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by bmmayer1 3y ago
I think OP is just doubting the government's ability to know which immigrants are higher quality vs. the companies who seek to employ them.
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MGM Resorts Hackers Broke in After Tricking IT Service Desk(bloomberg.com)
2 points by bmmayer1 3y ago|1 comments
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1k-year-old 'alien' corpses displayed in Mexico's Congress; UFO expert testifies(euronews.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 3y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
My favorite part about this thread is not the first, very thorough, very mathematical and accurate answer, but the answer below it that has 0 upvotes but is by far the most practical: "I would first check for track flatness" This
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
> because as standards rise, the more unachievable they can become Why should "standards" be relevant in the measurement of long-term economic indicators? Doesn't the very stack that standards have risen prove the core poi
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Made it to the end. Fantastic game.
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
What evidence is there of people 2000 years ago claiming that having a "job" was a "fundamental attack against basic human rights and human dignity."?
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Taylor Swift fans causing record-breaking seismic activity during Seattle shows(cnn.com)
44 points by bmmayer1 3y ago|14 comments
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
That's a fair point. There's arguably an inflection point where media became "mass" media that's hard to pin down but somewhere in the late 1980's-early 1990's where 24 hour news and the internet were in t
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
This was arguably one of the first "cancellations" before "cancel culture" was a thing we were talking about. Right or wrong, what she did was definitely courageous and arguably destroyed her career.
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
"A crew of engineers from Winnipeg airport clambered into a van and headed for Gimli to assess the damage. During transit, however, their vehicle unexpectedly ran out of fuel, nearly ripping a hole in the delicate space-irony continuum
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Obligatory two idiots, one keyboard link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Or they just...will cancel flights altogether to avoid fees or won't fly routes that are likely to be delayed often.
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Theo Baker also became the youngest person to win a Polk Award because of this story, at 18. Very cool!
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Didn't know it was a hoax. This is the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
This is going to cause problems as many Mechanical Turk tasks are being used to train AI models...
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
I've met Steve, and I have to disagree. In my view he is not ego-driven and is quite thoughtful and considerate. Is it possible that he's right? That the damage done to reddit by these boycotts or the reaction to them isn't a
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GlasgowGPT – The Scottish AI(glasgowgpt.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 3y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Scuba diver here. I highly recommend the documentary Chasing Coral about coral bleaching, a direct result of high ocean temperatures (and, I highly recommend taking up scuba now before it's too late :))
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Original source: https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-fu...
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of OpenAI and Sam in particular. So don't take this the wrong way. But doesn't this seem like another case of regulatory capture by an industry incumbent?
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
> Sergey Brin’s latest nonprofit, Catalyst4, offers the Google co-founder tax breaks, as well as increased levels of flexibility, secrecy and political influence What an awful, cynical way to describe someone donating billions of dollars
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Yes, we're only a year old, and haven't even filed our first tax return yet! The key with us is that we're not an intermediary, we do the sourcing and delivering of aid ourselves. We're one of the few that do -- most N
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by bmmayer1 3y ago
Good. I am actively working on the front lines of the Ukraine war in a humanitarian capacity.[1] The danger posed to civilians and soldiers by stolen intelligence is real, and the cavalier sharing of such documents without regard to the con
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Beyond pricing, what's their strategy here trying to unbundle music? Are they going to release a different music app for every genre? If it's just a classical app, does that mean I now have to use two apps to switch between music
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Shouldn't Hanlon's razor apply here instead? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Why are you trying to yada yada a bank run? If First Republic bleeds depositors (especially HNW depositors where they're concentrated) then it is going to go out of business. It doesn't matter if the bank run is "justified&qu
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Yeah I debated posting this but thought it was an interesting meta-commentary on the usefulness (or relevance) of Wolfram's core points. For the record, I do not believe that Chat GPT is capable of abstract or critical thought.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Just for fun (and meta-analysis) I summarized this very long article using GPT-4: In this blog post, Stephen Wolfram explores the complex issue of AI potentially taking over human jobs and its implications for human history. He argues that
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Yes, parents should be involved, but the point of public education is it should work at least to a minimal level of standard even if the parents are literal sponges living under rocks.

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