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- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 weeks ago:
In America, you can’t open a bank account without an address. That means that the homeless population can’t open a bank account (not easily, anyway), and therefore can’t get a debit card.
Cashless is a nice idea, but it is extremely prohibitive against the most vulnerable people (which, sadly, might be part of the point).
- Comment on In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots. 1 month ago:
First of all, you make a great point.
Second of all, that quote made me laugh out loud. “In 15 words”? Why is that even there? I saw Sam sitting there with Word open, cursor blinking at the end of his sentence about how deep learning worked, wondering how to make it more impactful. So he copies the sentence and pastes it into a chatgpt box and asks, “how can I make this hit differently?” and chatgpt, in all it’s gptness, responds: “try counting the number of words in the sentence and throwing that in front.”
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 months ago:
At least he didn’t buy the checkmark
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
I was just trying to keep things simple, but you’re right
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
Here’s a quick tidbit I always have in the back of my mind:
If it’s an Italian name, it’s espresso-based, for example:
Americano - Espresso and water
Latte - Espresso and regular milk
Cappuccino - Espresso and steamed milk
Breve - Espresso and steamed half-and-halfIf it’s a French name, it’s coffee-based, for example:
Café - Plain coffee, sometimes called Café Noir Café au Lait - Coffee and regular milk Café Cremé - Coffee and cream (or sometimes half-and-half) Café Americano - Coffee and water, it’s the French version of the Italian style.
What’s the difference between coffee and espresso? Coffee is brewed and steeped. Espresso is created by forcing water through very, very densely-packed coffee grounds using high pressure. Coffee is typically enjoyed in cups and espresso is typically consumed in “shots” because of the strong flavor.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
What?
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
Pretty easy link here: fortune.com/…/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale-twitter-…
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
That’s great! Everyone was joking about the doors falling off of Starliner, but I still find it unbelievable that these poor people are actually stuck for 8 months.
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
I’m curious, what’s the food and water situation like for these astronauts?
- Comment on mario 3 months ago:
But… But they move.
- Comment on They made her hot not scary... 4 months ago:
Sakamo?
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
It’s a paraphrased quote from Richard Feynman
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
If you can’t explain a difficult concept in a simple way, then you don’t truly understand it.
- Comment on USA | Sanders Makes Bid to Block Biden’s New $18 Billion Arms Sale to Israel 4 months ago:
I’m with Bernie on this, but the juxtaposition was funny
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 4 months ago:
The connection from Assange to Russia was laid out in the OP. Russia had a vested interest in skewing and interfering with US politics in 2016.
There’s the relevancy you failed to see.
- Comment on Academia to Industry 4 months ago:
Translation: GPT-5 will (most likely illegally) be fed academic papers that are currently behind a paywall
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 4 months ago:
Except it’s the exact same thing Russia pulled in 2016.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
15 hours hardly covers a single book
- Comment on Ideas 6 months ago:
The thing on the bottom is called Neopolitan, not Napolean. F-tier meme
- Comment on xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness 9 months ago:
How do we know the moon isn’t tasty? Isn’t it made of cheese?
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
Everyone is mad about this but I still don’t understand how RDR2 was even nominated for Labor of Love, let alone won.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 11 months ago:
You can also watch either movie if you’re stupid and alone. I should know because I did it.
- Comment on Chad Pacific 11 months ago:
To put in perspective how shallow a 0.15% change is, a dimple on a golf ball is roughly 4 times deeper than that (0.60% of a difference in depth).
- Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube 1 year ago:
The terrible content moderation policies and adblock bans will ruin it long before shorts.
- Comment on "AI going to take our jobs" 1 year ago:
Yeah, but Kenya make AI any better?
- Comment on Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 1 year ago:
The one thing that Shawn forgot to say is “Larian’s boardrooms aren’t filled with people who don’t play video games!!”
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
This is a little misleading. It’s $170k in pay and benefits, not just salary. Still, UPS drivers deserve it and this will make everyone’s experience with UPS so much better.
