Amezarak

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by Amezarak 1y ago
> There need be only a single law, the law of the land - and the legislature must be able to change it - and only them, otherwise why have a legislature at all? The legislature can change the US Constitution. The federal Congress propose
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It's really baffling to see this take repeated, especially when we've seen European PMs rewrite their country's constitution. That's just not feasible in the US system. US Presidents are quite limited in their power. A l
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The length of time the process takes is entirely under the control of Congress. It could be done in a day if they wanted. The longer time periods seen with Clinton and Trump were to attempt to gin up the political support to follow through.
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Yes, but having to prove you were committing a crime versus the government having to prove you knowingly committed a crime are two different things. We do not always require the latter. For example, in most states, the government does not
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by Amezarak 1y ago
This isn’t a due process issue. There are plenty of crimes where the state does not have to prove you knew you were doing wrong, only that you did wrong. I see no reason why this can’t apply to employers, who would then be much more careful
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That’s true enough, I should have said supported and perhaps instigated (by insulting the students beforehand) rather than ordered.
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Congress can also agree to remove the President. Indeed it would take only a few Rs to flip to do so. We see PMs easily enacting massive legislative reforms and even Constitutional changes that are nigh impossible in the US, that was not a
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ICE has been arresting business owners for this, but unfortunately the legal requirement to do so is very high - you have to prove they knew what they were doing. It should probably be lowered.
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I oppose private equity consolidation too, this is not an either/or proposition, but that’s not the biggest factor that’s impacted construction labor these past few decades.
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This is exactly where they should raid. I have a lot of friends and family that work construction. Illegal immigration has absolutely destroyed the construction labor market by undercutting wages. People should be a fair wage for their work
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> I studied political sciences twenty years ago - even then it was established consensus that presidential democracies are vulnerable to authoritarian takeover. Democracies are vulnerable to "authoritarian takeover" has been
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The President who ordered the Kent State National Guard deployment won his re-election campaign in a massive landslide - 49 out of 50 states went for Nixon. I suspect that people that lived through it remembered Kent State very differently
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Why? Because you expect we’d nuke them for it? Hadn’t heard this before and honestly am not sure why they don’t at this point, it seems like they have less and less to lose as the war goes on. I read in the NYT a few weeks ago the pentagon
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I think it’s important to understand fictional stories, even reasonable speculative ones, will usually have very little to do with actual reality. Don’t base your choices on what you saw in a movie.
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I eat enormous amounts of dairy and red meat and recently I had abdominal surgery and the doctor afterwards confirmed I was in very good shape and had no signs at all of fatty liver and very little visceral fat generally. I eat around a pou
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I may be betraying my ignorance here but I don’t understand what you mean when you say the stars look the same everywhere on earth. You can definitely determine latitude from what stars are visible in the night sky along with their position
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That’s not how copyright law works, but it might be how it should work.
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In that case, public services can continue to try to fine tune outputs to not generate anything infringing. They can train on any material they want. Of course, that still won’t make artists happy, because they think things like styles can
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Derivative work is a legal term. Art styles cannot be copyrighted.
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What you are describing is the output of the LLM, not the model. Can you link to the case where a model itself was determined to be infringing? It’s important that copyright applies to copying/publishing/distributing - you can do
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It isn’t clear at all that there’s any infringement going on at all, except in cases where AI output reproduces copyrighted content or content that is sufficiently close to copyrighted content to constitute a derivative work. For example, i
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by Amezarak 1y ago
The rich man sorrowfully turning away from Jesus after he tells him that to be perfect, he should give up all his wealth, and then the story of the camel through the eye of the needle immediately following it as a reflection on the man&#x27
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The story in Matthew 19:21 has exactly the same point and precedes this very parable. > But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. [Then follows the camel and the needle.] The rich man
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At least in the US, the SSA projects current 30 year old men to live another 48 years, putting them dead around 78. 30 year old women are expected to die around 82. [1] A quick Google shows life expectancy is about three years higher in Den
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No, they aren't.
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It’s being glutted by an oversupply of labor. We have too many new grads and then H1bs on top of that. There was a huge hiring spike circa 2022 that apparently misled a lot of people. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/
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This is a big problem. Democracies throughout the west are refusing to do anything about big problems that have populist support. This is enabling authoritarianism because the authoritarians present an alternative vision and promise to actu
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by Amezarak 1y ago
> the UK budget for a person includes healthcare, I don't think you understand how GDP PPP works, but you understand this makes the UK look even worse , right? At any rate the point is the fact this comparison can even be made is
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The UK on a per capita GDP PPP basis is as poor, or poorer, than the poorest US state, Mississippi. [1] Immigration, trade policy, privatization, and financialization have cut the working class population off at the knees. It's an econ
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They are there because the British government made a deliberate policy decision to bring them there. It is perfectly reasonable to ask if this policy decision was in the best interests of the populace at large. Immigration (and emigration)

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