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by zzzeek 3y ago
we're all assuming this pilot wanted to crash "any" plane. do we know that? what if he were trying to murder someone on this plane ?
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by zzzeek 3y ago
the pilot and first officer subdued him. if he had a gun he could have shot them both first and been successful.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
I've read other answers here to that effect...I was trying more the other night to do other kinds of things with my eyes but the hole inside the image kept popping "in" even when I wasn't trying to do anything in particu
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by zzzeek 3y ago
I can only see these dumb things in reverse (the shape is always sinking into the page, rather than popping out). isn't there a way to generate these inverted so weirdos like me can finally enjoy them ?
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by zzzeek 3y ago
you want the government to place a tax on linking to newspapers ? I think the first amendment might have a few words on that
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by zzzeek 3y ago
The mass is made of bullshit. Now read the sentence again
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by zzzeek 3y ago
>that doesn't necessarily reflect positively on the rest of the bill so what? Biden's bill made a good thing happen, so much that HN readers gave it 859 upmods (which is a lot). I point this out mostly so that I can be amus
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by zzzeek 3y ago
im not sure what argument you're making. are you claiming the IRS' statement is just fabricating that this program has anything to do with the congressional bill it's actually proposed and funded within ?
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by zzzeek 3y ago
Read the PR. it explicitly credits the Inflation Reduction Act for funding and making the whole thing possible.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
Credit to Joe Biden and the Inflation Reduction Act for making this possible. If Trump wins again he's going to have a lot of work destroying all the progress Biden has made in just one term.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
This is cool, Wordpress should have you buy "latinum" up front and that's what you actually use to pay for your toolbar or custom color scheme.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
Is there a shortage of farm workers ? I live in a rural agricultural town, farms have plenty of workers here who largely come from central and South America . That's like a big part of the economy here. The work being hard /
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by zzzeek 3y ago
cosign on the small text thing. I had perfect eyesight and could read anything a mile away until I was 50. now I can't even read my phone, and there's literally some manuals / printing that I still cannot read even with my
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by zzzeek 3y ago
following that, the most prevalent use for GM crops is herbicide tolerance, where glyphosate is the most common herbicide targeted [1]. If you posted on Hacker News eight years ago that you thought it was a good idea for GM foods to be lab
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by zzzeek 3y ago
then explain centipedes
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online; I do all three things including this one, though this one can cut both ways. Leaving Washington Post to go verify th
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by zzzeek 3y ago
I don't want to use the term "dumb" for your take since I don't really address people that way but it does not matter if threads shows me ten AI landscapes or 100, the point is that once images displaying what would take
978.
by zzzeek 3y ago
Yes the "self" is an illusion, but at least for me, there's an emergent illusion/whatever of "hey im inside this head looking out", which we claim arises from a physical brain structure. if this structure w
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by zzzeek 3y ago
did you miss the part where Threads' feed algorithm is also "AI" as much as any other machine learning model is ? Human appreciation of art is linked to human creation of art and I think AI is going to show us that truth i
980.
by zzzeek 3y ago
i never really get the notion people sometimes have that consciousness arises from a specific, physically identifiable structure in the brain, where a person actually seems to have a "self", looking out of their eyes from inside t
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by zzzeek 3y ago
how are you so sure that anyone else besides you is actually conscious ? you might be the only conscious being in the universe. the whole universe is yours. you've already traveled the entire thing. I'm conscious too but tha
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by zzzeek 3y ago
for some insight on how AI generated images can quickly ruin everything, go onto Threads and "like" one or two AI-generated landscapes; your feed will instantly turn into and endless stream of hyper-colorful, mind-bending AI-gener
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by zzzeek 3y ago
all three of those "Katie and her cat" stories are horrible. besides that none of them sound plausible, there is no substance in these stories that would make them useful to even present to children. they're just random e
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by zzzeek 3y ago
Carmack is on it now! WHEW, great, we'll have robot butlers within 5 years. Was looking dicey there for awhile!
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Texas and other Southern border states have bussed over 17K migrants to Chicago(chicagotribune.com)
1 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following Covid-19(jamanetwork.com)
12 points by zzzeek 3y ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 3y ago
TBF I also found this story to be intellectually interesting, like, why the Democrats quite amazingly voted in lock-step unison to vacate the seat, which is not at all how the Democratic party has behaved for the past 30 years (either in un
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by zzzeek 3y ago
OK, I will keep this in mind, however what's different about this particular political story is that it's also extremely historic, nothing like this has ever occurred in the history of the US and this is the first speaker to ever
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by zzzeek 3y ago
all Democrats voted against him, so he certainly didn't "work with the Democrats" by their measure. basically he made friends with noone. the next speaker should be a little more careful
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Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House(washingtonpost.com)
51 points by zzzeek 3y ago|71 comments

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