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by yowzadave 2y ago
I don't understand why you think the story is a "nothing burger". The crypto scam is part of what makes the story unique and interesting, and is certainly relevant. Your first headline would miss this completely. Would you be
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by yowzadave 2y ago
The band Queen had a prominent note, "No Synthesizers!", on the sleeve of all of their albums from Queen II through A Day At The Races. Presumably it was good branding to emphasize that they were an authentic rock band. By the 80&
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> the Pwnie Awards also go to people who get attacked, which is something that e.g. civil engineers certainly don't get blamed for To be clear, this incident was not due to an attack—CrowdStrike just shot themselves in the foot with
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by yowzadave 2y ago
What I find amazing is stop-motion animation—-I presume it is animated in one go, with no in-betweening possible (because of the difficulty in getting the model back the precise in-between state). Really remarkable that the animators can do
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Apple really is an unusual phenomenon--in most other industries, the bulk of the profit is made on mass-market products, while high-end products are able to cater to a niche that is willing to spend much more. In smartphones, however, the h
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> I try to read the actual decisions, especially for Supreme Court ones, especially when I superficially disagree with the result and I very rarely end up disagreeing with the decisions. Are you equally persuaded by the dissenting opinio
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I wish that were the case for me! My in-laws had their flight out of JFK delayed by 2-3 days, as did my daughter who was supposed to fly as an unaccompanied minor.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> Anything to avoid personal responsibility I guess Something can be caused by obesity without the primary “blame” being personal responsibility. If Americans are more obese than Scandinavians, is it because there just happen to be more
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I wonder why the gates aren’t designed so that they only present a barrier on the entry side of the track, and not the exit side of the track?
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Maybe we're just weird imperfectly evolved creatures, and that there is no "ideal" way to do some of these activities? I mean, we make do as best we can, and in some respects we've been successful as a species, but I thi
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> you just need to double the density, which is easily done by eliminating exclusionary zoning I think you should double-check the numbers on this before you assert something is easily done. I live in NYC--are you saying we should live i
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I'm not objecting to causing pain for property owners, I'm saying that doubling the number of bedrooms in a city is nonsensical (if you double the amount of residential area in a city, where will it go?), and also that you're
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by yowzadave 2y ago
You probably mean we need to double the number of bedrooms available for sale/rent
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I feel like it’s worse than meaningless. It distorts the coverage—newspapers start covering the election as if it were sport, and as the number goes up or down, it is treated as one side winning or losing, with substantive coverage falling
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> Legends Tower will be part of Boardwalk at Bricktown, a mixed-use development comprising four new buildings. The first phase of its construction will include a hotel and two smaller residential towers; the second phase, which will incl
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Surprising that it gets such good battery life with a fan running all the time.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> just people playing with math and coming up with different ideas that humans find interesting, but will not affect your quality of life at all A lot of people like to pursue knowledge purely out of curiosity. Some people even think tha
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> The star is already thermonuclear Well, since the star is currently a white dwarf, maybe it's not? Fusion doesn't occur on white dwarf stars.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I bought the mini and returned it, not because it wasn’t great, but because it got worse battery life than my already-years-old iPhone, and also because my eyesight is getting worse as I get older, and I’d been in denial about it until seei
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Also, why is he requiring ex-employees to reach out to him privately to work something out on a case-by-case basis when he could just unilaterally and publicly dissolve that clause for former employees
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Arup victim of multimillion-dollar deepfake video scam in Hong Kong(dezeen.com)
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Given that the requirements are so simple, and they are announced clearly and with plenty of time to comply, this does not seem unfair to me. There are many real-world tasks where an error could result in catastrophic failure--we approach t
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Yes, but there are certainly an abundance of articles following the original storyline that could well be prejudicing a future jury. Those are not being suppressed.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Almost certainly--judging by their submission timestamps, they appear to never sleep. I guess you can farm a lot of karma by just re-posting old popular posts.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
It sounds like you’re using “teens and moms” as a pejorative—i would recommend getting to know some more teens and moms! There are many in both categories who are great!
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I honestly don’t mind so much if it detects “ai-generated” vs. “human-generated”—the key thing to detect is whether the page is full of irrelevant SEO junk. GP suggested several attributes that ought to be detectable. Even if we don't
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Just because it can be done doesn’t mean it’s not a worse driving experience. Visibility has been getting gradually worse for a long time (I presume for crash safety reasons). I learned to drive on my dad's old early-90s era Maxima, wh
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Try visiting one of the European city centers that has disallowed cars—it is a remarkable experience for a variety of reasons: 1. The quiet—you can call to somebody on the other side of the street and they will hear you! 2. Visibility—walki
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Cars are bad for urban environments, independent of their impact on CO2/energy production--they result in traffic, too-wide streets, pedestrian danger, and generally less pleasant cities.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> The solution to emergency vehicles being unable to navigate streets in a timely manner is to redesign the streets There is another option: redesign the emergency vehicles. I grew up in a city (Salt Lake City) whose streets were designe

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