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by SR2Z 8mo ago
If anonymous billboards or banner ads can convince you you aren't good enough, your life is probably not great with or without ads. If an ad convinces you to, say, get a gym membership or go on Ozempic, who's to say what happens n
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
So a company should not be able to recommend therapy ads if I seem stressed? Ozempic if I seem like I want to lose weight? Laxatives if I seem constipated, or energy drinks if I'm sleep deprived? Trying to moralize ad targeting is exha
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No, this take is crazy. If ads were able to brainwash people Coca-Cola would still be the most popular drink in America. The problem with "meaningfully influenced" is that a 1% bump in sales is massive for a company, but normally
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Right, because we know that parents never pass down useful skills or life tips to their children, like skepticism of propaganda and advertising, and instead send their children into the world like sheep into a lion's den. There might c
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He's saying that a world where someone can't get hired for a $15 an hour job would be better if they could still work an $8 job instead of being unable to find work at all or being pushed into multiple part-time roles.
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No. Prices are not arbitrary; they're determined by market forces. I don't really agree with the idea that the minimum wage should be intended to support an adult (I think our welfare systems should be reformed to eliminate cliff
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Australian labor costs are significantly lower than the US, as are labor costs in most countries. Americans are paid pretty well.
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Baumol's Cost Disease at work, I guess.
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It's a huge shame that crypto has been so poorly-behaved as an industry that almost nobody is willing to touch it except for speculation. It could be useful but it's scared away most of the honest people.
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Intel IS cranking up the cache. Unfortunately, Intel chose to allocate significant resources to improving their fabs instead of immediately going to TSMC and pumping out a competitive chip, and in the years where they were misspending thei
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Most people are not capable of understanding exhaustive safety data for a drug, but are still in charge of their own health. They should be allowed to make bad choices like they are everywhere else.
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Their industry is only shady because lots of fairly harmless drugs require a prescription. Viagra, the GLPs, and minoxidi+finasteride come to mind. For a long time in this country, a flesh-eating bacteria infection required an amputation.
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
What about drugs that were initially prescribed, but have to be taken for a long time? A long time ago I had a Lexapro prescription. This is a very, very common drug and is on the list of the WHO's essentials for bootstrapping a healt
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
Apple's M-series chips are fantastic, but I do agree with you that it's mostly a combination of newer process and lots of cache. Even when they were new, they competed with AMD's high end desktop chips. Many years later, the
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
The car will always get stuck every now and then. This approach has two benefits: it can be unstuck without sending out a physical driver and while collecting training data, and it efficiently lets m humans control n cars with a wide range
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
Your argument of "Iran is just a misunderstood peaceful state!" is somewhat undercut by the fact that the multiple leaders of Iran have sworn to destroy Israel by any means necessary, and the even more inconvenient fact that Iran
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
Iran's leaders are caught in a trap of their own making. For decades they've held up America and Israel as villains and used that boogeyman to justify their military and police expenditure. After this Israel-Gaza war, Iran's
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
Stolen cars are often sold for low amounts of money - like $50 - and then used to commit crimes that are not traceable from their plates. It hasn't really been possible to steal and resell a car in the United States for many years, ba
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
How is it obsolete? If everyone is unemployed and a few AI barons are obscenely wealthy, the velocity of money will be low because most people will be broke. Seems to me like that's still a worthy target if chasing it fights that outco
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
How is it obsolete? If everyone is unemployed and a few AI barons are obscenely wealthy, the velocity of money will be low. Seems to me like that's still a worthy goal.
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by SR2Z 9mo ago
People need to develop memetic immunity to AI flattery. It's exactly like how conspiracy sites on the Internet worked. A lot of people get one-shor in the beginning, but 10 years later mostly everyone understands that you can't
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Do you think this reporter was reporting propaganda?
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I mean, they're a success in that even a weak discrete GPU is extremely overkill for the majority of people who just want to browse. You can only integrate that kind of card into another chip because the overhead of adding IO and anot
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This is a bad example. I've been notionally pro-ownership but also pro-regulation my whole life, and one of the major problems with gun legislation in the US is that it's incredibly poorly written and does not reflect the technic
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Lua has lots of ugly syntax and is 1-indexed. That's probably the only reason it never took off.
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This article was not about using gas masks for industrial purposes lol
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> No one was saved from freezing to death by cheaper textiles. Citation needed for that one. > Except for the fact that the Luddites' labour grievances could easily have been addressed by the factory owners (rise in pay, better c
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One one side there were the luddites and their livelihoods; tens of thousands of people. On the other side, there were cheap textiles for EVERYONE - plus some profits for the manufacturers. They might have been fighting to save their liveli
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Pretty much all the manufacturers have that now. I'm skeptical that it works, but it definitely tackles a real problem with drowsy drivers.
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You say this like the average age and reliability of cars hasn't been skyrocketing for years. Toyota offers a 10-year warranty on new cars, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. You can't update the infotainment, but the

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