FormerBandmate

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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Pegasus isn’t American. Also, China has the capability to spy on everyone and their government is morally worse so of course they are. Social credit, concentration camps, etc
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
OpenAI is pretty clearly using their work to make derivative content that in certain cases (CNET) is a direct competitor. Honestly, this seems open and shut
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Twitter 1.0 had all sorts of complex policies that ultimately boiled down to banning people the owners didn’t like. Twitter 2.0 has zero policies and just bans people the owner doesn’t like randomly
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The Saudis were already the top shareholder in Twitter before Elon’s purchase. They were adamantly against it until he let them roll over their stake into X
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
He shouldn’t be allowed to derail traffic to competitors because that cements Twitter’s dominant position in a anticompetitive, unfair way. The New York Times isn’t really a competitor, so the government shouldn’t step in to stop that. Neve
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
I’m a free speech absolutist, and for that reason I’m against this
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
People make friends at work all the time, and usually that helps productivity and career success
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Toyota is the worst make for this, but yeah. The Corolla quote I got all inclusive was $28K and the Camry quote was $37K so I ended up going with a Tesla 3 for $34K after taxes. Much better in every way but it’s still fucking expensive, esp
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
When’s the last time you bought a car? Going to the website literally only works for Teslas
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
People get hired off the 2% because that’s a baseline level of growth. When the economy is in deflation people will constantly get fired every year, growth basically stops, and you end up with a highly risk averse Japan-type situation. This
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The different levels of power and seniority is a class within a class. Different levels of money, power, and prestige (which seniority is a proxy for here) is all class is really
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
That isn’t the model reasoning. That’s you figuring out exactly what parameters you need to use to make the model give the result you want. It’s Clever Hans on steroids
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
That doesn’t make any sense. Everyone used it in high school and college, they’re very heavily targeted to education. If anything, Microsoft Editor (which is on by default) would be an tool of intelligence because we already know Microsoft
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Regulatory capture becomes much easier to understand when you exaggerate it and say they’re trying to hijack and take over the government to make money. It isn’t that, but it’s close enough
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Europe defunded their oil and gas industry and only great things happened from it. Just ask Ukraine The only way to stop pollution is to consume green. That’s it. The Saudis and the Russians don’t care about ESG
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
For PCP that’s basically everything. For weed that’s basically nothing (although you shouldn’t drive high)
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Legal guns do way less damage than drugs by a long shot. Even illegal guns kill less people, and you don’t solve illegal guns by banning guns, the millions of illegal guns aren’t going to turn in themselves We do need gun control but it is
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
The legal pot industry’s problem is that it’s a legal no-man’s-land because pot is actually illegal at a federal level but states just ignore it and the government ignores them ignoring it. It should be legalized at a federal level because
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
High schoolers come up with new ideas all the time. AI is just generic scenarios that are mathematical average of what you’d expect. It’s really reductionist to say people are that, betrays a certain cynicism about humanity
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Why is Bing doing this? It feels like we’re burying the lede, a $2 trillion company isn’t showing sites that are critical of it on its supposedly unbiased search engine
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Less homeless people and more comfortable
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Theoretically Nazis could use signal. Nazis can also use any other technology, this justification is really stupid
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
That very much would not work. Twitter is still called Twitter all over it's site, the trademark has clearly not been abandoned. All that does is destroy Threads
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
They also fought for freedom and democracy. Without their heroic example the French Revolution would never have happened and the world would still be ruled by hereditary monarchies. Also, the military in the great nation they founded has co
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Maybe through the lens of culture war nonsense the Ukraine war proves that. Ukraine's army isn't more effeminate lol, they're just less associated with Fox News
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Sparta was a incredibly brutal army masquerading as a state. Like all great powers they were successful until they weren't. It's weird how we forget Athenian brutality in the whole Athens/Sparta dichotomy. There Melian dialog
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Traitors who fought their country for slavery weren't heroes. The Founding Fathers were
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
That’s called bolt cutters
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Russia and China are getting them more funding
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
In the 1950s every company was literally called General X. General Electric, General Motors, and General Dynamics are still huge today

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