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by apothegm 4mo ago
Yes. The trouble is that to be able to not starve to death while you’re looking for a new job, you have to sign away a ton of rights, basically including the ability to sue for wrongful termination or expose wrongdoing. It’s a situation wit
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by apothegm 4mo ago
For Gen Z the new reality is for other people to make money off your every action, squeeze you for every cent, and not be willing to pay you enough to live on no matter how hard you’re willing to work — or even to employ you at all, in favo
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by apothegm 4mo ago
OpenAI is explicitly selling ads. Google’s whole business is ads, so I’d be unsurprised for that to show up in Gemini, too. And then you have to consider how much of the training data is probably scraped content marketing.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Fwiw, my understanding is that naproxen works very similarly to ibuprofen and is simply stronger (and possibly longer-acting), with similar but proportionally greater side effects. I take it rarely for that reason, but it feels an order of
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Try companies in highly regulated industries with intense compliance requirements or where lives are at stake. They’re not universally AI-conservative, but they have more reason to be than your average productivity app SaaS.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Surely there’s an option that’s the best of both worlds? There must be dozens of kids if not more entering university early every year. The problem is that they’re scattered across all the universities and thus entirely isolated. This force
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by apothegm 4mo ago
The AI slop in that quote sure is real.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Because we can’t afford to talk to a real medical provider, presumably. And we used to do the exact same thing with web search.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
That’s most definitely not $10-20k, tho.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Slashdotted.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Not to mention that to move they would need to have resources to do so. And in many cases would take them away from what little interpersonal safety net they have in the form of friends and family — which for people who are struggling typic
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by apothegm 4mo ago
> You can plunk $10-$20K and get land and a homestead in dozens of states. In a place where the only jobs to be had are at below-subsistence minimum wage at the dollar store and you have to drive 2 hours to see a doctor, sure.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
The poor pest control resulting in rats being that visibly present seems to me like the real problem.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
I can’t speak to the correctness of the numbers, but while it’s not particularly groundbreaking the analysis as a whole seems human and I enjoyed it. It’s got some tells that suggest LLM editing but is much more digestible than pure slop,
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by apothegm 4mo ago
> Owning money should allow you more representation than not owning money. Fine, I’ll bite: Why?
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Being in he majority party doesn’t mean he can force the rest of the party to line up behind him. And even if he could, in 2021-24, the Republican filibuster stonewalled absolutely anything interesting that the Democrats wanted to do anywa
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by apothegm 4mo ago
We’re here because molecules that make the most effectively self-reproducing near-copies of themselves are most likely to continue to exist. The purpose of a human life is to perpetuate some of those molecules. There is no meaning to life
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by apothegm 4mo ago
From what risk level without them? How many people actually die of cervical cancer before age 30?? I mean, vaccinations and cancer prevention are both great, but this headline is ridiculous.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Every sentence was a quagmire of stereotypical LLM diction. Not to mention the use of a ton of words to say very little.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
lol, the latter!
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by apothegm 4mo ago
“Irish goodbye”?
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Longer identifiers do take more tokens in the context window, tho.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
They’re shutting down the stores to show the baristas a history lesson after the execs designed and approved a shitty marketing campaign? I sure hope they’re doing even more to educate and hold accountable the corporate employees!
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Found this compilation of daily newspaper reports from that year. Fascinating stuff!
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Almanac of the American Revolution, 1776(archive.org)
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Interesting topic. Barely readable AU slop article.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Ah, this bit of crucial context seems to be missing from the entire rest of the discussion. Also makes what otherwise sounds like an uncharacteristically bike-hostile move actually seem fairly reasonable. Tho tbf one still hopes that they c
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by apothegm 4mo ago
> The other problem is that cyclists often share space with pedestrians The solution to this is better cycling infrastructure to separate them, not making cycling less useful by setting ridiculously low speed limits.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Sure, but if you read TFA this is talking about NYC, with a focus on Manhattan. Which is already super dense, with rich transit anvailability yet has mostly free curbside parking — taking up some of the most valuable real estate in the worl
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by apothegm 4mo ago
I know it sounds cliche, but exercise. And medication. Most importantly, you need to stop whatever substance you’ve been abusing. Those only ever make things worse.

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