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by avazhi 1y ago
I own no shares, nor do I work in any industry that would be affected by this. I'm fully against PFAS and related chemicals being used in consumer/cooking products or being released in the environment. They should be outlawed and
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by avazhi 1y ago
Not sure how telling me to read a satirical work of fiction, by an avowed Socialist by the way, is particularly helpful here. I'm a fan of Orwell, but I don't think he'd have such a simplistic view of the actual (as opposed t
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by avazhi 1y ago
Whether I have a reasonable explanation for this change or not doesn't change the fact that that comment was a simplistic caricature. I never claimed to know the full answer. But I am nearly certain it doesn't begin with those evi
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by avazhi 1y ago
Yeah I got to the part where he mentioned dweck, who wrote what is possibly the worst psych book I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading, and figured that between a backstory with no relevance or interest to me and tacit promotion of ‘you c
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by avazhi 1y ago
Maybe the chilling effect is the point, and maybe it's been demonised unfairly. To be clear, I think freedom of speech is a bedrock foundation of intellectual society and should be the starting point for modern societies. But perhaps w
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by avazhi 1y ago
So I looked this up, or tried to do so. I could not find the source for that quote. The closest I could find is this - not exactly an objective or authoritative source but we'll roll with it. https://www.lgbtqnation.com&#x2F
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by avazhi 1y ago
If you agree that he never actively promulgated violence and if you agree that there is a difference between (i) actively promulgating violence, or (ii) saying that people should have a right to own guns, then I'm sure you and I don&
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by avazhi 1y ago
You've got some issues with reading comprehension. I was (quite obviously) not referring to you there - I was pointing out that those are two different things (in reference to what Mr Kirk said, not you). I also never denied that the q
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by avazhi 1y ago
If you can't tell the difference between the quote you've attributed to him, on the one hand, and actively encouraging assassination and political violence on the other, then I don't know what to tell you other than that they
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by avazhi 1y ago
If a person espoused and encouraged assassination as a means to achieve his political or philosophical goals then it's difficult to see how he could be surprised if he himself were to be assassinated or affected by violence. In a sense
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by avazhi 1y ago
I wasn't overlooking mankind's potential to do amazing things. I'm reflecting on the fact that despite our ability and propensity to do amazing things, we are also at base more violent, far more violent, than I think we giv
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by avazhi 1y ago
Never really followed this guy and only knew of him because he'd randomly be mentioned in news stories. Regardless of your political bent, this sort of shit is sickening and genuinely disturbing, particularly when it occurs at (as this
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by avazhi 1y ago
lol Hug Firefox close, it's an awful world out there, especially with Google being given the greelight to continue their monopolising with Chrome. I remember being tempted by this thing when it first came out - their asinine sign up wa
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by avazhi 1y ago
Actually it is, if you're talking about white collar knowledge economy jobs, like law jobs. Top tier law firms routinely give either actual IQ tests or IQ test-like assessments during interviews.
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by avazhi 1y ago
"You achieved a total score of 50! This means that you are 70% higher than 13351 participants who have completed the test. The percentile score is calculated on-the-fly. This means that your percentile rank may change as more people c
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by avazhi 1y ago
Nobody cares about robots.txt, nor should they. If this is your primary argument against being scraped (viz that your robots.txt said not to) then you’re naive and you’re doing it wrong. If the internet is open, then data on it is going to
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by avazhi 1y ago
It is very poorly written. I love long form articles but this is way too difficult to follow, which is unfortunate because it’s both topical and eerie (great mix), but you just can’t have that many simultaneous strands as you jump repeatedl
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by avazhi 1y ago
My bedroom shares a wall with my bathroom in my penthouse apartment. My toilet is less than a meter from my head. What does it matter, mate? There’s a wall…
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by avazhi 1y ago
If the 20 people are close family then …. Yeah?
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by avazhi 1y ago
Just to be clear, Google makes $55m in profits every 2.5 business hours.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Nobody cares about robots.txt, nor should they. I will never not be amused by people clutching pearls about this.
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by avazhi 1y ago
One of the more disingenuous ways of framing this issue. Farmers do not ‘rely on’ this satellite. At best it provides them with ancillary information about global carbon levels that ultimately has nothing to do with farming or them directly
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by avazhi 1y ago
I think the current title used by OP actually conveys the gist of the article the best.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Graphics are good but as a flight simulator it’s awful, in particular its (non) simulation of fluid dynamics. X-Plane has the opposite problem. At any rate with their budget Asobo are underperforming with this thing. 2024 in particular is e
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by avazhi 1y ago
Intel will probably be somebody’s subsidiary for less than $150B sometime within the next 3 years, pending DOJ approval. Company is absolutely cooked.
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by avazhi 2y ago
As usual with Quanta, the actual article didn’t explain anything well and was a waste of time (which is funny because Quanta is usually off the deep end with pages of esoteric babble that is gibberish except to genuine specialists. In this
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by avazhi 2y ago
Banning (on national security grounds) a Chinese company from operating in the United States is much easier than doing the same to a US company. So, no.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I think you are conflating nationalism and fascism. Nationalism has a lot of gradations, and while it can be a subset of fascism it isn't inherently fascistic. Fukuyama said: "But it is not clear that nationalism represents an irr
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by avazhi 2y ago
Militarism and ‘strong regimentation of society’ are two that very obviously don’t apply to Trumpian politics. Trump was an isolationist militarily in his first term - an expansionist nationalist military is a sine qua non of fascism. And T
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by avazhi 2y ago
By banning them from operating in the US. The implementation really isn’t complicated - it’s a simple statute outlawing the company on national security grounds, and all the tech companies (viz Apple and Google) will have to abide by it or

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