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despideme | 1 year ago | on: Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool

There’s interesting ambiguity in this comment. I interpret the comment as saying, “I could be tricked by a deepfake of a stranger due to a lack of experience with their ‘true’ behaviors, but would not be tricked so easily when it’s someone I know well.”

Others here seem to be interpreting the statement as, “I could be tricked because I am an older person, while a younger person would not be so easily deceived.”

despideme | 2 years ago | on: The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)

This is exactly what Transformers were in the 1980s: pre-existing Japanese toys whose existence had nothing to do with the retconned “Autobots vs. Decepticons” cartoon plot. That was invented to drive the toys into the American market.

despideme | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Shaq, a CLI for Shazam

I wonder — is the name a reference to the mass confusion about “Shazam” starring Sinbad and “Kazam” starring Shaquille O’Neal? Or an example of it?

despideme | 2 years ago | on: Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection

The price difference is a way to pass along credit card fees that otherwise would have to be paid by the station operator. It used to be against the credit card networks’ merchant agreements to have separate cash and credit prices — but a good number of LA gas stations rolled the dice and did it anyway. That rule changed a few years ago, and now most stations split their pricing. (I believe that’s also why ARCO gas now takes credit cards, after holding out for decades — they are now allowed to pass along the cost to the customer.)
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