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by alvah 3y ago
If you live in a Western city and genuinely don't know anyone who owns a car, it's not much of a surprise that you never understood old car culture - how would you?
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by alvah 3y ago
Also annual miles / kms tend to be very low, so the overall risk is usually quite contained as you say.
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by alvah 3y ago
I think this is very very use-case dependent, and your use case != everyone's use case. In my experience, GPT-4 is night and day better than 3.5 turbo for almost everything I use OpenAI for.
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by alvah 3y ago
This is part of my ongoing campaign to resist the constant attempts to make "aircrafts" the plural of "aircraft". Thanks for your time!
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by alvah 3y ago
Same here, in the last 18 months 2 different VAG cars have hauled the anchors on for no reason at all with me driving. Fortunately, I wasn't in traffic, but both cases would absoulutely have caused an unnecessary crash if there had
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by alvah 3y ago
The phrase "As an AI language model" could be useful here.
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by alvah 3y ago
I too am surprised to learn Apple PR have never used a mild pejorative to describe their own product.
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by alvah 3y ago
"Is the word ‘chat’ changing its meaning?" Judging by the number of recently-launched apps that invite the user to "chat with PDFs" or "chat with documents", it would appear so.
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by alvah 3y ago
Not all heroes wear capes. "draws" instead of "drawers", "brought" instead of "bought", "aircrafts", "softwares", and "could care less" can also DIAGF.
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by alvah 3y ago
It seems much more likely this breakthrough will come from alternative methods of extracting hydrogen, than re-inventing the Haber process.
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by alvah 3y ago
Here in Western Australia, the average cropped area per farm is almost 3,000 acres. From my perspective, 2,000 acres is a small-ish farm, and the 50-100 acre farms surrounding my parents' house in Scotland are comically small, heavily-
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by alvah 3y ago
you're not helping, both by casually calling people Nazis, thus cheapening the slur, and by pretending race isn't a factor.
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by alvah 3y ago
The revolving door is a problem, but your proposed solution is…let’s be charitable and say it’s something that would be proposed by an academic, rather than a realist.
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by alvah 3y ago
This only seems large by European standards I think. The 50-100 acre farms in my homeland are a relic of pre-industrial times, and can't be competitive in a world market without vast EU subsidies.
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by alvah 3y ago
How will you know when you have addressed climate change? Will there be different climate models from today's, showing everything is now OK?
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by alvah 4y ago
They sent a C&D to the proprietors of Jarvis.ai, which was taken sufficiently seriously for them to rename their company (for the second time in 6 months).
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by alvah 4y ago
I assume, given this is associated with Microsoft, an arrangement has been made with Marvel to avoid the same cease & desist received by the previous Jarvis in the AI field (now named Jasper, previously Conversion.ai)
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by alvah 4y ago
"Nobody cares about WordPress" Are you sure about this?
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by alvah 4y ago
Sure, it's in https://www.ato.gov.au/law/view/document?docid=AFS/EV-FBT/00... "Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles - 1 April 2025 onwards From 1 April 2025, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle will
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by alvah 4y ago
I like driving, and my next car will most likely be an EV, not because it's "better' (whatever that means), but because the Australian Taxation Office has modified the treatment of EVs to make buying anything else financially
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by alvah 4y ago
"Crime is legal" "The Garda told me not to vote Green" These 2 things are not the same.
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by alvah 4y ago
There are ways to fix it, but none of them are politically palatable - for a couple of generations now, homeowners have come to believe their house is an investment. If you propose any action that will reduce the value of their "invest
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by alvah 4y ago
Parent commenter mustn't have received the memo that women are immune to criticism?
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by alvah 4y ago
mainly because the tax is greater than the cash flow?
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by alvah 4y ago
I believe the protesters in Hong Kong in 2019 found ways to defeat gait detection.
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by alvah 4y ago
Yeah there’s nothing to be gained here, you’re determined not to get the point.
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by alvah 4y ago
So the parents, being generally towards the wealthier end of the scale, get to pay more income tax dollars than the average individual, and also don’t get to benefit from the education portion of said tax dollars at all? Doesn’t seem partic
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by alvah 4y ago
I'm Aussie too, but I'm not optimistic about the political direction in any Western country.
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by alvah 4y ago
"Centralisation of power is the entropy of democracy." Absolutely.
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by alvah 4y ago
"Can this be decentralised within a federal system" Money creation is central to the concept, and I don't believe there is currently an advanced economy where money creation is devolved to the state level.

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