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by cirgue 4y ago
Major news organizations lie by omission and innuendo. Random people on the internet lie by making stuff up. You shouldn’t trust major news outlets to give you a clear picture of the world, but they can be generally trusted as a source of v
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by cirgue 4y ago
Mine was “Elon Musk’s armies are about to begin the slaughter”
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by cirgue 4y ago
If you want to destroy someone’s productivity for a day, link them to tvtropes.
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by cirgue 4y ago
I think it’s also important to highlight that the analogy between neural networks and brains is to help people visualize what a neural network is, not what a brain is. It’s really just to convey the idea of multiple nodes passing informatio
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by cirgue 4y ago
The old Something Awful forums did something similar. If someone posted something that was unacceptable, the comment would generally stay and the comment would get a tag saying “the user was banned for this post”. They also had a moderation
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by cirgue 4y ago
At that point you’re cleaning up other people’s mistakes, which is a very different beast than having to clean up your own.
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by cirgue 4y ago
> WFH is only going to make this worse. My social life has improved massively since WFH became the norm. I eat lunch with my neighbors most days, I work from friends places/they work at mine on the reg, and it is way easier to have
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by cirgue 4y ago
This is kind of a false dichotomy. Taking everyone at face value is one of the dumbest thing you can do on the internet. Assuming there are exactly 0 paid posters in your forum, there are still plenty of people who are enthusiastic trolls
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by cirgue 4y ago
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/p60/277...
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by cirgue 4y ago
The justice system has nontrivial checks on the power of the state to incarcerate people and it already has massive problems, what would a system without those checks do?
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by cirgue 4y ago
3k is pretty cheap for what is effectively an overhaul of the vehicle. You can easily spend 3k on an ICE car in repairs in the same span of time.
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by cirgue 4y ago
Atlanta?
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by cirgue 4y ago
I have no serious involvement in academia. What is the proportion of work that gets reviewed by someone with an axe to grind? I don’t doubt that it happens regularly but I have no conception of the magnitude of the problem.
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by cirgue 4y ago
Deep learning technologists != people that write articles about machine learning making various professions obsolete. I don’t think anyone that works with neural networks professionally is drinking the kool-aid. Don’t get me wrong, deep lea
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by cirgue 4y ago
Because when presented with a bunch of pictures of hot shirtless dudes, thinking “how can I apply cutting edge technology here?” simultaneously isn’t most peoples first instinct (regardless of your gender identity or sexual orientation), bu
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by cirgue 4y ago
Get involved in local government and get your friends to do the same. State and municipal governments do most of the actual investment in infrastructure, even if the money might in part be federal, and that’s where the decisions get made. Y
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by cirgue 4y ago
> In a world without marketing, there would be 1000 identical versions of the same product and I would have no idea where to begin This is still very much the case. Marketing is a signal of exactly one thing: marketing budget. At least w
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by cirgue 4y ago
Yes. There is no actual support for this. It’s this one guys effort to get his name in the news for something controversial/polarizing and we’re doing a great job of helping him.
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by cirgue 4y ago
Please do not use North Carolina as a metonym for state house representative Ben Moss, the sole sponsor of the bill in question. This is not something that is on anyones radar as an issue aside from him.
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by cirgue 4y ago
To add to this: the whole point of the private right to action is so that anti-abortion groups can target individuals in order to create precedent-setting cases. This is a mechanism that is designed to be used by well-funded groups. The thr
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by cirgue 4y ago
Yes, and gold based investment schemes are where most of the hucksters plied their trade before crypto.
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by cirgue 4y ago
Exactly. No one is stopping me or anyone else, but no one does because crypto is a shitshow full of opaque risk, and the whole point of a financial system is to make risk explicit.
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by cirgue 4y ago
Dashboards are really useful when you’re trying to distribute a set of metrics that large numbers of people actually need to know and agree on in order to do their jobs. Most metrics aren’t like this, so there are a lot of bad dashboards, b
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by cirgue 4y ago
(It’s a glossary)
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by cirgue 4y ago
Whitewater paddles are a fundamentally different beast than flat water paddles. You’re not just using them to move forward, you’re using them to manipulate the boat in all three dimensions. So rigidity is key and leverage is key. Your paddl
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by cirgue 4y ago
I work in python all the time, and I’ve still not found a situation where this happened. Sometimes you might have specific components that you might want to write in other languages, but this is really rare unless you’re manually writing
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by cirgue 4y ago
All advertising is bad faith communication. Full stop. There is no justification otherwise. In fact, the more creative advertising is, the more bad faith and exploitative it becomes.
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by cirgue 5y ago
Safer for whom? A part of the security logic of neoliberal globalization, whatever it’s other flaws, is to force strategic interdependence between states specifically to make conflict an absolute last resort. Like I want Chinese dependence
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by cirgue 5y ago
This is my point. There’s more to this question than just “well the Russians want to buy things”
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by cirgue 5y ago
This is a weirdly hostile and condescending answer to a serious question. If the international exchange value of the ruble were zero Russians could still theoretically do these things, exchange value matters for doing business across border

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