stemlord

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   by stemlord 5y ago

   I appreciate you adding a more technical description to aid my inital sentiment, and thanks for sharing your vid, was funny and you actually managed to harness style transfer filters to achieve a particular feeling, which I haven't see
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Your wife is awesome
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Does anyone know of any AI generated visual art that's about the output (form and composition) that isn't complete garbage? It's so far away from competing with the generations of aesthetic development we see in the status qu
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   But part of the value of WFH is the ability to lower work-time to something even less than one third. I've always found it extremely difficult to foster worthwhile relationships and have truly fulfilling fun in a corporate PC environme
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Agreed
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   The only QR related issue here is lack of signal, everything else is irrelevant
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Someone on HN posted a link to a job board site they built which aggregates these companies, in a comment within the past couple months. I'm unable to find it now but hopefully that makes another appearance here!
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Fast Company articles feel like their goal is to promote a business rather than disseminate valuable information.
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   by stemlord 5y ago

   Alt link: https://archive.is/S2aGo Seems like BS to me because: - Purchasing prices have gone up but so have rental prices. Purchasing may no longer be a good investment for the avg american but renting was NEVER an investm
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    I mean, how much of motivation comes from one's environment/upbringing... I have a strong sense that the vast majority of them thought they just didnt have opportunities to begin with, leading later to the deduction that "the
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    >A person who does nothing with their life when they could be doing something is really a narcissist. I spent a mere year after college living with my parents, a very long and sad year, wondering if this was going to be the rest of my li
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    You're talking about webm right?
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Not a Britney fan I see
14. 524.▲
    by stemlord 5y ago

    I used neither of those words incorrectly and that's not what I said
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Yeah I shouldn't have used "toxic", it sets off people's SJW alarm
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    LOL raising a nuclear family isn't the only way to find happiness in life. How narrow minded do you have to be to think that?
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Both of your perspectives are equally toxic... have kids if you want them, don't if you don't. I'm sure one can find happiness or misery either way
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Industrial society and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Obviously it's not useless. I'd say it's super important even, because it fosters a culture beyond the dominant capitalist culture of consumption for the sake of consumption which seems to eat away at every facet of living le
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    I read it as "Some can manage to get the thing done by avoiding the complexity, geniuses remove the complexity for everyone"
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    If I'm gonna pay for a service it sure as shit isn't gonna be from a company with no customer support system
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    This already exists on yt in the form of sponsored content in pro youtubers' videos, I use an extension called SponsorBlock that uses crowdsourced reporting to find and skip these portions... this crowdsourced approach will only work w
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    McDonald's, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    >Listening to a bunch self-proclaimed "thought leaders" tell almost biblical tales about their struggles that lead to their dubious success, followed by an "ok, let's reset the room" and then a bunch of back patt
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    by stemlord 5y ago

    Lol. Apparently she's not even the one who rented it
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    by stemlord 6y ago

    Same, I don't want to spread negativity but I literally have nowhere else in my life to express the fact that I'm seriously considering how I'm going to kill myself when societies begin to starve en masse
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    by stemlord 6y ago

    Yeah maybe, that same article argued that SUVs aren't actually safer though. Wish I could find it, I think I found it via HN
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    by stemlord 6y ago

    I believe a lot of bicycle hate in middle class American culture is a result of propaganda from big oil corporate lobbying. I also read somewhere recently a theory that big cars are a way of protecting (even just psychologically) wealthy pe
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    by stemlord 6y ago

    Yes it would require radically rethinking how a lot of cities are designed, definitely a distant goalpost
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    by stemlord 6y ago

    I don't know anyone who's actually paying for PrEP here in the US because pretty much every provider's going to cover it, no? It's more expensive treat HIV than it is to prevent it, so if you're an at-risk individua