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by dadjoker 3y ago
There was nothing inconsequential about their disastrous effects, especially on kids, with zero benefit. The "cure" was worse than the disease.
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by dadjoker 3y ago
Wow, where to start, whether it's the well documented inhibition of language development in young kids who are learning to speak and are unable to see mouth movement, to the demonstrated health problems caused by breathing in your exha
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by dadjoker 3y ago
That is an outright lie, and IMO the past three years have shown in many ways their approach was the right one.
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by dadjoker 3y ago
Gives new meaning to the phrase about generating something from thin air...
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by dadjoker 3y ago
That goes without saying. As with any model, it's garbage in, garbage out. The bias of the OpenAI developers has already been demonstrated easily by asking questions regarding political figures, and the polar responses dependent on the
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by dadjoker 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by dadjoker 3y ago
Once again, useful products are made from mimicking the obvious design of the human body and its functionality. This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last.
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by dadjoker 3y ago
The more discoveries like this are made, the stronger the anthropic principle becomes.
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by dadjoker 3y ago
As California has shown multiple times, dependence on electricity alone can be disastrous.
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by dadjoker 3y ago
Wow, that is supposedly a straight news article?
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by dadjoker 3y ago
These are the same people that laughed at Trump when he raised the dangers of dependence on Russian oil. That worked out well.
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How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023(steventey.com)
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by dadjoker 4y ago
Is that like Al Gore's prophecies from at least a decade ago claiming that certain cities would be underwater by now? https://www.wsj.com/articles/al-gores-climate-sequel-misses-...
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by dadjoker 4y ago
The United States charged a fictional mohawk-wearing character from the movie Major League, with election interference. It did so under a statute that never mentions “election interference.” In the leadup to the 2016 presidential election,
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by dadjoker 4y ago
She complains about what Texas is doing like it's a bad thing.
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by dadjoker 4y ago
This comports with this study I saw recently. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01453-0 And yet in the name of "safety" and "protection" our betters forced isolation on everyone, and we are
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by dadjoker 4y ago
Isn't peer review supposed to catch stuff like this? I mean, that's supposedly the "gold standard" for studies, right?
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by dadjoker 4y ago
"What many people failed to understand, and therefore failed to defend, is an unpleasant fact of intellectual liberalism: When speech causes emotional or mental pain, the offended parties are morally entitled to nothing in the form of
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by dadjoker 4y ago
The only other place I can think of where a 30% success rate is considered good is baseball batting averages.
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by dadjoker 4y ago
"Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said." Whi
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by dadjoker 4y ago
And the vast majority of "long COVID" sufferers are white females with pre-existing anxiety issues. Psychological issues are a very large contributing factor to "long COVID" https://news.harvard.edu/gazet
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by dadjoker 4y ago
Heh, the web dev geek in me made it so that the first thing I noticed about the page was the old school web page layout using tables.
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by dadjoker 4y ago
IMO yes. As I see it, this is countries with high taxes being jealous of countries with lower taxes, and so instead of maybe lowering taxes to become more competitive, they - along with the bloated EU leadership - bully the countries with a
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by dadjoker 4y ago
Not everyone who wants to deposit large amounts of currency is a criminal. Even though it has a facade of protection, this isn't about protection against criminals; it's about control and being able to track citizens.
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by dadjoker 4y ago
The speed in which Canada is going down the slippery slope of "compassion in dying" is almost supersonic and getting faster all the time. Pretty soon, the "choice to die" becomes the "obligation to die."
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by dadjoker 4y ago
One time, right in the middle of a job interview, I took out a book and started reading. The guy said, "What the hell are you doing?" I said, "Let me ask you one question; if you were in a vehicle, and you were traveling at t
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by dadjoker 4y ago
Yes, but it depends. In our case, we purposely made them fairly simple, with a 50% passing score required, just to make sure they can do the basics. When I was applying, I would get code tests that were off the charts, and would take hours,
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by dadjoker 4y ago
I experienced this same thing in 2020 when I was hunting for my current job. I lost count of how many places I applied to. Over the past year, I have been on the hiring side, and I can offer a few tips as well, based on filtering through ma
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by dadjoker 4y ago
When I was first getting into Drupal back in 2006, the Pro Drupal Development book by Matt Westgate and John VanDyk for Drupal 5 was an eye opener. I ended up doing Drupal development professionally for 10 years after that.
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by dadjoker 4y ago
I wonder if it tracks his own carbon footprint between his mansion and his private jet-setting.

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