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  1. Comment on Untold: Chess Mates | Official trailer in ~tv

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    Except what the humans are doing when they play chess isn’t what your phone is doing. You might as well say that my VW is a better runner than any human because it can go over 100 mph.

    Humans are still competing in competitions, where my phone has already won. Sad.

    Except what the humans are doing when they play chess isn’t what your phone is doing. You might as well say that my VW is a better runner than any human because it can go over 100 mph.

    9 votes

  2. Comment on Digg has shutdown (again) in ~tech

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    Yeah, I have (had?) an account but I rarely visited because there was so little activity (I know, I know…). I think the only real solution to the bot problem is human oversight, but companies seem...

    Yeah, I have (had?) an account but I rarely visited because there was so little activity (I know, I know…).

    I think the only real solution to the bot problem is human oversight, but companies seem willing to spend enormous amounts of money on absolutely anything but hiring employees.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? in ~books

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    I've read them as a non-Christian adult and IMO they hold up quite well purely as SF/fantasy. Lewis said that because religion was important to him it is present in the books, but his primary goal...

    I read those C.S. Lewis books when I was younger and thought they were pretty good for their time but perhaps didn't age as well since I don't remember the plots either.

    I've read them as a non-Christian adult and IMO they hold up quite well purely as SF/fantasy. Lewis said that because religion was important to him it is present in the books, but his primary goal was to write a good story.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on What are your architectural hot takes? in ~design

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    One thing that disappointed me about 80s architecture in retrospect is that most of the really exciting Memphis-style “postmodern” stuff was temporary. At least in Southern California there are...

    One thing that disappointed me about 80s architecture in retrospect is that most of the really exciting Memphis-style “postmodern” stuff was temporary. At least in Southern California there are almost no examples of it around that aren’t a bland corporate adaptation, and even those are pretty few and far between.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says in ~health

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    Yeah, it’s genuinely astonishing that the only thing that seems to cause him to lose support among his base is a policy that was of real and direct benefit to them.

    Yeah, it’s genuinely astonishing that the only thing that seems to cause him to lose support among his base is a policy that was of real and direct benefit to them.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    Very well put (sadly).

    only people who want to learn can be persuaded with arguments

    Very well put (sadly).

    4 votes

  7. Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud in ~tech

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    I don't have particularly good hearing, nor am I an audio professional, and I hear all kinds of annoying compression artifacts when listening to mp3s.

    If you're hearing compressors and so on then yes, you're absolutely listening at the "almost nobody" level and you probably can hear the differences.

    I don't have particularly good hearing, nor am I an audio professional, and I hear all kinds of annoying compression artifacts when listening to mp3s.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan in ~design

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    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it. Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese...

    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it.

    Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese websites when they need to render the Latin alphabet. That’s where I first became consciously aware of it. It seemed so wonderfully functional and no-nonsense.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots in ~tech

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    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I...

    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I assumed it was a misunderstanding of the issue, but when I tried to explain I was accused of being condescending. Fortunately these haven’t been terribly important disputes, but something like the “scissor statements” the story posits do seem to exist.

    6 votes