crunchyfrog

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by crunchyfrog 3y ago
I too will only install Windows in Ireland from now on.
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by crunchyfrog 3y ago
Ok, what do you call it when someone tries to conceal the origin of money?
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by crunchyfrog 3y ago
A wants to give a bunch of money to B for a reason that they want to remain hidden (e.g. a bribe, illegal purchases, etc.). So B puts an NFT up for sale and A buys it for an inflated price. Now B has a plausible explanation for the source
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by crunchyfrog 3y ago
I assume they'll be going after Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc. now for doing literally the same thing?
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
Those claims were never published in peer reviewed journals and were very likely just false positives: https://en.ara.cat/society/inaccurate-data-led-to-belief-tha...
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
I'm pretty sure OpenAI could create an AI that could pass the Turing test if they wanted to. But that would be bad for business. A search chatbot is worth billions. A Turing test passing AI just invites uncomfortable questions and p
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
It reminded me of DIVX[1] from 1999. Amazing how many times this horrible greedy idea was tried. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
> I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try. I did a quick search and as far as I can tell there is no Japanese citizenship tes
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
> the Soviets that viewed “The Road to Wrath”, as it was titled in the U.S.S.R, were in complete awe that even the poorest of the poor in the United States were able to save their money and afford an automobile. As the wrong message cont
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
Okay, then. That was always allowed.
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
This is definitely not the heart of the problem. Governments issue bonds for what turn out to be bad investments all the time. The heart of the problem was the completely unnecessary default which seems to have been done for petty and self
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
This could actually help explain why Musk suddenly decided to go forward with the Twitter deal. Losing all these advertising commitments are real damages Twitter could point to in court and make Musk pay on top of the $1B break up fee even
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by crunchyfrog 4y ago
California already mandates that all new home construction include solar. This both increases power generation and reduces stress on the grid since power is used where it is generated.
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by crunchyfrog 5y ago
Shaft mining is often used to reach underground deposits of iron, coal, etc. I believe they'd use the same process here.
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by crunchyfrog 5y ago
You're trying to cure the symptom, not the disease. You need a therapist, not financial advice. You know what you're doing is unhealthy but you can't stop. A good mental health professional can help you deal with the pain y
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by crunchyfrog 5y ago
The US's EPA discovered the cheating and leveled multi-billion dollar fines and indicted executives.
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by crunchyfrog 5y ago
All tribes were being pushed westward by white settlers and it inevitably led to conflict among the tribes. But Lakota definitely did not "genocide" the Cheyenne as is obvious by the fact that they still exist in Montana and Okla
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by crunchyfrog 5y ago
From the above WaPo article: > Native Americans have always contended that the Black Hills of South Dakota belong to them, and that the sacred land was stolen after gold was discovered there. In 1980, the Supreme Court agreed, ordering t
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by crunchyfrog 6y ago
And maybe she thinks she's been forgotten and erased but would be happy to know her contribution is being recognized? We'll never know which it is if we don't ask. If she asks to be left alone, people should respect that but
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by crunchyfrog 6y ago
Here is a better example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2... However, this won't fit those looking for a "all people/parties are the same" narrative. One part
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by crunchyfrog 6y ago
The report you link says the same thing: > Emissions trends for 2019 suggest clean energy transitions are underway, led by the power sector.
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by crunchyfrog 6y ago
Trump's trade war was an attempt to pressure China to reduce the trade deficit and help him in the 2020 election. It had absolutely nothing to do with human rights. If anything, Trump admires dictators who violate the human rights of
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
I also struggled with the decision whether to have kids. I don't generally like kids or kids stuff. I was very happy with how I spent my time. It seemed like huge sacrifice and also a leap of faith into a new life with no way back.
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
If withdrawal symptoms were really the main reason addicts continued to use drugs then relapses would be rare. I recommend reading about the Rat Park experiments: > In another experiment, he forced rats in ordinary lab cages to consume
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
I'd say opportunity, physiology and personality. Telling someone who is already in more pain than they can handle that they are sick, weak or immoral is not a good idea. After all, they might decide it is true.
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
I think drug addiction is really misunderstood and this leads to bad policy. The two popular narratives that drug addiction is a moral failing or a disease are both wrong. In some ways it is more simple than that: drug addiction is a copi
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
If you build it or find it, let me know. I want to move there too.
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by crunchyfrog 7y ago
Another result of this culture that I wish the author would have addressed is how cars have changed how we raise our children. We are forced to keep our children inside because all our houses are surrounded by rivers of death. Why are we
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Google Project Zero confirms iPhone bricking iMessage bomb(forbes.com)
3 points by crunchyfrog 7y ago|0 comments
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
> First injury is more likely in residential areas. I'm not sure what new argument you are attempting here. Mountain View has lots of heavily residential areas if you are implying otherwise. The Waymo spokesman is completely right,

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