thematrixturtle

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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
He also social engineered his way to Paris Fashion Week with a random fake brand from the cheapest shop he could find: https://www.vice.com/en/article/59d8v5/i-bullshitted-my-way-...
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The primary market of tech companies in Taiwan is not Taiwan itself.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Not really, metsästää implies hunting for living things. There's a dedicated verb for mushroom foraging, sienestää, or you can say sienimetsässä, "in the mushroom forest".
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
This comparison was also made a lot in the early days of crypto, but at this point we're 15 years into crypto and real-life use cases remain awfully thin on the ground.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
You can see the same effect writ even larger in the "commieblocks" that were (and to some extent remain) omnipresent in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union. But that construction was not driven by market forces, so it's ha
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
I can't claim to speak for "everyone", but I was a crypto fanboy in the early days, when it seemed destined to be an actual currency, which would be great for all the reasons you mention. But at some point it all went off the
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Both the grammar and pronunciation of Japanese are much closer to Finnish than to English. (Not close, mind you, but close r .)
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Person: 人 Rest: 休 (person leaning against a tree)
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
My understanding is that essentially all of the risk of cosleeping comes from parents who are one or more of morbidly obese, alcoholic or drug abusers. Got sources that say otherwise? Here's one (small) study that says cosleeping is s
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Everything has risks, including stumbling around in the dark trying to put a baby back in its crib. My wife and I used separate blankets, firm latex pillows, and one of those co-sleeping mats with hard raised edges, positioned so that the
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Boundaries and a private, adult life are generally incompatible with a colicy newborn who has a finely tuned pressure alarm tuned to go off the instant you put them back in the crib, no matter how gently you do it. Most spouses are also les
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
> And in 2009, nine years after its purchase by Unilever, France's biggest Dijon producer, Amora-Maille (which makes Maille mustard), closed its Dijon factory, moving production to the nearby commune of Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur. Bef
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Yeah, sorry, free time is going to be a thing of the past for a while. On the upside, you'll eventually get used to being woken up multiple times per night, and you'll be so perma-tired that you'll fall asleep easily afterwa
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Krazam: Microservices [video](youtube.com)
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
For others feeling out of the loop: apparently one of Cloudfront's customers is "Kiwi Farms", which is apparently a discussion forum for trolls, some of whom have apparently conducted swatting ("murder") attempts ag
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Korea and Japan are very much against mass immigration. Koreans in particular are notoriously xenophobic: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/asia/south-korea-di... There's also an even w
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Singapore is small and an educational pressure cooker like Korea, but makes up for its low birthrate with huge amounts of both permanent skilled immigration and temporary unskilled foreign labor. This is an unusual combo, but it's unl
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The closest thing we have to a crystal ball is Japan, which is a few decades ahead in demographics, and it's been much more prolonged slump than sudden crash there.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Both would happen simultaneously. Think of crypto like a balloon with only a narrow exit at one end going out into fiat: if you push down on Tether, BTC/ETH will inflate in Tether terms (because everybody who can moves into other cryp
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
The crash has not ended yet, and it's mostly second-tier players that have gone down so far. If somebody like Coinbase or Robinhood collapses, which is quite possible given their dire finances, there's going to be a whole new lev
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Inevitable successor to this: a TikTok-style adaptive porn feed that learns exactly what you like and starts generating porn customized to your kinks and preferences.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Seems preferable to using children to generate child porn? In any case, since the training data here does not feature children, this particular model would be useless for that.
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U.N. Faces Record Humanitarian Aid Shortfall – But Not for Ukrainians(nytimes.com)
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Even if we move away from ICEs, which will take decades, we will still need oil for things like plastics for the foreseeable future.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
No, they suggested using stolen bank accounts to receive the artist royalties.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
There are massive ecological costs to extracting, processing and shipping even more massive quantities of dinosaur juice around the oceans, and they suffer "mishaps" quite frequently.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Electrical engines are far simpler than internal combustion engines, so if anything this favors EE even more.
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
Container ships don't, but eg. oil tankers do. https://www.istockphoto.com/video/oil-tanker-floating-in-the... Much of the benefit of solar and batteries would be obviated by the need to propel their own bulk alon
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
> multiple different options whose food would never belong on the same menu together at a dine in restaurant. Any halfway decent hotel in a major Asian city will happily serve up (approximations of) Chinese stir-fries, Japanese sushi, In
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by thematrixturtle 4y ago
That almost makes sense, except that the money is paid out to the artist, so if you're using a stolen bank account, it remains 'dirty' after the round-trip. What you'd want to do is use the dirty money for the bots tha

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