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811.
by tqi 5y ago
I don't think this is as egregious as this person seems to think. A 1 year commitment paid in monthly installments, is exactly how a lease works.
812.
by tqi 5y ago
I think this only works if both parties have similar financial situations? ie if the shares are "truly" worth 50K but one party can only come up with 10K, then an offer of 11K would allow the other to buy up the shares at a massiv
813.
by tqi 5y ago
Using spotlight search to do calculations meets all 3 requirements, no?
814.
by tqi 5y ago
Because he has enough money to look down his nose at people he perceives to be motivated by money?
815.
by tqi 5y ago
This was really cool project and a great writeup! It's interesting to think what would happen if a tool / technique like this one became super popular. Would we see more variation, as more people could choose schemes that look goo
816.
by tqi 5y ago
Wait... is your belief that the "indigenous population" can't get ahead because their culture doesn't value education / hard work?? I think you have grossly misunderstood both the reasoning behind Affirmative Action
817.
by tqi 5y ago
I think there is clearly a problem of inequality of opportunity in America, and Affirmative Action is probably a necessary bandaid to heal the legacy of slavery and racism. However based on the evidence presented, the admission policies at
818.
by tqi 5y ago
Post is gone now, but that sounds pretty far fetched. What was the evidence?
819.
by tqi 5y ago
Yeah I'm not saying I'm above it, I'm saying that this type of subconscious bias is far more damaging than "deep fakes". But that doesn't generate clicks so the media doesn't care.
820.
by tqi 5y ago
> “Faces provide a rich source of information, with exposure of just milliseconds sufficient to make implicit inferences about individual traits such as trustworthiness. We wondered if synthetic faces activate the same judgements of trus
821.
by tqi 5y ago
Oh I totally agree that people can and do make snap judgements based on superficial appearance - my point was actually that this judgement is a more real and damaging threat to society than deep fakes, which IMO is mostly media driven pearl
822.
by tqi 5y ago
> People cannot distinguish between a face generated by Artificial Intelligence - using StyleGAN2- and a real face say researchers, who are calling for safeguards to prevent “deep fakes” ... The results revealed that synthetically genera
823.
by tqi 5y ago
> Instead we have a culture of entirely selfish individualism, so the popular backlash is that damn near everyone is this thread (including myself) applauds the erosion of privacy rights because we're fed up and sick of living in a
824.
by tqi 5y ago
Not that strange. Sirens in NYC are largely directional, and you can hear the noise diminish dramatically once you are no longer in the path of the vehicle. The same is not true of loud cars/motorcycles. Also sirens (mostly) serve a ne
825.
by tqi 5y ago
It's not that simple. "Imagine a hundred-yard dash in which one of the two runners has his legs shackled together. He has progressed ten yards, while the unshackled runner has gone fifty yards. At that point the judges decide that
826.
by tqi 5y ago
iOS Safari, I get a popup that says "Do you want to download 'watch'?"
827.
by tqi 5y ago
...to avoid tracking I should click on a sketchy download pop-up?
828.
by tqi 5y ago
Instructors definitely are, but I think they recognize that it would be very easy to poach an instructor to jumpstart a competitor.
829.
by tqi 5y ago
Well, I think that no one talked about it until now doesn't mean these concerns are invalid. That said, I think these concerns are way overblown and coverage/conversation is largely driven by a larger narrative pushed by news outl
830.
by tqi 5y ago
I use moat here in the sense that it creates some level of defense against competitors. Nike's shoes obviously contain a lot of advanced technology in it, but the strength of their brand what shields them against a newcomers and generi
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by tqi 5y ago
The HN crowd is always quick to point out that Peloton has no moat - its just a screen on a bike. Creating a lifestyle brand (ala in person fitness brands like Soulcycle or Barrys) is a way to address that moat, and apparel is a core part o
832.
by tqi 5y ago
What does "knowing" a word mean? Is it just recognizing that the word is a valid word? I am skeptical that 80% of men recognize that "boson" is a word, but only about 50% of women could put together "shemale" f
833.
by tqi 5y ago
"Washed out" is an aesthetic choice that is equally possible with practical effects.
834.
by tqi 5y ago
What weird take. For one thing, maybe an alien world like Arrakis shouldn't look identical to the deserts on this world. For another, lots of movies pre CGI looked terrible, so the idea that the past was some kind of practical utopia i
835.
by tqi 5y ago
If they won't do their jobs then they should be fired.
836.
by tqi 5y ago
They essentially decided to borrow against future trust in order to achieve a desired near term outcome. That may have been the option which led to the fewest deaths, or maybe vaccination rates would be ?% higher if they hadn't undermi
837.
by tqi 5y ago
Hm I see - but in the case of bad actors hacking accounts, being on the fediverse seems neutral (relative to being on facebook) to worse? At least with (some) centralized systems there is an authority that can be appealed to (not FB obvious
838.
by tqi 5y ago
How would a distributed system help? Being on a distributed system wouldn't keep hackers from taking control of your self hosted page and hosing it.
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by tqi 5y ago
True, but thats a % of a % of a % (ie Masks could prevent some % of COVID transmission at school, of some % of which would have be transmitted to other individuals in the home, of which some % of which would have required hospitalization),
840.
by tqi 5y ago
1. If your Grandpa chose to not get vaccinated and gets COVID, thats his problem. 2. The idea that anyone who wants in person learning is a "screaming Karen" is fucking stupid. There is lots of evidence that remote learning has al

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