Starman_Jones

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by Starman_Jones 7mo ago
What do you mean by 1FA? It reads like your saying "Grants should not include first-amendment-protected statements," but that is not how the first amendment works. It's passive; speech is protected by default.
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by Starman_Jones 7mo ago
Your example of failed US nation-building is postwar Germany??
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by Starman_Jones 7mo ago
Kalashnikov worked for decades to build better rifles. Regret is an old man's game. Even if these AI engineers do regret what they've built, I fear it's too late. A couple years ago, when news broke about Project Lavender, th
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
> And one thing that really stands out is that there are really not that many shortcuts. Completely agree, but the one exception that really stands out to me is canning. Napoleon offered a large cash prize for a cheap and effective metho
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
My guy, there were double-digit number of people who had his level of access to both foreign surveillance and domestic surveillance. They were going to find him out, so he did away with pretense and put his name on it.
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Why do you think that an LLM wouldn't have biases?
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
You're both partially right, and that highlights the difference between nonviolent and violent resistance. You are incorrect in saying that a resistance is always trying to disincentivize the counterparty. Even in your example, the NVA
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
The original judgement held that the driver was 2/3 responsible, Tesla 1/3 responsible, which seems reasonable. The $243 million wasn't for causing the accident, but was a punitive amount for doing things that looked an awful
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
The precise wording is "investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit..."
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
"Labs" as in the physical facilities, not the class credits. Computer labs are one example - my school had a Linux lab that, uh, wasn't much used outside of CS/IT/maybe EE. There's also lab equipment for resear
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
>Isn’t it up to the parents to limit social media use? That was the argument tobacco companies used, and the courts ruled against them, which is why it matters quite a bit what Mosseri thinks.
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
I agree with you about student loan forgiveness, but disagree with your assessment of universities as a system. The humanities (which are highly profitable for the university) are suffering an existential crisis because their funding keeps
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Russia paid bounties to ISIS for every dead US soldier. This was happening while Trump was president. They're America's enemy, full stop.
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Correct :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
I believe this is the point you are making, but it's worth clarifying that NDT is a technically sophisticated astrophysicist who is best known for his non-technical communication targeted at a non-technical audience. Part of the genius
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Worth noting that these would have been North African elephants, a now-extinct subspecies. It is not as tall as the modern African elephant - 2.5m at the shoulder, as compared to 3 to 3.5m for African elephants. A large warhorse might measu
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
That's the deal with America - we have no option but to accept the children - all the children - because that's how the Constitution is written. That's also how the data is structured. You've hypothesized, but haven&#x27
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Thank you for clarifying. That's certainly a theory.
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
Thanks for explaining, but I have to strongly disagree. If the costs for children of citizens are counted as part of the childrens' net fiscal impact ("citizen cost"), and the costs for the children of immigrants are also cou
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
On the surface, there's absolutely zero connection between public debt and private (personal) savings. If there's a hidden connection, you're going to have to explain it, because it's not clear at all how they are one an
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
How is this calculated for citizens? Does my "cost to society" include my education, etc. or was that factored in to my parents' costs? The former seems like a much more natural way to calculate it, but I'm unfamiliar wi
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by Starman_Jones 8mo ago
I don't believe 2025 crime statistics have been released yet, it would take several years of data to conclusively establish a trend, and even if the data did show that, correlation does not equal causation. What does your heart tell yo
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
Crime rate has been going down for 30 consecutive years (except during COVID). Immigrants (legal or otherwise) commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens. "It seems" is doing a lot of work in your comment.
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
You make some good points, but when there are cheaper alternatives, engineering problems ARE showstoppers, and for good reason! If Musk announced that he wanted to build a datacenter inside an active volcano, my response would be pretty muc
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
Very confused by this plan. Data centers on Earth are struggling with how to get rid of waste heat. It's really, really hard to get rid of waste heat in space. That seems to be about the worst possible place to put a data center.
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
I think you've just explained how compounding wealth made Jeff Bezos rich.
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
Why are people getting three deliveries a day from a company that was founded as a bookseller? How many books do they need?
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
To answer your question, no, I don't think the organized activity is criminal, and I don't believe the alleged criminal activity is organized. A question for you: using your definition, do you think that ICE is an organized crime
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
Liberals are people who believe in liberalism. This necessarily precludes them from being on the far left (and has for well over a century).
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by Starman_Jones 9mo ago
Is either Noam Chomsky or Bernie Sanders a liberal, though? It sounds like you're very confused about what you believe - almost like a conservative's straw man idea of a liberal.

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