snowgrove
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
As other commenters mentioned there was a “high Bayesian prior” for lab leaks, too.
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are.
If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t have followed them. It’s really that simple.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yup, and I don’t care. If I ever organize a protest I’ll do it on Signal, or another end-to-end encrypted platform. For daily banter I’ll use whatever a majority of my friends prefer. That’s currently Discord for the above-mentioned reasons.
Comment · 4 years ago
I stopped using Signal, along with my adult tech-oriented friends, when we all had bad experiences migrating our accounts to new phones. That plus the phone number requirement, intrusive contacts integration, and the weird crypto side projects killed my interest in Signal entirely. My friends and I use Discord now.
Comment · 4 years ago
You’ve flown far beyond the original comment’s context, which was Valve’s entire history from way before there was Steam. I don’t know whose point you think you’re responding to.
Comment · 4 years ago
Valve predates Steam by a number of years, and Steam wasn’t always in the dominant position it’s in now.
Comment · 4 years ago
They did it all without outside investors or stock sales.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think Sam Hyde’s TED talk, or even just his introduction, is the final word on that group’s lack of speaker vetting:
Comment · 4 years ago
As the other commenter mentions, neural network-driven speech recognition represents the current state of the art and powers products like Alexa and Google Home.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/11/improving-on-device-speech...
Comment · 4 years ago
Not the first “fireless locomotive” to see service in railyards. Historical versions ran on steam reservoirs or compressed air, replenished by a central power plant. Some are still in use today:
Comment · 4 years ago
I love Worms, but if there’s a runner-up for “Britain’s most tenacious indie games company” then surely it is Hello Games. They launched No Man’s Sky in 2016 to universal disappointment and fan outrage, but kept working on it post-launch (under extreme stress and with little income to speak of) for years until they met & exceeded fan’s original expectations. Gratified fans eventually paid to put up a “Thank you Hello Games” billboard on a road near their office. The whole story is incredible and worth your time:
Comment · 4 years ago
The number of deleted episodes is now up to 113.
Comment · 4 years ago
Magic Leap has offices all over. They had one in Mountain View just a few blocks from where Rengstorff crosses Highway 101, over by Google. That was a few years ago, dunno if it’s still there.
>The fabric of hundreds of families unravels, as an itinerant class of fathers — “Janesville Gypsies,” they call themselves — start commuting to G.M. factories in Texas, Indiana and Kansas, just so they can maintain their wage of $28 an hour. Those who stay home invariably see their paychecks shrink drastically. One of the men Goldstein follows, Jerad Whiteaker, cycles through a series of unsatisfying, low-paying jobs, finally settling in one that pays less than half his former wage and offers no health insurance. His twin teenage girls — to whom I’d also like to send awed notes — share five jobs between them, earning so much money for their family that they compromise their eligibility for student loans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/67lg2q/in_j...