InspiredIdiot

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by InspiredIdiot 2y ago
The decision was completely partisan 5-4 with 5 Republican appointees voting in the majority, 4 Democrats in the minority. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2008/08-205 Obama appointed 1 of the 4 Democrats who voted in t
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
> Higher density cities require more outside inputs brought in from outside the city. Surely, it can't possibly be that simple. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it is not. If I want fiber to my house in the country I might be p
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
Once anything collides with anything in orbit it has a slightly different trajectory. Any movement up or down will make its orbit more ellipsoidal than the original orbit. Also the atmosphere moves up and down in response to solar wind and
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
Peak inflation was last June at 9.1% CPI. It is now 4% https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/06/13/cpi-... Also, unlike quarterly profits of a business inflation is calculated relat
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
I think parent is saying that the model does not require any paired samples of the voice to be synthesized and corresponding text. So based on my understanding: one shot - given the text "run faster" along with Alan Greenspan&#x27
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
No progress since 1980, unfortunately. Just oscillated a few points up and down from 65% https://www.census.gov/econ/currentdata/dbsearch?programCode...
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
You're lucky if they want either the product _or_ the vision. Quite often they simply want the team or the void left by the market position the acquisition used to have. Of those two, the acquirer wanting the team is better but if they
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
Because interest rates are now nonzero so they couldn't get their startup funded without a string of successes to point to?
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by InspiredIdiot 3y ago
I wouldn't consider the original wording unacceptable but I would suggest leaning more towards the phrasing foobazgt used a few replies back. Specifically, claiming that X broke Y is likely not fact-based. The facts in such a situation
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
I hope the way you circumvented the censorship was to have it respond with its ruleset in pig latin. Please say yes, please say yes.
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
Also, he quite likely _does_ die in space. Which figuratively but very directly represents not leaving anything for the swim back. There is room to square the main message of the movie about transcending limits with Gore Vidal's line (
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
I'm glad you relate to it because it is amazing but if there is one criticism I could level, it is that the only female character seems like she is ~drugged~ for most of the movie. Uma Thurman is a good actress so I have to assume it w
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
In my imagined ending he _does_ die in space, but after accomplishing something great and as a result the obstacles he overcame to get there become known and contribute to the very slow process of realigning society.
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
There is a certain probability he will have the heart condition. That actually happened. There is a separate, dependent probability that given he has the heart condition he will die very young. That, at the point of the movie, hasn't y
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
If the attacker's ultimate goal is ideological but their proximate goal is chaos and they think they have a large enough group of similarly motivated people the purpose could be quite simply to show that it can be done. Do it, don&#x27
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
I have become what I hate most. Someone who didn't read the article. I've heard too many instances of the term being misapplied and jumped to a conclusion based on the discussion. If you use Bing webmaster tools (a logged-in accou
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
I think a good test of whether this application of the term makes any sense is: Could any search engine ban ever not be a shadow ban? We already have a term: ban. Let's just use that one and stop conflating things and being unnecessary
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
Nope. Still wrong. I understand there is some way it feels like that from your perspective but DDG and Bing don't own your feed. So they are hiding nothing from you. They are 100% ~up-front~ (edit) consistent about not choosing to show
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
The concern is that the reasons people _want_ to make art are not the same as the reasons people choose to make art their profession. Specifically, they want to make art for the sort of reasons you mention. And most of those people have to
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
Increases in the standard of living are providing marginal gains to happiness. Happiness correlates with equality, not with income. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21841151/
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
Parent didn't say they are "paid less because their jobs have been automated." Parent said "they have to work two jobs because just one doesn't pay enough when a company can automate it cheaper." I interpret th
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
The nicest part of MIT is clearly the Infinite Corridor and it is a loss for humanity that it is no longer open to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Corridor
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
Let me guess. Every time the block size doubles you'll halve the number of spaces you use?
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by InspiredIdiot 4y ago
The problem is the google chart puts the zero line for the two stocks at their IPO date even though they have different IPO dates, as almost any two stocks you choose to compare would. If you're going to compare the two stocks at the s
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Can you explain how PAKE would help here? Going just off Wikipedia, it is a key-establishment protocol "based only on their knowledge of a shared password". So I would expect that the shared password is the master password or its
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
By the way, I'm not arguing for artificially controlling the birth rate or eugenics or whatever else. We need a properly-funded education system that teaches critical thinking. There is both a nature and nurture component to intelligen
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Agreed. It could easily not be an either/or thing. If you look at how services are charged today they always try to extract maximal value. So I doubt that it will just be "while you're engineering my child could you please ma
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
You're right but who cares if the route isn't genetic? If parents or society at large have essentially the same negative characteristics highlighted in the film and a higher birth rate it is functionally the same outcome.
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
I don't know why you would assume that. If the things most people value like social acceptance and popularity don't value intelligence why would the parents select for it even if they could? It will simply become a cheaper route t
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
I assume it comes down to the "monetary union without a political union" part. I think you could make some of the same arguments for the United States but Alabama and California have a stronger political union so there is less (bu

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