stvltvs

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by stvltvs 2y ago
Exactly this, purple ≠ violet. They don't even look the same. You won't see violet on a computer screen because it's a higher frequency than what blue LEDs produce. You won't see it on the output of consumer-grade print
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I imagine most of us prefer to know that a real person is on the other side of an image, but I'm sure there are plenty of us who don't care. In any case, AI porn still has a certain vibe that is detectable.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Posting on a publicly accesible website is the legal equivalent of standing on the street corner having a conversation. A police officer doesn't need to search anything because it's out in the open.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
400 million years is a fucking long time. If the right conditions existed, I don't have any problem believing abiogenesis happened here on Earth, even with the first part of that during the Hadean lava world.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
> Marketing is just raising awareness for things you might enjoy. If that were all it is, there wouldn't be much problem. Marketing is also creating a demand where there wasn't one before and exploiting psychological weakness
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by stvltvs 2y ago
That's not a description of the status quo ante. Prior Presidents more or less respected the need for independent agencies within the Executive, and the courts upheld the right of Congress to direct how money is spent meaning the Presi
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by stvltvs 2y ago
"The dose makes the poison" but I'm not in a hurry to make myself a test case for no good reason. Tastier preserves might be a good enough reason.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Doesn't that assume that you're sitting on a pile of cash already and deciding how to invest it? That's not the situation for working class investors who didn't inherit a lump sum or win the lottery. The optimal strategy
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by stvltvs 2y ago
What's the opposite of "a rising tide floats all boats"?
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by stvltvs 2y ago
It's called "fuck _me_ money", and it's one reason billionaires shouldn't exist. https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamCarolla/comments/5jfeoz/whats_t...
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by stvltvs 2y ago
They seem to be doing their best to break the American wealth machine so bad that we could see lost decades like Japan did.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Have browsers default block anything that doesn't label their content (allow this setting to be disabled and locked down in parental controls), then hold websites liable for willfully or negligently mislabeling. Exceptions for good fai
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Always learning something new with vim. For such a barebones looking editor, it's got a lot going on.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Brain tried to parse your comment as a trinary operator.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I worry that we'll get complacent and not check details like that when they are important, not just the medical field but everywhere.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Same experience. The "government = inefficient" propaganda has been repeated ad infinitum for decades so that now it feels like a law of nature to people. My experience is however that every large org is inefficient in its own uni
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by stvltvs 2y ago
There might be aspects of ourselves that cannot be changed even if we desire to change them. I am a firm believer in the growth mindset, but as I get older, I see there might be limits to it because of time, energy, money, etc. constraints.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
The Star Wars trilogy wasn't great cinema, but the amount of time we spent playing with improvised light sabers and trying to move objects with the Force attests to the imaginative possibilities behind it.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
A certain amount of websites are mandatory today, like local utilities, employer chosen health insurance, etc. I have to keep Chromium around for some that don't work right with Firefox.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Yep, grew up on cartoons like Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, etc. Looking at them now, they are laughably bad in most respects, but they sparked our imaginations and didn't need to be sophisticated to do it.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Consumption taxes are almost always regressive, hitting the poorest the hardest. Depends on how you structure them.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Does it have a microphone? I don't know the answer, but inside the car, I'd be more worried about capturing conversations than the camera.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
There's very little evidence that actual financial mismanagement determined what departments were targeted for layoffs so far. They might say that's why they're doing it, but are tight lipped with any evidence to support it.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
More like make you servers publicly inaccessible rather than delete them. Or throttle bandwidth. Or provide a warning when the cap is approaching. Etc.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Proven safe against what though? I'm a big proponent of food safety regulation, but we have to acknowledge that there's no way to prove something is safe against all possible harms it might do. There will always be a risk in food.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
You're assuming Meta's goal is to prevent misinformation and disinformation.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Time to tear down the existing political incentives and rebuild something better. To do that, we need to get big money out of politics, to replace the "lesser of two evils" voting system, and to tame partisan gerrymandering.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
How does the website prove compliance with the law under this scheme?
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Didn't find many details, so please excuse the questions. So the user would get a number of signed tokens from the gov to prove age, then a token could be shared with a site that verifies age without connecting to gov, assuming it&#x27
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Can a malicious gov site gather a list of which sites are asking for your verification?

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