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by PleasureBot 1y ago
Because you can buy anything with that $1000. Some people will buy clothes, others a new computer, others will travel etc. The demand for any one specific thing (apples, rent, netflix, etc.) will only increase a tiny fraction.
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
Had a good chuckle at the fearmongering about "what we call Liberalism, or Gay Race Communism".
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
There's really only 2 sides to the issue. You either accept mostly peaceful protests with some violence, whatever the cause may be, and trust local law enforcement and civilians to self-regulate. Or you are support authoritarianism and
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
The most common response I've heard from people who believe the government lied about the COVID vaccine is that they take issue with the word 'vaccine'. They think it should not have been described as a vaccine since you can
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
The wrestling analogy is exactly how I feel watching Trump since 2016. I feel like I am watching WWE wrestling, and it is obviously fake. The actors are not actually fighting. Except half the country is completely convinced that it is real.
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
The discourse coming from the political right is clearly meant to attack the Judicial branch. They are going after what they call "Partisan judges" or "Activist judges" or "Radical leftist judges" or "Clin
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
The now famous photo of his hands with the "MS-13" tattoo, which is the evidence of his gang ties, was taken from CECOT. It would not surprise me in the slightest if he was forced to get that tattoo there. CECOT is widely known fo
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
Globalization is not the cause of economic inequality. The cause is political and cultural. Since the late 1970's, the top 1% of income earners (> ~$800,000 in income) in the United States has captured 60% of economic growth as inco
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by PleasureBot 1y ago
I completely disagree. It still blows my mind that Law Enforcement Officers are the only group of people for whom ignorance of the law is an acceptable defense.
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Congress would need a vet-proof majority to take the toys away now, which is essentially impossible in modern times. The only way this can be resolved in is if SCOTUS rules that the executive does not have the power to tariff like this, and
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
AI has a large memory advantage in terms of what it was trained on. It also has a massive memory disadvantage in terms of its ability to update its understanding of the world. As the article points out, the context is still orders of magnit
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
MAGA can escape the "laws of reality" as long as Trump's charisma can can paper over the gap between what is promised and lived reality. There will always be another scapegoat, another enemy preventing MAGA from reaching its
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Musk and even Trump cannot just step in and cut spending, programs and agencies. That's congresses job. Even a president cannot say “oh, we aren’t funding USAID/DoEd/EV tax credits”. Those things are law. Allowing that to hap
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Could just be people talking about crypto on social media directly saying that they own some. Would not be too hard to find accounts where you can clearly identify the person behind the twitter handle, facebook profile, instragram account o
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Putting on my tinfoil hat for this: It sounds like parallel construction to me. I wonder if the FBI doesn't want it to get out what kind of technology the US government can use to track citizens in real time. Something like 24/7 f
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Today men represent 42% of 4 year college students. The gap between men and women enrolled in 4 year college is higher than it was before Title IX was enacted, but in the opposite direction this time. Wages are falling far behind inflation,
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
This is just the No true Scottsman fallacy. "Loma Linda residents have some of the highest lifespans in the world." "Well it turns out they actually just have average lifespans." "Only true Loma Linda residents have
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
Delete the file or mark it as corrupt so that the parser doesn't keep trying to read it, and send some telemetry back to CS to indicate there is a problem with the one of the channel files. It doesn't seem very complicated at all.
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
There's plenty of historical examples of how bad of an idea prosecuting former leaders is. When a country's leaders fear prosecution if they lose power, they have every incentive to cling to power as long as possible by any means
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by PleasureBot 2y ago
That's not how technology typically advances. Technology advances in waves. There's an initial breakthrough that leads to rapid progress in certain areas. But after some time there are diminishing returns as the the applications o
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by PleasureBot 3y ago
Will be interesting to see how the judge views this case. Anti-trust laws mostly focus on economic harm to consumers. Obviously many modern tech companies offer their products for free and then sell the data they collect from their users. I
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by PleasureBot 3y ago
It feels very strange to read the level of willful ignorance displayed by objektif on hackernews. To ignore the context that the Pacific theater was 4.5 years of the most brutal fighting of the war, a mountain of experience demonstrating th
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by PleasureBot 3y ago
Depending on the substance and quality, the time it is detectable can be as short as 12 hours to a few days. There is a reason lots of athletes refer to drug screenings as "IQ tests". Only the dumb or careless get caught.