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by bnralt 4y ago
On a forum I could give things a couple of days and then write a response. Or I could start my own thread on the topic. But that's less of an option in places like HN. If I write a comment here two days from now, there's a good ch
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I did to. I actually find a lot of writing meandering these days (for instance, almost all of the stuff from SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen). I think part of the issue is that these kinds of essays serve both as an argument and jumping
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> We’re talking about an era in the US where white people were literally in control of everything, nobody else could have done this. It's also the era that created the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid and
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There's also a large spectrum of "bad" kids, and a lot of the time the "bad" students educational needs aren't being met, either. For instance, there are, as you said, kids who are violent and disruptive and th
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That's the theory. What I've actually seen here (where many charters exist with public schools) is that charters actually increase the number of "good" kids in public schools. This is because without charters, parents wi
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> Only a few days ago Vox published that bizarre interview, basically giving Bankman-Fried yet another platform to spread more lies. Here's the first Vox article that pops up when I type "vox sam bankman fried" into Google
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I took a look at some of the media coverage and found that people are spinning it as being much more friendly to Sam than it actually is. For instance, the linked to article portrays Matt Yglesias' article like this: > Vox co-founde
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What's interesting is it seems they're only putting up a a 3% bond from what I can see [1]. So it looks like people could just take 97% of your money and run. Whenever a big exchange fails, we see a lot of people say "of cour
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Sure, but perhaps it is worthwhile to ask when these games have become "soma," or at least become that for certain individuals. The above poster was reacting to someone saying they put 1000+ hours into a single game. Maybe we&#x27
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~2009 until ~2019 (when Apple dropped 32 bit support) was actually a pretty good time for gaming on the Mac. AAA games like Human Revolution and Witcher 2 were being released about a year after their PC counterparts, lots of Unity games wer
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> One of the points he made was that there are absolutely wines which are objectively better and worse and that experts can reliably tell them apart. He had met enough experts who could identify a vineyard and vintage blind to know ther
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Are the comments different, though? "Permissionless composability" - basically blockchain jargon for financial transactions that have no oversight - are made possible by the things runeks mentions. It's like someone saying &q
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> I'd say that people question the potential of any new technology. Sure, but exaggerating the potential is much more common. Look at where people in the 50's thought we would be in terms of space or personal flying devices. Th
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That's the funny things about the article. Though it mocks the idea, in the end we can't create a machine that has the same functionality as birds. Of course, humans only use a sliver of that functionality for their own ends, but
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Having a gun while being arrested with possession will get you that kind of sentence. Or at least, the authorities claim that to get a plea deal. Here's a firefighter who had a gun, was arrested for possession, and accepted a plea deal
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> If the value of gold crashes it still has an inherent value because it's a useful physical good (looking pretty is not the only application of gold). The value of gold is protected by the fact that the majority of it's holdin
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Kind of. I don't think this kind of thing is typical. However, when it does happen, it's astonishing how many people in the system are just fine with it and go along with it. One neighbor acting badly, or one police officer crossi
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> If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent. "If killer GMOs have even a 1% chance of happening thi
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Yeah, I remember ~2000 or so it seemed like a lot of non-techie people were creating their own personal site on Geocities/Angelfire/etc. In high schools lots of teenagers (again, including non-techie folk) had their own web pages.
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You can see a comment below where a bartender is saying that they earn much more from tips than they would ever get paid with wages. This is a pretty common sentiment from waiters when a place says it's going to give up tipping. So tha
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Even more than that, the accounts we get claim that some of the people in the focus group said the 1/3 pound burger was smaller than the quarter pounder. Even if those claims are accurate, it's possible they were looking at the di
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The low countries were against it because they feared the Axis, and didn't want to be left on the other side of defensive fortifications. But in the end they fell to the Axis anyway, so I'm not sure how not continuing the long hel
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Indeed, I believe the initial plan was to continue the line, but Belgium opposed it. And the Ardennes was thought to be difficult enough terrain that it didn't need to be strongly defended. It was actually the Ardennes that failed expe
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And we're lending this money to high school students who often have no sense of what it means. These are all amounts that most students have never had to handle before, and they'll be repaid when students are at jobs they've
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Where did you find the group?
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That's something I noticed. There were a number of people who were on the edge but managing to hold things together, and the lockdown just sent them off the edge into a spiral they couldn't get out of. Some of these impacts won&#x
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Disagreeing with someone's approach or saying you think it will have a terrible outcome is fine. What's weird is seeing major media publications looking at the first few days of a transition period and pronouncing that this is the
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I found it odd that both the New York Times and The Washington Post had top stories about how terrible things were at Twitter now that Musk took over. A few days is hardly enough time to decide that a new leader has destroyed a company.
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I mean, they never seemed to be particularly deep thinkers. Like many, it felt like they just adopted whatever positions were popular with those around them at the time, so the way they act now shouldn't come as a surprise. RATM acting
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> Is simply linking to other threads on reddit sufficient for you to consider something promoting brigading? As I mentioned previously, linking to other subs, or even simply _talking_ about /r/StarTrek, was enough for admins to

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