cudgy

10 ms·

121.
by cudgy 1y ago
OK. Now I understand where you’re coming from. You are using an analogy to insect groups with the term eusocial, which is defined as “cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations withi
122.
by cudgy 1y ago
If you leave your front door open, you’re gonna get a lot of strangers and stray animals in your house. If you don’t have the desire to close the door, I guess you’ll just give in and get familiar with your new roommates. I’ve never underst
123.
by cudgy 1y ago
Makes sense. Pretty sad to have to install a tool like that to get security on a platform that is used by billions of users. Even more shocking that apps get installed just from clicking a small close button on a silly ad without even promp
124.
by cudgy 1y ago
Are you seriously trying to tell me that the Democrats have never denied a visa? Oh. I see now that you added “based on social media posts”. Still, I fail to believe that Democrats would admit someone into the country knowing that they post
125.
by cudgy 1y ago
Interesting how the racial demographics are much less diverse compared to large East Coast cities. For example, there are far fewer African-Americans (5%) percentage wise in San Francisco versus a city like Atlanta (46%) or Philadelphia (40
126.
by cudgy 1y ago
For the purposes of determining the effect of screen time on education, we would need to compare the performance of Chinese or Indian students over time along with a measurable increase of the use of screens and compare that to say American
127.
by cudgy 1y ago
Not sure what you’re saying here. I think you’re saying you can just observe the top performers and measure whether the top performers use screen time frequently outside of school. Not sure this works as it’s probable that the top performer
128.
by cudgy 1y ago
We are far from UBI though. It will take major league arm-twisting to get the government to take care of citizens like that. The oligarchs want it all, and it’ll take some serious work to overcome their resistance to increasing their taxes
129.
by cudgy 1y ago
So humans are just running around as unorganized individuals, hermits, living in small tents in the woods by themselves. There are no borders or countries or associations of humans. We are all just unorganized. Really? Either your definitio
130.
by cudgy 1y ago
The point is that guns are not the only weapon that are used to harm people. Fewer guns does not necessarily prevent people from harming others. If making comparisons between countries, account for the population of the country and that gun
131.
by cudgy 1y ago
So the people with the least amount of experience would be making all the decisions? You must be a young person.
132.
by cudgy 1y ago
So if you’re wealthy and have connections, you can get a gun in the UK?
133.
by cudgy 1y ago
What about school stabbings? Or use of other weaponry or substances? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_stabbings_in_the_...
134.
by cudgy 1y ago
Was watching a documentary a few weeks ago regarding the many bomb shelters in Switzerland, and it mentioned that during World War II all adult citizens were required to have a gun in Switzerland and citizens were trained on their use. Swit
135.
by cudgy 1y ago
Finland be a wee bit smaller than the US and 1 per day in US is a huge exaggeration. 13 total in US in 2024 … you were only off by 1,300% though. Also, Finland has the population of 1/2 of Los Angeles. Wow
136.
by cudgy 1y ago
Weird. Why are no Latin or Asian kids bussed?
137.
by cudgy 1y ago
They want to speed up the process of getting laws written to protect them and AI. One way to do that is to appear like you’re looking for a solution while at the same time mentioning how urgent things are and how we need to pass laws quickl
138.
by cudgy 1y ago
“So unless humanity recognizes this and decides to organize as humans (not as europeans, or alabamans or han etc…) then this is the only possible outcome.” Why do you think this is the only possible outcome? Aren’t we already organized as h
139.
by cudgy 1y ago
Serious question. What should people retrain in? What jobs or training will provide long-term income potential? You don’t want to spend four years retraining for a job or career that only lasts for two years or seven years. My point is that
140.
by cudgy 1y ago
“My current preference is a guaranteed educational/training stipend for any unemployed adult who wants one, and changing the standard career advice for the next generation from "learn to code" to "learn to startup".
141.
by cudgy 1y ago
AI companies are in a difficult position right now. Anthropic is taking the lead by looking like they care and are concerned about the effects of the technology that their feverishly building. I don’t trust them. Their strategy is to say “d
142.
by cudgy 1y ago
So how does the a country protect itself? If it opens markets, then it becomes at the whim of the global marketplace, which is completely greed, focused, ultra capitalism. We end up with what we have now in the US: lots of cheap crap, but p
143.
by cudgy 1y ago
“For example defining what "fair use" is for AI training, that's a clearly new area.” I am not a patent attorney, but it seems like a clear violation of copyright. Based on your comment above regarding the breath and focus of
144.
by cudgy 1y ago
Whose weapons are Ukraine using? Who trained Ukraine how to use these weapons? Where did Ukraine get the majority of the money that it’s using to blow up buildings in Russia and kill Russian soldiers? Where is the intelligence that Ukraine
145.
by cudgy 1y ago
Maybe a small time period during the hippie era near the end of the Vietnam war? My main point is that I get tired of people from both sides of the aisle democrat/republican making comments about how the other side does or doesn’t do s
146.
by cudgy 1y ago
What does this have to do with which party has more of a proclivity to go to war? Why does everything have to devolve back to Trump? By the way, I think Trump‘s stupid comment about training the troops in cities was absolutely stupid and de
147.
by cudgy 1y ago
You would have to compare it to a cohort using no screens to know whether there was a benefit or loss.
148.
by cudgy 1y ago
First, salaries for teachers must be compensated for the fact that teachers get three months off for summer amongst many other holidays that other workers do not get. Also, teachers get regular salary increases and have generous pension pla
149.
by cudgy 1y ago
This is an interesting take. Based on what you’re saying, then I presume that in India and China academic performance is dropping as well?
150.
by cudgy 1y ago
maybe it’s not about race. Maybe it’s because the parents of the kids that are bussed-in are less confident to push back out of fear that their kids would lose the privilege of being bussed-in to the “better” school?

More ›