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by alvah 4y ago
Do I have any evidence? What, are you a policeman? If you truly believe it was just about dick pics, let’s sort out a price for that bridge. NFI why you’re on about election fraud, you’ll have to show me where I made any claims about that
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by alvah 4y ago
If that’s your point then yes, fair enough, there is no direct comparison. The way your original P.S. was worded gave the opposite impression though, and “racing drivers aren’t athletes” seems to be a POV many people have.
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by alvah 4y ago
Martin Brundle said if he’d realised earlier in his driving career how vital fitness was, he would have achieved much more.
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by alvah 4y ago
It’s not hyperbolic in the slightest. Which other discipline would condition its participants to endure the combination of forces and temperatures over the duration I described above?
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by alvah 4y ago
So your basic math has no explanation for Western domination over the last ~250 years. Got it.
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by alvah 4y ago
Yeah dick pics are definitely all that was happening with the Hunter Biden / NY Post saga. Would you like to buy this bridge I have for sale?
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by alvah 4y ago
F1 drivers are required to be extremely fit. Braking and cornering at over 4G for almost 2 hours, applying well over 300lb pressure to the brake pedal repeatedly, in cockpit temperatures over 110F, would destroy most athletes from other s
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by alvah 4y ago
He’s tarnished his legacy with his childish behaviour for club and country over the last year or so.
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by alvah 4y ago
If it's basic math, how come China and India haven't ruled the world forever, since they have the largest populations? There's a lot more to it than what you say.
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by alvah 4y ago
Allegedly, long before my time, politics was seen as a calling, a way of giving back after a successful career. Not sure how much of that is based in reality, but from what I’ve read the option of politics as an entire career, without doing
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by alvah 4y ago
"Britain seems trapped in a doom loop of superannuated governments which, after a term or two of charismatic leadership and reformist vim, wind up bereft of talent, sinking in their own mistakes and wracked by backbench rebellions; in
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by alvah 4y ago
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe. 1.7 million employees for 141,000 beds. I believe it is fundamentally irreformable, but clearly it needs reform.
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by alvah 4y ago
Twitter? Seemed very much alive an hour ago.
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by alvah 4y ago
This is the central theme of the book "The Millionaire Next Door".
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by alvah 4y ago
Agree 100%. When I was young and idealistic I believed in the "learn new skills" mantra, but learning completely new skills would look a lot different at 50 than it did at 20. When career choices were being made 30 years ago it wo
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by alvah 4y ago
What an awful take. Holmes' (male) co-founder got a longer sentence than she did, just for a start.
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by alvah 4y ago
Bail is definitely not just a US thing, in fact a quick search brings up details of how bail works in the Bahamas. That said, bail does seem unlikely in this case.
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by alvah 4y ago
The word "bansturbation" was invented to describe such people.
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by alvah 4y ago
At the moment, defeating the detection is as simple as running the GPT3 output through Quillbot. It's an arms race though. False positives are a massive problem & 100% successful detection overall is unlikely, agreed.
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by alvah 4y ago
There are already several services that claim to detect GPTx with high reliability. I’ve been testing originality.ai and it’s success rate at detecting unedited GPT3, Jasper, and ChatGPT output has been 100% so far.
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by alvah 4y ago
I don't think you get to decide what ad hominem means.
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by alvah 4y ago
Fair enough - this was pre-election but still inexcusable. I didn't think he had explicitly called the 2017 travel ban a ban on Muslims, and I haven't seen anything to suggest he did.
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by alvah 4y ago
"Trump repeatedly stated that the point of the ban was to ban Muslims from entering the country." Do you have a citation for this? I’m no fan of Trump, but that’s not what I remember.
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by alvah 4y ago
What is a SPA? It's not as if Googling this word will enlighten me.
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by alvah 4y ago
“But I think debt avoidance strategies will win out in the long term, on average.” I agree with you, but you have to be prepared for the long term being longer than a human lifespan. For example, house prices in the Netherlands were arguabl
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by alvah 4y ago
“The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage and mortgage interest deduction (now capped, and less impactful given higher standard deduction amounts) have been a large contributor to housing values being distorted from normal market prices.” I’m not su
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by alvah 4y ago
“and a different executive donated $23MM to Republicans” The different executive donated to his girlfriend, who is a Democrat but was running as a Republican. Make of that what you will.
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by alvah 4y ago
This is anecdata, but the SoundRaw-generated audio I use on about 50% of my YouTube videos generates significantly more adverse comments than the stock audio on the remainder.
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by alvah 4y ago
It’s a widely-used aphorism for governments’ monopoly on violence, which, as others have pointed out, is ultimately how governments get people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t do.
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by alvah 4y ago
I don't claim any special ability to differentiate lies from inherent complexities in public health communication in a novel situation. However, the claim in early 2021 that the vaccines were both safe and effective, before enough time

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