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by danaris 3mo ago
... specifically because they were forced to pre-fund pensions to an absurd degree by a Republican Congress. And the sole purpose of this was to damage the USPS so that it looked like it was doing much worse than it really is, so that th
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by danaris 3mo ago
And if that's the case, then what it indicates is that USPS in your area is chronically understaffed and underfunded. Like...c'mon, this is not hard stuff to understand. There's no motive for the USPS to be neglecting last-mi
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by danaris 3mo ago
No, I'm using a convenient shorthand. The greed comes from the people running the corporation, at many levels. They're not interested in "doing something better"; they're interested in making the stock price go up f
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by danaris 3mo ago
The vast majority of tax revenue is calculated where the headquarters are located, not where the datacenter is located. I've seen multiple stories already talking about how these installations are almost universally net-negative for
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by danaris 3mo ago
You have fallen victim to the Two Guys Fallacy. In general, if you are observing a community, and you see what looks like a contradiction like this, almost every time what you're actually seeing is Two Guys: in this case, one portion
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by danaris 3mo ago
That only happens if the producers don't a) believe the crunch is caused by a bubble that's going to pop in a few months, or b) see the crunch as primarily an opportunity to rake in enormous short-term profits.
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by danaris 3mo ago
...For rural places in America, at least, they don't get sewer or water lines run to them. They have a septic tank and a well. Power lines are significantly easier to run than water/sewer.
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by danaris 3mo ago
But in rural areas, Verizon, at the very least, is deliberately neglecting their copper, and not replacing it with fibre. For people whose service degrades or stops working entirely, what do they offer instead? Wireless. Which has much hi
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by danaris 3mo ago
It was both . If you wanted to do dynamic stuff in IE, you had to use ActiveX. Which was IE-only. So many sites only used ActiveX, because IE was the 900lb gorilla, so why support anything else?
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by danaris 3mo ago
> Interesting that on one hand the valuation of these AI providers is based on the assumption that all code (and everything else producing digital artefacts) will be written using AI in the near future, on the other hand almost all popul
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by danaris 3mo ago
So you can run your project that way. You don't get to dictate that other people run their projects that way. > A pull request is a social artifact whose value and meaning is dependent on its author ... and the project to whi
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by danaris 3mo ago
Then let me spell it out for you, since you seem to be unaware: There are many, many colleges that have no grad students. Period. They are undergraduate colleges . Expecting any college or university to just be able to scale up the amount
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by danaris 3mo ago
Do you think every institution of higher education has a ready supply of grad students to just throw at problems that require manpower? Or were you just assuming your experiences (large university, I'm guessing) are universal?
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by danaris 4mo ago
I'm sorry, at what point in the late 1800s was the President of the US actively enriching himself at the taxpayers' expense, openly taking bribes from foreign countries, and threatening the families of members of Congress who he f
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by danaris 4mo ago
Most people do not have the ability to emigrate. Hell, a great many people barely have the economic ability to move across their own state, but emigration requires that the country you're trying to move to is willing to let you live
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by danaris 4mo ago
Um...what? Desertion has, historically, been a capital crime. Trying to paint conscription as not being a kind of captivity because "you're not legally obligated to stay in your country" is at best wildly disingenuous, an
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by danaris 4mo ago
I mean, to be fair, so is slavery. I think it's important to acknowledge that conscription is a violation of human rights, and absolutely a violation of human autonomy and dignity. The reason it exists is because historically, the pr
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Right now, the world can’t come close to making all the stuff people want. Right now, the world is making all the stuff people need and then some. Poverty and hunger, in the 21st century, are distribution problems . (And, inevitably
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by danaris 4mo ago
No, I agree; they're not the same thing. But that doesn't mean they aren't tightly interwoven. And I don't see how usefulness comes into it.
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by danaris 4mo ago
> the NLRA is in desperate need of reform by Congress and political actors across the US have stymied progress. To be clear, even leaving aside the current DC fiasco, Congress as a whole, and the Republican Party most especially, activel
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by danaris 4mo ago
If that ever starts happening, let us know. I don't see any evidence that current LLMs even have a path to that.
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by danaris 4mo ago
It would've been a good reason to leave the EU, but a) Chat Control was barely a concern in 2016, and b) no the fuck it wasn't, the main reasons the UK left the EU are racism and being lied to about being able to get sweetheart de
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by danaris 4mo ago
Well, for one thing, it has to have consciousness behind it. And yes, I know that humans are conscious. And yes, I know that LLMs are not. You can throw out loads of BS philosophy to try to obfuscate these clear, obvious facts, but they bot
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by danaris 4mo ago
> You see sins. I can't speak for mastermage, but I don't see sins. I see addictions , and vultures preying on them and actively profiting from exploiting their self-destruction.
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by danaris 4mo ago
While I generally agree with you that employers should absolutely not be asking for this sort of information, they're still going to be able to make a very good guess at your general age by the dates of your education and employment.
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by danaris 4mo ago
How much of this is because they're both correlated with socioeconomic status?
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by danaris 4mo ago
My wife and I are perfect poster children for demonstrating the danger in making the assumption that tests are an accurate assessment of someone's mastery of material. My wife has anxiety, and the time-limited, high-stakes, pass-or-fai
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by danaris 4mo ago
Mine? None. Because I don't use Chrome. It's spyware.
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Do I have to tell users to download and run some executable? Well, yes . The alternative is to give any malicious ad the ability to drive-by-download malware onto your machine.
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by danaris 4mo ago
Counterexample: I've never gotten a single job through nepotism and references, and I'm in my mid-40s. Indeed, I just got a new job—on a different continent!—this year by applying blind, interviewing well, and impressing them with

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