Nicook

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by Nicook 6d ago
Try bandcamp (no really it's actually been improving over the years). Also there's still youtube for trying popular ones. Should cover "trying" almost all music legally afaik.
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by Nicook 6d ago
Do not respect Evil.
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by Nicook 8d ago
You should really go visit the musical instrument museum if you ever have the opportunity. Just the shortlist of his stuff is pretty objectively impressive, dunno maybe I'm replying to some secret famous person's account shrug .
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by Nicook 12d ago
perhaps even in Japanese gardens
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by Nicook 21d ago
there's a lot of ill will against the author in the current day, I suspect thats at least partially to blame.
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by Nicook 29d ago
yeah, I think most of this really stems from people streatching the use of "rare books". The cool rare books google scanned one page at a time were borrowed from a library because they are rare and or valuable and usually old (ou
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by Nicook 1mo ago
I remember when google was scanning a bunch of rare books, I mean they might still be doing that? Either way, that was cool. I have a few "rare books" and have read many, you'd be suprised at what is publicly available on go
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by Nicook 1mo ago
Everybody here falls for the most obvious bait.
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by Nicook 1mo ago
getting a long term loan to buy a car sounds like it would signal intention to be more than a tourist.
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by Nicook 1mo ago
people commuting across borders just for work is legitimately very common all over the world. Although I'd assume they'd be able to easily secure a loan in at least ONE of those places.
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by Nicook 2mo ago
Made it through the account migration. But later lost my account after some hacker compromised my microsoft account. Microsoft kindly let me know about some unauthorized access, and then promptly deleted the account :) . That was the last
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by Nicook 2mo ago
some things never change. Pre AI I was always shocked that such large and complex systems actually run as well as they do. Especially after getting to see how the sausage is made/works.
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by Nicook 2mo ago
No it wont. There's already one state in the union that has dipsensed with the silly time changes, Arizona. I've lived there for ~7 years while an adult, or about 20% of my life, now live in a time change state again. Having exp
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by Nicook 3mo ago
>we'll just add this feature on as some async verification since it takes a while, then make the original update wait in some weird state for it to finish. Later, when users are confused at failures and weird states. >ok now lets
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by Nicook 3mo ago
this right here, our issue is mostly the accountability. Accountable people are much less likely to apply force when not needed. Trying to remember some citations, but there's really interesting data out there on citizen involved sho
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by Nicook 3mo ago
why not? if its a professional force. plenty of other countries people use as models have military and police linked together, imo we're (USA) just missing the punishment part. Need to court martial police more :). Whole point of pol
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by Nicook 3mo ago
Sure but my point is still that its Arabic and not inherently violent etc. whereas the holocaust is a specific genocidal event.
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by Nicook 3mo ago
I think the word has been twisted a bit, to compare it to holocaust is imo insane. I've known people named Jihad.
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by Nicook 4mo ago
That's not what it means, but go off. Although yes it is generally used pejoratively, and if you are using the term, its for a rhetorical effect.
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by Nicook 4mo ago
I believe he is referencing the proletariat masses, the rabble, etc.
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by Nicook 4mo ago
That's literally always possible? The idea is to put up walls and fail-safes to minimize the chance.
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by Nicook 5mo ago
Never considered that, but mentioning flags that have minimal "history" pushed me in a totally different direction about some modern political transnational movements lol.
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by Nicook 5mo ago
Amercian is imo the worst airline out there, and the only one I refuse to fly with. At least the budget airlines are cheaper and honest for horrible service.
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by Nicook 5mo ago
You are severely overestimating the average, or even above average understanding of LLMs.
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by Nicook 5mo ago
I enjoy that you are framing this as somethings that "may" happen in the future.
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by Nicook 5mo ago
Probably also a bit of liability. After all its been trained on a dataset that includes a long running joke of trying to trick people on the internet to unknowingly create chlorine gas.
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by Nicook 6mo ago
Japan is also way thingger than America, which the article points out: > The US spends ~$14,570 per person on healthcare. Japan spends ~$5,790 and has the highest life expectancy in the OECD. That gap is roughly $3 trillion per year. Nee
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by Nicook 7mo ago
debt doesn't harm you until the carrying costs become to high v profits. Just have to hit that point (if is exists, maybe growth accelerates forever if you are optimistic).
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by Nicook 7mo ago
The third worldization of the USA continues at pace. Expensive reasonable enclaves for the rich, nothing for the rest.
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by Nicook 7mo ago
Scalia wrote some really interesting opinions for sure. Feel like the arguments are only going to get worse :(

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