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No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up consequences of them.

It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.

If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?

Well it’s possible for the unintended consequences of an action to more than cancel out the intended consequences.

Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.

A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed

The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.

Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.

Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.

Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?

Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.

That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.

In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.

Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.

Cooking is great but you cannot learn it in an hour.

Today, but large scale efforts like city development happen over multiple decades, over which the number of remote workers will almost certainly increase due to new technology.

Not to mention that the quality of life outside big cities is far healthier and more human scale and human paced. People are more focused on things like children than on Kubernetes — the world needs progress but boy does it take a toll. In the Bay Area I worked with people making $400K who said they decided they could only afford two kids. Meanwhile where I live now it’s very feasible for a schoolteacher couple to afford five kids, and not in privation. I like that Elon Musk exists but holy hell I do not want his life.

It’s obvious that the rape charges were a highly selective enforcement action. It would be great if Sweden pursued every rapist as though they were Osama Bin Laden but the fact is they only pursued one.

You mean it was just a pretext to exfiltrate him to the US, and that Sweden does not in fact have a long national track record of pursuing rapists across international boundaries without prejudice, using the full arsenal of state power?

What is a “free country” in your definition?

Nicotine also improves mental performance.

This industry seems like it could be put out of business on the low to mediocre end by deep learning.

Yep — hard to believe that Satya Nadella is only 5 years into the job at Microsoft. It’s like a completely different company.

The risk reward profile of the S&P 500 is way better. Buy Legos if you like them, sell them opportunistically, but don’t get into it as an asset class.

You mean the multi tens of thousand dollar FPGA set up that Xilinx hawks doesn’t have source control?

It’s another word for mirror and has cool vintage/steampunk/Victorian associations so it’s going to be used by a lot of different people.

I think it’s more that Americans culturally tend to the “extreme sports” mentality in many aspects of their lives. Biggest baddest loudest most intense most successful mosh committed hardest working are all excessively venerated here.

Damn, can’t believe Fred Smith is still running FedEx.

Is that less bad? Wouldn’t that nuke the experience too?