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by abenga 3y ago
Especially with an Idea of how they work, I find it very hard to trust them too. Doesn't help that the couple of times I asked them about something subtle, GPT gave me code with the same bugs I was trying to fix. I can see how a beginn
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by abenga 3y ago
I can't pay for YouTube in my country even if I wanted to.
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by abenga 3y ago
Things that exist pretty much everywhere other than North America are "utopian" now?
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by abenga 3y ago
Avoiding small talk seems like the most trivial of reasons to begin using autonomous vehicles. I mean, I get it, but still …
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by abenga 3y ago
There is nothing about looking good that precludes being useful.
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by abenga 3y ago
How does a kid know that they definitely will/will not be going into a STEM field in the future? Is it better to have your school-going years slightly marred by calculus and not particularly need it after, or want to go into STEM later
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by abenga 3y ago
"Better laws" for whom?
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by abenga 3y ago
I feel like the current situation where a lot of the content online is ad-supported, and people are free to install ad-blockers or move to publications that require payment already does this, no? I was wondering about OP's suggestion (
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by abenga 3y ago
If it's true, that's a bug. File it, don't just complain online as if you are being let down by a paid tool.
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by abenga 3y ago
There are some actions (e.g. killing people, poisoning entire communities, getting thousands addicted to drugs, etc) that if perpetrated by an individual, society generally either puts the perpetrator's lives on pause for decades by im
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by abenga 3y ago
So what do we do with the billions who can't pay? They should stay offline until they can? I know I can pay now, but when I was starting out, I couldn't
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by abenga 3y ago
I would not care to work for a team where members flippantly disregard exclusion of significant subsections of the population from their ranks, for whatever excuse they design to choose. Either way. There are competent people of all colours
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by abenga 3y ago
Regulators were concerned about a collapse causing contagion that results in a financial crisis. Would they care to do that for a little startup with a few dozen employees?
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by abenga 3y ago
Coul Berkshire Capital buy two social networks and merge them? Could Facebook form a capital holding company and buy a social network anyway?
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by abenga 3y ago
Is this the philanthropic "I can't be racist! I have Black friends!" reply?
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by abenga 3y ago
Compared to mass shootings, mass stabbings are not as serious, really. You would need dozens of people to stand meekly and watch a stabber work down the line to get the same number hurt that a person with an automatic gun can kill in a few
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by abenga 3y ago
Their parents also received public education. How far back do we go?
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by abenga 3y ago
You shouldn't have to, but you can hide those panes and sections on the menu on first run and never see them again. I was forced to find out when an unseen update (on either system) made the Jellyfin app on my Sony TV incompatible with
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by abenga 3y ago
So we should be fine with an increasing proportion of the populated environment that never experienced these conditions beginning to?
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by abenga 3y ago
Ifs and buts, my friend. Only thing we know for sure is you haven't. And MrBeast has.
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by abenga 3y ago
Can you edit posts and comments that are more than six months old?
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by abenga 3y ago
Debian. We never left.
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by abenga 3y ago
If that were a project that needs to change as much as a full office suite, then yeah. It's not so much the absolute numbers as much as the relative numbers when compared with the amount of activity in Libreoffice.
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by abenga 3y ago
c. 3 commits per day from one contributor? That's dead, compared to Libreoffice that has dozens per day from multiple contributors.
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by abenga 3y ago
Relevant, non-obtrusive ads are kinda sort of fine, or at best bearable. What sucks is inability to opt out of specific ads due to inappropriateness or irrelevance. I need to to tell YouTube every couple of weeks that I don't want to s
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by abenga 3y ago
You're wrong, maybe rates went up drastically once it became socially acceptable, but since then they have had a decline [1]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage-divorce.htm?CDC_AA_re... , for rates sin
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by abenga 3y ago
Still, the probability of dying while a child in the US is minuscule (about 35 in 100,000 from the first source cited)? Hardly enough to have an additional child to make the expected number out of the two at 19 to be 1 child.
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by abenga 3y ago
It is fine, even if all the energy is created by fossil fuel plants: 1) Large power plants + transmission + charging your electric car + driving your wheels is usually more efficient than small ICE engines. 2) Even if the grid is dirty, if
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by abenga 3y ago
From one of the tweets: "If one assumes that incarceration rates reflect rates of felony perpetration...". It's not like the justice system can disproportionately target and punish one race compared to the others. No, that ca
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by abenga 3y ago
The government provides physical and legal infrastructure that allows the person who made the money earn it. Society provides a market for whatever goods and services they sell, and collectively pay by suffering environmental and social ext

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