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Comment · 3 months ago
Robots that look humanoid are a marketing gimmick.
Comment · 3 months ago
I am a brogrammer and I fix problems, bro. Magnesium for life.
Comment · 11 months ago
In the mass media days, "elites" were able to pretend that all people more or less wanted to consume similar media. That theory has more or less been debunked by the advent of the internet, and of course the proprietor class wants to go back. Advertising was much easier in the mass media days.

And right now AI snake oil salesmen are pushing every narrative that anyone with money will buy. Going back in time to the mass media paradigm is certainly attractive.

Comment · 1 year ago
Your link doesn't have any probability analysis either. Just supposition that the raw data isn't valid because it looks similar to a 2 year run the Hornets had.

Is it wildly inconceivable that the refs propped up the Hornets for a couple of years? No. Does the only quantitative evidence presented in this thread suggest the refs are propping up a below average Lakers team? Yeah.

Comment · 1 year ago
Wild hyperbole? https://x.com/AndrewDBailey/status/1772275077280858370

Being +1017 in FTA differential when the next closest is +358 isn't explained by whatever crap you're selling

Comment · 1 year ago
The narrative that "the world wants to be dominated" is a popular one in mainstream media today.

Is there actually any substance to the narrative? Not in this article. Like most written in this vein, there isn't even an attempt at quantifying support for the story.

Comment · 1 year ago
The Lakers have a statistically impossible +/- in free throws shot. There is favoritism and the league isn't even remotely trying to disguise it...is that really different than any other arena though?
Comment · 2 years ago
Another reason to envy controller players. I just can't get used to it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I highly recommend turning ball cam off once you get close to the ball.
Comment · 2 years ago
I heard Comm, a pro, once say that he wished he had his 14 year old fingers back...think he was 17 at a time. To me, a 40 year old playing with KBM, I feel like I just can't bend my brain around all of the 3d possibilities. I just don't have any intuition for rolling my car while it accelerates towards the front...and then you add in the complexity of the camera and, yeah, I suck.
Comment · 2 years ago
Got any "overwhelming" evidence that isn't a podcast? I'm sure social media ain't great for anyone. It's mostly an incomprehensibly large amount of malignant noise...but pretending that justifies some kind of heavy handed government censorship is...well, I guess I'm on social media so when in Rome...overwhelmingly stupid
Comment · 2 years ago
>We have let money become so accumulated, that the owners of the capital are being silly with it

Is that not just an inherent part of the debt cycle that we are at the tail end of?

Comment · 2 years ago
At that number of observations, I would assume depth of market data so probably HFT use case. HFT is notoriously expensive to try to compete in
Comment · 2 years ago
The wikipedia link says that its use as a drying agent in the States is uncommon...though not in Canada.

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