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by alexb_ 3y ago
People are going to continue to complain, but I honestly think this is a pretty good walk back. It addresses all of the more legitimate things people were upset about: - $1,000,000 income floor for a trailing 12 months - Doesn't apply
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If Kia had a gigantic button that said "PRESS THIS TO START CAR WITHOUT KEYS" they STILL wouldn't be responsible for any of this. It's absurd that we are blaming the automaker for thefts instead of the theives.
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They've caught a TON of criticism for Counterstrike cases, which is where they make an absolute crapload of money. I don't think it's a big deal, but others do.
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https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp...
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Let's assume the poverty line of $20,000 a year for a household of two people. For approximately 300,000,000 Americans, that would make $3,000,000,000/year. That is less than half of our current annual budget (all of it!). It&#x27
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Woah, giving out Top Secret Pinball Secrets like that... lol
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Source is anecdotal from all of the social media posts I have seen relating to character.ai, as well as the most popular bots on other sites.
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> To say that womens' sexuality is causing a social problem is absolutely unacceptable in establishment cultural spaces. Woah there, when did I say any of this was a problem? Women should be free to do all of this, in fact I think
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by alexb_ 3y ago
I don't know why people are focusing on what men will do with AI girlfriends - the actual question is what women will do with AI boyfriends. On every single AI chat app like character.ai the majority of users are women, and the most
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Homelessness becomes a problem when building houses is illegal. Allow people to do what they want with their land, and the problem fixes itself. Central planning has failed every single time it has tried, even at local levels.
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That's just not true. Pawns can only be captured en passant on one rank for each color.
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I'm actually realizing - you can simply have a case where if a white/black pawn is on the 4th/5th rank, have the next bit be a flag for en passant. This makes all en passant rules stored in 8 bits at max. Since only 1 pawn ca
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by alexb_ 3y ago
For what piece to replace the unmoved king with, you can actually use both white AND black pieces, since the starting rank can decode what color the king is: - White Knight on E1 and no king: Replace with white king that can castle both way
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I see - so you can use the bits you saved by not having separate rook pieces to denote En Passant pawns. I like the "no kings" idea for castleable kings - though I think with smaller pawn sizes, that gives another opportunity for
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> To cut 2 bytes off (while making it much less elegant), huffman coding could be used to store pawns in 3 bits - to guarantee a space reduction, this relies on the fact that if there are n promoted pawns, there must have been at least c
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All police unions
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Public unions are a completely different beast than private unions.
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Speaking of domain squatting - what the hell happened to nissan.com? I remember it being all about some guy's personal page and how he's rejected every offer from Nissan to buy the domain. Now it looks like some weird scam site.
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That makes sense, I was always thinking of it as "Given an infinite number of trials..."
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If you had a gambling game that was simply "heads or tails, even money", you would expect over a Large Number of trials that you would get 0. But once you observe exactly one trial, the expected value because +1 or -1 unit. We kno
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Yeah I enjoy the content farms. Who needs documentation on a simple problems when you can instead have something easy like this: Many are asking questions about the Python Documentation How To Check Null Python 2023. Here are some solutions
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I've been constantly seeing ads about AI-generated porn that has very questionable ethical implications. Every once in a while I'll see an AI-generated video saying "Breaking news - the government is banning this AI program c
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It's not really that curious: - People put the probability of them getting involved in an accident that is their fault at 0. - People put the probability of them getting involves in an accident that is a robot's fault at >0 Th
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The main purpose of prison is not rehabilitation, or deterrence, but to put dangerous individuals away so they cannot terrorize others. This is why we put rapists in cells (or, at least we try to) - every year in a jail cell is a year they
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by alexb_ 3y ago
> considerations that are negotiable, such as, "does this speech promote destroying the institutions on which the speech itself is based on" That's not a considerable negotiation. Give people power and they will use litera
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>other than profit maximization Are you aware what the entire point of a business is?
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You aren't playing the devil's advocate, you literally are the metaphorical devil. You are the person he is talking to. The chief difference between evolution and intelligent design is that one actually happened.
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> In the context of the article, nobody is confused about what they mean by "silencer". People are confused as to believing the idea that any device which makes a gun silent exists.
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If you are talking about guns and call a magazine a clip, even in a casual setting, you would be instantly made fun of for not knowing what you are talking about. Pop culture absolutely has not given these things two names. Calling a supp
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Actually, once your painting gets to any amount of recognizability at all for someone's image/likeness, it is a violation. This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say the internet has made us forget that these laws alre

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