theferalrobot

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by theferalrobot 4y ago
What if our replacement hinges are dropping when stationary too?
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by theferalrobot 4y ago
> preach lower conscientiousness, lower agreeableness How conscientious and agreeable of you
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by theferalrobot 4y ago
I’m seeing 5.0% most places (see ally bank). Still higher than its been but not pushing 6% by any stretch.
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by theferalrobot 4y ago
Anyone else here have the annoying hinge issue where the laptop screen won’t stay up? I even got new hinges and the problem remains… maybe just bad luck. Between that and battery life though I would exercise some caution OP. I love the fram
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by theferalrobot 5y ago
I think the point is more that dwelling on wheather or not to call what a submarine does, ‘swimming’ is a pointless debate, only based on how you define the word. Certainly there are interesting conversations to be had around the subject as
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by theferalrobot 5y ago
I think you are completely missing what I am saying and you also seem to be fallaciously appealing to skepticism (are you a global skeptic [0]?). Sure you can say ‘but there is so much we don’t know’, I’m not arguing we know everything. Tha
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by theferalrobot 5y ago
>but people who suspect that's not the full story, well that's pointless to debate, they should use my framework for discussion You can believe whatever you want, use whatever framework you want (religion, spirituality, science
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by theferalrobot 5y ago
I feel like everyone taking a hardline stance on this is being disingenuous - consciousness as it is used in pop culture is a largely non-scientific (and in my opinion a useless) term. If you claim 'consciousness' is just an emer
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Slightly off topic but... as someone that is moving out of the city and even a few states over does anyone have any advice on home buying? Would it be better to buy now or rent for a bit and then buy? Is that like asking what stocks to inve
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
That seems at least a bit hyperbolic - AMD has pushed intel a lot in the past four years but it wasn't until the past year or so that they have potentially started outperforming Intel (depending on workload) in what is likely to be a &
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> Are the vaccines really free in the US or will hospitals still catch you with copay, deductibles and other stuff? Yes they are free and there can be no cost sharing of any kind in the USA - insured and uninsured get if free. Same goes
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> 250x less water Compared to what exactly and for what crop? Rain is free and is all that is needed for plenty of crops
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Totally agree, design today takes itself way too seriously to the point that it all looks like it came from the same corporate hell hole. This is a breath of fresh air.
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Like all things with the oxford vaccine - that is only if you look at one slice of the data (in which there were no elderly)... why they didn’t include elderly is beyond me but of course there aren’t going to be severe cases in vaccinated p
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
And presumably they would melt down a few plants in the Nevada desert nuclear sites before launching... there’s an obvious difference between testing and deployment
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
You could say the same thing about Linux. Standardization is helpful - there are so many companies with an interest in chromium it’s not just a google project anymore it is a huge community project.
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> Human judgment needs to be a part of the process if a good experience is desired Yeah just to second this I think that a lot of us coming from software backgrounds like to think of laws as being code, fully definable, automatable and c
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> In total, 650 million books were locked up just in public libraries alone. Because of that, we felt we could, and should, and needed to make the digitized versions of those books available to students Libraries also have movies and mu
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
I’m 99% sure that that is already the case (and has been).
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Most app backups in icloud are end to end encrypted. If you choose to backup your entire device in icloud (rather than automatically on your local mac) that backup is not end to end encrypted. I agree it should be but that doesn’t seem like
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Per OPs comment - it isn’t about a compromised system for me at all at least. If I’m in a video conference at 6am in my pjs I’m just a button click away from everybody seeing me. Camera cover let’s me know I can’t accidentally do this (and
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Not OP but I can speak with a small example from my previous field - coral reef ecology. It used to be standard to collect video footage and hand annotate small portions of the footage to draw up some statistics about the reef progression.
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Everyone always looks to consumer tech but at least where I am at the far more successful and interesting domains are outside of that (and frankly most serious jobs too). I used to work for a lab doing coral reef sea floor mapping to track
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> These secondary sanctions are not based on international treaties and trade negotiations You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about - these things don’t just happen overnight cause the US says so. Sanctions in this case have be
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> No u Lol the article you list was published before the documentation cited was presented (and before my articles were even published) - additionally you are moving the goalposts - the op claim is that the nsa hasn’t foiled any terror p
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
You didn’t even read your own article. A panel member claimed the phone metadata collection program hadn’t saved any lives/foiled any attacks - not that the NSA itself hasn’t. Additionally they present this as being at odds with the Ob
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> Sounds like the NSA who couldn't point to a single instance of stopping any type of terrorist attack/operation despite collecting anything they could get their hands on. This can’t be true - there are plenty of sources citing
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
You are referring to things that were agreed to in international treaties and trade negotiations - again these sorts of things are super common
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
For Europe: see GDPR It’s entirely common for countries to have codes that affect those outside their borders - especially ones that were agreed upon in treaty or trade deal. What is unique here is a country demanding that a non local compa
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
You can be an advertising company and also make some contributions to tech at the same time

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