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by xeckr 3y ago
The author begins with the baseless assumption that self-optimization is "to cope with a system of political and social injustices". There is no case.
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Obese people want you to stop going to the gym. More news at 7.
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Amazing work.
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Calling diet and exercise "pseudoscientific quack cures" is by far the funniest coping strategy I have witnessed in a long time.
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It doesn't look like obesity is infectious, so calling it a pandemic doesn't seem appropriate. The cure is eating less and exercising more. Many have done it.
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by xeckr 3y ago
Good question. The market for ETFs in general has exploded in the last decade or two.
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This is thought-deleting rhetoric. None of what you said justifies Twilio in filtering out the word "Palestine".
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by xeckr 3y ago
Crazy how far web design has come. The content of websites was a lot more compacted in the past. And how could we forget the (overly) liberal use of gifs? It makes me wonder whether people in 2047 will look back on today's websites wit
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by xeckr 3y ago
I just played through the Sokoban demo. This is awesome!
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About a year before ChatGPT, when the GPT-3 API wasn't as widely accessible as it is today.
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>at the time of his arrest on Christmas Day, 2021 A literal aeon ago as far as chatbot tech is concerned
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by xeckr 3y ago
>In the sexual landscape of 2023, swinging feels quaint What universe does the author live in? ...oh, the same one who brings the founder of Kinkster into the discussion to tell the audience that the AI censoring such topics is Actually
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by xeckr 3y ago
>It worms itself into your life to a point where it becomes extremely difficult not to use, and it's extremely helpless feeling. You could say the same about plumbing, which it is hard to imagine life without. At least with plumbing
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Which still for example radically simplifies supply chains enabling us to receive life-saving medicine when we need it.
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Have you considered that the housewife today doesn't have to tolerate getting abused by her alcoholic husband, and can simply leave to become financially self-sufficient?
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by xeckr 3y ago
0 mention of advancements in medicine. Do you think it was easy for families of the past to see half of their children die from what are now preventable causes?
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I gave TypeScript a shot on more than one occasion, and it always ended in frustration after I inevitably encounter some obscure ts(42069) error that I have to research, then find out that a compiler bug is causing the error, and then get t
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Lockdown was 100% a top down imposition...
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Because of generalization.
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Why anyone would want to host bacteria that produce ethyl alcohol 24/7?
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by xeckr 3y ago
"Study shows that everyone wants the government to force UI changes into operating systems that might marginally benefit our product"
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It's obviously not as conducive to business as in the US. However, one advantage I can think of is that registering a new business in Canada takes only about a day.
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I could see this being fun in a competitive programming context.
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>Not if I consciously think it's worthwhile, but if I know deep down that it's pretty much pointless. This could be true, or it could be a self-serving bias. It's something to think about. Presumably, there was a point in
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Compared to 17% when pre-trained on Python. Looks like the debate on whether or not HTML is a programming language is settled!
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>(think of a 100-dimensional sphere) Cheeky.
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Unlike cookie clicker, this game can actually teach you something.
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No better than the API.
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The first paragraph reads like something written by a villain in an Ayn Rand novel.
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Does the US have an entrepreneur visa yet, or favourable terms for Canadian entrepreneurs wishing to immigrate?

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