erkt

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by erkt 2y ago
The movie is awful but the book is a lot of fun and features last months Eclipse in the opening scene. I hate to see Jack McDevitt’s work trashed.
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by erkt 3y ago
Some people feel a moral imperative to try to steal from these stores.
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by erkt 3y ago
Hey look something that’s perfect, let’s fix it.
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by erkt 3y ago
That is Europe vs the US. Europe has almost 800million people, US less than 350million. On a per capital basis the average American has outspent the average European by a significant margin.
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by erkt 3y ago
The verdict is not yet out on the Vision Pro but otherwise your point stands.
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by erkt 3y ago
The Russian people overwhelmingly support the genocide their leader is committing on their neighbor, but you are against taking away Burger King?
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by erkt 3y ago
Management should rot in prison.
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by erkt 3y ago
This extreme pessimism is held with almost religious fervor. It’s terrifying what an unstable person on who holds these beliefs could rationalize in the name of saving the world.
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by erkt 3y ago
In the US, they tried to give Aaron Swartz 35 years and he wasn’t extorting anyone for money. The time these charges carry is excessive and cruel.
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by erkt 3y ago
Whoops that’s embarrassing.
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by erkt 3y ago
Gwen Shotsell, Tom Mueller, Hans Koenigsmann to name a few. But someone still had to hire this crew.
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by erkt 3y ago
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, Let's try. In the context of the ongoing debate on media piracy, recent actions by major streaming companies have brought to light a critical ethical dilemma. These corporations, wieldi
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by erkt 3y ago
A glass of wine isn’t drunk driving. The concern is allowing a computer to make what could amount to life a death decisions. I’m sure you can imagine that there are lots of people who live in different situations than you. Waiting for an am
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by erkt 3y ago
Literally all rights are privileges and protections granted by the government. It’s funny to read someone write “US goes full fascist” in a negative light while actively arguing to take away freedoms from law abiding Americans. It’s already
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by erkt 3y ago
Unfortunate, but not something I can disagree with.
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by erkt 3y ago
https://chat.openai.com/share/1b004d79-0ff3-4935-b6ca-a82833... Did you use ChatGPT 3.5 once a year ago or something? The models change often. Edit: most people would struggle to reverse a 20+ digit number if it was li
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by erkt 3y ago
An individual doesn’t stand to inherit the equivalent of a life time or labor because “their parents happened to live in California”. They stand to inherit it because their parents worked hard their entire lives and invested an obscene amou
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by erkt 3y ago
Trusts complicate this.
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by erkt 3y ago
This is a wild take.
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by erkt 3y ago
>That sounds possible, but is it really a problem? Yes. Level 2 Charging takes around 30-40amps. How many amps does your home have? Can your utility handle all your neighbors doubling capacity? Can you charge your car and still run your
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by erkt 3y ago
Seems awfully authoritarian. Give people a clean option like hydrogen fuel created by green power. Electric cars require infrastructure that even Blue states like California lack without serious investment. Failing to put yourself in the sh
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by erkt 3y ago
Is no one using AI models for inferencing on Apple hardware? I imagine you can’t compress memory you are actively using. These computers must blue screen for even thinking of going to huggingface.
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by erkt 3y ago
Not people whose opinions differ from mine. /s
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by erkt 3y ago
Is he promoting hate speech or just not suppressing it? Who even gets to define hate speech? Often it seems to be speech that aligns with the other teams political agenda. Having a different opinion on something isn’t hate speech even if it
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by erkt 3y ago
Oh you are right I definitely over projected here and did not recognize the nuance in your argument. I do find in my experience, that most people do not restrict their definition as much as you have.
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by erkt 3y ago
Seems like a fancy way to argue that it’s ethical to discriminate against white people because there is a historical debt to settle. Laying claim to culture is dumb, but everyone wants to feel special. One’s culture is less at risk from app
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by erkt 3y ago
Time to normalize personal white noise generators.
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by erkt 3y ago
These companies need to be dismantled. Every small shop this happens to should focus on documentation and suing for damages. This is negligence.