Levitz

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by Levitz 3y ago
>None of the interventions in western countries has made any impact globally, they literally don't matter and are a rounding error when compared to China and India. I think we knew all along. Those policies aren't meant to make
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>And I can’t get that worked up about Meta’s free product. There is no "Free" product. You are paying with freedom, you are paying with attention, you are paying with privacy. It's not "free", it's extractin
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Being able to extrapolate with newly found data. You can get a LLM to simulate it "discovering" the pythagorean theorem, but can it actually , with the knowledge that was available at the time, discover the pythagorean theorem by
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Because cultural differences have pushed him to crimes. For example. I'm Spanish. My neighbors are Moroccan. The father didn't once in his life acknowledge my mother. He wouldn't talk to her. He would ignore her if she talked
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>Anyway, the Right party pulled the balance of power from the Left and formed a centre/right coalition more than a year ago, because of all the bad people coming here and doing bad things. Weren't they going to fix this? While
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I've had fun with psychedelics, I also honestly consider they have improved my life. Yes the trip can be lots of fun, but really, "fun" is widely available once you cross the line and take drugs. MDMA is fun. Amphetamines can
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I think that's naive. Class consciousness is being aware that those with wealth are the ones who set the orthodoxy to begin with . Paul Graham writing a blogspot is irrelevant, he is barely exercising his position while doing so. Look
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>With respect, I do not see why FBI crime statistics are considered racist. It is because it is a part of the US government? Because this data requires serious, responsible and honest engagement, and it's tempting to use it to confi
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More and more people are okay with losing with privacy though, and the more who take that position, the more you lose by not taking it.
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I'm baffled that you so easily dismiss the idea in an age in which unrealistic expectations for women is an issue that has been talked about to death .
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I mean they can, kind of. Top tier guys will have sex with multiple women, some of which will be "lower" on the rankings than them. This leads women to believe they are in their league, since they are having sex. Then time comes t
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Given the rates of transmission, Grindr would be the obvious choice, yet the app is pretty damn responsible around the issue. You can list your STD status, whether you take pre exposition meds and when you last checked yourself for STDs.
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How is that the app's fault? Are those conditions created by grindr? People have preferences, disclosing them as soon as possible saves everybody's time. There might very well be a problem in the gay community in this regard, but
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Do we know what they are? No. But the dynamics between men and women are so damn different it's evident there must be a difference to begin with. Just because it's not proven and not certain 100% doesn't mean we can't lo
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That makes sense though. I can hardly imagine any effort put 10.000 years ago that would be valuable now, with the technological difference.
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Spotify was created in a market in which piracy was widespread. I'm not sure we can assume it would have ever been a thing otherwise.
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So it's simply them wanting to find out if he is monetizing that specific content? I find the implication to such line of questioning to be rather obvious, unless there is something I'm missing? If this monetization in itself was
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I find it baffling that so much of the public is content with ostracizing despicable people when it's precisely "racists and bigoted users". The only reason that those are despicable nowadays is precisely because minorities
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The corporation is either responsible for its content or it's not. If they can pick and choose whatever message they like with absolute discretion, then that's effectively the corporation's speech and should be treated as suc
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>Market forces and competition should help keep speech free because if a private company doesn't allow x group to use their platform, it is likely a competitor will spring up to capture the orphaned market. This doesn't really
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>When they don't take a stand, when they try to stay impartial, they're attacked for enabling terrorism, child abuse, human trafficking, etc, etc, etc. Imo the problem lies here. On the idea that servicing someone implies suppo
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>Anyway in this scenario do I have to allow customers to personally insult me too if I want to maintain free speech Ideally, yes. Imagine a world in which anyone saying bad things about Amazon or Jeff Bezos was unable to use any of their
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The idea that tolerance 101 is about who you are able to discriminate is quite amusing. Especially in a thread about Orwell, doublethink and all that. Either way, yes, if you actually care for freedom of speech you ought to respect that whi
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If freedom of speech is anything, that's freedom from consequences, it doesn't have any other meaning. Even in the most repressive state you can definitely say anything, it's the consequences for saying it that make the diffe
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The difference is that you will find no shortage of criticism of capitalism in today's day and age, and regarding academia, you might even be shunned for declaring yourself a capitalist.
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"Big" and "small" are funny terms when you talk about computer graphics. A surface 10 units long is short if your character moves at 10 units per second. It's long if your character moves at 1 unit per second. You c
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If any study costs X, the study and the replication costs somewhere in the ballpark of 2*X. This is not trivial.
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>As someone who's felt invisible for a decade, I can't describe how much my mental state has improved. This really can't be overstated. Dipping your feet into "attractive privilege" is frankly a life-changing exp
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Let's cut it 50/50, let's say she has broken up in 11 occasions. Does it really make sense for you to consider that she has a good eye for compatibility? To trust her judgement that she will stay with you?
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This points to another worrying trend I've seen among teenagers and 20-something people. I've often seen them commenting how they have had absolutely ridiculous amounts of relationships, like a 24 year old saying she has had 11 bo

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