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by smolder 2y ago
Well I can't say I've known any crack addicts really, only met a couple people who have tried it. I've known some people who got into cocaine and were never quite the same, though. Also some people who started out fairly resp
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by smolder 2y ago
I had to google it, but I guess you're insinuating that I've done crack? Fact is, it's smoked cocaine, and the level of scaremongering about it was pretty absurd compared to powder cocaine, amphetamine, or opiates, all arguab
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by smolder 2y ago
I know what kind of havok a gambling addiction can cause, and it's no joke. It's powerful enough (for some people, at least) that a comparison to addictive drugs generally is apt, yet the traps are everywhere and usually legal. Ex
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by smolder 2y ago
Just personal experience and that of people close to me. Sorry, I have nothing concrete to offer here.
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This title is stupid. Comparisons to crack cocaine should have stopped in the 90's or early 00's at the latest. They're never made by people who have the slightest idea about what idea crack was, and whoever wrote that is ex
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Insurance company employees have among the lowest productivity to pay ratios of nearly any industry. They harbor a workforce that is low skill, low effort, and high profit, largely via nepotistic hiring.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's not that simple. In fact it's impossible in some cases if you don't sprinkle unsafe everywhere and defeat the purpose. Rusts restrictions are so that it can be statically analyzed to guarantee safety. The superset of all
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by smolder 2y ago
There are still plenty of things in nature we don't fully understand. In some sense fungi might be more advanced than us, but nothing on earth seems more inclined towards growth and omnivorous consumption as humans. It's almost ta
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by smolder 2y ago
Apparently the two classes are diamagnetism and paramagnetism. Best I can get from reading, diamagnetic materials are more random in their alignment (and repulsed by magnetic fields) and paramagnetic ones are more uniformly aligned (and att
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by smolder 2y ago
Okay, let's say we built the future to your satisfaction, and then what? We would probably play games. How much future do you need to build before it's okay to enjoy your time alive immersed in trivialities?
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by smolder 2y ago
As opposed to a chart.
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm sure they meant it refutes pilot-wave theory, though it seems that's not precisely true if you consider a non-local hidden variable to explain instantaneous interaction.
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For menus it makes sense. For compression schemes I see a lot of downside, mainly inefficiency of hardware.
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by smolder 2y ago
I will humbly disagree. I don't think fiction plays into it much, more the other way around. I think the 'multiple universes' ideas in fiction are likely to have been inspired by those experimental results. Just knowing how t
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by smolder 2y ago
I think the minimum amount of understanding needed to grasp MWI is understanding the double slit experiment. The interference pattern is real, thus the waves are real, but we only experience one measurable outcome where a photon lands in a
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by smolder 2y ago
Offering USB flash versions would make sense, too, given the low cost presently. There's probably a market for write-once flash drives.
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The solution of the day would have been to put a .jar on each disc and it would have been a nightmare, I think.
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by smolder 2y ago
Put another way, many people have contributed to Bezos' bottom line for free. The restriction is annoying but there should probably be a better way to get a piece of that huge value for everyone who generates it, mostly thanklessly. So
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by smolder 2y ago
Oh my mistake.
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm pretty sure pilot wave is the same kind of unfalsifiable interpretation of the experimental results that MWI is. Also I think people are making too big a deal out of the comment in the article. I took it as kind of tongue-in-cheek.
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by smolder 2y ago
I remember expert systems being considered AI, so LLMs ought to meet that bar as well. They aren't AGI, though, which is a higher one, I guess. I'm not in love with the various terms and the various ways people define them. Even L
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by smolder 2y ago
Blizzard started down the path to failure when they merged with Activision, though I'm not sure they would have lasted much longer outside of that. It's apparent to me the only way "make quality stuff" survives as a stra
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by smolder 2y ago
Being long doesn't necessarily mean they aren't bad for attention spans. I recall seeing a reviewer complain about a story driven game recently where the characters were constantly restating plot points to make sure you didn'
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm not personally aware of academic study of this (and haven't looked, admittedly,) but my experience and anecdata from others I've known says that yes it can be very affected --our attention spans are malleable and affected
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by smolder 2y ago
A worse case of meddling is the oil industry. They have been considered strategically important and gotten mind-blowingly expensive special treatment for a long time. That's one example among many.
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by smolder 2y ago
Interesting! I specifically remember wondering "why is the skin so tough on this?" before, when trying to take a bite of a sandwich and ending up with a whole slice of tomato pulling out.
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by smolder 2y ago
I was totally confused by the description of the Opal apple as "A tasty unwiped anus" until I clicked and saw what they look like.
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by smolder 2y ago
I love garden grown tomatoes but am frequently disappointed by the flavorless, watery, mushy ones that show up in my sandwiches and salads when I eat out. Seasonality is a factor, maybe.
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That's the intent, but evidently, (and sadly,) it doesn't work how it should. There's too much influence from moneyed interests and just too much bad faith participation and gaming of the various processes. It was bad when I
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by smolder 2y ago
It's too bad no one in government will ever step up to undo the citizens united ruling. At least we didn't have legal-but-opaque bribery, prior. The difference is substantial when people can't report on where campaign financi

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