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by Veen 3y ago
There's some truth to the argument that Christianity introduced novel concepts and ethical ideas that eventually led to the opposition to slavery, ideas that were not present in Graeco-Roman thinking, for example. The fact that those i
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That may well be true, but it doesn't absolve us of the need to look at her evidence and arguments in the context of the wider scholarship. If she's right, then she's right, regardless of her political motivations. Anyway, if
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It's usually to promote the academics, their paper, and their institutions. Is there a goal I am missing here?
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That's a fine skeptical attitude, but to put it into practice you'd have to be familiar with the relevant scholarship, read the paper, independently verify its arguments and claims, and come to an informed conclusion. You'd a
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I expect they'll announce that the phone will be able to record 3D video at some point. But they didn't want to announce that yesterday because it would give away future iPhone plans. They should probably have left it out altogeth
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http://archive.today/exo4z
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The end of the Silicon Valley dream(spectator.co.uk)
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Access. If you don't play ball, you don't get invited to events like the one the article was based on. It's the same reason journalists adhere to embargoes.
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People here are arguing about whether it’s ok to have AI-generated content on StackOverflow or not. But it seems to me that’s not the issue. The real issue is that people suck at identifying AI content, and so do AI detectors. So moderation
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I tried stage manager for about five minutes before I turned it off because it seriously hindered my workflow. Perhaps I should give it another try.
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You can also use hot corners.
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I've found rcmd quite useful for window switching. It lets you use the right command key plus another key to switch applications; e.g., right ⌘+s for Safari. It can also display a switcher that shows the letter associations. https:&#x
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You make think so, but it's a minority opinion, particularly among people who use reddit a lot.
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Advanced persistent threat.
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For your statement to make sense, Russia's borders would have to start at Ukraine's borders, which they do not.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...
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Because Reddit's web experience is shit. The apps exist to make using Reddit bearable.
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Left-wingers also storm, disturb, and try to cancel events, so it's not an exclusively "fascist" pastime.
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Although, Boris Johnson, whose misdemeanors Doctorow somewhat misrepresents, nearly died of COVID—he was hospitalized and on a ventilator. He understood the risks. (And, an irrelevant aside while I'm on the topic. Cummings, rat though
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If we had direct democracy in the UK, immigration would be banned, Brexit would have happened in the 1980s, and murderers and child molesters would be hanged.
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The problem with the LibDems is the gap between what they say and what they do. The reason they are in such dire straits is that when they got a sniff of power and joined a coalition with the Tories, they abandoned a number of key election
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It depends what you mean by "viable alternatives" and how much money you are prepared to spend on hardware to self-host. As others have mentioned, you can try llama.cpp and LocalAI, but for most ChatGPT-like applications, you won&
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It is possible to believe that AI poses threat, while also thinking that the AI safety organizations currently sprouting up are essentially grifts that will do absolutely nothing to combat the genuine threat. Especially when their primary g
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Are you laboring under the misapprehension that ChatGPT is a better writer than C.S. Lewis?
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That's an interesting way of framing a position: "I think X and all the obvious counter-examples that might prove me wrong are irrelevant.", "Why are they irrelevant?", "Because I just said they are!". Any
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How much would an ordinary person earning $60,000 be prepared to spend on a big weekend blowout with live music, drinking, partying, clothes etc. Now scale that up to a person earning $10,000,000.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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I’m not American, thank you. Also, there were almost a quarter of a million marriages in France in 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/464239/total-number-marr...
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It's also, and perhaps primarily, a vow.
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It's a very clearly disgruntled senior member of the community who has just ragequit, following which they wrote a lament about their broken heart and their copious weeping over the intolerable cruelty of a withdrawn keynote invitation

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