squokko

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by squokko 4mo ago
Time to start learning Mandarin
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by squokko 6mo ago
The law has always been able to recognize a distinction between Hunter S. Thompson reading Ernest Hemingway and learning from his style and a billion GPUs reading a billion books to be able to produce it on demand. It takes time for the law
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by squokko 7mo ago
Is this open source? Is there a GitHub repo?
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by squokko 8mo ago
People don't want to give Amazon their biometrics?
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by squokko 8mo ago
It's not a hard problem to solve, you scale the punishment for the cases you prosecute so high that it makes the expected value of stealing a suitcase negative
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by squokko 8mo ago
You jail 100 and the thousands stop doing it.
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by squokko 8mo ago
Very cool! What's your license on this stuff?
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by squokko 11mo ago
What does it mean to steal crypto if "code is law"?
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by squokko 1y ago
I can't imagine that contrails are a significant percentage of cloud cover.
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by squokko 1y ago
One thing that's interesting about these regional laws is that they all necessarily use geolocation, but the regional laws are jurisdiction-based. Geolocation is inaccurate in many circumstances and also just insufficient in some circu
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by squokko 1y ago
Does this use Apple's face-recognition tech to automatically populate pictures of your spouse, or do you have to add them manually? I was under the impression that third-party apps couldn't access the People albums in PhotoKit.
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by squokko 2y ago
There was a very simple reason for them: to hire more non-Asian minority faculty. Just as with SAT scores, if you evaluate candidates numerically, Asian faculty will take ~50% of the spots and Black faculty will take ~1% of the spots. But i
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by squokko 2y ago
When you have $15/hr employees who can enable a $100,000 scam this is bound to happen.
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by squokko 2y ago
In banning the death penalty for rape, the US Supreme Court explicitly... in black letter text... left open the possibility of executing major drug traffickers. We should use that door more often.
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by squokko 2y ago
Naw, the death penalty is much harsher penalty (seeing as how almost all death row inmates use every means possible to avoid it). Particularly so for white collar people who never thought they would be tied to a tree and shot 10 times in th
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by squokko 2y ago
Stealing 6% of a large country's GDP causes more aggregate harm than murdering ten individuals (which would be an obvious death penalty case).
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by squokko 2y ago
If that happens, it will come to resemble an Indian or Indonesian city.
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by squokko 2y ago
Crazy in this age to look at that hex dump and realize that it is a chess playing program. One way of thinking about it: the first image on the web page is 27 times the size of the program.
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by squokko 2y ago
Zuck's take on the Apple Vision Pro is mostly aligned with my own (disinterested) take, having tried both the Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.
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by squokko 3y ago
Yes, all of those should be legal. And other voters can oppose them. For example, by electing national politicians who can pass laws like the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act.
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by squokko 3y ago
Is it so surprising that Motel 6 is more operationally efficient? That Sarah needs more money than Motel 6 to allow a unknown stranger into her living space and to clean up after them, rather than a gigantic hotel chain with decades of expe
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by squokko 3y ago
Why shouldn't your neighbors be able to use their powers as voters to lobby their government to pass laws preventing their quiet suburban street from being used as a distributed hotel?
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by squokko 3y ago
No, the product is simply much better. If you pay $2000 for an Apple laptop vs. a PC running Windows or Linux, the Apple laptop will have twice the battery life and be in better physical condition after 3 years of equivalent use.
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by squokko 3y ago
The recycling also doesn't achieve anything environmentally
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by squokko 3y ago
Your palate has been desensitized and can only taste flavor with heat. Spend 2 months with zero capsaicin and it will reset.
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by squokko 3y ago
Interesting to watch Lawnmower Man alongside Being There (where an intellectually handicapped gardener is merely perceived to be a genius)
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by squokko 3y ago
I can imagine that in under 5 years, the movie's script plus one example still photo for each scene could do the job.
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by squokko 3y ago
You're not looking at it the right way. The way to make it make sense: there is a large group of people out there who essentially, have failed to launch. They are unemployed or have deadend jobs. They watch tons of internet porn but ma
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by squokko 3y ago
VR headsets are already borderline impossible for 90% of the population to operate. Kid gloves / rails experience is the only way normal people can use it.
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by squokko 3y ago
The scale of their impact when they are exceptional

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