LawTalkingGuy

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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> It might only be a matter of years before a genetic test for tendency towards “transgender” will be created. Do you recognize that you're about five years behind in "the message"? Trans is purely self-id, to declare your
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> My take-away - multi-path teaching doesn't work in the typical American classroom (25+ students per class, all the same age, but vastly different skills). Well yeah, do something badly and it won't work. Each student deserves
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
I think it's nice. It's about the same form factor as the existing paper-holders it replaces and in this context the wood border is aesthetic and clutter-reducing. My work went with LCDs which don't match the calm wood and ea
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
It's a fact. It's the reason gifted classes were created. From my own mixed-age classroom experience, and stories I've heard about one-room schools, it's not the mixing of skill levels that holds the advanced class back
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
>> the other has a mathematically demonstrably finite supply. > The argument I always hear against this point is that you can simply continue to subdivide the currency infinitely. We just get into smaller and smaller fractions of &
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> software engineering really isn't real engineering Most people who call themselves software engineers have not studied engineering at all, let alone passed an engineering course. I think there are two broad classes of benefit a re
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Canadian. And we generally have results in under an hour after the polls close. I've actually gone to viewing parties at pubs for the last two US elections. Your media dominates ours.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Meh, police get the address wrong sometimes. I could totally see them either not understanding of not believing a 'no logs' policy. So they get a warrant for 'servers with client connection logs' and when they arrive the
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Could you have spun off the placement part of the business into a separate identity (which didn't bill itself as "adult") and kept the profits there?
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Wouldn’t republicans believe more in ‘...’ where democrats would be more ‘...’ With only two parties I don't think the parties themselves are good proxies for the views of the people who end up voting for them. I think generally
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Take the contentious issue of transgender human rights [...] tended towards right-wing principles of distrust of intellectuals There's a weird form of "intellectual"ism going on these days. I've gotten insanely mad
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
I think Langchain is currently broader, containing those text-splitting and indexing tools as well as summarization and memory, 'Tool' integration, etc.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Scotland's problem is that mentioning a "protected characteristic" is enough to get you arrested if someone feels upset. The problem isn't the intent of the law but the incredibly low bar for injury and lack of sanctions
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Is it perfect? No, The problem is that it introduces all these failure cases. Pen+Paper's only drawback is that it's said to be slow, in practice it can be finished same-day by booking enough elections volunteers. > but
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
So? Respond to people with reasoned arguments and it doesn't matter who they are. Trolls win when people think they have to achieve purity of thought - to drive away anyone who believes wrong-think even at the cost of the forum itself.
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Modern PCs are as secure as a loaf of bread in a mob of seagulls. Use malware to actually install sharing software and hide it from the user and at the router. Then use actual full-disk encryption software and make a real hidden partition a
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password This is a good reason to use numbered, pre-made, one-time-passwords and require a reason when using them. "AdminX lost fob - using override to reset creds.&quot
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
It feels like our current political parties are the result of force-teaming and meaningless labels creating unhappy and fragile alliances ready to split. Imho this would be great as the manufactured left/right dichotomy never helped an
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
There were a lot of promising studies into using it for Covid then - large-scale retrospective cohort studies of pre-existing ivermectin trials going on as Covid started to spread. It just turns out that it mostly didn't apply to the f
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> Each voter receives a printout with a human-readable list of their selections, along with a QR code. This is not an acceptable design. Not only should the voter be marking their ballot by hand not doing so through a machine whose UI ma
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
I just want people to remember all the previous elections where Dems were potentially hurt by e-voting bugs and to band together across the aisle to get rid of voting machines. Paper voting works for us in Canada and it'd work for you
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Those topics that AI replaces the forums for won't need discussion. People won't be confused about that thing because the coding AI knows the details of it. Soon that'll be most syntax questions, soon simple to mid-level algo
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Lol, that's what a reviewer running on Llama13b would say!
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Your link doesn't purport to show child kidnappings, etc. It says they recruit child soldiers, but it doesn't say those children are slaves. Also, it's not as much who is targeted by the attacks as why. The Kurds are under ge
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> personally I prefer actual people having GPUs I think Nvidia/etc missed some serious PR by not giving out tickets to buy cards via gaming and hardware sites, to be rewarded with more tickets if those cards ended up being used for
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
The police simply count what they can - actual formal reports. They aren't lying because they aren't claiming that this fully describes the situation in the city. The fact checkers, who I am accusing of being empty political bias
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> Calling me a commie is silly. I am a socialist come on. :D Honest question though if you're serious, is socialism just a temporary goal on the way to communism or is it a worthwhile final goal on its own? > I didn't propo
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> Why even bother arguing this question I live in two of the drug cities and visit others, and pay taxes that support many of these policies specifically. Do you live in one of the west-coast cities in question, or is this an abstract po
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> covid misinformation is a conspiracy theory I've been personally blocked on multiple forums for saying that we don't have enough information to say that there wasn't a lab leak. I'm not making a leak claim, but stat
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> No city census or national crime analysis categorizes burglary as a violent crime, and I'm not sure why you called SF out on it. Most other cities aren't wallowing in it the same way, and aren't holier than thou despite

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