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by chii 7mo ago
> a truly meritocratic system only if you twist what you mean by meritocracy to mean equality. Why don't you apply that exact same argument but to sports and athletics? People born with superior genes do perform better (ala, tall p
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by chii 7mo ago
> regardless of how you go about it i very much beg to differ. A poor but high aptitude student today is able to escape the "caste" they're born into. Under a true nepotistic system, this cannot happen no matter how much a
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by chii 7mo ago
merit doesn't mean equal wealth spending to obtain a result. And it's not black and white. Someone rich spending a lot of money to obtain tutoring doesn't necessarily make their score higher, and there's also diminishing
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> ADB installs are not impacted by the waiting period, so that is an option if you need to install certain unregistered applications immediately. if that's the case, why would the new flow help reduce fraud and scams? These are mean
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It's because japan can't really compete with china in the EV battery space (nor can anyone else really). By betting on hydrogen, it's possible to take the lead in a smaller pond as a bigger fish. Tho i'm not a believer i
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So buy the book? The expectation of free stuff is all too common.
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The context exists whether it's LLM generated or not, because the context sits broadly in society, culture, and manifests in the mind of the reader. > how would LLMs fair when the content of the work itself is about “Something made
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by chii 7mo ago
> Creating something without the effort previous works involved, can and do affect the context and understanding of it not really. Unless you place value on _effort_, rather than be objectively outcome based. Someone digging a hole with
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> general topic about the usefulness of an “this is AI generated” classifier. exactly what i'm trying to get at too. And my thesis is that this classification method is pointless - it's just as pointless as saying things like &
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by chii 7mo ago
The incongruent part of that theory is that the RTO push came from middle to upper-middle management (and some top-level ones on occasion). The owners of commercial real estate are not these people. And it doesn't seem likely that thes
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by chii 7mo ago
It will take longer than the duration of the war to realistically transition to renewables in any quantity that truly matters. So the oil companies are happy because this temporarily brought forward future demand and thus profit, as well as
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> all users of FOSS must be the product, right? i would default to this being the truth, until demonstrated otherwise. Call it cynical, but it's the cynical that survive.
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> want to know the writer of a piece but you dodged the question i asked - why can't a piece stand on the contents, rather than its pedigree? Would you care if a writer used a pen name? Does that in any way diminish their works? Wha
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> preface explaining it was written by an LLM why can't the quality of the works stand on its own? Whether there's LLM generation or not should be irrelevant.
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You are still "the product" even if google derives secondary benefits - because you are using firefox. Google doesn't pay the other forks of firefox money (at least, as far as i know). It's because you aren't using
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> for antitrust reasons? well, a benefit is a benefit. It doesn't really matter how it manifests does it? It's not a donation, as it is not altruistic.
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> The correct answer is to build 2 houses the utopian answer is to build two houses. But we don't live in utopia. The constraints faced today is real (paper or physical). You can't wish it away, and you can't say it's
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Why isn't it the same? The fact that it is possible to change that default means google simply pays less for it than they otherwise would if it wasn't changeable. It's not a binary toggle - firefox is selling you as a source
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by chii 7mo ago
of course it does. Why do you think google buys the rights to firefox's search bar (as a default setting)?
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in fact, density increases the value, because the original plot can now be resold at a higher price for a hi-rise.
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> renting to be more expensive than a comparable mortgage. that doesn't sound plausible. May be for a select few properties that are in some unique circumstance (e.g., the seller of the property would sell underpriced because they n
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by chii 7mo ago
> 2 people want to own the house. and so how do you decide who gets it? 1) morally. Alice deserves it because her intention is more pure. 2) financially. Bob gets it, because he can pay more for it than alice. Which choice above you mak
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It's why these enterprise vendors want foot in the door at all costs. They know that if they get entrenched first, it's impossible to migrate away. That's basically free money from a customer that has zero cost ceiling.
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On the other hand, gwt did not gain much traction, and the majority of frontend developers disliked it (granted, they do prefer javascript+css rather than coding the frontend via gwt widgets).
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i'd rather have the gov't be vigilant, than to have the gov't be the one monopolistic dictator. None of those problems of monopoly are inherent in capitalism - they exist in one form or another under a different market style
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> You write your frontend in JS/TS, your backend in the same language, your build tools understand it natively, and you share types between client and server. that's an excuse imho. It's a post-facto justifying using js on
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by chii 7mo ago
> I will never invest even 5 minutes in learning that horrible Spring framework well there's your problem - why are you using spring for a personal project, when there's so many other simpler, lighter weight frameworks around?
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> FactoryFactory has gone mostly extinct it really depends on your project, and what framework(s) and libraries you choose to use. Java still has a tonne of legacy projects using old(er) frameworks that rely on such patterns - spring has
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> when they are really complaints about capitalism it's not a complaint about capitalism. It's a complaint about asymmetric bargaining power in the seller/buyer relationship. That's not inherent in capitalism. It&#x2

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