barnabyjones

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by barnabyjones 4mo ago
The first gulp from the glass of wealth will make you reach for the stars, but at the bottom of the glass, a hair transplant is waiting for you.
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by barnabyjones 5mo ago
Without exercise, you won't burn ATP and thus won't increase mitochondrial count.
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by barnabyjones 11mo ago
I'm not seeing any mention of the Entity List ITT, which seems like the real reason. Via SCMP: >Some analysts said the move by the Dutch ministry resulted from a new rule issued by the US Bureau of Industry and Security, the agency
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
>1) Life, especially in the EU, is not like in an American action movie; Only because of the immense wealth, freedom and culture brought by generations of struggle and tenacity. If it isn't defended, it can go away quickly, but the
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
The funny thing is the platforms are barely profitable if at all. The earnings all get funneled to ads as that's the only way to differentiate, aside from maybe a slightly better UX.
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
I have saved instructions for Gemini to translate queries into the local language then retranslate the output back to English, when asking about non-English speaking countries/cultures. It seems to work fairly well, but I think it&#x2
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
I think such an emotionless android would have diligently prepared numerous backup scripts, sets of lenses, actors, demonstrations etc. to cover any failure contingency, since the cost of that is infinitesimal compared to even a slight chan
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
The Xreal front page is people playing racing games and watching movies; I'm imagining something that can be used nonchalantly in public, and I'm assuming every feature beyond a bare minimum speech-to-text display would increase t
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
I know my folks already watch movies with subtitles for this reason, and I would think sight issues can be calibrated for if the product is a pair of glasses? But idk how AR tech works with e.g. farsighted people who use reading glasses.
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
Those look bulky, to support exactly the kind of feature creep I think will always be a problem with this category. I think there are a LOT of people who would simply not consider wearing them until the form factor is close to normal glass
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
My parents have similar issues due to hearing loss, it really makes any kind of social interaction a chore which results in a similar spiral. For years I've wanted to try to make, or hope someone else would make, a set of AR glasses t
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
Zuckerberg has spent over fifty billion dollars on the idea that people will want to play a Miiverse game where they can attend meetings in VR and buy virtual real estate. It's like the Spanish emptying Potosi to buy endless mercenari
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
That's true but most of them are unleavened, the yeast plus the fast cook time is I think what makes pizza unique, more than the cheese which is present in other variations.
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by barnabyjones 1y ago
Reading this right after watching "Mountainhead" was enjoyable, but I do commend the guy for publishing it; sadly few case studies where things went wrong ever see the light of day. This part stood out: >"What's the
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
Even though the examples have a clear green-screen effect, I would think some of the tricks/filters they used in old video games to make them look "realistic/cinematic" could work here, then advertisers would be able to
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
Interesting, I've been thinking for a long time these would be most useful to the hearing impaired if they get a simple text display going. Some people just simply avoid social situations because hearing aids aren't good enough, h
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
It doesn't handle homonyms well, since the AI isn't given contextual reference. The sentences are also too simple on advanced level, so you don't get much more out of it than just reviewing the words. The AI coming up with w
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
Isn't that what this whole thread is about? They're surely not going to come after Meta with the same vigor.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I agree it can cause those effects but it always seemed to me that the weed is just causing sleep deprivation which eventually leads to psychosis. IME it's not much different from alcohol in that way, they both disturb REM sleep so yo
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
>He would likely be more intelligent than a toddler I think you are falling into the trap of "we have technology and are therefore smarter." I would expect an average Roman senator could formulate far better speeches off the to
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
A2 milk not only exists but is very popular in Asia actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_a2_Milk_Company
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
Climate change did not defeat a million soldiers at Badger Mouth, nor could it be explained by slightly better bows.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
Keep in mind, fraud isn't necessarily a big deal for the shareholder, not all fraud is Enron-tier. For example, I fully believe they were right about Adani, but it was basically just skimming money off the top. If Adani is an embezzl
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
The nationalist spirit is founded on imperial ambitions, and the pieces were in place for WWI partly due to empires and pretenders who would claim the title of "empire" both increasingly desperate to cement their legitimacy throug
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
It's literally ten times the cost of a plastic stand on Temu ($34 vs $3.35).
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
>Individually owned cars can go underground onto a pallet and be whisked underground to another location in a city at more than 100mph. I'm curious where this idea even came from, not sure who the customer would be, it's a litt
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
If maternal mortality were the only issue, evolutionary pressure would also favor women with wider hips/birthing canals. After all, we see hyper intelligent individuals at the current brain size, it's clearly possible to get more
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I disagree, since the feelings it can cause are still real. If making people excited through marketing makes them more motivated to work (increasing their "utility" in dry econ terms), that's the same kind of value creation
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
It says that the first couple spent $20,000 on bulbs 3 years ago which gives them a $25,000 harvest, and have somehow made $1 million from this. There seems to be some information missing.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
The assumption is that it's either widespread or nonexistent, but I could see it being just a rare instance that gets A/B tested, and maybe by now the companies have decided it's not worth it. But IME all kinds of not quite

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