pay for disposal of unsorte
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Keybase – a public directory of publicly auditable public keys.(keybase.io)
2 points by simbolit 13y ago|0 comments
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The Doom Loop of Oligarchy(vox.com)
7 points by simbolit 13y ago|1 comments
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by simbolit 13y ago
also read: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/04/12/earth-to-mozilla... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584900 was on HN homepage earlier in the day.
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by simbolit 13y ago
i live in berlin and just heard about him for the first time ever. granted, i don't care much about party politics, but this article seems more like Spiegel pushing him, then genuine "he is the next big thing" reporting..
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by simbolit 13y ago
what is it with the elephant?
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by simbolit 13y ago
Also relevant to this: the 2009 Louis CK "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" skit http://vimeo.com/77899816 http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/revisiting-louis-cks-%E2%80...
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Welcome to the Age of the Upgrade(theverge.com)
3 points by simbolit 13y ago|1 comments
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by simbolit 13y ago
what happened to Stypi? their last blog entry is more than a year old (which usually is a sign of death/abandonment).
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by simbolit 13y ago
I remember reading an article about this phenomenon, and arguing from that "plagiarism" as a concept will eat the "copyright" concept. unfortunately i cannot find it right now.
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by simbolit 13y ago
i thought that to be the one obvious position. the other (imho) equally obvious position seems to be the following: copyright is protection of intellectual property, and securing property rights is the prime reason for goverment to exist. a

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