throwaway4837

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by throwaway4837 2y ago
You can have a kid, that kid can grow up to be a musician inspired by Taylor Swift, likely with some of their musical output having depended on Taylor's input. That's perfectly legal. But in a possible future, you could produce an
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by throwaway4837 2y ago
I tend to think this is a pattern with needless subscription models. They likely have a semi-bimodal distribution of users: full-price payers vs. discount/promo payers, so they probably increase the price for the full-price payers to c
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Waking up in the mornings helps reset my mental state sometimes. I wonder if it's related. If I have an early morning, I usually find that I'm more productive and have more energy to work out or focus on tasks. There's nothin
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
> Matchmaking only "works" in places where women are denied autonomy, and it results in them being sold off like cattle. This is not a desirable state of affairs to anyone but the most loathsome, pathetic basement dwellers. Thi
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Totally worth it if you think of a family as a multi-million dollar investment over the course of your lifetime. $100k is actually nothing in comparison, and could mean the difference between having a family and not having one. I think this
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
I agree with people who say fine-tuning and "human AI alignment" is actually what's going to make AI dangerous. The fact that we think we can "align" something taught on historical, fictional, and scientific text --
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Angstroms are used pretty commonly in molecular/nuclear physics.
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Creating dichotomies is central to mathematics and science. Humans tend to think of things as being either "in" or "out", and apply this distinguishing ability to every facet of life. It is not surprising that pretty muc
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
You're creating a false dichotomy. Poker is a skill and it is gambling.
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Poker is a skill. It's one of the only casino games where you can consistently make money. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other people. There's no such thing as a professional lottery play
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Effects are way too easy to use improperly. I used to be a fan of useEffect when it came out because of its concision, but after working with countless devs/agencies, it's clear that most people misuse it. The rules of useEffect a
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
The cost of pursuing dead ends in science is NECESSARY and much greater than the cost of pursuing fraudulent results, albeit the latter being unnecessary. Probably 70%+ of time is wasted on paths that lead to nowhere, and that is part of th
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
How? Peer-review, re-review, journalism, and reproduction of results are the systems the scientific community is built upon. The system does its job of finding the bad apples, as it did here. Bad things are gonna happen in every single inst
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Every other frame is "penis" text, a drawing of a penis, or something similar. I believe it's a work of art nonetheless, definitely cool. If they did it "right" the result would just end up looking like someone took
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
It can work well for restricted inputs, like Twitch Plays Pokemon. The FREE Movie is too open-ended. They should do a simple distance check to throw out frames that don't overlap much with the original frame. They could also have a fra
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Only if they all were competing in the same market. Since they aren't, I like to think of it more as them competing for which one becomes the base meme. When people think of "dog" which variant do they imagine? Lab, husky, fr
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Finished in 5 years, 10 months, slacked off for the first two years (prepared for exams twice).
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
The US trends are very telling... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=... It coincides exactly with when Down Detector shows the Reddit report spike... https://downdetector.com&#x
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
That's my point. It's so highly covered that it might actually bring more people to Reddit today than the number of people who fled. Imagine all of the people who don't use Reddit who saw this press, and visited Reddit becaus
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
My unpopular theory is that the Reddit blackout increased Reddit usage, having the opposite of the intended effect.
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Tech stocks have high volatility. If, for example, I joined Amazon at peak in 2021, and the stock crashed 50% over the next few months, it would still totally be worth it to stick around and vest. Even the case with smaller tech companies t
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Lay-off fear negatively feeds into stock upside as well. I would be stressed about getting laid off before my cliff and getting nothing...
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
The Reddit mobile app has a few big issues for me: 1. When I click a post, sometimes it goes to a different post's detail page. The only way to remedy this is to refresh and visit the sub directly via Reddit search function, or restart
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
If you think the far future (100s of years) involves being able to talk to a synthetic humanoid using spoken language, then Chatbots are almost certainly a point on the curve.
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
If you don't like Bitcoin, you could always just get an address and if you get tipped, sell immediately. I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy and re-sell back to the app. Some games l
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
The coin was created as a joke. However, Dogecoin doesn't have any characteristics of a fake cryptocurrency. The technology is just as sound as Bitcoin's, as it's basically a fork of a fork of a fork with no crazy major chang
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
From purely academic perspective, self-driving cars could probably benefit from eye-tracking data as humans drive cars. Although I agree with you on the privacy aspect. I would need proof that the data is only being used for certain things
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
I started using Bittrex in 2017 because they had support for altcoins I wanted to gamble with. Sadly, over the years they abruptly dropped support for coins with barely any notice, and it was a pain to keep up with them. While I'm sad
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
Speaking of RPG adventures, do you guys remember AI Dungeon[0]? I was amazed by GPT-2 when AI Dungeon 2.0 came out in late 2019. I know AI Dungeon was circulating around a relatively niche community[1] (probably HN mostly), but it amazed me
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by throwaway4837 3y ago
This is an excellent point and I agree. Social media apps are basically brainwashing devices, and whoever controls the knobs and buttons can change how people think. Very easy to get radicalized with propaganda, or in this extreme case, eve

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