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by busyant 1y ago
> If students using AI to cheat on homework This is not related to "AI", but I have an amusing story about online cheating. * I have a nephew who was switched into online college classes at the beginning of the pandemic. * As s
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by busyant 1y ago
> Keep. Your. Mouth. Shut. Matt Levine had a recent article about this. Another part of the problem is that some BTC repositories* got hacked and the hackers got people's names and addresses and maybe quantity of BTC So, even if y
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by busyant 1y ago
we make fishy puns like that just for the halibut.
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> The Republican party is, in fact, a coalition. It really isn't anymore. I agree that there are many decent "old-time" Republicans, but they've been neutered and/or they've "self-deported" themsel
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by busyant 1y ago
They didn't revoke the visas. They revoked Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students. I mean ... it's still nuts, but slightly different. Instead of breaking the "keys" (visas) that unlock the doors to Harvard, t
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by busyant 1y ago
> I heard University of Illinois bought a policy to protect against losing cash tuitions from Chinese grad students Who's selling that policy? edit: looks like they started this in 2017! https://www.insidehighered.com&#x2
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by busyant 1y ago
> then it will be slow, and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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by busyant 1y ago
> I would expect an MIT PhD student to be more articulate and not say "like" every other word. Buddy, I've met MIT profs whose public speaking was so horrible, it would probably take them 30 minutes to order a glass of w
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by busyant 1y ago
get your affairs in order.
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by busyant 1y ago
> Do you think the several people who've been close to him who describe him as breathtakingly stupid are lying, or incorrect (fooled by another part of that act, one supposes)? James Comey wrote that he was moderately intelligent (I
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by busyant 1y ago
You just avoided answering the questions entirely. But you still want to pass judgement using your ill-defined concept of "self discipline."
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by busyant 1y ago
So, what's your solution to "lack of self discipline"? What is the physical basis for lack of self discipline?
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by busyant 1y ago
> MAGA reminds me of That One Guy we all knew in High School I knew one of those guys. Obviously I thought he was dangerous but figured he was too crude to get far in life. he's now a maga congressman from Texas
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by busyant 1y ago
> I would have liked to respond to you yesterday but people rate limited me through downvotes (to 2 posts per day). No worries. fwiw, I didn't down vote you. haven't read your response yet.. it's quite long and I prefer r
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by busyant 1y ago
I agree w/ some of what you say, but other stuff ... ? > but that was bound to happen anyway because of the loss of the petrodollar agreement The agreement was informal and it "ended" about a year ago. Last I checked, mo
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by busyant 1y ago
I thought you were linking to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA edit: decades ago, I worked in a lab that was sequencing the genome of the Dengue virus (back when sequencing DNA was a Herculean task)
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by busyant 1y ago
> I thought the White House response was reasonable. Reasonable in what sense? Reasonable in the sense that a con-man doesn't want his con revealed? Or reasonable in the sense that they have a principled position against the propose
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by busyant 1y ago
I took screenshots of existing 20 year old digital photos ... so ... no relevant exif data. o3 was quite good at locating, even when I gave it pics with no discernible landmarks. It seemed to work off of just about anything it could discern
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by busyant 1y ago
just in case anyone is as obtuse as I am, I believe the joke here is that the contents of Wikipedia might be contaminated with AI generated content starting around 2023. you can probably look up low background steel to complete the analogy.
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by busyant 1y ago
"By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures," Kennedy said. The "hilarious" aspect of this comment is that it makes a testable prediction: "eli
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by busyant 2y ago
> How well known is Murphy? He's the senator from the state I live in, so I know him and think he's excellent. > much more electable than Biden or harris. He represents a northeast blue state. It's difficult for those t
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by busyant 2y ago
> state bank regulators flag and freeze all payments to the Treasury for 30 days. It's crazy that we're even floating ideas like this. But something like this might actually happen.
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by busyant 2y ago
> Wouldn’t it make more sense for each co-equal branch to have some degree of executive autonomy? For example, marshals that report only to the judicial branch or Congress. Your suggestion sounds good at-a-glance. But I always worry that
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by busyant 2y ago
> But New York, California and other net-payer states withholding payments would create a leverageable mess. How do you withhold payments, exactly? Do you tell the citizens of Maine to send their federal tax money to the state capital?
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by busyant 2y ago
> Did the Framers not consider the threat of a runaway executive? They kind of did consider this. Pretty sure that's what impeachment is for. I suspect the framers expected all three branches to be independent of one another. Righ
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by busyant 2y ago
"How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." ― Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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by busyant 2y ago
What a shame. And I was just about to start building my cutting edge 0.5 nm chip factory in Omaha tomorrow. I guess I can wait another 90 days ... /s
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by busyant 2y ago
> Isn't it always the pattern with Trump and conservatives in general? The most rational person is supposed to let them bully you without response. Again and again and it never works. In case I wasn't clear before ... your resp
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by busyant 2y ago
> Nice work blaming the victims and trying to push them into passive acceptance of what is done by perpetrators I don't think the person you were responding to was necessarily blaming the victims. S/he's just pointing out
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by busyant 2y ago
> They get to punish woke science. Imagine how all the chemists who study cis/trans isomerization feel right now ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism As someone who studied an cis&#x

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