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by snowgrove 5y ago
It gets bad. In Janesville, Wisconsin when the GM plant closed: >The fabric of hundreds of families unravels, as an itinerant class of fathers — “Janesville Gypsies,” they call themselves — start commuting to G.M. factories in Texas, Ind
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by snowgrove 5y ago
As other commenters mentioned there was a “high Bayesian prior” for lab leaks, too.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are. If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t have followed them. It’s really that simple.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Yup, and I don’t care. If I ever organize a protest I’ll do it on Signal, or another end-to-end encrypted platform. For daily banter I’ll use whatever a majority of my friends prefer. That’s currently Discord for the above-mentioned reasons
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by snowgrove 5y ago
I stopped using Signal, along with my adult tech-oriented friends, when we all had bad experiences migrating our accounts to new phones. That plus the phone number requirement, intrusive contacts integration, and the weird crypto side proje
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by snowgrove 5y ago
You’ve flown far beyond the original comment’s context, which was Valve’s entire history from way before there was Steam. I don’t know whose point you think you’re responding to.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Valve predates Steam by a number of years, and Steam wasn’t always in the dominant position it’s in now.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
They did it all without outside investors or stock sales.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
I think Sam Hyde’s TED talk, or even just his introduction, is the final word on that group’s lack of speaker vetting: https://youtu.be/9cflCyyEA2I
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by snowgrove 5y ago
As the other commenter mentions, neural network-driven speech recognition represents the current state of the art and powers products like Alexa and Google Home. https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/11/improving-on-devic
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Not the first “fireless locomotive” to see service in railyards. Historical versions ran on steam reservoirs or compressed air, replenished by a central power plant. Some are still in use today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by snowgrove 5y ago
I love Worms, but if there’s a runner-up for “Britain’s most tenacious indie games company” then surely it is Hello Games. They launched No Man’s Sky in 2016 to universal disappointment and fan outrage, but kept working on it post-launch (u
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by snowgrove 5y ago
The number of deleted episodes is now up to 113.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Magic Leap has offices all over. They had one in Mountain View just a few blocks from where Rengstorff crosses Highway 101, over by Google. That was a few years ago, dunno if it’s still there.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
This is one justification for racial admissions quotas. It ignores how black students admitted to Harvard often come not from the descendants of enslaved Americans but high-income first generation African immigrant families, or how many whi
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by snowgrove 5y ago
It’s bizarre that universities are banning caste discrimination while at the same time actively discriminating based on race. See recent Harvard lawsuit over Asian student admissions.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Your flippant dismissal of the GP comment perfectly illustrates their point.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
>This piece is entertainment to be enjoyed by white folks in Alexandria cozy on their couch with their cafe-au-lait. Or the Asian and Indian folks who increasingly make up NoVA’s “front row” communities. Source: growing up in Alexandria
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Paramotors are great, but they’re absolutely as bulky as a jetpack and at least as loud as a lawnmower.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
The other American networks are no different. Just yesterday CNN’s Jim Acosta called Virginia under Republican Governor Youngkin a “Soviet-style police state.” I don’t see how that’s better or worse than any of Carlson’s hyperbolic statemen
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Yep, that’s Bruce Simpson. He still uploads regularly on his YouTube channel, mostly about RC planes and NZ drone regulation: https://youtu.be/o10FzfI4zLA
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by snowgrove 5y ago
>Restrictions on the underlying drone tech would be effective for now. RC planes have been around for decades and are mechanically very simple. High-performance quadcopters and their component parts and widely available on sites like Ali
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by snowgrove 5y ago
It’s hard to say beyond anecdotal impressions. There are rankings out there of average breast size by country, perhaps drawn from brassiere sales numbers, but I’ve never seen one which disambiguates cup size (itself an incomplete indicator)
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Tencent Allegedly Wanted Bigger Breasts and No Black People in Movie It Funded(thegamer.com)
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by snowgrove 5y ago
I don’t see how not wanting my friends and family to die in someone else’s far-away ethnic conflict makes me an “arrogant fool.” Were you also a fan of the democracy squad’s 2003 Iraq invasion? South Vietnam couldn’t “afford anything” eithe
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Subjecting your population to multiple genocidal events seems worse than 70/30 to me. Many leaders who we hold in middling esteem have managed not to murder tens of millions of their own people.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
You’re assuming that I or most Americans agree that the war in Afghanistan was worthwhile. Probably true at first, certainly not true after the initial objective of getting Osama bin Laden was achieved. In any case, no NATO country has been
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by snowgrove 5y ago
You’re right, they also enlist for free college and the signing bonus. My entire extended family has connections to the military. I grew up on Army bases. I know friends who enlisted and others who did ROTC. I nearly did Air Force ROTC myse
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by snowgrove 5y ago
No NATO country has been invaded or attacked and Article 5 has not been invoked.
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by snowgrove 5y ago
Why is the U.S. sending troops to Europe at all? It’s been 70 years since the end of World War 2, 30 years since the end of the Cold War. Let the wealthy democracies of Europe fund their own collective defense. They can easily afford it. Fr

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