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by ping_pong 5y ago
I used Tesseract almost 10 years ago to scan letters from a Words With Friends board. I was getting over 90% accuracy, but the letters with score values on them corrupted the letters and screwed up the detection. So I created a new "la
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by ping_pong 5y ago
You are assuming a professional is reading whatever the content is you are distributing and will make a rational, fair decision. No. It's going to be a minimum wage indentured Google servant that doesn't quite understand what they
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by ping_pong 5y ago
You're definitely not thinking creatively enough. You don't need to hit the planet directly with anything, all you need to do is destabilize the orbit of all the planets or even just the Earth itself. You could send a gravity wave
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by ping_pong 5y ago
> On Earth, successful civilizations have been capable of trade and cultural exchange in addition to force. Forget about what monstrosities we have done to other human civilizations throughout history. Instead, think about what we have
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by ping_pong 5y ago
So now, a minimum wage drone at Google, or even worse an AI, will be able to shut down my entire account because they perceived my document that I'm sharing as "misinformation"? That's pretty fucking scary.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
I took a year off and for fun, I spent 40 hours a week for 9 months on a website that used OCR and other packages for some games. It generated around $15/month in ad revenue, just enough to pay for my EC2 instance at the time. I kept i
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by ping_pong 5y ago
So it really is just a way for them to suck out the cash flow of Aramco and leave nothing but a husk for external investors?
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by ping_pong 5y ago
No. It's impossible. There was no outbreak in Osaka. A disease as virulent as Covid with only a single person infected is not likely at all.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
What is the separation between the Saudi government and MbS. Is it essentially the same and is it the case of MbS monetizing Aramco at the expense of the investors?
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by ping_pong 5y ago
American Dad has 2 episodes dedicated to showing that Saudi Arabia is the worst place in the world. Your story just reinforces that idea.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
The numbers were self-reported, so it's not going to be very accurate.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
I'm sorry but Covid wasn't in Osaka in November 2019. You definitely had some other disease like the flu.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Wow, my kid was complaining that he couldn't access a page a couple of hours ago and I dismissed it as him making a mistake somehow. I guess this is must be a pretty huge outage for it to be across all the products!
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Every couple of years? But I do think the frequency of straight up comedies being produced is dwindling, and aren't popular enough to go to a movie theatre for.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
> they want guaranteed returns and they do not want to gamble about it This is how Hollywood is. It's the same as Silicon Valley. They don't want to gamble if they don't have to, they both just want as much money as possib
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Better Call Saul at its best is as good, if not better, than 99% of Breaking Bad. Of course, the best episodes of BB are among the best in TV history.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
When was the last great comedy movie you've seen in the movie theatres? I posed this question to my buddies and we were genuinely stumped. For me it was probably early 2000s, but nothing in the last 15 years that's for sure.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
I love it. They don't even care now, do they? Private jets are the most obvious targets of carbon tax because they are completely unnecessary, and the politicians decided to carve out the tax only for them. The world we live in is trul
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by ping_pong 5y ago
I'm pretty desensitized to stuff, but this study is a horrifying. They basically mutiliated a rat by connecting it to another rat's circulatory system, implanted a uterus and then impregnanted it. It feels like this has crossed so
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by ping_pong 5y ago
I worked on a visual programming tool from the late 90s to the early 2000s. The same problems apply then as they do now. There's an unwinnable war between keeping things simple and being complex-enough to do useful things. Visual stuff
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by ping_pong 5y ago
The funny thing is that someone could openly start wearing a bodycam for themselves and record everything for leaks, and no one would know that it wasn't authorized.
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by ping_pong 5y ago
It's funny how quickly forget about Stephen Harper and how he tried desperately to turn Canada into its anti-thesis. The same laws that protect speech that you may not agree when your party is in power, protect your speech when the opp
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by ping_pong 5y ago
It sounds like you are lonely and consumed by work. The last 1.5 years has been extremely lonely time for a lot of people around the world. Take a little bit of relief in knowing a huge percentage of the entire world is in the same boat as
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Oh, are we supposed to be in it to "make the world a better place"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Founders made 8 figures, most employees including early ones got less than 100k. Back during the dotcom boom, options were distributed a lot more generously. At the first company I joined, the admin assistant made enough from the IPO to buy
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Anything food related should be compostable, including in supermarkets. If it means we can't store food for months, the good. It means we can compost them as fertilizer so the planet is still okay. Without getting draconian on companie
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Non-recyclable plastic should be banned immediately. The fact that we let it persist is ridiculous. I don't care how much costs go up. We should also limit the types of plastic to a handful, and they should all be recyclable in-country
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by ping_pong 5y ago
Over a decade ago, I worked at well-known web site in one of the smaller properties. The site looked like it was from the mid-90s. A year-long effort was made to upgrade the site to something more modern, and it was beautiful. It went live,
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What the Hell Is Going on in the Collectible Comics Market?(forbes.com)
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by ping_pong 5y ago
He has lived a very interesting life, to say it mildly. I can think of worse lives to have lived, especially considering how rich he was, how salacious a life he lead with his drug-and-sex filled decades and even killing someone. Ending it

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