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by tivert 2y ago
> Readers often say they want one type of coverage but actually consume others, too. (e.g., people complain mightily about "clickbait" headlines and so forth -- but write an in-depth article with everything people say they want
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> Even feature stories just don't have much pizzaz - who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. I think you need to check your personal biases there. I want to read an interview, rather than watch it. Re
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by tivert 2y ago
> The only situation where the value of the fund can be less than what you put in is the collapse of US currency, which savings account insurance can not protect against either. I don't think so: suppose the company offering the fun
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by tivert 2y ago
I don't know what you mean by "shiny/glossy lighting look to it." Could you give some examples? I haven't noticed that a lot of AI images are generated with a "realistic cartoon" style, and I assume that
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by tivert 2y ago
Also the logo is literally exactly the Black Mesa logo from Half Life ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_Facility ), except inside a badge/chevron shame instead of a circle. Either this is somethi
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by tivert 2y ago
> There are not enough license bureau images to train a CLIP model, not enough expressly licensed text content to train T5. A CLIP model needs 2 billion images to perform well, not the 600m Adobe claims they have access to. It's rig
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by tivert 2y ago
> you're not the target. advertisements work. the people managing ads are very meticulous about their spend vs. return. if you are seeing an ad of something for any noticeable duration of time, that means it works. This sounds like
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by tivert 2y ago
> what is 'controversial and not widely accepted by relevant experts' is the comet impact hypothesis which the nyt presents as an accepted fact Careful there. If people start questioning the NYT's reporting, they may start
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by tivert 2y ago
Find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1IX1AFRZg Your comment seems to totally miss what it would someone would actually feel in such a situation, so posits totally unrealistic thoughts. Who would have "help with
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by tivert 2y ago
> It hinders creativity and practically limits exchange between workers. Exactly! Those things are essential to delivering the most value to the company and ultimately to its shareholders, and there's nothing in the world more i
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by tivert 2y ago
Eric Schmidt is right: WFH has been a moral disaster. The absolute, most important thing in the world is that companies be able to successfully extract maximum value from their workers. Something is seriously wrong if workers end the work
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Judges are still allowed to defer to experts > Then why is congress be denied the same latitude (via agencies)? Come on, that's obviously false. Even in an alternative world where agency rule-making was totally abolished,
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by tivert 2y ago
Honestly, I'm getting the impression you're too being too rigid with definitions: anchoring too strongly in the incidental specifics of GPL as being "free software" while ignoring its goals.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Here is the rub: free software permits unconditional use. I think you're wrong. > The GPL without the A, or MIT or BSD licenses are not EULAs; they place restrictions or conditions on redistribution, not on use. The GPL, at lea
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by tivert 2y ago
> Perhaps some of them might actually be inspiration for genuine breakthroughs. Perhaps. Time is a four-sided cube, four simultaneous days.
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by tivert 2y ago
> "Greenest" should be fairly obvious, no? Dense cities have the lowest carbon footprint per capita. Who cares? In the real world, the sprawl already exists. Forcing RTO re-introduces commuting that had been eliminated; it&#x27
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by tivert 2y ago
> So which is it ? Are they above or below replacement levels? Is is now or is it later? We're dealing with statistics that change over time. An idea that depends on certain areas having "fertility well above replacement levels
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>> It just moves the problem around so it hits the poorest the hardest. > Could you expand on this? I can’t think of a scenario where that is the case. Pretty straightforward: there's no unlimited wellspring of young people fr
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by tivert 2y ago
> This is simplistic: the real problem is that there aren't enough doctors/garbos/crop-harvesters etc as a proportion of the population. Either way the fix is straightforward: bring in some people who'd like a job. Th
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by tivert 2y ago
> FWIW it's a fertility "crisis", not the. Globally, the fertility rate exceed the replacement rate -- there are plenty of people being born. Right now . IIRC, current projections are for global populations to start to de
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by tivert 2y ago
> There was no proper archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0 available online, so I decided to create one. I wonder if someone could leak the source code. Googling the original developers listed on the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wiki
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by tivert 2y ago
> *The US will let corporations do whatever they want while they are giving "gifts" and "gratuities" to the relevant judges. Cite please? IIRC, the present day antitrust precedents were set in the 70s: https:/&#
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by tivert 2y ago
I think the rule (at least while Moore's law was in force), was UIs start out boated but become fast as the hardware catches up. For instance, your example: > Mac OS 9 felt pretty darned fast on my 400Mhz iMac G3 back in 2000. You w
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> Some history about Firefox and BeOS. Before Firefox, there was Mozilla, which had a BeOS port (called Bezilla). Bezilla was bloated and slow. So the BeOS community tried to make a stripped version of Mozilla with only the browser (minu
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> When I was younger, I used to think that it was honorable to work long hours, including overnight, for an employer. That is a foolish idea planted in the minds of the young and naive to prime them for exploitation.
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> It was just lazy speculation that felt good because it could be bound up in a "evil white countries exploiting the developing world" narrative. Where exploiting was "paying to do a job". Exploitation like that is in
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> I don't think there's any significant factors that'd make people more or less likely to lie about ownership over the years. I think there is: political polarization. Gun ownership seems like a fact that could get you ot
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>> Why it matters: The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020. > Maybe I'
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> The area I worked was very wealthy and the only way I can describe it is these types of people, for one reason or another, are having a bad day and you’re the last thing they’re dealing with. They don’t seem to see workers as human bei
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> The further breaking moves in the direction of sport, the further away it moves from being art. That's definitely true. The demands of sport are going to push things into more physically demanding/technically impressive direc

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