Philorandroid

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by Philorandroid 3y ago
>Stanley Zhong graduated from high school in June 2023 I think it's safe to assume that Mr. Zhong is of an Asian background. My guess is that he is, unfortunately, lacking in "interpersonal skills".
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
> Hopefully the world can bid goodbye to the last of the sith lords one of these days. It'd take a lot more than Murdock fading from the scene for that to happen. Don't fool yourself into thinking that all will be right in the
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Compared to Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mengele, et al, the line of succession to history's greatest monster to Rupert Murdoch is pretty long.
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Are there any figures suggesting it will actually be "cost effective"? Neither the White House release or the AP article mentioned the budget for the program, or what employing 20,000 activists would cost.
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Godot has been remarkably fun to work with, and was way easier getting started in than I'd thought it'd be, coming from some topical UE4 experience. Scriptable with a flavor of Python, programmable in C#, and most recently with na
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
It's fascinating that the author implies more regulatory power over telecoms would solve this, even though they're plainly buying that same regulatory power when it's advantageous. If "the vast majority of politicians ar
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
0:28 of the promo video, "EVOLUTION OF HULK PREGNANT" is in the Youtube search results...
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Just Mandate the Good Ideas™ The comments suggesting people would just decide to have fewer sugary drinks to save money seem to be forgetting how humans act when something they like is made less available. It will be a wake-up call to exact
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
> Humans aren't perfect automatons that will make perfect choices if given information. And yet, somehow, they will rationally conclude the best financial course to take is to realign to making healthier choices instead of switching
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Do you mean to suggest adding another predator would address the first? That somehow, because there's a legal writ behind it, it makes it any more morally right?
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Sorry for the late response. The short answer is because I don't like meddlers, especially not ones with legal authority. Consider that perhaps I want to build my dream home, but my neighbors use the HOA or town council to try and keep
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
I'm personally at the interstice between "the government shouldn't have the right to mandate lot sizes, it creates artificial scarcity and puts a soft floor on property prices" and "tiny, congested lot clusters are
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Soon, journalists the world over will be in contest with a purpose-built machine for the fakest and least-grounded (but most-believable-sounding) content.
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Give me five good men and fifteen minutes, we'll compose a far more comprehensive list of cuss words. lol
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Here are some smaller ones for you then: €1+ billion worth of damage to private property isn't in the norm for France's protest fixation, and regardless of the motivations of the actors, my concern is how many people here are gi
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
This comment echoes a lot of the sentiments I'm seeing in this thread. I have to wonder if holding the proverbial gun to the head of the world around you, ready to pull the trigger at any well-timed injustice, paying lip service to the
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Fascinating. Can you cite a link from the Conservative Council of Evil Affairs website? I'm sure they've got "we're evil and hate you" in the mission statement somewhere.
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Could you post some citations? ADT's crime statistics seem pretty damning with 10x the national crime rate in some areas of downtown San Francisco. Even if the statistics indicate a decreasing crime rate, they would seem defiant of the
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
My sentence structure is fine, as is my word choice. The parent to my original comment talked about how evil it was to question the integrity of an election, and I snidely brought up how it wasn't considered a problem until Trump did i
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Kindly explain how, misguided as they might have been, proceeding through the legal system is somehow more pernicious to democracy than paying lip service to riots and participating in a campaign where the outcome of an election is flat-out
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
It might be "centrally planned" in the most technical sense, but it's a bit of a stretch to compare a government's leverage over a market by threat of force to a private entity planning what to do with the property it ow
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
> They are the primary destructive force in society What a deranged belief to hold. Rationalizing that cars of all things are the root cause of all of society's ills is reductionist and lazy, equally so as to believe that simply rem
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Conversely, cars made it possible to: - Live outside of dense urban environments while still working in one - Travel to visit friends and family not living down the street - Not be dependent on shaky public transport infrastructure (US) - T
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
Sure, technology evolves, and the solution to Current Problem Is Only One Paper Away, but it's extrapolating to the problems arising from the next paper that matter more. ChatGPT citing fictitious articles as backup for fictitious conc
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
For a while, sure, but complacency tends to set in with automated procedures that usually work. It's the one-in-ten-thousand errors that'll sneak under the nose of the tired prompt engineer who believes his model is accurate enoug
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by Philorandroid 3y ago
It's occurred to me lately that, even though they rarely produce anything better than "adequate", LLMs being leveraged as a cheaper alternative to human output means we'll be settling for more, worse-quality content. Eco
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Not on a meaningful timeline, no.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
That would require an incredible slant towards exclusively 18-year-olds being killed in school shootings, and an exceptional overestimation of just how many school shooting deaths there are per capita for it to make that kind of differenc
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
You know, I could've sworn the post I was responding to said "of ammo", hence why I spoke about building ammo and not guns. But the conclusion remains the same in that making a working firearm at home isn't difficult, an
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
It got a cocked eyebrow from me when I saw the range too, "children and adolescents" makes me think "up to 15-16". I wonder if there's a breakdown by age range?

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