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by bodiekane 2y ago
I have never observed the phenomenon you're describing and would like to learn more. Can you link me to one of these stories where "sensationalists said race discrimination" about a program to alleviate poverty which was not
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Trump likes Putin more than he likes any European leader. If the scenario here is that US invades Greenland leading to an EU vs US schism, then it might not be Russia today vs EU today. It could be EU minus US support vs Russia with US supp
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by bodiekane 2y ago
> people who own mines, oil wells, farms, etc. Huge swaths of midwestern farmers will go bankrupt if tariffs are imposed. Subsidies and exemptions are being specifically added to prevent the complete collapse of multiple red state econo
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by bodiekane 2y ago
I think you're taking the graph way too literally. The Republicans and Democrats are both coalitions made up of many different groups, and their policies are constantly shifting depending on which individuals get elected and which of t
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by bodiekane 2y ago
> The meals for kids at schools is a “dei” program I have never heard of such a thing, can you link to where such a program existed? Free or reduced cost school lunch is a very common program, but it's based entirely on income, not
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by bodiekane 2y ago
A rare win for common sense, pragmatism and progress on energy independence, lowering the cost of energy and cleaner air and water for all. Hurray.
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by bodiekane 2y ago
> I don't get it, are the corporations making a shit ton of money or is it cheaper for the school? If both of these things are true, then it's a win-win It's a win for the corporation, but a loss for the children and the h
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by bodiekane 2y ago
LLMs are not compression. That's an incorrect and misleading model to use here, leading you to a false conclusion. If you had a loom and yarn, you could load and run it in a certain way to create a blanket with an offensive image. That
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Realtors are outdated middlemen extracting wealth from everyone else. They have successfully lobbied to put laws and regulations in place that keep them in the middle of transactions, extracting tens of thousands of dollars every time a hou
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by bodiekane 2y ago
This is the most-wrong usage of this trope I've ever seen. You're supposed to say things like that when people panicking about their vaccine contains words they don't know - sure, point out that those same confusing chemistry
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by bodiekane 2y ago
And now this known problem will become worse and more damaging. I'm not sure what your comment was going for here, attempting to dismiss the harm here because the system was already less than perfect? A solution would be to increase th
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by bodiekane 2y ago
I like that you did a full 180 between your two comments in this thread. First it was "Trump seems to habitually make hyperbolic and ridiculous sounding statements" to pretend it's all talk and not representative of actual po
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by bodiekane 2y ago
It's today and everyone on HN still should side with them. It's a travesty that we let the RIAA and MPAA sue defenseless kids and elderly for impossibly large sums, forced them to settle out of court to avoid expensive legal fees,
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Of course not. I listened to other people's music and learned some of their songs before writing my own music, that doesn't mean my songs are distribution of theirs. I read other people's books and short stores and news artic
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by bodiekane 2y ago
It's literally just a pilfering of the American public to enrich crypto holders. If you have a lot of something, and you can get the government to buy a lot of it, that's very good for you. Bitcoin at this point is probably runnin
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by bodiekane 2y ago
> it seems (from outside, as a European) that the loudest voices, at least on the political right, are also the most religious It's good that you recognize you're getting an outsider, biased viewpoint... because as an American,
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Copyright is the friend to the 1% and the enemy of the everyone else. (Of course, I'm using "the 1%" rhetorically, it's really more like 0.01%) As a society, we all clearly benefit from fair use far more than we benefit
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by bodiekane 2y ago
If we're going to use absurd hyperbole like "steal", I think we should just keep going further. Zuckerberg murdered some old library books to train a model. Zuckerberg genocided training data! Heck, everyone who read your com
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by bodiekane 2y ago
The Republican and Democrat parties are fundamentally coalitions though. We pretend they represent some sort of Left vs Right split, but really that's a post facto justification or narrative around an arbitrary coalition of sub-faction
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by bodiekane 2y ago
"Facebook" is a corporate entity that does not have the ability to "care about" anything. Employees, board members, shareholders, customers, suppliers and users have the ability to care about things and to influence the
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Controversial stance, but... almost any big company, as long as you don't care too much about promotions or the social hierarchy of your coworkers. Get a $150k job as a senior software engineer, show up to meetings, do good-enough work
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by bodiekane 2y ago
What law would it be breaking? There are tons of common foods and food additives that are known to interact with medications. Grapefruit juice for instance has a large and diverse set of drug interactions, some potentially very dangerous:
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by bodiekane 2y ago
I'm intrigued by this line from the article: > Before the pandemic, she says, she might have done two disability tax credit forms; last year, she did twenty Did Covid cause massive disability? Did legislation change to make claiming
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by bodiekane 2y ago
The HN crowd is far left but they would never admit it. Go watch Bill Clinton talk about illegal immigration and border security in the 90s. He'd be considered far right today. Read a book or newspaper from 50 years ago or 100 years ag
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by bodiekane 2y ago
The best thing was that the internet was made by and for smart people. It was an incredibly unique dynamic- access to incredibly diverse people from all over the world, but simultaneously tilted towards the intellectually curious and tech-s
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by bodiekane 2y ago
I'm not sure where your confusion is, maybe it's just the terminology. I'll address your points individually and see if maybe that helps you understand what people mean by the "golden handcuffs" framing. >You cho
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by bodiekane 2y ago
In my biochemistry class at MIT during undergrad, the professor showed during the section on the krebs cycle that the pop-culture concept of "ketogenic diet" is almost never actually doing what people believe. To force your body i
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Ironically, "building more housing" still solves this problem. The corporations are buying and renting because it makes business sense. If we just keep building houses, the market values for rents and home prices will reach an inf
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by bodiekane 2y ago
I wonder if a system like that could work. SpaceX and numerous other companies were able to draw in billions of dollars of funding for R&D to chase after US Government contracts that could only be won by proving massive technological fe
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by bodiekane 2y ago
Regarding your point 3, the challenge is that at present, so many incentives are aligned against that. I'd love to do hard science, rather than my current meaningless consumer webapp job. But it'd mean... giving up 5-6 years of te

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