vagab0nd

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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Completely disagree. Let's re-use the example in the article. You need to travel 300 miles. Which one is better? Live in the mid-1700 and work 8 hours a day for 12.5 days, or live in today and work 8 hours a day for 1.25 days?
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Sure, but from a technical point of view I don't think the range of human facial expressions is that wide anyway. It's just movements of muscles.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
At the very least it should flash a red light when recording.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
My car charger turns on and adjusts the charging amp based on how much solar energy I'm getting from the sun. I know this will eventually be replaced by some 3rd party solution, but when I did it there were none.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Not to undermine your point about cleaning up plastic, but following your logic: isn't this similar to the antibiotics situation, just maybe on a longer time scale? The more you use it the less effective it is. What's the ultimate
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
You are being downvoted but I think there's some truth. I'd like to see counter arguments. One that I can think of is the difference in intent. Tether is for profit and the FED is to stabilize the economy.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Same. I appreciate her "hard" science videos very much, but dislike and skip the rest. Usually I have no problem switching to entertainment mode on YouTube, but her authoritative tone puts me off enough to not watch them.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> I'm old enough to remember that Apple presentations, while being clearly marketing exercises, used to be a lot more organic and flowing. Remember Jobs ordering 4000 Latte to-go from Starbucks?
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFlOd0MGZg
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Sorry, I don't buy it. I don't doubt that Amazon is a great company. But if you are asserting that it got there because of the LPs I find it hard to believe. Are you suggesting that had those people "had backbone" and &q
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
The Amazon LPs has to be the most blatant corporate brain-washing tool ever invented. Put aside the contradicting nature between the LPs themselves, they are almost exclusively used for the benefit of the company and at the expense of the
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
You use a flashloan.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Yes. All surveys are biased towards people who are willing to take the survey. In the most extreme case, if your survey only has one question, "are you willing to take this survey?" you would get 100% "yes".
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Why negotiation is necessary even if you think it's a waste of time: you: look, I really like the job. I won't waste time negotiating as long as it's fair market price. recruiter: sure, that's fair. [then proceeds to low
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Look up "healthspan vs lifespan".
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Is it really sad though? On the surface it seems the society heavily incentivizes smart people to work on "less impactful" things. But if every smart person becomes a condensed-matter researcher then obviously we have a problem. S
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Velocity relative to what?
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> If it was a game mechanic I'd call it a cunning way to impose internally consistent limits on what the player can know. But if you assume it's a multi-player game, wouldn't it be easier to implement a global space-time?
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Yes, we should care about the environment. No, we should not be using less energy, but more. The way we use energy is the reason why it hurts the environment, not the amount of energy. I think this mindset is hurting our ability to inno
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
I thought Pillars of Eternity was pretty good.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
I've accepted the fact that it's "just" a good game and try to enjoy it. For a real BG game, Obsidian is probably our best hope.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> I'm glad they decided to make it turn based vs the real time with pause Nothing else will ever give me the satisfaction of pausing the game, fully assessing the situation, giving a string of commands to all my characters, then unp
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
If you are open to some game-y element, I highly recommend the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes:_Consulting_De...
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Mummification was probably compatible with the best known "science" back then.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> It won’t have your memories but that’s as close as we can get. I'd argue it's not much closer than just having children. It's still far from preserving self, because you don't preserve the "consciousness"
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> costs power, which damages our planet. It's useful to realize that in the long term, more power equals better. Our planet doesn't care how much power we use. So long term, we should not think "let's use less power s
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Even with digital signatures, there are limits to what we can really verify. We'll likely be able to verify whether an entity is a real human, using some kind of "proof of humanity" system. We will have cameras/mics with
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
You are right about the energy density and limitations. I was more focused on the fast rate of storage and retrieval.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
> Battery charging is limited by the cell chemistry. Yes, but superconductors don't have that limitation, do they? You just dump current into them.
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by vagab0nd 3y ago
Does this support timestamps within a day? When playing murder mystery games, frequently I need to construct a timeline of events. This would be the perfect tool if I can mark timestamps. EDIT: yes it does! But looks like it needs to be in

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