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England now has a blasphemy law(spectator.co.uk)
10 points by bko 1y ago|9 comments
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by bko 1y ago
They're providing a good. People have to part with money to use the good. The money someone is willing to pay is necessarily at worst exactly equal to the value they place on it. For instance, I may be willing to pay up to $5 for a sli
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by bko 1y ago
People should pay for services they use. Highway system is mostly funded through gasoline tax, which although not perfect, is pretty good proxy for how much you use public roads. Regarding police, private security does exist and works prett
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by bko 1y ago
Enforcement of many laws disproportionately penalize the poor. Should we live in a lawless society? On the "free transit" point, unless you convince bus drivers and train operators and the tens of thousands of people that operate
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by bko 1y ago
> There is an irony embedded in the enforcement push. Cyclists who blow through red lights without endangering anyone else can now be forced to appear in court. Drivers who commit the same violation cannot. Instead, drivers face the same
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by bko 1y ago
> If you’re valued, you’ll likely see a clear path for advancement and development, you might get more strategic roles and involvement in key decisions. If you are just useful, your role might feel more stagnant. I think it might just be
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by bko 1y ago
Thank you for this. Some people are critical of coding tests but I do this there is a point: namely to weed out people who can't code. Am I the only one that interviewed people with lengthy resumes full of programming experience and wh
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by bko 1y ago
Google pays apple to be their default search. Do you believe apple users don’t want google to be their default search?
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by bko 1y ago
I’m reminded of the 1998 Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman quote: > “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the sq
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by bko 1y ago
You have relative standards. Basically test the kids at the beginning, then at the end. See how much they improved. These are the kids you can least afford to fail. It's like having a fast progressing cancer. You have to try a lot of t
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by bko 1y ago
What's the alternative? Should failing schools be given more money and discretion? Should we not have some kind of objective measures to aim for? Because if the alternative is just vibes or through money at the problem and pray for the
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by bko 1y ago
In the video demo they showed requiring a TXT in the DNS to confirm you have consent
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by bko 1y ago
Ticketmaster has it's own resale platform. It's able to double dip. They basically say tickets are relatively cheap and scalpers are the bad guys. They encourage the scalpers. Then they can resell using their own resale platform a
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by bko 1y ago
> The best thing to give kids is access to a very wide—as wide as they can stomach—orientation of all there is in the world. This sounds good sure, but what if you give your child a wide orientation and they want to be an influencer, or
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by bko 1y ago
I agree. Then why are Asian students held to a higher standard? Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard earned an average SAT score of 767 across all sections. Every section of the SAT has a maximum score of 800. By comparison, white admits ear
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by bko 1y ago
The university defines diversity broadly, encompassing race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, nationality, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity. Don't gaslight me and pretend they don't focus a lot on race
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by bko 1y ago
I don't know. A lot of foreign students from Harvard are Chinese. Seems kind of weird that they were found to discriminate against American Asians and then they import foreign Asian students. Goes against the whole we want diversity th
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by bko 1y ago
> As far as they are concerned, every serious (non-legacy/donor) applicant is a truly exceptional student. I know it's fun to dunk on legacy admissions but legacy students are actually more qualified by objective measures than
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by bko 1y ago
Harvard doesn't have higher academic standards for foreign students. So I don't think foreign students are any "better or brighter" than their American counterparts. So if you can find equally qualified American students
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by bko 1y ago
I don't see why teen suicide rate is the definitive measure of how well children are doing. It's still extremely rare. Why not focus on anti-depressants? Surely kids being on a lot of meds is a sign something is off. Everyone know
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by bko 1y ago
Usually when statistics conflict with whats in front of your eyes, its the statistics that are wrong. I don't know about suicide rates but let's look at antidepressants. From 2016 to 2022, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rat
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by bko 1y ago
> “The models are getting better, but they’re also more likely to be good at bad stuff,” said James White, chief technology officer at cybersecurity startup Calypso. I think safety should be defined as an LLM doing what the user intended
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by bko 1y ago
Is funding really the problem? I don't know why it would cost so much to put a tracker on the bus and have someone build an app. Or even just posting the location to a website, or maybe text message? I understand digging tunnels under
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think it will go away as long as we have third party paying for the costs and AMA controlling competition. If I had to pay $500 or whatever to get a scan, and instead I could get my data, send it to a model and only follow up i
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by bko 1y ago
> I think it still remains to be seen what a 1T+ parameter transformer trained specifically for radiology will do Does image processing of something like this scale with parameters? It makes sense that language continues to scale as the
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by bko 1y ago
So I guess the question is why isn't this available in many other places? The technology has been available for a long time. In a free market you would allow competitors to enter with a better product and displace the one that's f
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by bko 1y ago
The whole argument about "inefficiency of duplicative services" is an idea that needs to die. Whether its the Soviet Union trying to optimize shampoo production to create a single "shampoo" brand or a health care provide
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by bko 1y ago
From what I understand, this bill would loosen the definition and there are existing laws that ban. And under federal law since 1873, the sale and distribution of obscene materials had been prohibited by federal law. This doesn't apply
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by bko 1y ago
I'm skeptical of overly empirical arguments. It's a lot easier to fool someone by citing some unreproducible study or misinterpreted statistic. Tell me a story and I understand it's one story but it might have some kind of me
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by bko 1y ago
Layoffs started before the rise in llms and all the tooling around coding using llms. They were never used as a justification. What happened was musk bought Twitter, cut 80% headcount and it was still up which showed you can be leaner and o

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