StuffedParrot

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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Ethically, comparing to the CIA is about lowest bar possible.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
No, physics is such that semantics are important. What’s the observable difference between absorption/emission and reflection? If the latter doesn’t happen at all the distinction is meaningless.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
I thought the poster was implying that the USPS was enforcing ownership even though they didn’t create or provide the content, so making your own mailbox wouldn’t help at all.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Yes that’s exactly the practice that I am pointing out you can replace.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
You’d have to ask them.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Not if the society makes an effort to keep the pizza place.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal Not if you enter a feedback cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. That is DEFINITELY the enemy of good.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
I’m open to it, but I suspect it would be difficult to figure out all the things we’d miss even on a biological level. You don’t think people would read about planets and realize what they’re missing? I think they would curse their ancestor
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs. Yea but people want to go outside.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
...assuming we have any skill at maintaining infrastructure, and looking around this country we really don’t. Look at the oil pipeline leaks just in the last year .
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> That's extraordinary nonsense. What are you basing this on?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> Was Buzzfeed trying to manipulate people or just get clicks? Publishing is an act of manipulation, including caring about what's happening around them (which is typically considered a good thing).
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> It's a semi-automated system for creating clickbait to manipulate public opinion. What differentiates this from any other media outlet?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> And the linked article showed you that, in practice, "a shambles" is perfectly correct English. I'd think "in practice" would mean evidence of contemporary usage.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
...for traditional use, maybe, but any editor worth their salt will stop you from doing so. At least in America. Many words have changed their meaning and use over the last 500 years.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> Facebook claims this violates their TOS. Based on that, the data can be called stolen. They can call it that sure, but if they didn’t restrict access it’s hard to take this as anything but Facebook covering the entire point of their ap
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
What places pay less for benefits? No relocation, working sub 40 hours a week, greatly increase time off (none of this “unlimited vacation but really it’s just up to your manager” bullshit)?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
You don’t argue with propaganda. Completely missing from this article are all the reasons we can’t say shit about china: our own human rights record is terrible and everyone knows it.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
How does my comment qualify but not the submitted article?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
I read this as too violent/unfriendly to amass substantial interest from people, not a value judgement per se.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> Apple TV+ is so locked down with DRM that you can't even easily take a screenshot from a show and share it on social media. This seems incredibly blind. Do they realize how much culture spreads via gifs these days? If anything exp
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
How convenient that the part of humanity they finger out as running the “crime of the century” is economically opposed to Quillete’s love of the american free market. In reality both these governments are just as bad. Chinese and muslim? Ha
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> So uhhh, isn't this like not science? Very little of technology has anything to do with validating hypotheses. > meaning that humans, even those who design them, cannot understand how variables are being combined to make predic
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Absolution of liability. Why else use the term "AI" to describe your heuristic?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Do you accuse people of the obvious a lot? Because manipulative ads seem to be the lingua franca of us politics.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Why not ban heuristics altogether?
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
Not ironic at all! If I were a foreign entity pushing for bilateral agreements I would seed paranoia and doubt everywhere I could. The degree of explicit control that comes out of this manipulation is miniscule compared to its destabilizing
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
The xr starts at $600. It’s a rich person fantasy that you’d go for two fallible devices which work poorly for basic things like texting, ride hailing, looking up menus rather than one device that does more.
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by StuffedParrot 7y ago
> I'm not sure where this author went to college, but outside of a major city like London or NYC, you'd be hard pressed to find a more experientially diverse place (in America, at least) even amongst freshmen. This seems to be

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