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A "Pay Penalty" is keeping men out of classrooms(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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China's Deepsink Outsmarted America(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
I'm not sure I'm following you. My comment re Chinese room was that parent said the data processing we now have was unimaginable back in the day. In fact, it was imaginable - the Chinese room imagined it.
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by erehweb 2y ago
The room is possible because there's someone inside with a big list of rules of what Chinese characters to reply with. This represents the huge amount of data processing and statistical power. When the thought expt was created, you cou
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by erehweb 2y ago
Huge amounts of data and processing power are arguably the foundation for the "Chinese room" thought experiment.
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Popcorn Is Taxed at Three Rates in India – Nation Says This Is Why We're a Mess(wsj.com)
6 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
It sounds like you think the SC was wrong in 1965 in saying you couldn't ban contraceptive use. https://time.com/archive/6833872/the-law-emanations-from-a-p... Not a stance I happen to agree with.
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by erehweb 2y ago
I agree with other commenters that the meaning is clear. But I think they underestimate how far the Supreme Court is willing to go to torture the meaning of the Constitution. Hopefully I am wrong.
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Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people(sfchronicle.com)
21 points by erehweb 2y ago|18 comments
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"LinkedIn Catfish" Created a Fake Profile to Expose Racial Inequity in Hiring(teenvogue.com)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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Congestion Pricing Has Eased NYC Traffic. Not Everyone Is Happy(wsj.com)
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Spike in baby deaths on Lucy Letby ward surprising and unusual, says stat prof(theguardian.com)
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by erehweb 2y ago
Reminiscent of the Twilight Zone episode where a criminal ends up in the afterlife. Spoilers in link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nice_Place_to_Visit
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Zuckerberg Debuts 'Real Mark' in Push to Woo Trump(wsj.com)
5 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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Reasons We Have Prison Gangs(asteriskmag.com)
3 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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Kids Turn to a Mental-Health Chatbot to Share Their Anxieties(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
If you're saying that "homeless" means something other than not having a home, that seems unnecessarily confusing. Re strings - I believe there has been some success in providing no-strings housing and then working on the oth
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by erehweb 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. From the article, basically no one was sleeping on the streets in Finland in 2020.
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by erehweb 2y ago
I think you may be thinking of transcendental numbers, which are a subset of irrational numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number
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The Lessons from Kodak's Decline [pdf](krlretirees.com)
3 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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One Man's Attempt to Get a Perfect 850 Credit Score(wsj.com)
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by erehweb 2y ago
Really high, and crazy, but apparently legit -see https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4443707/#:~:text=Br... .
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UK must ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net 0 catastrophe, says EV UK(theguardian.com)
2 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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The Levi Strauss Heir Elected to Save San Francisco(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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Do I Get Rich, or Go Bust? These Tools Predicted My Financial Future(wsj.com)
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Even Rich Retirees Fear Outliving Their Money(wsj.com)
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New Taiwanese boardgame offers chance to battle Chinese invasion(theguardian.com)
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by erehweb 2y ago
This article talks a bit about it - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/homeless-unh... - from the purported original creator: "They're unhoused. They have a home: Seattle is their
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by erehweb 2y ago
In the 20th century, trainspotters, radio hams, people who built toy model railways or had toy soldiers, science fiction fans, chess players come to mind. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak_(slang)
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For > 50 years BBC Somali service inadvertently broadcasted anti-colonial msg(theguardian.com)
7 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments

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