Barrin92

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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>america is more dangerous than many 3rd world it isn't. Crime is highly concentrated and the vast majority of, at least median affluent America, is about as safe as it gets. Same goes for any big cities, usually you can count risky
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
ironically the first people who would disagree with you are the people who passed this piece of legislation slightly more seriously though work is one place where language acquisition happens organically, work is where culture emerges and
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>personal opinions on what society should be like Anyone who still even has a personal opinion at all pertaining to what the world should look like distinct from swallowing whatever 'the market' has decided to impose on them is
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>encrypted, on your own devices the entire point of encryption is to facilitate communication across adversarial channels, if you want to keep your data in a locker you don't need encryption, and if you use encryption you can keep i
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
it's common with the arts in general. People often attribute to being gifted what are entirely learnable, physical skills. Singing in particular, it's astonishing how quickly you can teach someone to sing well even if they think
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
I've been in positions to hire/fire before and never, ever would I fire someone over a kindergarten insult. How pathetic do you have to be to pull rank over "you rich jerk" excellent case btw why you should never let the
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>and fix an actual problem. but it is an actual problem. The beef industry has a large ecological impact. You yourself bring up the water shortages as a result of crop production... who do you think are the crops grown for? You're j
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>I understand the environmental impacts. I think we should solve our energy problems first. is there a rational argument in here or is this just a cheap psychological reflex to keep eating beef? Because it's not clear to me how solv
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
I personally just use git, there's even a plugin that automates pushing and pulling changes. Does that not cover your use case?
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
I want the reverse version of this, if Apple can promise me to 'lag behind' for another ten years I'll buy my first Apple device in ten years
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
what's the point? The Chinese, Google and OpenAI are burning money and we get to use the service. Having AI providers locally barely creates any jobs, it's an easily substitutable service and it has (contrary to the claims by the
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Do you know how exceedingly hard it is to grow a business how is this my problem? Do you think wanting to be one of the cool entrepreneurs is a right or something? I don't care if the in your words shameless hustle goes under becau
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>can't get past the argument that people said the same thing when we switched from everyone using ASM to C/Fortran that's a bad comparison for two reasons. One is that C is a transparent language that requires understandin
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Would it be moral to attack knife manufacturers? if they're selling the knives knowingly to a knife-murderer, it might be worth discussing. Sam Altman is not, although he portrays himself that way, some geeky guy without power who
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
I always found that case a bit odd. For one he was blogging under his real name and had made his medical practice known, so you could just google him. It was upending his psychiatry practice because he blogged, albeit in anonymized fashion,
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
the point of rhetoric is persuasion or flattery, the point of communication (or argument as its usually framed going all the way back to Plato) is to accurately convey an idea or concept. In your average Trump speech the point is usually to
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>One can always suppose the identified individual is a double, triple, quadruple agent. yes in general it's not good reasoning but given that in this case we know that we're talking about someone who tried to stay anonymous and
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
anxiety in the sense you're talking about is a function of private surveillance and in that regard America is much worse. State led surveillance in Chinese public spaces is real and effective in producing compliance (20 years ago publi
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
It's wrong to even frame this as a partisan question. When the leader of a democratic country threatens a nation of 90 million people with genocide, that should be the end of that government on that same day. Where is the entire US pop
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
it's become a much larger section of music. Notice, there are no bands any more. Try finding a metal band with musicians under 40, or a Greenday, Linkin Park or, the itself automated Kpop industry aside, a spontaneous boy or girl group
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
No it isn't. In the US 45 million people are functionally illiterate. That is defined as someone who cannot read or follow instructions, fill out a basic form, or understand a bank statement. My 77 year old uncle is unable to use a sma
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
doxxing is a term that is commonly reserved for private information that the doxxed individual has an expectation to be treated as such, that is to say, it's not in the public interest. Someone who breaks the law and is actively search
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>We all took our time to learn how to use a smartphone Were you 65 years old when smartphones came around? My grandparents had 8 years of formal education, they never figured out how to use computers when they were alive, not because the
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>What specific kinds of queries does it do badly at? in my experience all of them, because the experience for me currently is that youtube surfaces ~3 videos relevant to the search I entered, then the bizarre category of "here'
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
it's a good strategy. There's no point in trying to stop Israel by harming them economically because they know perfectly well that like for them, this war is existential. The Gulf states are financial hubs and tourist destinations
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>Age isn't an issue when all parties are adults. there's exceptions to every rule but as a general statement that's about as false as it gets. With increasing age gap between partners divorce and breakup rates go up signif
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>but in the marketplace it has beaten a performance of impartiality of course it does, the entire logic of market driven news is to cater to the attention and emotionality of a self-selected audience. Journalism cannot compete with that
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>when there are lots of other competing sources that don't observe the same deference. sure because they're just making shit up. If you don't have access to a source you're by definition speculating. The fact that the
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Is it possible that there are alternative ways than handwriting for cognitive development? there are countless of ways to develop fine motor skills, but handwriting replacing a chisel was not a step down because handwriting is a demandi
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Industries always consolidate and winners emerge. no, most industries just sell boring generic products, a few industries favor monopolists. Semiconductors are one of them but LLMs are also as far removed from that business as is physic

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