etchalon

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by etchalon 11mo ago
You haven't met a lot of poor people, then.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
Growing up with a single mother we've vacillated between being poor, broke and "getting by". It was always a reverse slide down. First, we'd go broke. The meager savings she'd put together would get wiped out. It wa
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by etchalon 11mo ago
"All of the general guidance to escape being poor is actually advice for getting through being broke." Paragraph level upvoting needs to be a thing.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
Why would you kill a thing that works so well, is so flexible, and does not have an equal yet? I do not understand.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
There were 623,000 children in the field trial (placebo/non-placebo). There was an additional million who acted as controls (not directly a part of the study, but used a baseline measure of polio incidents in the population surrounding
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by etchalon 11mo ago
There was one field scale test of the polio vaccine, in 1954. It included about ~700,000 children. There was not three years of staged testing, let alone millions of children within those three years. Please look up these timelines.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
What a stupid car.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
3 years is not decades, and there was not 3 years between testing and wide-spread deployment for the polio. There was basically a year. There was also only 3 years between the testing of the combination MMR vaccine and its license and deplo
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by etchalon 11mo ago
They alleged it in point 4? "Defendants have refused to recognize this protection. Powered by LLMs containing copies of Times content, Defendants’ GenAI tools can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes
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by etchalon 11mo ago
Yes, they were, at least to the extent that we required children in schools to be vaccinated, people in the military, etc. This is literally how we eradicated polio in children. Christ, y'all are weird.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
We only have decades of safety data because those vaccines have existed for decades. This is one of the stranger complaints of the anti-vax movement.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
If they're reproducing NY Times articles, in full, that that is non-transformative. That's the point of the case.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
This is so transparently disingenuous and weird.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
I invite you to talk to literally any woman.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
And yet, they lack pockets. Mysteries abound.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
Products like these wouldn't need to exist if we just let women have pockets.
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by etchalon 11mo ago
Most people struggle to just to stay in front of their bills. It has nothing to do with "willing" and has everything to do with "able".
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by etchalon 11mo ago
The "MacPad" already exists. It's called the iPad Pro. It uses the M5 chip.
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by etchalon 1y ago
"A machine which simulates thought for people who don't want to think" is an adequate summation of LLM-generated text.
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by etchalon 1y ago
Grok trained on Wikipedia so it could generate a version of Wikipedia that reflected Musk's views that could then be used to train future versions of Grok.
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by etchalon 1y ago
The entire issue is that, despite the law, some people refuse to feed everyone. And not a small handful of people, but a sizable enough population that their actions mean millions aren't fed. That's my point. Your "solution&q
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by etchalon 1y ago
Nothing in my post mentioned reparations, nor did it imply that all efforts are equal or even valid. The foolish idea is that you can't do anything about racism because it'd require helping some people while not helping others. Wh
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by etchalon 1y ago
We don't have to pretend it's not racist when it's factually not racist. And there's not really a debate about whether it rights historic wrong. There is a debate about whether righting historic wrongs is even possible.
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by etchalon 1y ago
Donated, and happy to. It's shocking how fast this administration has gotten institutions to abandon their beliefs, and ones that don't should be rewarded.
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by etchalon 1y ago
pro-skin-diversity is a real weird way to say "against racism."
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by etchalon 1y ago
There is absolutely no evidence it was used without his knowledge.
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by etchalon 1y ago
The autopen has been widely used without controversy, including by Trump.
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by etchalon 1y ago
Eggs were so expensive though. /s
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by etchalon 1y ago
In no part of my post was there anything about my president vs. your president.
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by etchalon 1y ago
He was pretty explicit about the reason why. He feared Trump would force the DOJ to prosecute them. And, based on what Trump's done so far with the DOJ and his enemies, he was right to do so.

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