stupidbird

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by stupidbird 8y ago
You're comparing scientific research to for-profit industry. Solar City, Tesla, The Boring Company, and Space X aren't releasing public research, it's all private IP and manufacturing. You literally could not benefit from the
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by stupidbird 8y ago
how am I personally benefitting from Elon Musk being a billionaire, taxpayer dollars shouldn't be reaching his pockets at that volume (meanwhile he prevents his employees from unionizing and suppresses injury reports at the cost of em
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by stupidbird 8y ago
All of Elon Musk's businesses rely on government subsidies.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
If you want to make it sound really cool just call it hyper-vigilance.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Probably not. As an LLC you might also be entering a whole new world devoid of worker rights by being considered a contractor rather than an employee — which of course means you don't qualify for benefits. Ask a freelancer about how wo
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by stupidbird 8y ago
"hustle culture" is a scam that's tricking you into robbing yourself of worker's rights I suppose when it comes to the advertising industry, hustle culture is at least better than misogyny and alcoholism
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It would be nice, but many countries struggle to even get funding approved to help other people who are starving. Nationalism is a huge barrier.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
...and it's a bit naive to overlook the fact that we've already done this. We've wiped hundreds of species off the face of the earth while coming to rely on other species that wouldn't exist without our intervention (e.g
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Yeah precisely, we need some middle ground between "don't use it at all" or "have 0 control over your data"
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Years ago a teenager was arrested for "hacking" because he just Google'd the answers to Sarah Palin's security questions to gain access to her Yahoo account.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
at a certain rate of adoption doesn't that kind of become like "stop using email"
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by stupidbird 8y ago
They still contribute to filesize.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Correlation without causation is a lack of data — the burden of proof is on the claim not the questioning of it
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Guessing Twitter doesn't scale/thumbnail/compress already tiny images... which is probably an oversight in this case because the file size is disproportionately large.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
These are things that are processed better by a smaller number of more powerful cores than a larger quantity of cores. Multiple cores are really good at handling a lot of smaller processes. Photoshop just has a couple really heavy individua
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I don't know enough about software to contest that statement, but I suspect you could be underestimating the the complexity of what Photoshop does. We're also talking about multi-gig files. Outside of media the occurrence of an in
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Scrolling through layers in photoshop doesn't necessarily just scroll a list though, it's also actively selecting the content of those layers... which can be very complex (I didn't watch the demo so I'm not entirely sure
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Doing everything in chat is pure insanity. It's great for the day-to-day collaborating on projects... but it's all short-term memory. Are you going to be referencing a chat from 3 years ago? We use an internal forum in addition to
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Considering it's also one of the most expensive cities to live in, there's also a large market for the types of luxury items Dyson typically markets. Though, I hope Dyson isn't looking to exploit Singapore's lack of labo
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Must be specific to your area up north because in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, that's absolutely not true.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It's a good market to start an electric car in because the range issues are basically non-existent and the infrastructure is well-maintained, relatively new, and consistent.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Why would it have to be compelled? The government could say "look here, this is an actual national security issue" and Apple, Amazon, etc could say "oh shit, you're right - how can we help?" If this were a real nati
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Exactly! The 'eyePod' comparison is really good. I haven't thought of that before but it's spot on. Ultimately, yeah, they probably ran out of possible new material (they even joked about doing the same themes across mul
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Singapore is so small that they could probably get by riding around in electric golf carts instead of cars.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
There are a lot of shifts that changed The Simpsons, but the biggest one for me was the shift to being almost constantly satirical. Classic Simpsons would occasionally get a bit satirical or referential (like when Bush Sr made a guest appea
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by stupidbird 8y ago
If anything, it would be fairly minute. The decline in quality is apparent.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
We already know that they're constantly trying to hack American IP. Our economies are symbiotic. Hurting theirs would be hurting our own.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
If they were instructed to do so by the government they would not really have a choice, which would very likely produce leaks. If true, this is vastly different from the government requesting a backdoor or various warrant canaries, this wou
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Their house, their rules. I can choose to not participate.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
>most likely came from a ton of rumors that got conflated, hence why they had to go with anonymous sources Just noting that anonymous sources aren't unknown sources — if Bloomberg says that these are people working in US Intelligenc

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