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My grandfather had a hoarding tendency as a consequence of growing up in the Great Depression. As a response to this, my father has a tendency to be too eager to throw things away. As a response to this, I have a hoarding tendency.
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All of the ideas the founding fathers discussed arose in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the 1600s. If you're familiar with that conflict, particularly that between the Parliament of England and Charles I, a lot of the US founding fa
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Why is it that every high-brow discussion of US politics soon ends up quoting one of the founding fathers? As an outsider, I think the fundamental issue in the US political system is that there doesn't seem to have been any new ideas s
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It's excruciatingly clear that as impressive as LLMs are, they're still very much an experimental technology. While multinational corporations like Taco Bell should be experimenting with such technologies, they should be experimen
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Are LLMs stackable? If they keep misunderstanding each other, it'll look more like successive applications of JPEG compression.
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In that case, you set the enumeration up to use separate bit flags for each boolean, e.g. , is_guest is the least significant bit, is_admin is the second least significant bit, etc. Of course, then you've still got a bunch of boolea
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I don't think Borat works as well for this. Borat was made for an international audience, including many Americans, and involved Sasha Baron Cohen meeting Americans in person to wind them up, so there had to be an element of accura
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If you're an American and don't know what it's like to have your country and culture reduced to about three wildly inaccurate stereotypes, I think the Top Gear USA Special episode may enlighten you: https://www.y
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> YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum compu
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The foreign factory workers will still have jobs making the same products, except those products won't be exported to the US. Luckily for them, 95% of humans live outside the US.
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> I don't understand your agressiveness towards me, this is a conversation, we can talk and disagree without insulting. I agree wholeheartedly, and if I really wanted to insult you, I wouldn't bother replying to you at all. You
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> No idea, whoever they are they're still well compensated and can afford some resistance Claiming that people you've never met are sufficiently financially secure to risk their livelihood for your protest movement is the kind
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What makes you so sure that such a hypothetical code of ethics would promote user freedom? I think it far more likely that protecting the user from harm (i.e., not allowing the user to install malware) would appear in that code. Philosopher
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An IDP isn't a driving licence; it's an internationally-agreed and -recognised document that asserts that 'this other document I have is a driving licence.' I think the main value of an IDP is that it avoids this sort of
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> Isn't it difficult to adapt to left-side driving while having used to right-side? You get used to it after a few minutes. It takes a bit more concentration, especially when turning out of one-way streets, but it's otherwise f
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> My setup: Next.js 14 with App Router, Tailwind CSS v4, hosted on Vercel. Starting weight: ~600KB. The website is a blog of four static pages. The styling of the pages is simple, clean, and effective. There's no need for any JavaSc
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Other examples include the clothes that Rory Sutherland wears during interviews, the ways that Rory Sutherland sits on chairs during interviews, and the ways that Rory Sutherland rambles over others during interviews.
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The second paragraph of the article: > Delulu, tradwife, broligarcy, and lewk, have all been added because experts believe the words will not be just a fad, but will have linguistic staying power.
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My theory is that there are three regimes: Not Scaling, Scaling, and Antiscaling. Not Scaling is about crossing and shoring up your moat. Scaling is when your app has enough hype around it that your customers recruit new customers, and all
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While I'm very interested to see what the outcome of your experiment, I think this choice of content will be a bad test. Calls for the dissolution of Parliament are innocuous, but support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is beyo
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Another example: 'baby cheeses' as a mondegreen[0] of 'baby Jesus'. * Modern Family , 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXedC4qdkgo * Kath and Kim , 2002: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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The law doesn't work by having ISPs block websites. It works by imposing a legal duty on website operators to a) determine what risks there are to their users from the content that may appear on their website; and b) develop and implem
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All laws are just words; they only have power because they are backed by a government's monopoly on the legitimate use of force[0]. The Online Safety Act has to be understood as a regulation of the Big Tech platforms that form what we
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Rationalism is the belief that reason is the primary path to knowledge, as opposed to, say, the observation that is championed by empiricism. It's a belief system that prioritises imposing its tenets on reality rather than asking reali
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Yes, but the only work they're doing is looking for jobs. Getting people to pay you for an opportunity to pretend that they don't have a given problem is not a business model that I expect to successful, and yet, they seem to be m
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The problem with an on/off switch is that you have to open the app to change the setting, which means that most people will have it off most of the time. I don't necessarily think the Pear Ring is a better idea than yours; I only
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If I recall, there was a dating app that showed you profiles of people you'd crossed paths with that day - so, basically a conventional dating app with a novel algorithm for choosing which profiles to show you. If I'm understandin
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This mirrors my opinions on LLMs. LLMs are a deeply impressive technology, but, to explain the punchline to a Douglas Adams joke, technology is what we call stuff that doesn't work yet. I don't want my tech to be exciting, I want
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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs(bbc.co.uk)
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A man called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.

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