Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
There's a certain logic to it, if I'm understanding how it works correctly. The training data is real interactions online. People tend to be more helpful when they're asked politely. It's no stretch that the model would
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
“ However, Trajan still thought it important for such projects to go ahead if properly managed – the need for infrastructure and public buildings did not vanish just because previous efforts to construct them had been incompetently handled.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I agree with the first part but I admit I love the smell of it. In small doses and always at some remove.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
No, in these cases the right to build one house lasts for the duration of one male heir since 1972. There are also restrictions on the conditions of sale if I’m not mistaken, which makes it more difficult to sell off to big developers.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I added “really” to imply it’s impractical. What developer would pay a high premium? They can’t build a big tower unless they have a ton of adjoining plots. The village is abandoned and the owners are all abroad or just disinterested. The d
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
A missing part of the story is that so many moved abroad. So the land rights now belong to first or second generation migrants and there just isn't enough pull to get them back. Yet there are sentimental and family reasons to hold onto
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I can shed some light on this. Most of these villages began their demise around the middle to late middle of the last century, before or during the upsurge of the economy that would lead to the city's boom times. Times were very tough,
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Most Hong Kongers agree it’s nice that they don’t. The nature parks are treasured. It’s also a false dichotomy because it’s not about “housing or nature”. There is plenty of brownfield land but in the New Territories it would be politicall
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Retaliation is abundant in the US. What are you smoking? If a company thinks it can get away with it, it will. Saving money is more important than a hypothetical, minuscule and temporary hit to their reputation. There will always be consume
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
You're barking up the wrong tree. (i) systemic change on a global scale is needed, individual actions don't "matter". (ii) corporations and governments are the only entities large enough to make changes. Governments need
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
> Wouldn't this only apply to research from the USA? No. Lots of people from wealthy (and predominantly white) countries across the world have the same kinds of motivations. To recognize that the existing structure of the world spli
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Thank you for the comment. Everyone else is talking around the issue but you cut right to it, and did so very cleanly.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Thanks for explaining your reasoning. That sounds more reasonable than I’d assumed. I stand corrected
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
You think it’s biased because it’s using words like “right-wing” and “anti-diversity”? I’ve usually found such terms to be right on the mark, even if some don’t like it pointed out
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
No it doesn’t. The law’s application is ambiguous and the public discourse is rife with stories of doctors that won’t take the risk because the punishment is drastic and the legal details have yet to be properly established. Simply put, the
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Ah. But that is expecting action from a reigning government that has proven itself unable to do literally anything forward-thinking. It’s regression all over.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I’m sorry but I’m just not going to switch off my orientation lock and turn my phone sideways just for a website to “work fine”. It’s 2024. I expect better
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I’m not familiar with Delve. Care to elaborate?
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Yes! I was a bit cagey because I hadn’t tested it so didn’t know if it worked. It’s a Mill smart convection heater. Their smart stuff works both with their app and with a Home Assistant integration (and via HASS with HomeKit as well). Reall
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Just bought a convection heater today. I was willing to spend more for a “smart” one, but on the one condition that I was confident it would work with Home Assistant. Certainly not opening my wallet for the likes of Haier until they change
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Absolutely wrong. Mistakes happen. Bugs, fat fingers, laziness, hangovers--whether by human or machine, errors occur. The legal system was supposed to uncover the facts. Because of the Post Office coverup, the judges were told " no, th
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Brazil
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
The Western media is so focused on it—over other conflicts—because we (in the West) are witnessing an ethnic cleansing committed by a country whose population has strong familial and cultural ties with the West. (Obligatory notadefenseofham
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Except in this case he walked from corporate cash to an academic role. I’d be curious why he left the integrity division in Meta. Anyway, when someone like this expresses caution it causes me to listen.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Very true. But there is probably something about the fact that traffic accidents are direct human error, usually, that make us more comfortable with the risk than the prospect of a systemic, corporate or technical error. Entirely irrational
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Seems to me the solution to the union problem would be some kind of direct deal with the union on outsourcing rather than a workaround based on staff rules relating to seat numbers.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Exactly. Someone would have looked out the window, seen no apparent fire, and opened the slide right into a runaway engine
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Same. Also I’ve had some software error out as it waits for drives to spin up (in an NFS share context).
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
That is one argument. But the company doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Except, if it's tax funded the hospital does not need to generate revenue to enable that goal. It can focus on saving lives, and maybe even do preventative care which lowers overall health costs for society by dealing with problems ear

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