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Both of these flyers came with my power bill from Duke Energy today: Shareholders made 912 million dollars, but you should give money to Duke so your poor neighbors, who can't afford their power bill for some reason, won't get their power shut off.
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Nov 18, 2018 00:07
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Inept posted:Both of these flyers came with my power bill from Duke Energy today: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/02/09/133629567/obama-to-propose-deep-cuts-in-home-heating-program https://thehill.com/policy/finance/210647-obama-cuts-to-heating-assistance-budget-again-provoke-bipartisan-opposition https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2014/03/05/senior-services-take-a-hit-in-obama-budget/
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Nov 18, 2018 00:30
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Chomp8645 posted:1918: Although the Great War has shown us the danger of mankind's invention, so too has it shown us the promise. With our machines the new potential of industry and agriculture is near limitless. For now, we have suffered. But this war was born of our greed, as all wars. Greed for land, greed for resources, for markets, and for old hatreds. But we have upon us the power to transcend these things. When machines can produce more clothing than we could ever need, when farms can produce more food than we could ever eat, when we can build up to the sky upon our land instead of forever spreading, are not these things obsolete? What need will there be to fight for that which all men have in abundance? What man will covet his neighbor's property when both have material wealth beyond our dreams? This may not come to pass in the span of our lives. But perhaps, within as little as one hundred years, the advance of technology which has so recently wrought such suffering upon us, may instead be our salvation. Perhaps then, all humanity can put aside war and conflict, and live together in the harmony of abundance.
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Nov 18, 2018 00:32
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EvilJoven posted:Years and years ago when inherited my grandpas Nazi war trophies that he literally took off dead or captured Nazis and I still felt uncomfortable enough with that stuff I donated it to a museum. my first-generation chinese immigrant friend has a passed-down war trophy that one of his relatives took in the korean war that's US Navy silverware which when he showed it to me was kind of weird Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 05:25 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Nov 18, 2018 05:22
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Bushiz posted:fine manipulators that can grasp a wide range of different objects are far more expensive than an employee picking up an arbitrarily-shaped object on the first try with only image and force feedback as guidance, and not dropping it, and moving it to another location and then setting it down in an arbitrary orientation, and doing this perfectly 99.9999% of the time (and being able to know when you have done it incorrectly), and also in a couple of seconds, is the holy grail of modern robotics ranking the completely unsolved components of this problem in order of difficulty, they are probably 1. doing it correctly 99.9999% of the time 2. doing it on the first try 3. doing it in a couple seconds
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Nov 18, 2018 05:37
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https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1063840497511399425
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Nov 18, 2018 05:44
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I love slogans that make less sense the more you think about them. I honestly can't tell if they're trying to say their bags are light or heavy. If you're an aristocrat your heart is a black pit made of lead, so you need a very heavy bag
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Nov 18, 2018 06:23
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Nov 18, 2018 08:18
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I love slogans that make less sense the more you think about them. I honestly can't tell if they're trying to say their bags are light or heavy. I feel like they're marketing to people who are already keen about travelling and consider themselves free spirits, whereas a person who feels a lot of burdens and is less likely to travel will not want to buy their products.
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Nov 18, 2018 08:25
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I want to the version of the ad aimed at men.
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Nov 18, 2018 08:54
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I want to the version of the ad aimed at men. someone posted it, might have been in here or the cyberpunk thread, and it's as you'd expect: how to get your wife to have sex with you by showing her horny articles e: https://twitter.com/aral/status/1017113204143640582
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Nov 18, 2018 09:15
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I remember I watched the kids channel when I was unemployed and the boys ads were for collectable personified garbage while the girls were for collectable personified supermarket products. Also the collectable toy babies wearing tons of makeup 
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Nov 18, 2018 09:21
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megalodong posted:someone posted it, might have been in here or the cyberpunk thread, and it's as you'd expect: I genuinely approve of this company
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Nov 18, 2018 09:24
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megalodong posted:someone posted it, might have been in here or the cyberpunk thread, and it's as you'd expect: what's not surprising is that this service exists there are lots of legal grey areas in technology because tech moves fast and bureaucracy moves slow, it's hard for laws to keep up some tech companies operate on the premise that everything is legal until someone explicitly says otherwise if they ever get called out on something they can just play dumb, claim the laws weren't specific, or that they made a mistake and it wasn't on purpose eg: when google's steetview cars were collecting open wifi network data, I'm familiar with this case because I was working for one of the companies that got roped into the investigation on top of taking pictures, their streetcars were collecting network names and addresses and associating them with GPS coordinates, this data was to be used to improve their location services they claimed not to be collecting data, but an audit exposed supposedly errant code which was saving more data than they claimed the public generally knew about streetview cars and how they take pictures, but they weren't aware those cars were probing networks and recording GPS coordinates so, is it legal to drive around in a fleet of cars, constantly taking pictures, recording network data, GPS coordinates, and then processing that data into a product to sell? quote:Surprisingly enough: yes. 
