tycho-newman

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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Solution is obvious. Eat on the treadmill.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Or worse, The Worst Toilet in Scotland, but Covered in Bullet Ants.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I am shocked, shocked , that AI hallucinates. This technology is a mirror, like many others. We just don't like the reflection it throws back at us.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
We have tons of viking material culture you can access directly without the AI layer. AI as learning tool here feels misplaced to me.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Under the Rome Statute that set up the international criminal court, apartheid is defined as a crime where: >inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Chef Mike is the hardest working chef in the kitchen!
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The plane did crash. There was one fatality. That is because the pilot was skilled. Unfortunately the pilot was also drunk. And he tried to shift the blame of the vodka bottle to the deceased person. There is no amount of technical skill th
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The fire in a crowded theater metaphor is about false speech. The line is often misquoted to drop the "falsely." For the second part, I would ask your attorney. But in general terms, attempts that fail can be just as bad as the
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The First Amendment does not protect: - false statements (fraud, libel, defamation). - "fighting words" - true threats - obscenity under a community standards test - child sexual abuse imagery (obscenity per she) - speech that inc
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
You are not allowed to falsely shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. That famous line from Schenck is often misquoted to drop the "falsely". Schenck is no longer good law, but this metaphor captures how some classes of s
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Lots of carbon and lots of water. The early solar system was pretty similar to club soda.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
California has the WARN Act.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I mean, you're here now. Plane did its job. The safety margins on flying machines is really high, so while Boeing really should figure out what the hell is going on, the plane didn't fall out of the sky after a depressurization in
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I used Pidgin/Adium back in the day to consolidate all my IM protocols. There was a hot second where XMPP was really taking off and even worked on Gchat. I think iMessage and WhatsApp made that moot because people got used to apps, and
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Russia is paranoid about NATO expansion in the belief it faces an existential threat. The reality is that Russia is a has-been power, riven with oligarch corruption and a GDP the size of Italy. Russia’s biggest threat is itself and always h
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
David Cameron owns this mess on the referendum. Joining the EEC was a supermajority vote in the 1970s. Leaving it should have been similar.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Yes. We should do all we can to make sure goods and labor can flow. National boundaries make it easier to export your capital than to export your skill set.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The voters of Britain made their choice and now they must deal with the consequences as best they can. Leaving the EU customs union was an own-goal when the EU is Britain's largest trading partner. There's too much money to be mad
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
They are also fantastic ways of paying a bribe.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Journalist as activist is the whole point of a free press and the Fourth Estate. Just ask Emile Zola.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Where's Jeremy Clarkson? Its been a minute and perhaps he'd like to punch Piers Morgan again.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I don't think this will work because a super intelligent AI will outsmart its supervisor. The solution may be to have two AIs working against the other. Though this might backfire by pushing each via competition. That is how evolution
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
You can do this if you enable screen time for your own phone. At least for unwanted changes.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
In our intensely competitive capitalist society, gaming has a low expected utility. It also doesn't usually reinforce skills that make you more employable. You also usually don't get a salary or remuneration. The elitist in me wan
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The problem is fentanyl. It is cheaper than dirt and can be laced into almost anything. A lethal dose is easy to administer. Fentanyl is also extremely addictive.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
That decade of lawyer fees is much more than $2m.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Buying a new controller is cheaper than the lawsuit.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Nice try Shaun. Light no fire? Its the least you could do after burning us like that.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Microservices
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Losing energy shifts the frequency of your emissions towards red. Basically, cooling down is the same thing as moving farther away from an inertial reference point.

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