harpersealtako

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by harpersealtako 4y ago
>Why do you think Whatsapp is so popular now and not SMS anymore? Is this actually the case? I've heard Whatsapp is popular outside the states (something about differences in phone plans, in the US unlimited SMS texting is basicall
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
A neutral answer: he's a popular young conservative Jewish-American political pundit who gained fame for debates at college campuses. He gained notoriety for his snappy rhetorical "takedowns" of (mostly left-leaning) univers
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Yes, millions of birds every year. About a fifth of it has salmonella, unsurprisingly. But US chicken is still banned for very dubious reasons.
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Solved my first 5x5 in 1:54. At first I thought it would be really difficult but then I found a hex which could only go one way (a corner hex with V shape) and then from there the adjacent pipes could only orient one way. There were a few
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I've absolutely noticed that. I used to pay for GPT-3 access through AI Dungeon back in 2020, before it got censored and run into the ground. In the AI fiction community we call that "Summer Dragon" ("Dragon" was
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Dalle seems to only have a few "styles" of drawing that it is actually "good" at. It is particularly strong at these styles but disappointingly underwhelming at anything else, and will actively fight you and morph your
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
This is a running theme for Blue Zones and centenarian research data, just a bunch of really blatant falsehoods packaged as trendy diet advice (e.g. suggesting that the Okinawan diet is low in meat, which is based on some weird game of tele
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
The problem with the evidence and research around the "plant based diet" is that there is an ulterior motive for most of the research (legitimate ethical concerns around meat eating) which taints a lot of the data. For example, Da
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
What are you considering as "American meat preparations" though? It's not all salt/pepper/butter/lemon here. Not even considering immigrant cuisines (which is doing a disservice because that's our entire
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I agree, I've been all over Europe and never saw any significant difference in the quality of raw meat and poultry. I do know there is a lot of misinformation about US meats over there though, like the "chlorinated chicken&quot
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I'm definitely in the weird minority that feels like that phase of edgy internet counterculture diving was an overwhelming positive thing for me. It gave me perspective as a sheltered suburb kid as to how fucked up things can be in th
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Coffee culture has existed in the US since the 1700s at least when Americans started drinking coffee instead of tea to spite the British, it's just a different coffee culture than the modern cafe espresso culture and it's not &quo
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
You have to understand though that Italians are predisposed to rip into all non-Italian food whenever they get the chance, even if it's better than the native Italian version. Americans just have different tastes/cultures regardin
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I think pornhub has one they were saying they were making, idk if that is going anywhere.
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I wonder if you could make a good RTS with a "command limit", or a delay between issuing a command and the army moving. This could be simulated by a horseback messenger, or the delay of lightspeed communications across large stel
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
It's a bit of a freaky question (you mentioned the same example last week too, I had to double-check if you were the same person) but I think it's actually really important and we should be talking more about things like that. It
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I think the (humorous) implication is that you would use them as bait for traps. I don't think potatoes would be that effective as raccoon bait (maybe?), but I do know that bear trappers use all sorts of weird stuff, usually food wa
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
US grocery stores in general seem no less clean than western European grocery stores from my limited experience. I don't know what the parent poster is talking about -- even Walmarts in the bad parts of town seldom seem conspicuously
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
GPT-adjacent text prediction AIs are already mostly used for this to great effect. AI Dungeon was mostly used to generate erotica. Its successors like NovelAI and Sudowrite are also used mostly for this. The "chatbot" label isn
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I know this one from the Umineko visual novel series. Detectives in the Umineko universe are dimension-hopping reality auditors who wield the "rules of detective fiction" as rhetorical weapons (and sometimes literal weapons) when
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I'm not sure whether you actually think this is good or bad but honestly I bet it would actually be a net positive, in a "if everybody's a pornstar, nobody is" kind of way. If you can generate nsfw video from a picture
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
It's only a matter of time before we get a good NSFW image generation algorithm. Text erotica generation is already a not-insignificant part of the public AI world (remember AI dungeon? Most people used it for porn). The question is
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I think one of many issues with the car windshield observation is we don't have a good baseline. So we notice that in 1990 there were more bugs on our windshields compared to 2020 after a drive through Kansas. But maybe 2020's i
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I think you're right. A lot of times in modern movies, the plot, setting, and characters exist solely to advance the ideology it is trying to push. Because ideology is a ideal of real life that almost by definition is incomplete, t
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Yes, that's one of the big mindfucks in the nutrition world, which is that arguably the healthiest society on the planet has a diet high in sodium, refined carbs, and fried foods.
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I think the backlash to describing Heinlein as "fascist" says more about the average person's understanding of real-life fascism than anything. I get the impression most people just replace the word with "evil" in
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
You can't argue with demographics because, outside of immigration, it is physically impossible to change them in the short term. Even if e.g. Korea somehow managed to get a fertility rate of 10 tomorrow, it would takes many decades for
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
An easy counterpoint is that Japan is a very healthy society with the lowest obesity rate in the developed world, and they actually have a mantra that says "eat 30 different foods every day". Japanese people directly attribute th
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I'm assuming the types of older w/ downtown suburbs you're talking about are more like this, right?: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2054168,-71.5416077,3a,75y,0... For the record I grew up between two t
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I get why some people like cities. Especially kids who don't want to be tied down, who want to be able to explore who they are, who want to see and be part of something bigger than their hometown. There's plenty of things to lov

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