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NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Bruce Willis Sells Deepfake Likeness Rights So His 'Twin' Can Star in Movies

Will the deepfaked performances not produce new fans?

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Silicon Valley has a mental health crisis too (2019)

Then you have to admit the alternate explanation that people do not identify as having PTSD when they do, either because they don't know the signs or because it would be useless or embarrassing to do so.

Self-reporting is fraught when it comes to psychiatric disorders for a lot of reasons.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

Yeah, Portland was basically wiped off the map.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Mexico Is Considering Removing DST

DST is (1) but synchronized. People could change their schedules to negate DST, and I'm sure some do.

Anyway, I don't want touch-grass time during my useless lunch hour, I want usable daylight hours after work during which to do outdoor things in the warmth of the sun. Where I am, people mostly seem to want year round DST (but of course it wouldn't be DST anymore, it would just be "the time").

Different places can and will do what suits their needs.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer

Wow, bad to the ass

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: “Titanic” Disaster: Report of the Committee on Commerce, US Senate (1918) [pdf]

More than 1500 people died when Titanic sank.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Tesla is sued by drivers over alleged false Autopilot, Full Self-Driving claims

A company can respond without a "media department" or whatever.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: That annoying shade of blue (2018)

This is navel gazing along the lines of cocktail-fueled debates over a tree falling in a forest. Does light still have a color if no one is around to see it?

Fundamentally these words have lots of reasonable wiggle room to expand or narrow their definitions. Still, lots of technical domains would like to be explicit about what is meant, especially when reusing common words, which is why man invented the glossary.

Unfortunately this hasn't stopped endless argumentation over whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. For whatever reason, it's often presumed that the definition of fruit used in botany has "won", even though botany has nothing to tell us about what a vegetable is or how to distinguish one from a fruit.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?

That's amazing!

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

That's right, and it's illegal for rich and poor alike. That's how you know it's fair.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Is the internet killing the nude beach?

I don't view social media justice as positively as you do. Even when it seems like the person really deserves it, those subreddits etc. that exist for no reason other than to gawk at terrible moments in other people's lives aren't doing anyone any favors. There are no limits on the length or severity or appropriateness of the punishment.

At the same time, the worst of society doesn't seem all that cool to me but it could just be unusual times.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion

You may not approve of it but I doubt you "can't wrap [your] head" around it.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely

I think it's a mistake to roll out this word whenever you don't know how long something will take but I wish you well!

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely

It doesn't mean forever but it is widely understood to mean that there is no foreseeable resolution in the near future. I think most of us know to avoid the word unless we're signaling some degree of permanence.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money

Sorry, students. We can't forgive any debt for you because you weren't a credible threat to the government.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks

Only if they can prove that your lipservice caused the damage in question, which should be avoidable with the use of antistatic lipstick and regular blotting to ensure the lips are suitably dry.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

Oooor they can sell it, as originally stated. Goodness.

The point is reduce land entitlement a little bit. Yes, there's going to be some light incentive to cut loose and that's OK.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ

Whoever invented the car analogy should pay for what they did.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What helped you sleep better?

This one can be hard to broach with your partner, for intimacy reasons, but I think the switch benefitted us both.

NoSorryCannot | 3 years ago | on: Fake IMDB credits

A lot of what is labeled and sold as "SEO" might as well be diet fraud. Plagiarism, false advertising, astroturfing, etc. It certainly isn't just letting the Google bot know what your website is about.