MrPatan

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by MrPatan 4y ago
If you were a politician interested in getting more of that sweet fraudster money, tell me, what would you do to send a signal that you're open for business to the next batch of fraudsters, hang the guy that paid you, or help him out?
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> If you want to call Sam a liar Yes
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Depends on the message they want to send to future potential donors.
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You forget the example the politicians want to make to other future donors. If you let him hang because he doesn't have more money to give you, nobody else is going to give you anything.
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Spending money that would be wasted on the shareholders anyway
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It's not about getting it reported exactly like I want. Don't you think it is an interesting question to ask yourself, "why they report it like that?". "Avoiding libel" doesn't cut it, there's other w
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by MrPatan 4y ago
The point is that, in some cases where the writer or org may or may not have an interest in protecting, we don't even get "alleged terrorist" or "alleged fraud". It's all passive-voice companies that go bust a
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by MrPatan 4y ago
This isn't about "getting it wrong". This is about the use of a certain kind of language like "The company fell". No, "SBF and his chums lost and stole a lot of money". It's exactly like the "
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Of course it's because he is connected, is on "the same team" and gave them all money. What else is there to understand? Isn't that enough of an explanation?
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Boy do I hate that BoE paper.
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How many of these would you need to update in the direction of "maybe some of them do know some of what they're talking about"? Edit: Read the question again, and try to answer it. Let me rephrase the question: How many tim
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by MrPatan 4y ago
"...for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument..." That's Popper. D
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That cryptodickbutt is probably one of their best investments. I can't see how much they paid for it, it was a transfer. Maybe someone sent it to them as a joke, who knows. In any case, it was around the time they were created, so easi
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by MrPatan 4y ago
How about working for your own side project? Is that also not cool? The paternalistic employment system should go away. Everybody should have their own company and all work relationships should be normal commercial contracts. Why wouldn&#x
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We need a way for bored narcissistic rich people to feel good about themselves while letting the rest of use go on about our lives. I wish they just partied and spent their money competing on luxury buys with each other. Instead, we made th
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Is that the internet archive that archives everything except for his niece's dumb tweets?
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If you want to understand you could have a look at any of the stories about Trump, about anything he's been accused of over the years. Take note of the difference in language used, the choice of words etc. Well, that's different,
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> “The media” is mostly just a bunch of 20-40 year olds with liberal arts bachelors degrees, trying to make ends meet and feed their families. It's even worse. 50 years ago that's still what they were, but they had the "p
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by MrPatan 4y ago
I don't unit-test ui components. Putting complex logic in ui components is a mistake anyway. Do test end to end.
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You should have instantly corrected yourself to "guys and communist fifthcolumnists" and carried on.
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Aren't the fundamental pieces already there? 1 Generate a bunch of characters or objects based on a prompt. 2 Pick the one you like 3 Tell the AI to extract the character's traits from that one picture 4 Miracle happens (I don&#
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> How long before SEC/regulators wake up and regulate these shadow-banks disguised as exchanges as other exchanges? Very long in this case, as SBF was the biggest donor to the Biden campaign. Last few weeks he was even trying to inv
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by MrPatan 4y ago
SBF was the biggest donor to Biden's campaing, and now we know why.
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>The radical leftists who promote it are thereby granted the license to abuse all who oppose them, since those "reactionaries" must be bigots, racist, sexist, transphobes, homophobes - in short: evil people who deserve the abus
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Well there you go, I'm glad you don't need convincing that "killing" and "letting people die by not giving them fresh organs" are not the same thing at all.
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A thousand times yes. Another set of "philosophical muggings" that use the same trick and drive me nuts that people just accept them are trolley problems. "Why shouldn't the surgeon kill a healthy person to save 5 others
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A bunch of things that make sense about banning spam and spammy behaviour and then the payload: How banning discussion of the lab leak hypothesis back then made sense and wasn't politically motivated. Of course it wasn't about the
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In the general case I'd bet on the person who gets more practice at something being better at it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...
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Now combine this with the 21st century "victim industrial complex" and we have a recipe for disaster. Actually, I do wonder. Are these independant variables, or is the search for victimhood driving the "mental illness"

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