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Comment · 2 years ago
there's a particular car rental company that I can't get off their list because it error 500's when I click the unsubscribe button
Comment · 2 years ago
you have to have the right amount of solder on 100% of the pads for this to work correctly though
Comment · 2 years ago
they will generally refund you if you are unhappy
Comment · 2 years ago
I can't smell a fart inside my apartment from someone on the other end of the parking lot, but apparently with weed smoke I can.
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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure how much you currently legally own imitations of your own voice. There's a whole market for voice actors who can imitate particular famous voices.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think they raised a bunch of funding at one point and then ran out of it
Comment · 2 years ago
yea if you watch the longer video they stopped traffic only a few seconds before the impact. incredibly lucky.
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Comment · 2 years ago
re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway

Comment · 2 years ago
There is still a fiduciary duty even for private companies
Comment · 2 years ago
nitpick: fungi don't produce their own food; they need something to eat. what you need to get an ecosystem going is photosynthetic or chemotrophic organisms that produce their own food.
Comment · 2 years ago
how can you tell if I'm being facetious or not?
Comment · 2 years ago
How do you know you yourself aren't an AI, being trained on synthetic data?
Comment · 2 years ago
This might be a stupid question, but what is "identity" in this context?

I ask because when this subject has come up I realize I don't seem to be able to think up theories about myself so easily

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