Levitz

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by Levitz 3mo ago
>I doubt many of the researchers migrating even want Chinese citizenship and the chains that come along with it, so why do most people (presumably Americans) keep harping on and on about it? Because it's an important matter regardin
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by Levitz 3mo ago
>Whether China is immigration friendly or not is debatable. Compared to the US or Europe? No it's not debatable. No dual citizenship at all, most probably no citizenship. Harder residency. Good luck bringing family there. Not going
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by Levitz 3mo ago
I'm almost certain people are different on this point, but I just want to put this out there in case it applies. A lot of our entertainments and hobbies, especially in urban areas, are mental to begin with. The most evident example wou
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by Levitz 3mo ago
That's just not true. Most people forgot Bush by Obama's second year.
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by Levitz 3mo ago
You can call it a failure, it's just not a military one. Hell there's an argument to be made that the US should downsize its military because there's no universe in which exercising its full capability is not either the end o
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by Levitz 3mo ago
>This is great for competition! Chinese vendors offering a cheaper solution = what economics told me the free market was all about. Ah yes, systematic fraud and protectionist practices, free market through and through.
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by Levitz 3mo ago
>Most of Europe has a "registered building" system, where buildings above a certain age are considered historic. It feels weird to have to mention this, but although there are a lot of historical buildings in Europe, it's
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by Levitz 3mo ago
It's not an apples to apples comparison. 80%+ of deaths because of heat in Europe are 65+ years old. When you start handling that range you've to take into account that these people are going to die because of something , save a
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by Levitz 3mo ago
When you enact 0.1% changes through a population, that's still a 0.1% change. "If we all do this little thing" thinking is utter nonsense. If all of human consumption or contribution to warming or what-have-you is 1000, apply
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by Levitz 4mo ago
It's a more nuanced situation than people generally want to accept. >Marketing is made so they you identify with the product or identify with an aspirational version of yourself. Gaming is seen as heavily male-dominated. Expanding t
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>Scalping provides the service of exchanging money for time, means, and/or luck. People who have no time to camp, no botting tools or skills, etc can exchange their money instead. Which, again, hurts both the seller and the vast maj
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Someone who is in full clown costume looks less ridiculous than someone who wears clown shoes and is otherwise dressed "normally", yes.
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Scalping adds no value to the product. Scalping also actively damages the pricing, which is part of the product. Valve wants to sell this product at a specific price, which is targeted to an audience. By scalping and ultimately changing the
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by Levitz 4mo ago
I change clothes all the time too, still match the pieces of clothing each time. There's aesthetic value to coherence. There's also design, usability value. I have Telegram, Steam and Firefox opened right now and each one of them
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by Levitz 4mo ago
The amount of time the average webdev spends actually consciously dealing with the intricacies of the http protocol is just very small.
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>The UK is not shy when it comes to invading your privacy or censoring the Internet. Definitely doesn't shy away from doing it! But one thing I find most irritating is that it seems reluctant to say it proud and loud. Look at the si
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by Levitz 4mo ago
If your argument is that a group is conspiring to establish policy in a country, the idea that it's happening in many, many countries means the threshold for evidence is now much higher, since the group should be able to have much more
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>vague terms like "affirmative action" and "diversity statements" And this is circling the wagons. Sorry but I can't believe someone who is intellectually honest is capable of writing such thing. You are either b
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Nobody is proposing this though
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>Midjourney already has some very questionable history with medical imagery (like this totally legit image of rat testicles published in "Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology" https://upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F
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by Levitz 4mo ago
When we are talking about a context in which affirmative action and diversity statements were normalized it absolutely is hand-waving
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by Levitz 4mo ago
What if it's not that? Let me give you a hint: the concept of DEI statement to apply for a position exists
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Moving towards China because of concerns of autocracy is a hilarious concept.
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Yes. For all the concerns about IP theft there can be on OpenAI or Claude, there's not even concern when it comes to Chinese companies since it's fully expected that it's a lost cause. Has been for decades.
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by Levitz 4mo ago
If only the US was a little bit more like China, nobody would ever know about the Epstein files. You think China doesn't get its hands dirty because of some moral superiority? The country is utterly brutal towards its own citizens, wha
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>It's funny how you can look at obscenely overvalued Western AI companies, with capex's that are unsustainable, and along comes a system which pokes a gaping hole in this model, and the response is "Ya, but what do those s
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by Levitz 4mo ago
I think there's a bit of a "marketing" failure happening in this context. I've been exercising for most of my life, I'm the guy that has been going to the gym since forever to many of my acquaintances, and so they h
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by Levitz 4mo ago
>The more reasonable dating coaches are still out there. They simply aren’t part of the mainstream advice. I really want to ask: what would their reputation be if they were mainstream, in your opinion? I find it to be a very interesting
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Why settle for play pretend autocracy when you can go all-in amirite?
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by Levitz 4mo ago
Countries are not concerned about a lack of willing immigrants, and so they close their doors so the ones they want are the ones that get in.

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