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by arrozconcosas 1y ago
If you read the article, it is clear that it doesn't block any and all regulation of AI. It says states cannot make federal funding follow non-federal rules around AI. The federal government may actually have more regulations than stat
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by arrozconcosas 1y ago
N=96, only followed for 84 days ... has his been replicated? How do they make claims beyond 84 days?
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by arrozconcosas 2y ago
They have zero clue or care about workforce effectiveness
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by arrozconcosas 2y ago
The US government protects Facebook, and is what enabled them to become they company they are today. There are plenty of examples of their loyalty to the US government. They make back doors available and allow the US government to moderate
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by arrozconcosas 2y ago
It is mind blowing to me that this fact is not widely understood. A mountain was made out of a molehill. $4B was spent in 2016 . $12B in 2024 . Yet $100,000 somehow is believed to have made any difference whatsoever. Literally 0.0025% of th
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by arrozconcosas 2y ago
Arguing why this paper is false is ironic in agreeing with the papers point
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
That is terrible. How often does this situation happen?
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
The fact that reports on "misinformation" don't look at the denominator when considering the volume of impressions is a great example of selectively reporting statistics to support a preconceived notion.
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
There is no correlation in practice between these benefits and greater birth rates. Countries with some of the most friendly policies to parenting have the lowest birth rates. In the past, people with much more difficult lives had many more
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
Free markets also should allow winners and losers. Walmart wasn’t always big. It was a winner though.
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
They’re missing the whole point of free speech. The purpose of it is to protect the type of speech people despise and don’t want to hear. This is important because the most evil form of censorship comes from examples like those quoted in th
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
And for kids to not see each others faces, honestly even adults, has implications for communication and empathy you have for others. You are “anonymous” in your mask. For kids it really impacts development for them not to see each other.
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
The government agency is at fault here not Tesla. They need to come up with a better test.
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
There were a lot of people working very hard in the 50s and 60s, not having luxurious lifestyles. My grandparents had 6 kids on a farm because they all had to work to make ends meet, and lived in a modest farm house. They grew their own foo
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
Anything that ranks Dodge as #1 in quality is suspect.
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
Ask someone from an urban area any basic question about a rural area, and they will be clueless about some simple things. I once had a friend who grew up in Chicago ask me if a cow was a Buffalo because it was brown and he thought cows were
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by arrozconcosas 3y ago
"I think that's also not sustainable to just expect that rich people who don't need to care for their bread in the morning can just come and work for us." - Nataliia Tymkiv Call me crazy, but $623,286 USD will buy a LOT
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
This also does not include 'shrinkflation', which is rampant. They are slightly reducing the size of items while keeping price the same / higher.
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
This is why making the government more effective or powerful has major unintended consequences. Checks and balances, fundamental rights, separation of powers are all beautiful things that are under-appreciated today
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
Catholic families tend to be very large. They tend to use contraception less and also have greater number of children per family. It’s still true today: https://ifstudies.org/blog/americas-growing-religious-secula...
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
A large portion of the market for anonymous phones are for illegal purposes. For any company doing this at scale, they are inevitably confronted with this fact and can get in a lot of trouble if they are proven to be knowingly supporting cr
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
Didn't the FTC make it illegal to "click to subscribe, call to cancel"? The issue is just that it is not enforced at all. https://boingboing.net/2021/11/17/ftc-says-click-to-subscrib...
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by arrozconcosas 4y ago
By the way, at some companies where you are sponsored to go there is a 90%+ acceptance rate of people into business school. It is effectively a 'backdoor' into MBA programs. They like them because the same companies come on campus
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
[Impact per unit of spying] X [number of spies caught] - [impact per unit of innocent person being impacted] X [number of innocent people falsely accused] = net impact to society Typically, the first part of the equation is wildly overestim
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
Jail for executives haha. Has this ever happened for anything?
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
Why is it so acceptable for packages to be stolen? Imagine in the old days you went to a mall, bought something, and on the walk to the car someone ran by and grabbed your shopping bag and ran. This happens 100x more often today and there a
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
The point of Moneyball is that the market did not correct for it for so long, it takes a catalyst and might happen significantly later than when the first people recognize the issue.
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
How will you know if the total amount of ransom payments goes down? How will you know how much is under the table vs over the table? This argument seems to be "the over the table stuff goes down therefore the total goes down" whic
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by arrozconcosas 5y ago
Ah, the classic "glass is half full" discussion