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by aredox 1y ago
I know we are used to people online having the wildest disagreement because of contrarianism or something, but in this case, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation: You know we have three different types (sometimes four) of color senso
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by aredox 1y ago
Recipes for perfumes are a closely held trade secret, and not even chromatography is enough to get it right without an expert perfumer on board.
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by aredox 1y ago
>Warren Buffett had this line that we would have no budget deficits if it we're required that every Congress person who voted for such would be ineligible for re-election. Yeah, and the USSR would have won. >When Reagan entered o
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by aredox 1y ago
RFK jr. is destroying all US public health institutions for less "insiderism" than that.
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by aredox 1y ago
Oh, in the middle of "AI is PhD-level" propaganda (just check Google News to see this is not a strawman argument), some people finally admit in passing "no LLM has ever made a breakthrough". (See original argument: http
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by aredox 1y ago
He was literaly forbidden to fly out of the US because of a health issue (a torn calf), and ended up 100 days in detention and is now banned from entering the US for 10 years. Beware: entering the US for any reason, even just tourism or vis
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by aredox 1y ago
What a waste of electrons. The people saying "Abolish the FDA" aren't having a good faith opinion and aren't open to a good faith debate. It is about creating a bogeyman and sloganizing.
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by aredox 1y ago
To me, his work has all the hallmarks of conspiracy theories: a clear, simple, and wrong explanation. It is all a machination by elites - all proven by cherry-picking, selective editing, and absolutely no agency from anybody outside the ang
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by aredox 1y ago
Mortality slippage has also exploded since the COVID pandemic started... And again, nobody seems to wonder if somehow, a virus that invades the whole body (not just a respiratory virus), repeatedly, is causing death by a thousand cuts... Th
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by aredox 1y ago
They haven't "killed themselves". They have been pushed to kill themselves.
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by aredox 1y ago
Maybe you should check your preconceptions when they don't align with actual reality, instead of accusing journalists out in the real world, collecting testimonies and observing the way things are, of lying.
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by aredox 1y ago
Don't worry, as a consequence , Boeing is being awarded contract after contract by the current administration.
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by aredox 1y ago
And a use case where the reward system is very easy to implement... Can't wait for millions of AI agents to prey in nanoseconds on any bug, mispecification, user error etc...
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by aredox 1y ago
All of OECD countries are lying about their growth numbers, and Russia is "gaining strength". A base sanity check shows this is a load of BS.
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by aredox 1y ago
Oh, sorry, French is my first language and I am more used to "imply" in sentences like "what do you imply?" In French, that saying is much more direct: "correlation is not causation".
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by aredox 1y ago
Because you have to find and pay everyone who had the same idea . The alternatve is to do "cleanroom writing": you don't interact, therefore if you write something similar, you can argue you independently invented it. I had
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by aredox 1y ago
With this kind of argument, nothing ever happens! >Sickness levels in people working for the NHS is pretty specific and is very likely not to generalise. "The canary in the coalmine just fainted, but this is pretty specific to canar
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by aredox 1y ago
>I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible. https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-rea... https://archive.ph/KLoAq https:
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by aredox 1y ago
Now as many cases as the 2019 outbreak, and the year is only half-way: https://archive.ph/Qltl3 Note that the situation would have exploded already in the last 5 years but the COVID pandemic stamped down on all infectious d
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by aredox 1y ago
Except that there is something called "Intellectual Property" and "copyright" that makes any attempt to use fan fiction a libility and open to endless litigation. J. Michael Straczynski (of _Babylon V_ fame, and many oth
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by aredox 1y ago
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tech-20... https://unherd.com/2024/04/why-rfk-jr-is-the-silicon-valley-... https://www.thenation.com/article&#x2
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by aredox 1y ago
>I'm not going to judge the majority of people for "not doing anything", because what you're suggesting would put them (and a lot of other people, some of which are innocent) at risk. Helloooo, have you already forgot
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by aredox 1y ago
The majority of people did nothing to stop him and still, day after day, does nothing to stop him. The whole Republican party feels unthreatened enough by being voted out by "the majority of Americans" that they enable Trump. Wher
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by aredox 1y ago
It am not calling for a "political" assassination. The problem with him is not that we disagree on policy matters. It is that he is an idiot and that he will kill millions of people at random out of sheer stupidity. I am calling t
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by aredox 1y ago
>World record of 100m sprint kept improving even since car was invented. Obesity rates keep "improving" since the car was invented, up to becoming a major public health crisis and the main amplifier of complications and mortali
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by aredox 1y ago
>Also, making your own website is kinda hard? You have to, like, learn things. That seems snarky ("you don't want to learn things") when the reality is that the problem, the finite ressource that is the bottleneck, is _ti
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by aredox 1y ago
>Democracy can last only up to that point the majority realise they can vote themselves largess from the public purse. You wish people would go back to forming loving families, but you believe people will naturally leave others to die i
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by aredox 1y ago
Who is "we"? The big welfare state was born in the post-war boom, a period of big, strong families that believed in the future. The dismantling of the Family and of the Welfare State, and of Unions, and of any kind of support and
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by aredox 1y ago
That's until you get disabled in an accident - or your son or daughter is. Then you'll suddenly convert to how benefits are essential. (In before: "I don't need a car insurance, I'll never get into any accident, I a
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by aredox 1y ago
Just read the timeline and you see incompetence and lies all the way. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/04/us/flint-water-crisis-fas... >The lead pipes weren’t illegal and pipes being lead weren’t hidde

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