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by cudgy 1y ago
“My kids are allowed to have screen time, but with limits. Most of their friends have similar arrangements.” Nice. I found almost all of the peers of my kid(s) had virtually no restrictions on phone usage. Needless to say that did not help
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by cudgy 1y ago
I think that the amount of money spent per pupil is not a critical factor. It does help I’m sure to a certain point, but the issue with the educational system is not about money. For example, Many inner city schools spend far more money per
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by cudgy 1y ago
Well said. Not everything in life is improved by larger scale and efficiency. Certain concerns like counting votes require accuracy and trust in the process, because distrust in the voting process is detrimental to the whole idea of a repre
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by cudgy 1y ago
“there is a problem with a single company or organization controlling a nontrivial segment of the voting machines used in the US” Even if you have many companies providing voting machines, it does not deal with the problem of distrust in na
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by cudgy 1y ago
How do you know that the digital record matches the printed record? I fail to see how this system solves anything.
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by cudgy 1y ago
All elections should be audited regardless of how close the race is or whether there are any questions. Relying on software to count is an obvious vector for manipulation. Given that. Voting machines provide little benefit and more risk.
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by cudgy 1y ago
401k is voluntary
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by cudgy 1y ago
Says the 19 year old startup founder who drops out of college and has it made before most people even start thinking of what they want to do. We’re all supposed to believe what? That the extremely rare 19 year old startup founders of the wo
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by cudgy 1y ago
Calling people “normies” is elitist and snobish, so there is a dichotomy.
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by cudgy 1y ago
Luring people into money-losing/harmful scenarios is by definition predatory.
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by cudgy 1y ago
Underground is an appropriate place for this activity, no? You want your kids betting their savings on this trash? Your mom and dad wasting their retirement?
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by cudgy 1y ago
Maybe divorce, crime, homelessness, bankruptcy, suicide, to name a few?
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by cudgy 1y ago
You have zero clue about my faith. The days of the peaceful anti-war Democratic party are gone, buddy. The sooner that the Democrats realize it and start to reverse course to where they once were, the sooner the Democratic Party can return
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by cudgy 1y ago
So, the Democrats would be different as it relates to the current wars? Democratic Party cheered on the Ukraine war. Democratic Party voted for Iraq along with Republicans after 911. I think a single Democrat (who later voted for the Ukrain
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by cudgy 1y ago
Might be wrong but a quick search indicates that there have been 20 government shutdowns since 1976. That is certainly not not normal.
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by cudgy 1y ago
Mainstream news is boring, repetitive, uninformative, and mainly representative of the extremes of politics. This type of programming is not attractive to most people, only shallow political junkies consume it voraciously. Most people care
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by cudgy 1y ago
Lack of spine? Or is it just lack of substance? Lack of credibility? Lack of talent? Lack of focus on the issues that people actually care about? Lack of leadership? Lack of a real true grass roots base? The Democrats are basically in compl
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by cudgy 1y ago
Interesting. I live at low altitudes and I almost always have to cook noodles longer than the instructions on the box. Now I only use Italian pasta like DeCecco or Rummo.
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by cudgy 1y ago
Your examples of cryptocurrency and sports gambling are a perfect example of my criticism. There are virtually no people that are sophisticated enough to succeed in either of those activities as they are all based on pure speculation and lu
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by cudgy 1y ago
So only snobby elitists get to vote?
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by cudgy 1y ago
True. Average people are sophisticated enough to understand complex financial instruments designed to scam them by an army of lawyers and MBAs trained at the finest financial institutions and law schools.
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by cudgy 2y ago
So you don’t have to buy a new set of cables when you forget to bring them on a long trip?
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by cudgy 2y ago
Not sure it’s practical to hot swap EV batteries right now. “An electric vehicle battery typically weighs between 300 kg (660 pounds) and 900 kg (2,000 pounds).” https://poweringautos.com/how-much-does-an-electric-car-batt..
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by cudgy 2y ago
Does this calculation account for the 10-20% electrical energy loss during transmission across the grid?
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by cudgy 2y ago
How do you verify this when AIs are not idempotent?
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by cudgy 2y ago
Reminiscent of the dramatic release of a Syrian prisoner reported on CNN that was determined to be fake. “CNN is acknowledging that a gripping story it aired last week depicting a Syrian man being let free from a Damascus prison after the f
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by cudgy 2y ago
I believe the prior post is referring to first generation students that receive their primary education in foreign countries. Like I said in another post, the environment in these primary schools in the United States is just not set up for
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by cudgy 2y ago
At least they have physical textbooks. Many classes now only provide links to a PDF document and the students still pay $100-$200 for the privilege. Plus, you can’t recover a portion of the cost of the book by reselling it nor can students
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by cudgy 2y ago
Sorry, but your attempt to reframe my response was not successful. If AI is harmful to society, the “winning” of the AI race may not be beneficial to that society.
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by cudgy 2y ago
What’s bad is the lack of ability to look at one’s own area of the world and recognize the faults in your own backyard while wailing about equal faults in other areas of the world as if they are unique.

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