gaterin

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by gaterin 4y ago
Humans thousands of years ago had the support of their entire community. A modern human can maybe rely on their spouse. Life as a rugged individual is stressful.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Animation has always been about minimizing cost and time while looking passable, and those are exactly AI's strengths.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Supporting industries losing economies of scale drives up costs. If you have fewer tailors, local cloth suppliers become insolvent. This leads to the few tailors having to import cloth and increase prices.
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by gaterin 4y ago
It's good to see people finally admitting America is incapable of being greater than Bangladesh or Ethiopia.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Does the change over from home manufactured children to imported mirror the offshoring of North American industry? This could be an inevitable outcome of optimizing for labor costs.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Issue: Eradication of humanity. Cause: PEBKAC Solution: Eradication of humanity.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Looking at the chart Bogotá has an annual daily mean of 14.4°C, and is fairly consistent throughout the year. Berlin's is 9.9°C with hotter summers and colder winters. To make a definitive statement we would have to know whether spikes
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by gaterin 4y ago
There have been studies showing a positive correlation between temperature and violent crime. [1] It's possible this behavior is just a manifestation of living in a warmer country. Perhaps if you swapped the populations of Bogotá and B
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by gaterin 4y ago
That sounds like the view of an anti-progress luddite. Be careful where you make such statements.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Given how advertising currently works our smartest minds will dedicate their lives to force them upon you.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Cultures that are self sustaining will exist into the future. If the Korean culture isn't one of them, so be it.
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by gaterin 4y ago
Public funding for the arts exceeds spending by Hollywood and the video game industry?
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by gaterin 4y ago
A common person isn't able to do what the author did, meaning they'll have to reach for the app store. Conveniently, Apple gets a cut of sales on the app store. The conflicts of interest are clear.