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by bpt3 1y ago
Because of thousands upon thousands of documented accounts from eyewitnesses and participants? I'm aware of what you're trying to do, but there is a difference between stating a generally accepted fact that has a tiny faction of d
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by bpt3 1y ago
I would say that an organization that needs to be highly objective should not call him one. They can certainly point out that he was the leader of a group that was systematically killing millions of people with physical or cultural attribut
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's really the people on the far left, who think that way, way more than 10% of the US is progressive or socialist/communist and wonder why they can't win any elections.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Was GW Bush convicted of any war crimes? If not, then he isn't a war criminal. You can argue that he should be, and I probably would agree with you, but an organization supposedly dedicated to unearthing biases in the media should not
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by bpt3 1y ago
You can identify and complain about right wing (or left wing) authoritarianism without hurling insults. A publication failing to do so is a key indication of bias in a specific direction.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Easier does not mean better, which seems to be true in this case given the many, many vulnerabilities that have been exploited over the years due to a lack of input sanitization.
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by bpt3 1y ago
It is a blog post, it was published as a Github page and on arXiv. I think it's intended as a catchy warning to people who are dumping every piece of the internet (and synthetic data based on it!) that there are repercussions.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Sure, but you didn't use that term initially. If you had, I would have probably not wasted my time on this discussion with a leftist who might as well be arguing that humans should breathe water instead of air.
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by bpt3 1y ago
1. You did not start off talking about mortgages, you lumped it into your initial grievance once that didn't land. If you can't accept that debt exists and the reasons why it exists, you're going to be sorely disappointed by
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by bpt3 1y ago
I don't agree with the substance of your implied argument, and you made no explicit argument. You just made an inaccurate statement that supports your implied argument, because reality does not.
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by bpt3 1y ago
> Rent and mortgage payments are based on selling access to resources - nothing of value is produced through rent extraction. It is a purely parasitic process economically. I have to assume you have never been responsible for maintaining
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by bpt3 1y ago
Everyone pays for shelter in some form or fashion, and many people do not want to and/or should not own their own home. It's not considered exploitative to charge for groceries, clothing, or other necessities, so why is housing se
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by bpt3 1y ago
Yes, I knew exactly how you were stretching the truth to suit your viewpoints. Thanks for confirming you knew exactly what you were doing as well. As I said at the start of this, I don't understand what you get out of intentionally mak
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by bpt3 1y ago
Real estate prices are controlled by supply and demand. If you want a lower cost of living than desirable places in the US, alternatives (like China, or the Rust Belt) exist. And if you think housing prices are bad in the US, you should loo
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by bpt3 1y ago
Sad in what way? Renters will always exist, and some will be unable or unwilling to adhere to the contract they signed. Like all contracts, there are penalities for non-compliance (on both sides).
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by bpt3 1y ago
Based on how inaccurate the information is and the fact that there is no support for local (city, county, town, etc.) regulations, I would say it was a very simple prompt to an LLM with no additional verification.
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by bpt3 1y ago
At least part of the basis for every programmer is formal logic. A systems programmer should understand how a CPU works, and a frontend JS developer should know how their target browser works, but they all need to know formal logic.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Any programmer who doesn't understand the basis of their craft and the environment they're working in isn't a very good one imo.
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by bpt3 1y ago
And those abstractions need to be encoded using symbolic and formal logic.
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by bpt3 1y ago
> The tricky part is that I don't think all programming is formal logic at all, just a small part. Why do you say this? The foundation of all of computer science is formal logic and symbolic logic.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Exactly what words did I put in your mouth? This is your statement: "just to make this explicit, protecting civilians has never been the purpose of modern police forces. they were developed to put down rebellions/catch slaves&#x2F
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by bpt3 1y ago
> Funny to accuse someone of "spreading misinformation" while agreeing there are instances where they are correct, then asserting there are some instances where they are incorrect while giving no concrete examples yourself. It&
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by bpt3 1y ago
A cursory internet search would back up my statement. Feel free to do that if you're interested. I note that you aren't asking the parent poster for any citations for their claim, which I would say is quite extraordinary. And to b
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by bpt3 1y ago
Just to make this explicit, you are incorrect. There are plenty of instances where you would be correct, such as the origin of police forces in the American South (which were initially slave patrols), but that doesn't mean you are corr
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by bpt3 1y ago
Maybe I misunderstood your argument, but /proc/[pid]/exe is a symlink in Linux 2.2 and later (so virtually all running instances of Linux today). That said, your example doesn't make much sense to me. I'd be willing
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by bpt3 1y ago
Society "tolerates" them because they have plenty of people willing to voluntarily give them money which totals billions of dollars for the bigger companies. Jobs are a byproduct, not a hard requirement for a company to function,
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by bpt3 1y ago
Please describe the scenario where someone needs to make the assumption you described and it is reasonable to expect that they are unaware that symbolic links could be changed by a third party library?
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by bpt3 1y ago
Wages from a single entry level job absolutely did not support a family of 4 or more in the 1950s and 1960s, let alone as comfortably as you are probably imagining. These delusions need to stop, because it makes it impossible to have meanin

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