elmomle

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by elmomle 16d ago
Just a couple of days ago, a customer rep at a company we partner with dropped a long doc that had basic reasoning errors once you got into the individual sections. I would have much preferred if the rep had written a shorter document and r
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by elmomle 16d ago
Just to add context and not to comment on rightness, that was one of the early core purposes of policing--to ensure that a people in a particular public space (where either the people or the space are particularly vulnerable) are free from
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by elmomle 20d ago
This is fascinating, and there's a key inconsistency in the article that points to an unresolved mystery. The author posits that sweet potatoes and tobacco moved into the highlands through intermarriage. Yet he later acknowledges that
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by elmomle 1mo ago
It has been said that a person cannot serve two masters. The incentive system in the West right now is structured such that corporate executives gain a great reward from serving their company, and little punishment from failing to serve hum
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by elmomle 1mo ago
There are many cities in the US where renting a scooter to travel a couple miles is as fast as (often faster than) waiting for and riding in a car, and costs perhaps a third as much. But I can't speak for whether this solar car is any
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by elmomle 1mo ago
This is a big part of it for me. The old Internet was full of individuals sharing deep passion--whether on a personal website or on a forum. There was a sense of connecting to another human being. This is the only forum-style site I regul
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by elmomle 2mo ago
We can talk about this on a legal or a moral basis. I'm not a lawyer, so I'll focus on the moral basis. If company A offloads some of its work to company B, and company B commits atrocities in a foreign company to keep costs dow
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by elmomle 2mo ago
There's a way of saying "we need to acknowledge that it's probably bad when either 'side' does this, due to our commitment to a deeper desire for truth", and the original comment ended up sounding more like &qu
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by elmomle 2mo ago
Not to get all philosophical, but what does "content of character" mean apart from actions and words? If anything I'd say content of character is something we must infer from actions and words (and yes, actions are far more
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by elmomle 3mo ago
There is a world of difference between (1) a random individual collecting a few people's faces and voices and (2) a huge corporation nonconsensually collecting that information at a mass scale (and with location!) in an age when identi
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by elmomle 4mo ago
The underlying idea here seems to be that if there's some chance of full recovery, one should not wish to be let go. Is it better for 100 families to live for years with a vegetative loved one with the most realistic hope being that a
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by elmomle 4mo ago
Yet we have laws around child endangerment. I'm a big supporter of parental sovereignty, but I also acknowledge that if society operates the way it does, I can't immediately think of a good reason why "mental health endanger
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by elmomle 4mo ago
It is also a class marker. I intentionally lived without a car in West Coast city as a younger man, and I learned to be very selective about whom I told. The vast majority of people would assume that the only reason for not having a car i
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by elmomle 4mo ago
Exactly--they're paid a lot of money for their reputation, which is valuable in offering cover for politically difficult decisions. This was certainly net-negative for E&Y's reputation.
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by elmomle 4mo ago
I want to poke at this a little. I don't think the ribs on the handle of a knife qualify as skeuomorphism, since they serve a distinct functional purpose independent of their origin (namely, better grip). I do agree that "leather
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by elmomle 4mo ago
I think there's more nuance to it. The big failing of progressive movements is that they seek, often from a position of disadvantage, to impose power over society too, but in the ways they feel are more just. The vast majority of pro
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by elmomle 4mo ago
Many Catholic believers are huge stickers for tradition. The previous Pope didn't go nearly so far as to allow female clergy, and he was not viewed with respect by many conservative Catholics. If the Pope declared that the church mus
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by elmomle 4mo ago
If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America?
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by elmomle 5mo ago
Arguably, just to leave them alone, neither exploiting nor trying to "help". It sucks and it hurts, but outside interference does not seem to help a society heal itself. This has been argued by more informed people than myself--
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by elmomle 5mo ago
Could it be that they haven't been so infected by the money bug that for now they still have a society oriented around happiness and maintaining traditional ways of life rather than economic attainment?
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by elmomle 5mo ago
The US has been seizing fuel shipments en route to Cuba. What do you call that, if not a blockade?
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by elmomle 5mo ago
He will say whatever it takes to get the result he wants. That's manipulative and, when pursued as a lifestyle, sociopathic. Living like that is corrupting. When you treat humans like objects, the question of your starting intentions
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by elmomle 5mo ago
Yes, and: the rot started long ago, this is just what it looks like when it goes unchecked. To quote Mencius: Mencius went to see King Hui of Liang. The king said, “Venerable sir, since you have not counted it far to come here, may I presu
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by elmomle 5mo ago
That is so, but my understanding was that those later stories tie back to a lost epic (Iliupersis) that, while not officially attributed to Homer, was being sung contemporaneously with the other stories of the Trojan war cycle.
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by elmomle 5mo ago
They'd generate a huge amount of ill will by shutting it down, and that in turn would likely lead to a nontrivial share of people moving away from Google core products (like search) out of pure spite.
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by elmomle 5mo ago
I used to get lower back pain standing in concerts. For me, the pain had a lot to do with not properly engaging my glutes and core while standing still or moving slowly. Yoga was very helpful--it taught me to use my muscles to carry my bod
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by elmomle 5mo ago
It was a very special time when the Internet was full of people's open, personal gardens. I feel fortunate for having experienced that because it showed me what's out there if I look, and I want to cultivate the pleasure of findi
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by elmomle 5mo ago
The sad thing that I haven't been able to resolve in my mind is that this is a cultural multi-party prisoners' dilemma among sovereign entities. From a power-centric point of view, if my neighbors intentionally cast off modern tec
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by elmomle 5mo ago
That paper is about retrieving the input (prompt from user) based on the hidden-layer activations of a trained LLM, since their mappings are 1-to-1. I don't think it makes any claims about training data, certainly not about being able
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by elmomle 5mo ago
Tit for tat (start by cooperating, and for each subsequent choice do what your opponent did last turn) is the optimal for repeated 2-party prisoners' dilemma. The real world is much more complex. OPEC is a multi-party game, for starte

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