Teever

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by Teever 10mo ago
That may be the case but it would still be a good idea to look at regulating these run away feedback loops writ large so that people can't just play a game of whack-a-mole where they play the same old tricks in different sectors or inv
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by Teever 10mo ago
Every single time it mistranslates something it is hallucinations.
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The rise of the electrostate: China is leading on climate action(cbc.ca)
3 points by Teever 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Teever 11mo ago
I acknowledge that like prostitution advertisement isn't going to ever go away completely, and I acknowledge that also like prostitute it's a better world where we legalize and regulate advertisement over a world where we didn&#x2
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by Teever 11mo ago
If this bubble pops spectacularly and causes financial Armageddon for people's pensions, people who never wanted this to happen or had any part in it really -- who is responsible? Will we start to have discussions aboutt aking this kin
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by Teever 11mo ago
What I'd like to see is a stationary lab / communication relay that processes samples that are brought to it by a variety of rovers that can be launched with the lab or in other missions. It would be neat to see different companie
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Musk threatens 'response' against individuals who imposed €120M X penalty(politico.eu)
16 points by Teever 11mo ago|10 comments
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by Teever 11mo ago
You’re accusing me of a motte-and-bailey by inventing a bailey I never argued. I didn’t say glyphosate definitively causes cancer, I didn’t say Dr. Oz was right, and I’m certainly not arguing that 'all chemicals are bad.' My poin
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by Teever 11mo ago
I'm not saying your views came from some professor drinking glyphosate. I'm saying the social and regulatory environment around glyphosate was distorted by decades of industry driven messaging, ghostwritten research, and normaliza
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by Teever 11mo ago
Yeah but that's a bit of a motte-and-bailey fallacy isn't it? Just because the chemical in question is safer than the previously existing alternatives doesn't mean that the way that Monsanto promoted it and marketed it for us
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by Teever 11mo ago
That's a tricky one that I find myself pondering a lot as a contractor. I've ultimately decided that if it's something I'm required to learn for this specific task then I'm billing for the time spent doing that. Bu
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by Teever 11mo ago
Great link! The Youtube Algorithm must be recommending similar videos to the both of us as I started getting the same kind of content a few weeks ago. I'm pretty partial to the Ace of Base "I saw the sign" cover that it&#x27
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by Teever 11mo ago
Ultimately it's a distinction without a difference. Maliciously stupid or stupidly malicious invariably leads to the same place. The discussion we should be having is how we can come together to remove people from power and minimize t
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Duesenberg Coupé Simone(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Teever 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Teever 11mo ago
It should but it won't because people on here have developed a parasocial relationship with Walter and he's become a sort of minor celebrity on HN. I mentioned this to Dang recently[0] and he's ambivalent about it. [0] https
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by Teever 11mo ago
> Reframing old shows to fit a new aspect ratio is antithetical to the spirit of media restoration, and cheapens the future of our shared culture. The folks at the studios who insist on hobbling their most classic television shows are re
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Larry Summers gets lifetime ban from economic association over Epstein ties(cnn.com)
10 points by Teever 11mo ago|1 comments
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Canada's age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by Teever 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Teever 11mo ago
Any idea if you guys will be hiring for technical roles in Canada any time soon? I'm a dual Canadian-Estonian citizen and I'm intending to move to Europe at some point in the next year or two but until then I'm based on Cana
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by Teever 11mo ago
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by Teever 11mo ago
I gave up after I upgraded my server from a SQLite backend to a PostgreSQL one with their conversion script which introduced errors into my DB. Maybe one day I'll dig into it and see if I can fix the DB by extracting whatever data in i
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by Teever 11mo ago
Personally when I go to the grocery store I pick fruits and vegetables that are ripe or are soon to be ripe, and I stay away from meat that is close to expiration or has an off putting appearance or odour to it. With that said there's
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by Teever 11mo ago
> What I'm saying is the primary goal of a sovereign wealth fund is to invest in developing an economic cushion for it's home country no matter the cost. Obviously there has to be some nuance there. It wouldn't be a good
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by Teever 11mo ago
Do you feel the same way about the livestock industry? Like is that an industry that is sufficiently regulated that the public should not be allowed to have any input on the regulation? Are there any other industries that don't involv
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by Teever 11mo ago
For a while now I've been toying with the idea of national governments creating official forums that require some sort of verification of national ID to post on. There are obviously a lot of other issues with social media sites like R
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by Teever 11mo ago
International coordinated action by consumers taking a company to small claims court at the same time around the world to see redress about defective products would be an effective strategy.
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by Teever 11mo ago
>The threat of tariffs was so serious that multiple Canadian PMs from multiple parties tried multiple times to get a law on the books that would protect us from tariffs. > And then in comes Trump, and now we have tariffs anyway. >
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by Teever 11mo ago
We live in the atomic age. The idea that calamity could befall one part of the world and the others will be fine just isn't possible. Here's a plausible scenario -- European countries decide that they will just power through the
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by Teever 11mo ago
I'm curious why this conversation tat is more or less a George Carlin bit from decades ago plays out over and over on social media. I bet that you knew exactly what they meant when they talked about the world being destroyed. It wasn&
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by Teever 11mo ago
I was curious about whether or not the IPCC associates numerical values to words like "unlikely" so I looked it up: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2017/08/AR5_Uncertai... They see

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