tycho-newman

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by tycho-newman 3y ago
The CIA didn’t go in front of the UN with a vial of anthrax claiming the evidence of WMDs was a slam dunk. That was the neocons. The CIA did something much worse. They never noticed that the Soviet Union was in collapse. Instead they had Te
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Maybe? The semantic web is useful because it makes us catalog our thoughts and language in a machine readable way. The key thing is the cost of running these semantic web machines is smaller than running a GPU powered language model. Also,
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
We tried this once with Monty Burns.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Now I just want to reread Bird Chronicle. May Kasahara was hilarious.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Karl Jung wrote about the social purpose of scapegoats years ago. Feels apropos.
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
Why not just give cops the slingshots we used in childhood?
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
It lowers insurance premiums.
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
Paris is is the crown jewel of the petit bourgeois.
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
> the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads Like I said, there's options when you look outside AirBnB. There is diversity in design if you look outside the haunts of the bourgeois classes. And loo
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
Ehh, pearl clutching over homogeneity in art and architecture is par for the course. What the writer needs to do is expand their horizons, and possibly, their vertices. There's tons of options out there if you take a minute to look out
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by tycho-newman 4y ago
America makes like $20 trillion in new goods and services every year. We are so past the point of caring about $13 billion. Want to cut costs? We have 14 nuclear deterrent submarines that cost $20 billion each. Their only job is to end the