wobbly_bush

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by wobbly_bush 2y ago
BRICS and OPEC are two very different things. Except one country in BRICS, the remaining ones are oil importers. They would gladly get rid of that dependency for national security reasons alone.
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by wobbly_bush 2y ago
> How often have you read a headline, and then not clicked on the link? Somewhat related - I have clicked a lot more on Axios articles which I know are 2-5 minute reads, compared to other long form articles where the author wanted to wri
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by wobbly_bush 2y ago
Same thing doesn't happen to say lawyers? Or any of the other white collar jobs?
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by wobbly_bush 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious how does that data help. What would the prompts be like? "Help me design an addictive UX"? How do comments like birthday wishes or people posting their beach pictures and people replying with how good th
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Whatsapp chats are encrypted, how can they be used to train the models? Also what kind of training can be done on Instagram data, is there anything of value there?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
In Parliamentary system this is somewhat equivalent to "hung parliament" and usually results in re-elections. Governments must prove minimum support to pass legislations before they can claim to be "in charge"
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Don't bank apps require logging even explicitly even if the phone is unlocked?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Can you elaborate on why you chose Macy's over others?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
I used to own a pixel phone and loved it. What made me move was the data collection, and to some extent lack of security updates on older models. Feature wise, I still like Android over iOS.
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Aren't Insta images heavily edited?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> hoping that turning cars will see you and not mow you down. Pretty sure this is what is going to kill me I saw an accident in front of my eyes where this played out - a turning car mowed an elderly couple crossing slowly with the help
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> Maybe you come back saying "it's somewhere in this eldritch spaghetti, and when I stared into it the abyss starting back at me sent chills up my spine and the pictures on my walls wept blood, please don't send me back th
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> For larger groups and families I have used other services where I can communicate directly with the owner Which are those services and how do they differ from Airbnb?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Two points - legally, caste based discrimination is illegal. From a cultural aspect - cultural changes are much slower in non-western countries. For example, compare how quickly the culture around marijuana & same sex marriage changed i
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> Why don't people just change their names to the caste they want to be For an over-simplified explanation, substitute caste with race/nationality and rephrase the question in a setting you might be more familiar with. For exam
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Isn't the opposite also true?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
Add to that if you have food restrictions, the $40 meal might not even taste worth it but you have to order for some reason (like not being able to cook on that day, etc.)
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
There is LitRPG genre in which tension is not as key an ingredient. Also, there can be consumers of the writeup who don't particularly "buy" a book - so the writeup doesn't have to follow a typical book structure.
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
If they don't involve you at all, perhaps you can convert it into a LitRPG novel - something like CivCEO [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/CivCEO-Lit-Accidental-Champion-Book-e...
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> If I make a trip to (for example) Target, it feels nothing like Target of 20 years ago. I'm curious how did Target feel like 20 years ago?
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by wobbly_bush 3y ago
> because they seem to come from a place of... very high expectations You can see housing prices for whatever areas people are talking about and how much the monthly mortgage comes out to be to get baseline on cost of living.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> Propaganda, though? Misinfo campaigns, astroturfing, where you hide behind sockpuppets and shell companies anyway? Why just limit there? The chatbot companies can introduce ads where the answers are influenced by whichever company that
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
That assumes the chatbot creators don't introduce explicit bias of their own. What if they start doing that? For example a search for nutritional information about some foods might be influenced by fast-food companies buying "ads&
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
This brings an interesting question - will the various chatbot products bias towards the owning companies lobbying efforts (parroting their lobbying points)?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> When I've been reading on a computer all day for work, do I have the patience and energy to read a long book at home? Or would I rather watch a movie and relax. Or somewhere inbetween - audiobooks. They are written with higher qua
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Are just the landing pages that are intentionally kept simple or even the real site behind logins? A bad site typically also reflects low confidence in technological abilities, is that not the case here?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> 2) Lobby to get TikTok banned This happened in India, though it is not clear if it was Meta who lobbied or combination of other factors.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Question - what are your thoughts on giving an old laptop instead of iPad? Probably 5-year olds are too young for laptops, but in general there could be more a child could do for safe entertainment on a laptop than iPad/smartphone (the
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
If more Android phones provided longer support, it would be a reason for a lot of people to move back to Android from iOS.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Interestingly, one of the actual AIs from DEI teams is to ask for referrals from existing diverse candidates.

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