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barnabyjones

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About barnabyjones

old china hand. ecommerce.

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    Comment #48407459

    The first gulp from the glass of wealth will make you reach for the stars, but at the bottom of the glass, a hair transplant is waiting for you.

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    Comment #47843829

    Without exercise, you won't burn ATP and thus won't increase mitochondrial count.

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    Comment #45575740

    I'm not seeing any mention of the Entity List ITT, which seems like the real reason. Via SCMP: >Some analysts said the move by the Dutch ministry resulted from a new rule issued by…

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    Comment #45382433

    >1) Life, especially in the EU, is not like in an American action movie; Only because of the immense wealth, freedom and culture brought by generations of struggle and tenacity. If…

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    Comment #45369901

    The funny thing is the platforms are barely profitable if at all. The earnings all get funneled to ads as that's the only way to differentiate, aside from maybe a slightly better U…

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    Comment #45297594

    I have saved instructions for Gemini to translate queries into the local language then retranslate the output back to English, when asking about non-English speaking countries/cult…

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    Comment #45297344

    I think such an emotionless android would have diligently prepared numerous backup scripts, sets of lenses, actors, demonstrations etc. to cover any failure contingency, since the …

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    Comment #45176883

    The Xreal front page is people playing racing games and watching movies; I'm imagining something that can be used nonchalantly in public, and I'm assuming every feature beyond a ba…

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    Comment #45165014

    I know my folks already watch movies with subtitles for this reason, and I would think sight issues can be calibrated for if the product is a pair of glasses? But idk how AR tech w…

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    Comment #45164992

    Those look bulky, to support exactly the kind of feature creep I think will always be a problem with this category. I think there are a LOT of people who would simply not consider …

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    Comment #45134344

    My parents have similar issues due to hearing loss, it really makes any kind of social interaction a chore which results in a similar spiral. For years I've wanted to try to make, …

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    Comment #44833185

    Zuckerberg has spent over fifty billion dollars on the idea that people will want to play a Miiverse game where they can attend meetings in VR and buy virtual real estate. It's lik…

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    Comment #44832605

    That's true but most of them are unleavened, the yeast plus the fast cook time is I think what makes pizza unique, more than the cheese which is present in other variations.

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    Comment #44352249

    Reading this right after watching "Mountainhead" was enjoyable, but I do commend the guy for publishing it; sadly few case studies where things went wrong ever see the light of day…

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    Comment #43112822

    Even though the examples have a clear green-screen effect, I would think some of the tricks/filters they used in old video games to make them look "realistic/cinematic" could work …

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    Comment #43097665

    Interesting, I've been thinking for a long time these would be most useful to the hearing impaired if they get a simple text display going. Some people just simply avoid social sit…

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    Comment #42998411

    It doesn't handle homonyms well, since the AI isn't given contextual reference. The sentences are also too simple on advanced level, so you don't get much more out of it than just …

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    Comment #42979664

    Isn't that what this whole thread is about? They're surely not going to come after Meta with the same vigor.

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    Comment #42943117

    I agree it can cause those effects but it always seemed to me that the weed is just causing sleep deprivation which eventually leads to psychosis. IME it's not much different from …

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    Comment #42809993

    >He would likely be more intelligent than a toddler I think you are falling into the trap of "we have technology and are therefore smarter." I would expect an average Roman senator…

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    Comment #42787940

    A2 milk not only exists but is very popular in Asia actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_a2_Milk_Company

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    Comment #42775912

    Climate change did not defeat a million soldiers at Badger Mouth, nor could it be explained by slightly better bows.

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    Comment #42720011

    Keep in mind, fraud isn't necessarily a big deal for the shareholder, not all fraud is Enron-tier. For example, I fully believe they were right about Adani, but it was basically ju…

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    Comment #42706240

    The nationalist spirit is founded on imperial ambitions, and the pieces were in place for WWI partly due to empires and pretenders who would claim the title of "empire" both increa…

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    Comment #42694113

    It's literally ten times the cost of a plastic stand on Temu ($34 vs $3.35).