cowpig

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   by cowpig 3y ago

   Amen. Anecdotally, I have mostly stopped using AirBnB because I find hotels to be better now for most situations. AirBnB hosts who fit the original archetype, people who are renting out their own homes for some extra money, tend to be great
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   You can tax imports FYI
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   I think the parent comment specifically means coming up with a falsifiable hypothesis and testing it, as opposed to the "body of knowledge" part you are talking about.
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   Why don't you go to a hospital and ask someone who works there why they wear masks and whether they prevent transmission of airborne viruses?
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   > The ability to go in front of a judge We're commenting on the judgment. Made by judges. I'm going to stop responding here, this strategy of basing arguments in imagined alternative worlds of facts is not interesting.
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   Really? What was the mechanism by which this was enforced that was fundamentally different from, say, the police coming to someone's house and arresting them for the possession of child pornography?
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   Yes! I totally agree. The conversation is really important. But in this case the costs (people dying, or in many cases losing months of their lives to extreme fatigue, other health problems, the overloading of medical infrastructure causing
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   I'm trying to establish some basic understanding of our laws here. There are no absolutes, lines have to be drawn somewhere. And in the case of encouraging people to spread diseases to kill other people, seems obvious a line should be
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   by cowpig 3y ago

   There is no such thing as absolutes in social policy. Every situation has an edge case, a grey area. Something will always come up where you will have to balance an interpretation of a rule. The US has the most extreme version of freedom of
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    The real world is not like physics, where you can describe things with an equation and they pretty much hold up absolutely. There is always an edge case, a grey area, a situation where you have to use your judgment. Also "There's
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    > It's not the governments job to decide what speech is "correct" in the US at least under the current judicial regimes interpretation of the laws. There are some very narrow exceptions but this is not one of those. I mean
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    This isn't a case where people thought the wrong things and it made them vote wrong. It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them. I'm honestly shocked that people think this is a case where the government shoul
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    I really don't get it. There was a massive wave of misinformation during covid-19 that contributed to the USA having the worst mortality count of any country. A lot of people died. This isn't a case where people thought the wrong
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    Is there an LLM based chatbot that works well without being fine-tuned on RLHF?
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    This comes across as pedantic to me
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    I would not use the word "nothingburger" to describe a powerful politician being in a position where they have a conflict of interest, especially in a situation that could have an impact on climate change. Doesn't matter if i
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    Apparently many of the commenters here are not familiar with the concept of a blind trust[0] or of people in positions of power recusing themselves from decisions in which they have a conflict of interest[1]. Basically, working in positions
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    I can't stand this kind of writing, and Paul Graham's earlier essay titled "Keep Your Identity Small"[0] does a great job of explaining why. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    > Since yesterday I am getting this message as I try to login into my netlify account and due to this I am unable to access my account and also my some of important projects which I have deployed on netlify, failed to work properly which
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    Wikipedia Adds Sticky Navbar(mediawiki.org)

    3 points by cowpig 3y ago|1 comments
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    They justify it with engagement metrics.
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    That doesn't sound plausible to me. If it were demonstrably safer they would surely be transparent about that
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    God, Protonmail is the worst. Every time one of these threads come up I like to share my experience attempting to use protonmail for my business: Protonmail charged us for every email account, whether or not they were active. When an employ
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    a common way that people reveal they doesn't understand a hard, complex problem is calling it simple and proposing some basic solution
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    I think it depends whether you're talking about the philosophy or Karl Marx, or the philosophy of dictatorships that kind of started from some "Marxist" roots and kept the name
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    The article goes on in the next paragraph to say that they were being charged $300 for the same trash cans only a few years ago. Presumably all the sunk costs were already sunk
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    Super helpful, thanks!
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    I find the battery life on my framework 13 really bad (ubuntu installed). There's some issue where the battery drains fairly quickly in suspend which requires enabling "deep sleep" mode, but it still drains a lot faster than
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    by cowpig 3y ago

    Great schools have students who wouldn't be competent startup founders.