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Personally I've found that "well curated" sometimes becomes a double-edged sword in Costco's case. Mainstream brands can be expected to be available perennially; however, smaller/n…

Several years ago there was a craft beer joint in my area that had a gimmicky "stock market" system for their pricing - the more a certain beer was purchased, the higher its price …

Indeed, it seems like their whole plan to address profitability issues is just "get bigger", but all that's done is create a bloated, immobile monster that's completely lost touch …

> The one good thing I see out of the coming AI cambrian explosion is that it'll hit the bracket of top 10% to 1% earners the hardest, while those above and bellow are safer. What …

While it will inevitable be larger in the future, Godot's current executable size is so small something like this could actually work. At the very least I would want something like…

I think it's definitely more useful, especially long term, in a more controlled system where the government agency that is handling the actual CSAM is simply submitting hashes of t…

Yes, I did some more research on this as well. Apparently perceptual hashing is also susceptible to some pretty simple attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06628.pdf

>To use Take It Down, anyone—minors, parents, concerned parties, or adults concerned about their own underage images being posted online—can anonymously access the platform on NCME…

If I understand correctly, Samaritans have the same ethnic roots as Jews. The differences were more religious and ideological than racial. So with that in mind, saying the term "go…

The thing that bugs me about "influencers" is that it seems in a lot of cases the content is formulated as a host for ads and monetization, rather than the creator focusing on crea…

I didn't know there was an industry for that, I guess I should have figured. I might look into that for my own purposes. Although for what it's worth when I said "large format pain…

I think we're kidding ourselves to think that some nebulous concept of "the artist's journey" somehow informs the end result in a way that is self-evident in human-produced digital…

>But to answer your question if we would have been stuck with 1992 technology the internet would have evolved differently, and mainframes would play a much bigger role, to the poin…

This is pretty spot-on. At the risk of sounding like a hipster, or gatekeeper, I think the biggest tipping point was around the time that smartphones became commonplace in the mid-…

This dichotomy of player opinions seems to be present any time I see a discussion about Stadia or cloud gaming. I haven't tried it myself so I don't have a truly informed opinion, …

While I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I think the antithesis to your argument is that where synthesizers "failed", modern sampling technology has crept in, especia…

All advertising is a bait-and-switch. How is this any different?

Also if it was, it was most likely due to her breaking NDA. She's welcome to complain about it social media but overall this just doesn't seem newsworthy.

Technically, but by that standard everyone who's ever purchased marijuana at a state-legal dispensary is risking prison time as well. It's also one of those situations where the pr…

The direct technical explanation for the fidelity gap here, as has been stated elsewhere in the comments here, is that Meta's metaverse VR tech runs off of a smartphone chip. Perfo…

I'm not sure where Bloomberg is getting that number and I would debate even its ballpark accuracy - especially when Valve is a privately held company and notoriously tight-lipped a…

>If America was so racist, the single most successful ethnic minority wouldn't be Nigerians. Do you have a source for this? Not for debate, I'm genuinely wondering where the inform…

Wow, this is kind of going all-in on phone verification, with what I would argue is a potentially classist end result. Also a landline doesn't work for verification? How does that …

I feel like a "technology first, game second" approach is a trap. Perhaps I'm wrong and there are examples of it working out but in general it seems building a game to justify hard…