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Nov 18, 2018 10:55
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That makes sense lol. I always wondered how the gently caress turning on Bluetooth and Wifi was supposed to improve location services when theoretically my phone already has a GPS.
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Nov 18, 2018 11:55
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Larry Parrish posted:That makes sense lol. I always wondered how the gently caress turning on Bluetooth and Wifi was supposed to improve location services when theoretically my phone already has a GPS. Me too. I figured it was triangulating with WiFi signals but never really thought about how those signals 'knew' where they were.
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Nov 18, 2018 15:37
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Now imagine what kind of dataset you could create if you had a fleet of automated taxis gathering all that telemetry instead of just a handful of streetview cars
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Nov 18, 2018 18:21
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Wake me up when I can buy a map of where someone goes about their daily lives from google
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Nov 18, 2018 21:23
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Fried Watermelon posted:Wake me up when I can buy a map of where someone goes about their daily lives from google https://metro.strava.com/ https://metro.strava.com/faq/ quote:5. How much does it cost to license Strava Metro data for a city? this is in the "we're gonna put a buncha digits on the price here" price range, not the "only 69.99, call now to get it down to 59.99!" price range, but if you have the dosh you can buy
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Nov 18, 2018 21:29
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quote:A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. 
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Nov 19, 2018 04:29
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look who doesn't want to sit in a bowl of pesto
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Nov 19, 2018 05:30
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I am very curious about repellent herb
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Nov 19, 2018 09:53
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These dogs look moldy.
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Nov 19, 2018 09:58
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Not a picture but still amazes me how aggressively the mainstream news shills for retailers during the holiday season. Going into specific details on certain deals and dedicating segments for Amazon, Wal-Mart, etc and even bringing on PR people for these companies. First time watching nightly news in awhile and never again.
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Nov 19, 2018 10:24
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https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1063507643329859584
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Nov 19, 2018 18:39
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This is good because even with a tech job I'm too poor to own a dog.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:12
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didn't the weratedogs guy out himself as a chud and donate to antiabortion groups or something
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Nov 19, 2018 19:14
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:didn't the weratedogs guy out himself as a chud and donate to antiabortion groups or something he donated to a pro-abortion group and a bunch of chuds had a meltdown also the profile on him is fuckin' incredible
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Nov 19, 2018 19:22
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:didn't the weratedogs guy out himself as a chud and donate to antiabortion groups or something Last I heard he was just racist and changed dog names that were too 'foreign' to get more clicks.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:23
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iirc he runs it for the sole purpose of money in a super cynical capitalist sort of way
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Nov 19, 2018 19:35
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I wonder what it's actually like to make your living running social media accounts to get clicks and boost brands. Surely some people on this board are doing it.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:40
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oh yeah they gave him poo poo for donating half the profits of a covfefe hat to planned parenthood and then he tried to walk it back quote:Last night, Trump made a hilarious typo. Thankfully I was on twitter when it happened and immediately included "covfefe" in an emergency dog rate. We then put the word on a hat and added it to our store. Many of you thought it was the best thing ever, but a few comments that stuck with me referenced how it's not the most honest way to make a few bucks. In the heat of the moment, I added that we would be donating half of all profits to Planned Parenthood, an organization with values opposite our current administration. I thought it was perfect. Immediate feedback was positive and encouraged more people to buy the hat.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:43
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Halloween Jack posted:I wonder what it's actually like to make your living running social media accounts to get clicks and boost brands. Surely some people on this board are doing it. It's actually loving impossible and a huge time sink for most businesses, which are small and local so their reach is limited. Even if they did manage to go viral it wouldn't do them much good. Like whoopty poo poo a bunch of people who don't live in my service area love me.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:44
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PostNouveau posted:It's actually loving impossible and a huge time sink for most businesses, which are small and local so their reach is limited. Even if they did manage to go viral it wouldn't do them much good. Like whoopty poo poo a bunch of people who don't live in my service area love me. It's easily the most useless job a person could do
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Nov 19, 2018 19:49
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MizPiz posted:It's easily the most useless job a person could do Yeah pretty much. I mean, you can convince people to give you money to do it, but you'll never actually get anywhere with it. The median FB post has zero likes or comments. And also FB doesn't want anything that isn't people (news/businesses) on feed unless they're paying for it. Now get out there and get that customer engagement, social media managers.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:12
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I met a social media manager once. She was a miserable person who would rather be doing wedding planning but couldn't make that much doing it so she just managed the Twitter of a couple companies instead.
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Nov 20, 2018 01:21
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organic robots are a cheap and effective way to circumvent turing tests and promote your brand on social media
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