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by tomrod 1y ago
To my understanding, Japan has already done that. https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html
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by tomrod 1y ago
It's not about porn. It's about setting a legal beachead to force websites to deanonymize users.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Kissing a child on the head Snuggling with a dog Breathing Oral sex Licking yourself like a cat
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by tomrod 1y ago
Would this be useful in a production system today?
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by tomrod 1y ago
Surely the article was in satire? If nothing else, pestering the boss while on vacation is a bad sign.
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by tomrod 1y ago
There are lots of activities wherein a hair, pubic or otherwise, might end up in a person's mouth.
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by tomrod 1y ago
This just means your pricing is not transparent. Economists have found the returns on fuzzy pricing are poor (see work by Miravete).
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by tomrod 1y ago
Whst makes you think we don't?
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by tomrod 1y ago
Welding is not hard to learn. It just takes practice.
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by tomrod 1y ago
It's missing random flaws. Often the noise has patternd as a result of the diffusion or generation process.
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by tomrod 1y ago
I think they are evolving differently. Some very old cgi holds up because they invested a lot of money to make it so. Then they tried to make it cheaper and people started complaining because the output was worse than all prior options.
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by tomrod 1y ago
3d printing isn't dead. The policies and programs that encourage it's adoption with lower cost are. But my bet is on clever people figuring out and systematizing things to reduce the current high cost items.
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by tomrod 1y ago
> Although I hate to get political on HN, barely 20 years ago Democrats were the ones banning books in school for being too "culturally insensitive" And it was rightfully opposed by the majority and by folks who understand the
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by tomrod 1y ago
"Wrong" pronouns -- what does this even mean? I feel like there are a lot of conservatives who are unaware about what sex and gender actually are, and rather than looking for understanding they prefer to mock because they are lazy
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by tomrod 1y ago
I'm not sure your analysis is apples to apples. Prior to the AI boom, the quality of GPUs slightly favored NVidia but AMD was a viable alternative. Also, there are scale differences between 2025 and before the AI boom -- simply put, th
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by tomrod 1y ago
> they don't typically choose to live the precepts the adherents wants A bit reductionist, but critically, and because you asked for clarity, Dominionists want to force others to stop doing what they don't like even though it h
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by tomrod 1y ago
Ah! I didn't realize that was said in you comment as a self-reference. I understand you now I think, though your phrasing was quite confusing.
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by tomrod 1y ago
> You see the same dynamic in how progressive political ideology No, this is incorrect. The cold reality is that the adherents pushing Dominionism push an unsustainable ideology, such that they would rather throw the US into religious-ba
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by tomrod 1y ago
> The other religious texts you mentioned are not part of the western civilization canon and did not have much effect on western literature. Incorrect. > To deny that contemporary American culture has its roots in European culture (i.
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by tomrod 1y ago
The government is the one entity with a monopoly on violence. Concerns of regulatory capture, pork, and rent-seeking stem from this one fact. Yes, you can certainly get wealthy by being corrupt in legal ways.
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by tomrod 1y ago
I fall into all four categories, which identity am I allowed to require that we not kill our economy with inflation?
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by tomrod 1y ago
> The bible is a crucial piece of literature reference. We no longer live in the middle of the 20th century. Based on your bandwagon logic, we should also require the Quran, Torah, Shruti, Smriti, The Book of Mormon and associated volume
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by tomrod 1y ago
Absolutely. There has been an organizing current in US politics around the theology and political theory of dominionism -- that a certain set of related religions have a responsibility to take over governmental authority in order to make th
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by tomrod 1y ago
Two concepts - Monopsony is the inverse of Monopoly -- one buyer. Walmart is often a monopsony for suppliers (exclusive or near exclusive). - Desire for vertical integration and value extraction, related to #1 but with some additional nuanc
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by tomrod 1y ago
Meta is an advertising company. Google is an advertising company. Microsoft, in fits of jealousy and veiled rage, wishes it were an advertising company. OpenAI is not profitable yet despite having high charge rates. If they aren't capi
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by tomrod 1y ago
They're not ad-free. Ads are integrated into the content of the responses. For example, ChatGPT biases towards itself as a provider of services even when asking it not to. This behavior is easy to see and probably will be replicated ou
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by tomrod 1y ago
Not without the driver involved in the cycle, either directly or indirectly. Now they are along for the ride no matter what.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Did it for 100 years. Nkthing changed. They don't need to make cars into surveillance systems. That's a choice.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Absolutely. Though, do note that, at least in the US, road network locations change slower than gentrification changes a neighborhoods socioeconomics.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Doesn't it swap to a lower power model after that?

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