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by danaris 1y ago
I mean...this depends very heavily on what the purpose of the writing is. If it's to succinctly communicate key facts, then you write it quickly. - Discovered that Bilbo's old ring is, in fact, the One Ring of Power. - Took it
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by danaris 1y ago
> Why publish something brazenly self-serving that will at best be forgotten two weeks later, or at worst be added to the list of reasons a bunch of people have to hate you, when you could instead earn some goodwill as a benevolent thoug
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by danaris 1y ago
I think this paints it as more black-and-white, more set in stone, than it really is. True, the EU has not shown such an interest in the past. But that was when it could mostly trust that the US would, y'know, act like a sane and vag
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by danaris 1y ago
I think your assessment of homelessness in the US misses some things, though (or at least leaves them unstated): First, that it's not just that people "don't know how to live more simply", and thus cling to their homes t
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by danaris 1y ago
> In this case I would suspect the additional processing is not particularly environmentally friendly and quite energy intensive. Well, so is making steel. The question is how they compare.
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by danaris 1y ago
But a junior developer can learn and improve based on the specific feedback you give them. GPT5 will, at least to a first approximation, always be exactly as good or as bad as it is today.
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by danaris 1y ago
Is it a moral judgement to say that when the stove is on fire, we shouldn't be pouring more grease on it? Is it a moral judgement to say that you shouldn't pick up a bear cub with its mother nearby? If neither of these are mor
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by danaris 1y ago
...Is it the whole political class? Or is it the whole political party ?
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by danaris 1y ago
Right??? It's sooooo tacky and disgusting not to get West Nile virus! Everyone who's anyone just invites the mosquitoes in and plays the good host to them!
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by danaris 1y ago
But when a fringe belief has already been categorically, 100%, without the slightest doubt, been proven to be false, but a bunch of people keep claiming it's true anyway , the best thing to do is just to stop giving them a platform. T
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by danaris 1y ago
It is not at all true that all progress starts as a fringe belief. This is the negation of a categorical statement, not a categorically negative statement. Thus, all it means is that some progress does not start as a fringe belief.
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by danaris 1y ago
...Are families forced to ride separately? What country is this, anyway? Y'know, so my wife and I can never ever go there.
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by danaris 1y ago
From what I understand, among the intersex community, "hermaphrodite" is generally considered a slur. The term a) implies things that are not true of them (that they have multiple sets of functional genitalia), and b) is often use
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by danaris 1y ago
It is not baseless name-calling to dub someone a "fascist" when they exhibit all the well-known signs of fascism. There's too much pussyfooting around it these days. Trump is a fascist, as are the upper echelons of his admini
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by danaris 1y ago
There's plenty of resources to go around to make UBI (the "unconditional" is baked right in) make sense. There's plenty of work that people want to do , that's otherwise unprofitable, that UBI would enable. The b
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by danaris 1y ago
> So are we to compensate the workers who make pipes and plumbers that install them each time we open the tap and water comes out? This philosophy only really applies for things that we have to pay for on a subscription, or in a metered
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by danaris 1y ago
Right, because one really widely-known fact about CEOs is that whenever anything goes wrong at a company, they take the full blame, and if it's criminal, they go to jail! ....hey, wait a sec....
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by danaris 1y ago
The thing is, the most common spending that they attempt to cut is spending that has multiplier effects on the economy, because it's giving money (whether directly or indirectly) to the poorest people.
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by danaris 1y ago
No, I assure you, it is very common for doctors' offices not to know whether a particular procedure will be covered. This is not just because of the capriciousness of insurance adjusters, but because they have to deal with all the 27
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by danaris 1y ago
If they unilaterally amend the contract to go from 6 months' notice to 12 months' notice, then presumably you'd have to give your 12 month termination notice then and there... ...and hope they don't unilaterally amend th
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by danaris 1y ago
And maybe this has something to do with your personal definition of religion not matching the one that the rest of the world is operating under. "This is something I believe in firmly and will defend my belief in" is not what ma
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by danaris 1y ago
No, the best way would be to have legislation and regulation that mandates that level of service . "Voting with your wallet" cannot solve every issue, and that's never been more true than today. Rampant hyperconsolidation me
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by danaris 1y ago
Go to Time Machine Settings, click the very prominent Options button, and add things to the "Exclude from Backups" list.
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by danaris 1y ago
....no, pretty much by definition, "equity" means giving everyone what they need to do well. You may be confusing it with "equality of outcomes"?
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by danaris 1y ago
The BLS head got fired after delivering a report that Trump didn't like. I wouldn't count on being able to trust whatever they do, or don't, report for the time being.
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by danaris 1y ago
AI always meant AGI. AI also never meant AGI. Artificial Intelligence is an entire discipline of the Computer Science field. It encompasses everything from how Pinky, Blinky and Clyde chase Pac-Man, to A* search and similar pure algorithm
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by danaris 1y ago
No, lots of people who read a lot used em-dashes. Also, lots of people who use Macs, because it's very easy to type on a Mac (shift-option-hyphen). The reason LLMs use em-dashes is because they're well-represented in the train
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by danaris 1y ago
Amazon has so dominated online retail that there are many vendors that only sell through them. So if you want a certain item, your options are, if you're lucky , find a physical retail store that sells the item, or order it from Ama
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by danaris 1y ago
Abortion bans.
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by danaris 1y ago
There's even a specific court case setting precedent that there is no "fiduciary duty" to screw people over in pursuit of higher profits: > Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/

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