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mfcl
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Comment #49230835
Is part of the article missing? It ends abruptly.
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Comment #48618282
From the article: > The pre-sale estimate £800-1200 ($1073-1610). It sold for £7,000 ($9390).
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Comment #48484898
No, it should be illegal, otherwise everything would get destroyed whenever someone is slightly destroyed. Illegality serves as a kind of filter so that when enough people risk jai…
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Comment #48163491
You're being downvoted but you're right. I won't defend Thiel in general but that particular point is a bit taken out of context. There's a talk somewhere ont the internet where he…
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Comment #47043887
The point of the article is to explain barriers and demonstrate them. The logic used for crediting amounts of money is not important.
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Comment #46580963
It's plug and play.
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Comment #46292534
They still run the whole orchestration. If you don't want to pay, you'd have to not use GitHub Actions at all, maybe by using their API to test new commits and PRs and mark them as…
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Comment #46240513
There was controversy because of a Mcdonald's AI ad recently so I think they say that as a little wink.
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Comment #45908733
Why the AI disclosure? Is it just for the author to make sure the readers know they are AI-skeptic and use the opportunity to link to another article, or would there be something w…
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Comment #45401833
Strange, I am also on Firefox for Android and the game works fine.
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Comment #42113023
It says near the db, not necessarily in it. The way I understand it, the closer the better for the reasons stated, but that's just a factor and there are others that might make you…
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Comment #40689780
Open source does not mean accepting everyone's work or even accepting contributions at all. From the article, it seemed like this was the major concern. I found the part that said …
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Comment #40035977
But in base 12 the number 12 would be written as 10. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, 10, 11, etc.
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Comment #38422241
How so? It's probably worth more now. You can sell, no?
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Comment #36995070
Artificial general intelligence, and it does not exist yet.
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Comment #36581063
I feel the same. I think it's mostly "impatience" or the fear of losing time. We get older and busier and the "price" we pay to spend hours on a book gets more and more expensive. …
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Comment #36581012
> I learned more things from entertainment than any textbook or classroom ever taught me. This statement is abstract enough that it can be both true and false depending on what one…
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Comment #36358173
So, you'd delete your old comments because you would rather no one in the world get any kind of value from them since you are not getting any anymore?
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Comment #36173270
I think they meant sources about Brazil's agriculture getting decimated in 25 years.
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Comment #35410615
Yeah, I'm not convinced this is making a difference. No number or any kind of clue about the size of the movement was given.
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Comment #35215444
Screenshot, crop... then screenshot again! :D
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Comment #35074175
(Why are you being downvoted?) I think the important part is to have a minimum of filtering. Humans consume knowledge brought by others humans, but most of the time we cherry pick …
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Comment #34959892
Is the CIA after you?
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Comment #34309682
You didn't get money for posting that comment and yet...