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by docdeek 1y ago
The FAMA story links to examples, though not all of the links remain live. One of the first was from a police officer who had posted on social media, "If he can scream he can breath, something else was going on. I’ve been pepper spraye
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FIRE has a list of people fired for making offensive comments after Kirk’s killing [0]. FAMA has something similer for people fired for making offensive comments after Floyd’s killing [1]. FIRE calls it the tragedy cycle: "A tragedy ha
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by docdeek 1y ago
This article specifically mentions and links to Geerling’s piece.
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by docdeek 1y ago
This was similar to my take. What's dystopian about how the Chinese system was/is/was rumored to be was that it was the government doing the tracking and scoring.
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> The compute moat is getting absolutely insane. We're basically at the point where you need a small country's GDP just to stay in the game for one more generation of models. For what it is worth, $13 billion is about the GDP o
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by docdeek 1y ago
You're gonna keep on creating new accounts, huh?
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by docdeek 1y ago
You’re right on this point, but my read of the article was that you can buy the fastest trains in the world but if your infrastructure is not up to enabling them, they won’t go much faster than the ones you have already.
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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please(theringer.com)
1 points by docdeek 1y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 1y ago
>> Clarence "Uncle" Thomas's There's no need to use the Uncle Tom epithet to criticize the behavior you don't like in a Supreme Court judge.
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by docdeek 1y ago
I think that the chance of an EU and NATO member aligning themselves with Russia would be a lot lower than a 1 in 10.
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by docdeek 1y ago
How would that work? The options for a European nuclear umbrella would be a choice between Russia (practically impossible), the UK (unlikely to be outside of US influence) or France (only EU nuclear power). A homegrown nuclear weapon would
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Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here's What It Would Mean(nytimes.com)
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by docdeek 1y ago
I don’t think that it was the coverage (or lack of it) that had people associate that policy more with Trump than Harris. I think it is far more likely that Trump announcing it in June and talking about it for two months before Harris annou
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by docdeek 1y ago
>> Trump, with his lying and outright vote buying (No Taxes on Tips) is the kind of right wing candidate that can win enough immigrants to be nationally viable. Harris took the same position on 'no taxes on tips'. https:&#x
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by docdeek 1y ago
The article doesn't say where in the EU these cars are being sold (or will be sold). I've seen the odd one in and around the French city where I live and while my first reaction is "that's a big car" my second refle
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Is It Time to Move on from Dr. Seuss?(lithub.com)
1 points by docdeek 1y ago|0 comments
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Is it true in Lyon? I was under the impression that there was a special ticket to buy on peak pollution days but it was not free.
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The Secret Service did it to ensure the security of the second family. Via NYT: "Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, said that for security reasons, the agency asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to temporarily increase w
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by docdeek 1y ago
It is strange that showing ID to vote is controversial in the US and that providing basic ID to citizens for free to allow them to vote is a problem that seems difficult to solve (or want to solve). My anecdote: I am an EU citizen living in
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by docdeek 1y ago
I know it is not the same as ‘prove who you are to surf’ but when I open the page and am greeted with a note that explains that, in exchange for reading the article, The New Yorker will share my personal information with 219 different partn
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by docdeek 1y ago
There’s a bit more context in this article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bondi-takes-revenge-fami... According to this article, she self-reported to the DOJ ("Feinstein says that she took it upon herse
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by docdeek 1y ago
Those same laws exist here in France, too, even if they are a little more complex. The truth of a statement, for example, is not a sufficient defence if that truth is not something that is public. Making someones private life public, even i
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by docdeek 1y ago
It’s different to the US in some important ways. There are strict limitations on 'hate speech’, denial of the Holocaust is illegal, and there are laws still on the books (and some examples of media outlets being prosecuted for breaking
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In Australia, I managed to cut a year off my university studies by foregoing a Masters degree and pursuing an Honours degree instead. The usual route to the PhD was a 3 year Bachelors, 2 year Masters, and then into a PhD program. However, i
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by docdeek 1y ago
Would they not say "was killed" and so allow "killed himself/herself"?
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> Speaking from the university’s hilltop astrophysics lab, AMU President Eric Berton likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II. > As most of the resear
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This has been a good two weeks for US diplomacy: Israel-Iran ceasefire, DRC and Rwanda peace deal, and a 5% NATO defense spending pledge.
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In France we have a ‘right to the image’ where you have a right to stop someone taking your photo or having a photo of you published. People who contravene the rules can be punished with fines or more. From Wikipedia: "Public figures c
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by docdeek 1y ago
Quite a lot, even if it is a long term project. UNICEF reports that, "Between 2000 and 2022, 2.1 billion people gained access to safely managed drinking water and the number of people lacking at least basic drinking water services decr
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by docdeek 1y ago
‘Shut Up and Dance’ at 60% seems low. The three technologies the article references (Hacker blackmail, Webcam spying, Online coercion and extortion) all seem to be realities today. It’s one of the episodes that I think it most likely to ref

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