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by dwoozle 7y ago
No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up conse
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Well it’s possible for the unintended consequences of an action to more than cancel out the intended consequences.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing some
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and
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by dwoozle 7y ago
In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Cooking is great but you cannot learn it in an hour.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Today, but large scale efforts like city development happen over multiple decades, over which the number of remote workers will almost certainly increase due to new technology.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Not to mention that the quality of life outside big cities is far healthier and more human scale and human paced. People are more focused on things like children than on Kubernetes — the world needs progress but boy does it take a toll. In
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s obvious that the rape charges were a highly selective enforcement action. It would be great if Sweden pursued every rapist as though they were Osama Bin Laden but the fact is they only pursued one.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You mean it was just a pretext to exfiltrate him to the US, and that Sweden does not in fact have a long national track record of pursuing rapists across international boundaries without prejudice, using the full arsenal of state power?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What is a “free country” in your definition?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Nicotine also improves mental performance.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This industry seems like it could be put out of business on the low to mediocre end by deep learning.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yep — hard to believe that Satya Nadella is only 5 years into the job at Microsoft. It’s like a completely different company.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The risk reward profile of the S&P 500 is way better. Buy Legos if you like them, sell them opportunistically, but don’t get into it as an asset class.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You mean the multi tens of thousand dollar FPGA set up that Xilinx hawks doesn’t have source control?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s another word for mirror and has cool vintage/steampunk/Victorian associations so it’s going to be used by a lot of different people.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I think it’s more that Americans culturally tend to the “extreme sports” mentality in many aspects of their lives. Biggest baddest loudest most intense most successful mosh committed hardest working are all excessively venerated here.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Damn, can’t believe Fred Smith is still running FedEx.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Is that less bad? Wouldn’t that nuke the experience too?

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