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by ausbah 6y ago
to single company? how about all the other platforms owned by Chinese companies? League of Legends or the like?
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by ausbah 6y ago
wasn't quanatative easing done for like a decade after tbe recession with no inflation? why is there any reason to think this time around will be different? scale?
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by ausbah 6y ago
because America isn't China?
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by ausbah 6y ago
even if any of the allegations against the platform are true, banning a single major platform like this - especially coming from someone as ham-fisted and blatant as Donald Trump - won't solve any of the problems people have with how C
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by ausbah 6y ago
How about consciousness? On the surface GPT3 may appear to act like a human, but by almost any definition of you choose - it still lacks consciousness. I don't think anyone would throw you a murder charge if you dumped the servers host
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by ausbah 6y ago
wow, for someone who has gotten pretty much nothing but praise for his supposed amazing writing ability and though process - this article is a complete steaming dumpster fire
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by ausbah 6y ago
I think this post has some validity to its main points, but I personally think it veers on the edge of "real programmers do X" and reels of rose tilted nostalgia.
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by ausbah 6y ago
when every alternative platform immediately gets filled with people who hold really despicable views, it's a hard pass for normal consumers to join look at gab and voat
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by ausbah 6y ago
status signaling has a bigger impact to employers as a basic signal of competency I think the deluge of undergrad degrees is the cause of this? a degree isn't a meaningful differentiate? rather just a expected baseline all prospective
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by ausbah 6y ago
everytime I visit sites like these, they're already infested with crypticurrency nuts, racists, conspiracy theorists, and all other manner of internet wack jobs
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by ausbah 6y ago
I think what're you're saying is built on top of many faulty, and frankly, pretty classist assumptions. You want "smart" people to have more wealth and income than "less smart" people, making an argument for a
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by ausbah 6y ago
even in the midst of a pandemic most people are far from being a "hard-core germaphobe". most people who follow Covid avoidance advice do completely sensible things like wear a mask in public spaces, social distance when indoors w
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by ausbah 6y ago
the explicit linking of a country's success with corporations success is an extremely skewed and unhealthy set of metrics that usually prioritize the wants of a small minority - see stockholders and those running the company I'm n
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by ausbah 6y ago
older discussion on why this paper isn't as cool as it appears https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dnic1x/n_n...
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by ausbah 6y ago
as someone who has never been super interested in hardware or the "hacker" mantra, reading about this DIY basic computer makes me really interested in the space all of the sudden. like modern day equivalents like the raspberry pi
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by ausbah 6y ago
I'd add trail running to that lisyy
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by ausbah 6y ago
a side note, but a dimple but effective strategy I use for getting of time consuming websites is to just use a password manager for all my accounts on those sites. logging out of those accounts, and having the password only be accessible vi
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by ausbah 6y ago
>It later emerged that liberal groups had been targeted, too, although in smaller numbers.
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by ausbah 6y ago
why not nane and shame?
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by ausbah 6y ago
It might, but so far it isn't. It is much easier for companies of this scale to just have standardized, committee designed "restaurants" that cater to what people already like. That isn't inherently bad or anything, just
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by ausbah 6y ago
> It now manages 1.3 million parking spaces in forty-five hundred locations. >But, for now, customers may find themselves paying a premium for meals similar to those found at a fast-food restaurant, or in a supermarket freezer. >Re
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by ausbah 6y ago
I guess a question I have is how does a platform promote "truthful" content when only user actions are present (voting, viewing, subscribing, etc.) with resorting to an omnipresent, final "arbiter of truth" or "pres
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by ausbah 6y ago
timezone disparities?
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by ausbah 6y ago
"Federal law prevents health insurers from using genetic information in underwriting policies and in setting premiums, but the prohibition doesn’t apply to life, disability or long-term care coverage."
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Defund Facial Recognition(theatlantic.com)
5 points by ausbah 6y ago|0 comments
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by ausbah 6y ago
domain bias much?
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by ausbah 6y ago
There are plenty of mainstream figures that directly or indirectly support the desires of the far right. They pay not be as explicit as the KKK or Nazis, but definitely have real influence.
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by ausbah 6y ago
some other bannings r/Consume Product r/ClericalFascism r/Smuggies r/Debate Alright r/bruhfunny r/ShitNeoconsSay r/soyboys r/imgoingtohellforthis2 r/AltRightChristian r/TheHonkPill r/to
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The FBI Agents Who Return Stolen Cultural Artifacts(theatlantic.com)
2 points by ausbah 6y ago|0 comments
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by ausbah 6y ago
Trump, Trump did. Edit: Trump's administration did request funding to the "pandemic response team", set up by the Obama administration, be cut. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team&#

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