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leothecool

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    Comment #49103532

    Human experience is a part of conservation. Without a house, these trees would get clear cut once they are big enough to be worth anything. With a house, the homeowner will want to…

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    Comment #49103490

    When I did this for a home remodel, the big difference was that it was AR and not just VR. Being able to experience where the virtual changes line up with the real world makes a hu…

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    Comment #49026403

    If apple puts an inference SOC in their phone, the datacenters are all dead.

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    Comment #48140668

    You can't even get coins counted for free at retail banks anymore. Cash handling is too expensive even for the place that ostensibly provides cash handling services to the general …

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    Comment #47989328

    What is the problem this solves? Why would I use this instead of telling claude to vomit out the underlying boilerplate.

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    Comment #47166265

    Leadership is not the same thing as management. Maybe some day the OP will get training data to add that concept to its latent vector space.

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    Comment #45720875

    When they say users need to be protected they don't mean the people. They mean the database record.

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    Comment #43102870

    Their virtual pet game is creepily connected to their social media platform and has poor performance on low end phones, like the kind kids typically have. Their company has a huge …

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    Comment #43082195

    I was under the impression that this is the exact kind of thing that violates the GDPR. That is.. processing an identifier (IP address) to do something more (track user actions acr…

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    Comment #43080384

    My recent experience with wanting analytics for an enterprise application was that for my limited needs, it was easier to roll my own than to deal with evaluating all the options a…

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    Comment #40742796

    I'd go even further. Most people don't want to even be exposed to the news.

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    Comment #39716086

    I train my LLM to barf up my domain specific boilerplate code. I don't ask it to solve business problems.

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    Comment #39233898

    We should make a wealth shot clock. Nobody is allowed to hold an asset for more than a few seconds.

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    Comment #37755280

    Theft has a clearance rate of only 15%. Sounds like we already stopped trying to regulate most theft, in practice.

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    Comment #37699047

    Its controversial because if the market could bear a price increase, it would already bear it. The left hand side of your inequality is already at a local maximum, and can not be r…

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    Comment #37696892

    It would only mean that if wages were based on economic value. Which, I guess could be true if hourly wage and economic value mean the same thing.

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    Comment #37437766

    Would you count a water battery? Or is it non-renewable because the pipes will rust.

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    Comment #36586250

    A personal example for me is that on the iphone, the default view shows me 24 icons, which is way too many to be useful. Its so useless, in fact, that most tech savvy users simply …

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    Comment #36198436

    I think a society where people mean what they say and say what they do is preferable to a society with more implied expectations. So go ahead and take care of me, but put it in wri…

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    Comment #35979872

    We're all out here chilling in the midwest working at lifestyle businesses.

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    Comment #35922798

    > the US is prosecuting and incarcerating broad swathes of innocent people. There's about half a million people in jail right now who haven't been convicted of a crime. Some of the…