lancesells

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by lancesells 2y ago
My guess is you can trace a lot of those publications to a handful of conglomerates that are there for ROI and nothing else.
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by lancesells 2y ago
It's also directed by one of the best directors in history.
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by lancesells 2y ago
> Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content. But also in the case of the fluffy train there's nothing to compare it against. The reason CGI humans look the most fake is because we're trained from birth to read a
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by lancesells 2y ago
I'm wondering that as well but I also wonder if it's a bit like CGI where it's somewhat hit a limit on realness. I'm not saying CGI doesn't get better but is a 2024 Gollum that much more realistic than 2004 Gollum?
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by lancesells 2y ago
It's funny how humans and companies have mined natural resources for theoretical progress, but we've come to a point that natural resources are being used to mine a fake resource that really serves zero purpose. What an absurd dir
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by lancesells 2y ago
Have you seen Youtube or Reddit comments on anything? They don't reflect real-life. Youtube is probably the worst, most trollish comments of the "normal" internet and Reddit is a sort of progressive propaganda machine that wi
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by lancesells 2y ago
I don't have an answer to this, but why if the algorithm can manipulate people, regardless of who directed it, why are we ok with the algorithmic content of all the platforms? I'm not much of a social media user but a lot of the a
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by lancesells 2y ago
I would imagine 95% of cookies are not selling data but giving your data away in exchange for the other services. 1. Because they are using GA4 feeding info to Google. 2. Because they have some advertising pixel / api set up feeding in
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by lancesells 2y ago
Net worth $1.6B. So eating a $6M banana is a PR stunt. Edit: Also doesn't mean it can't be resold as that banana gets replaced x number of days.
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by lancesells 2y ago
I honestly like my photos more from my iPhone 3 than my current iPhone SE. The photos were blurry, noisy, and crunchy while my current photos are just flat and without character. It's not nostalgia for me, it's the photos looking
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by lancesells 2y ago
This is brilliant
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by lancesells 2y ago
It's more about people with a lot of money hoping to sell it for a greater return, while maybe also having shit taste in art. In five years it'll be at an auction and sell to some other person with too much money in hopes of makin
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by lancesells 2y ago
> Imagine creating a game by describing scenes, like the ones in the article, with a good morphing technology between scenes, so that the transitions between them are like auto-generated scenes which are just as playable. Why do you thin
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by lancesells 2y ago
I have no idea but look at it from the perspective of the US Department of Defense. Also, companies like Google make ~$8B in profit every three months for selling ads. Is it really that crazy they awarded this amount of money to try and hav
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by lancesells 2y ago
Chips are the new oil. They run everything and without them you would be outdroned in the case of a war.
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by lancesells 2y ago
Not entirely. I would buy one if there was one I liked that was in the price range I want to spend. It would be practical as in I don't want to pay $25k more than an ICE car for the same quality of vehicle. Neither cultural or politica
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by lancesells 2y ago
They bought that though.
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by lancesells 2y ago
It seems a bit cultural, a bit practical, and maybe a bit political? Tesla is an American company and seems like it was selling cars. There's no one stopping them so I'm not sure the oil industry is entirely to blame.
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by lancesells 2y ago
People who pay for a working game to play probably care. I'm not a gamer but I occassionally will try to pop something in every six months or so. Two hours later after I have to sign in from a controller, update the OS, then update the
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by lancesells 2y ago
I don't know anything about this comic, but word balloons going over part of a face is not a good sign for a quality book.
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by lancesells 2y ago
We probably live in different places because I haven't found people to be all that rude where I've lived (cities), but America is huge and has hundreds of different cultures so I'm sure there are some where rudeness is more p
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by lancesells 2y ago
Coddled wouldn't make you rude. Being exposed to too much internet would make you rude. If you look at the default sidebar in Youtube it's a shitshow.
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by lancesells 2y ago
Lego seems like plastic model kits for adults more than the building and creating it was originally. I wonder what the kids to adults breakdown is for Lego.
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by lancesells 2y ago
Unfortunately I've purchased movies from iTunes over the last ~15 years.
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by lancesells 2y ago
Apple TV kind of has ads in the form of their streaming service. Not egregious yet, but it gets worse with every iteration.
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by lancesells 2y ago
I was thinking about this the other day. Like how all of these different types of things splintered off and evolved in different ways. Trees are these creatures that grow their limbs into the earth and the sky rendering them immobile but th
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by lancesells 2y ago
> If anything you ever say during routine business operations can end up as evidence, clear and honest communication will suffer. The effectiveness of organizations, including the ability to act ethically, will be seriously degraded. &gt
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by lancesells 2y ago
Microsoft was bummed that they couldn't acquire it so they recreated it in 3D.
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by lancesells 2y ago
First they came for my gas stoves and now my raw milk. Let's destroy the FDA and food safety that keeps people alive because pasteurization is the devil. Counterpoint: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/the-dangers-of-r
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by lancesells 2y ago
Yeah I never understand all these systems being connected at all. I understand remote working and monitoring, but is that worth it for something that is the most crucial part of society?

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