Aloisius

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by Aloisius 10mo ago
International law exempts piracy? That's somewhat contrary to my understanding, but fascinating if true. But if we're using that as a justification, are we admitting the US has turned pirate then?
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
For it to be a blockade runner, there would need to be a blockade. Are we blockading Venezuela? That would generally be considered an act of war.
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Well, scanning an article on it for Manhattan, the fraction of "road dust" PM2.5 looks like somewhere around 2-5% depending on time of year, which is a bit below contributions by sea salt. From my limited reading, what fraction of
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Dialogue Social Science Review with a single undergraduate author and no descriptive statistics given on effect size?
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
"Late stage capitalism" is a term used by socialists to describe the period immediately before N̵o̵s̵t̵r̵a̵d̵.. er Marx's glorious socialist revolution. Predicting it will lead to fascism instead is... humorous.
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
In the US, children's right to free speech has only very narrow exceptions compared to an adult. The Supreme Court has even struck down state bans on selling violent video games to children because it violates a child's first amen
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
I thought the tire wear particulates being a huge source of particulate air emissions was an overestimate due to misunderstanding and misquotation of primary literature by secondary literature used by regulatory agencies. https:/&#x2F
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
He said: > I call it a "bullshit generator" because it generates output "with indifference to the truth". And if we follow the link we find he's referring to LLMs: > “Bullshit generators” is a suitable term
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Some of the things we consider prerequisites of general intelligence (what we usually mean by when we talk about intelligence in these contexts) - like creativity or actual reasoning, are not present at all in LLMs. An LLM is a very cleve
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Every major news site in Europe is full of articles full of "The New York Times reported that [summary]" so I'm a bit confused as to why, all of a sudden, it's a problem. Newspapers have been doing this for at least a ce
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
The research on social media harm is far from conclusive, despite what people seem to believe. To quote the National Academies report: > The committee’s review of the literature did not support the conclusion that social media causes ch
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
It takes 3 minutes to enable parental control software built into every every major OS. Parents have all the power they need, they just refuse to use it.
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Yes, unrealistically small. This isn't an SUV. It's a car with maybe 6 inches of clearance off the ground. Never mind the sensors would have little issue detecting a 7 year old as they approached as they are considerably larger
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Won't someone please think of all the hypothetical deaths of cat sized children crawling under cars in the middle of the night? Come on. If we're going to go into hypothetical deaths of unrealistically small children, I'm not
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
This comment feels like you're trying to replace my own perception and judgement about advertising with your own. Are you committing psychic violence by trying to persuade me? Honestly, I don't see why advertising is any more abus
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Wow. This article is peak slop. Seriously. Absolute garbage. This kind of word vomit, in a sane world, would permanently destroy a site's reputation.
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
PFAS are expressed as a mass fraction, not mole fraction.
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
Both of these are true: 1) Vaccines kill people. 2) Vaccines save lives. That's why we evaluate relative risk. The vaccines that we recommend are significantly safer than not being vaccinated at all, for the population as a whole. This
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by Aloisius 10mo ago
It's not like Netflix is limited to Warner's back catalog. Warner owns exclusive rights to make new movies/television/games for quite a lot of things. That's valuable in a world where copyright has everything made i
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
It takes less than 3 minutes to set up the free, built-in parental control software in all major operating systems. This isn't a situation where a parent is so overloaded that they need a village to help raise a child. This is just par
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
As long as javascript developers don't care about memory usage, I'm not sure what anyone can do. I mean, for goodness sake, an empty YouTube page with no videos eats up a shocking amount of memory - 90 MB just for the js heap. I
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
There's a GAO report from last year about the dramatic increase of students with disabilities in college. In 2004/2008/2012, 11% of college students had disabilities. It was 21% in 2020. In 2020, 69% of students with disabili
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
This cites an NCES study which doesn't appears to be locked down to approved researchers, but it provides a national number: > In 2019-20, 8% of students registered as having a disability with their institution. This rate was 10% a
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
There are any number of reasons for that to be the case. 1) Someone who registers may not provide sufficient documentation to be eligible for accommodation 2) Not all disabilities require housing or academic accommodation - instead they may
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The Atlantic journalist talked to Stanford Professor Paul Graham Fisher who was co-chair of the university’s disability task force, so I imagine they either got it from him or someone else at the school. They could have made it up, but sinc
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
US Census Department: 8.3% of 18-34 year olds https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2024/comm/disa...
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
8.3% of Americans 18-34yo have a disability according to the Census department. Stanford's rate is 4.3x higher than that. Add in that half of all students who claim a disability have no record of a diagnosis or disability classificat
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
A majority of the 38% are receiving accommodations: > This year, 38 percent of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability; in the fall quarter, 24 percent of undergraduates were receiving academic or housing accommoda
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
"ChatGPT: Please design a chip for me." Basically.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
A few? NATO has 29 European member countries. It's larger than the European Union. How you feel makes sense though. The US does not and has never had Switzerland's back (and vice-versa).

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