Imnimo

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by Imnimo 5y ago
>The failures were political ones. When you sign up to join the military, you are signing up to enforce those political decisions. You are not only signing up to "defend its people and friends." I would find this sort of arti
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>I think a country absolutely must be able to fight to defend its people and friends. Does this really feel like an accurate description of what the British military has done over the past, say, 20 years?
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>Information gain can be combined with the Naive Strategy in order to calculate both the probability of a hit, along with the value that hit would provide (how many possible positions it would eliminate). Isn't this missing the othe
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by Imnimo 5y ago
A lot of this is tough to evaluate as a lay person. For example: >From the 75-page proposal, a striking detail stood out: a plan to examine SARS-like bat coronaviruses for furin cleavage sites and possibly insert new ones that would ena
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I think it's based on this quote: >OpenAI evidently employs 40 humans to clean up GPT-3’s answers manually Which feels a bit more ambiguous. It might mean they're cleaning up the answers to serve as future training data, but I
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>remarked that had such an incident happened in relation to another religion, the social media platform would have been more careful and sensitive. I must have missed Twitter constantly blocking anyone who says negative things about Chri
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>Julian is not a US citizen. WikiLeaks is not a US-based publication. And yet he is charged, under the US Espionage Act, with treason. Is that actually true? I didn't think Assange was charged with treason. Is the author just usin
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Man, Lexington High School was apparently just churning out classics back in the day. That's the same place Lunar Lander was written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>But he's simultaneously criticizing people who want to end "cancel culture" because he sees them as also committing a "denunciation of other people’s speech". Right, but I think his criticism here is not that &q
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>I don't know what Popehat actually wants here. I think he wants people who say "we should end cancel culture" to recognize that their cause is not "the spirit of free speech".
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by Imnimo 5y ago
During WW1, there was apparently some amount of effort to rename sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" to avoid the German association. My understanding is that this was at least in part driven by a worry from cabbage producers that the p
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>When America becomes a place where you're punished for having invested in your children, it becomes a place where you will no longer want to live. I'm sure they'll be itching to move to a new country where their children
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>if you touch 8333 or run the naughty international version that Senator Warren does not approve of, or run an unregistered node, or any other such insane fantasies is just dreams cos you don’t get what Satoshi was all about yet. I would
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Somehow I'm not convinced that a technology that makes the global transaction log public and immutable for eternity makes government oversight "irrelevant".
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Neither its open source status nor the number of countries a piece of software is run in make its users immune to the law.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
https://www.talkovlaw.com/defamation-defense-rhetorical-hype... Perhaps you'd like to hold everyone who has ever called a politician a thief or a crook liable for defamation, unless that politician has actually been co
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Imagine this defense to other crimes. It's illegal to run over pedestrians, but I built my car without any windows, so there's no way for me to know who or what I might be running over! Good luck with that!
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Calling people traitors is free speech. If you don't like it, grow a pair.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
"People like me who wanted to just look at information, let me be the judge of what I see" What does this dude think a search engine does, exactly?
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Well that depends. If my position were that you have to act via "web-wide decisions" and "universal solutions", then I might conclude that my only options were to leave up all prank sites, including those damaging the u
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by Imnimo 5y ago
So if I could only detect this one prank site, but did not have a way to detect and downrank all prank sites at once, you would say it's invalid for me to just take action against the one I know about, since that's not a universa
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by Imnimo 5y ago
>they're using it to find pages with similar text. This is one vision of what a search engine's job is, but I'm not sure it's what most users are looking for. Even barebones pagerank goes far beyond just finding simi
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Suppose I go off and make a search engine, with my own algorithm for ranking search results. At first it works great. And then five years later, I find that, by a quirk in my algorithm, I find that a new site has risen to the top of all m
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I'm not sure I buy the argument that this will provide "cover" to the Russian government to isolate the country from the global internet. What cover do they need? If we are to believe that the Russian people are powerless t
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by Imnimo 5y ago
The alternative interpretation is that New Zealand's lockdowns avoided all the previous waves (which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US, for example), but did not avoid the Omicron wave. So far, NZ has only reported 65 c
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Because your goal is not to maximize your chances of getting at least one point, it's to maximize the expected number of points you get.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
Probably shouldn't have just left it sitting outside where it could break then. Absolute negligence.
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by Imnimo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... This is my understanding of what the "scraps of paper" for denuclearization covered. I don't think NATO membership was addressed. Is ther
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by Imnimo 5y ago
I do not understand why the Oberth effect works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect I understand the math, but I cannot form an intuitive understanding of why it works. My brain just insists that it shouldn&
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by Imnimo 5y ago
That is not what the word "goad" means.

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