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by CivBase 1y ago
I spend at least 40 hr a week doing something I have no motivation for. Most people do. Even if you don't hate your job, would you actually do it if you weren't getting paid?
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by CivBase 1y ago
Your experience sounds awful but surely there is a reasonable middle ground between forcing a kid to do any math and forcing them to do it in 4+ hour sessions.
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by CivBase 1y ago
So then it's not about Palestine?
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by CivBase 1y ago
Because unless you're talking about a single molecule of water, water is always covered in more water. But that's beside the point. Practically speaking, a person considers something "wet" if contacting it will make them
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by CivBase 1y ago
Water is obviously wet, depending on your definition of "wet". Likewise Google is obviously an online advertising tech monopoly, depending on your definition of "monopoly". There might be legal or technical rationals for
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by CivBase 1y ago
Then why does the current administration keep suspending the ban?
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by CivBase 1y ago
Wasn't the previous ban put in place by the Biden administration? And then Trump flipped sides to become the savior of TikTok or something like that? Doesn't exactly align with your claim.
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by CivBase 1y ago
Sometimes I want a faster horse. Problem is horses are no longer in high demand. It's a niche market now. I may have to pay a premium or put in some extra work to get the horse I want. It's just the way of things.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Why should you learn how to add when you can just use a calculator? We've had calculators for decades! Because understanding how addition works is instrumental to understanding more advanced math concepts. And being able to perform sim
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by CivBase 2y ago
Yes. I even pay for Kagi. I very rarely feel the need to ask a chatbot for anything and every time I have I've been disappointed in the results. I'm surprised so many people find them useful. These are the things I usually search
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by CivBase 2y ago
Yeah, the keyboard ruins the fun I had playing this. It took 2-3 taps per letter on my phone for keys to register.
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by CivBase 2y ago
I agree those digits are not significant in the context of the question asked. But if the AI is going to use that level of precision in the answer, I expect it to be correct.
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by CivBase 2y ago
I just asked my company-approved AI chatbot the same question. It got the golf ball volume right (0.00004068 cubic meters), but it still overestimated the cabin volume at 1000 cubic meters. It's final calculation was reasonably accurat
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by CivBase 2y ago
> I think OSI's definition is well thought out, widely understood, and regularly referenced I agree it is well thought out, but I strongly disagree that it is widely understood and regularly referenced. By the kind of folks who freq
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by CivBase 2y ago
IMO this is a losing battle. Regardless of good intentions, the term "open source" is simply not descriptive enough to carry connotations about licensing. To the layman all it means is that the source is open (accessible to th
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by CivBase 2y ago
> By 8:30am it was chaos in the main office and this filtered up to the head of HR, who most definitely did know me, and told me I'd better send a retraction before the CFO got in or I was in big trouble. That went wrong also, becau
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by CivBase 2y ago
For the overwhelming majority of students, tuition is not paid out of pocket. It's paid with loans. They see it as an investment towards a career which will allow them to pay back those loans. For many, the weight of their debt does no
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by CivBase 2y ago
I do not see any conflicts between those statements.
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by CivBase 2y ago
> Did you look up her platform at all? Or do you insist this because it wasn't spoon fed to you? I know her actual platform was more detailed than that, but it doesn't matter what I know. The point is it was not communicated
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by CivBase 2y ago
Is that what she ran on? My perception was that she ran on "more of the same but also different... nevermind, look at all these celebrities telling you to vote for me!" and something vague about protecting women's rights. I
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by CivBase 2y ago
> Teslas were just a stepping stone to whatever he's unleashing on the world now from the White House. Seems unlikely to me that his long term goal was to lead the Republican Inquisition in a great crusade against the libs. It'
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by CivBase 2y ago
More of this please.
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by CivBase 2y ago
So the idea is each request would require the client to pay a toll of some amount of work towards mining a cryptocurrency? That's actually brilliant. I'd take this over ads any day. But I do see a few problems... 1. Using the web
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by CivBase 2y ago
You're making a lot of unfair assumptions about this nurse. It's certainly possible that the nurse was a callus asshole who used her faith as justification for her actions. It's also very possible that the nurse was a sympath
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by CivBase 2y ago
The quotes from this comment suggest the nurse was trying to use her position to evangelize to Mooney, but that's clearly not the case when you read Mooney's full account. The nurse was clearly trying to comfort a person in distre
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by CivBase 2y ago
Except none of this is new. Tesla has been overvalued for the better part of the last decade but it shows no signs of coming back to Earth any time soon. Elon's individual reputation doesn't seem to have much effect on the company
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by CivBase 2y ago
It's absolutely wild seeing comments like this on a supposed hacker community.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Game consoles are not general purpose computing devices. People do not buy Xboxes with the expectation of running Photoshop. But people buy smartphones with the expectation of being able to use smartphone peripherals.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Third-party controllers have been widely available for every popular video game console including the GameCube. Nothing was stopping anyone - Microsoft included - from creating an Xbox controller which would also work on the GameCube. Ninte
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by CivBase 2y ago
What point are you making here? That Apple should be able to leverage their market position to crush their competition for a particular device just because it doesn't affect you in particular? You don't care for smart watches so t

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