ethagknight

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by ethagknight 1y ago
>> unfortunate reality is that there’s an entire constellation of municipal services and infrastructure required for even suburban development. These things cost money and the best way to raise that money is to charge the people who b
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by ethagknight 1y ago
That’s actually what the article says is being addressed, just prioritizing action against the content neutral act. >> therefore cover desecration of a flag stolen from government property, or flag burning in a fire hazard zone on fed
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by ethagknight 1y ago
I’m interested in better understanding why some actions constitute speech, but other actions don’t. Setting aside the politics of the moment, Reading the text of the amendment, it seems like a real stretch to go from the text to “burning a
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Are there massive subsidies for humanoid robots?
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by ethagknight 1y ago
This highlights the potentially unrealistic spend on AI, where the proposal is to spend 10s of millions to save... marginal millions... that could have also been saved by a change in process with limited additional spend. I also would assum
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Im imagining my actual experience of being transferred for the 3rd or 4th time, repeating my name and address for the 3rd or 4th time, restating my problem for the 3rd or 4th time... feels like theres an implementation problem, not a techno
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Oh so now you want the game developer to actually complete the game and make sure it works before shipping it??
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Well, that press release was issued Jan 3 2025 by the incumbent appointed by the Biden regime. Whichever way you want to argue it... it's political. The wikipedia article about then-US Attorney for DC includes this note: "Under Gr
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Well. My Tesla has been driving me around for a couple years now. it's not perfect but it's certainly not a fantasy to eliminate the human driver observation components and just let it rip. I dont know where Tesla stands in terms
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Given that AI is core to Tesla's robotic and self driving future, it seems like theres a lot more to this story than what has been leaked thus far.
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by ethagknight 1y ago
It seems like an increased executive mandate on the telcos is an odd thing to cheer for, and im not convinced a mandate from FCC is really necessary any more. The fiber installation (networking, boring, marketing) industry has dramatically
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by ethagknight 1y ago
author was just making a joke here. Yes it's all the same water in the US although some towns in actually have greywater distribution systems, mostly for irrigation and fire hydrants.
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by ethagknight 1y ago
None of those are antitrust, those are just examples of basic consumer complaints.
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by ethagknight 1y ago
This is the manufacturing cost, not the retail MSRP. _Never_ make the mistake of assuming a market is perfectly efficient and any corporate savings along the way will be passed along to the consumer. When Apple or Google comes along and buy
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Didn’t JWST recently present confounding evidence against one of of the core assumptions of big bang theory, thereby invalidating it? Something about the faint, far off “redshift” background radiation from the beginning of time was actually
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Irredeemable? Yikes. Strong disagree, not sure it’s worth debating the more nuanced aspects. There’s a whole lot more to the conflict than you are acknowledging, and it was very messy on all sides.
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Calling this terrorism or a war crime shows the GP has a strong bias and lacking of understanding the reality of the war, or what war even is
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Well, that’s one way to look at it. Another is to consider the fact that the target was an Antonov 2. How did that get there?? Soviets were the original invader, following a power vacuum from the fall of Japan and inability of France to ree
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Won the skirmish, lost the battle (and the war). I guess the plane radioed back how lightly defended it was. >> The significance of Lima Site 85 became even more evident weeks later when the site was overrun by North Vietnamese forces
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Well no not at all, the loans already exist, and I guess you assume write offs are a given, so rip the bandaid off? Why not work to avoid? Loans are tied to a term, borrowers can resolve their own liquidity issues, so it’s not crazy to give
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Isnt the obvious answer for the Fed to start dropping interest rates somewhere in between the 0 and current level? eases a lot of pressure on the underlying assets and allows for markets to start moving again. Even if it's a short repr
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by ethagknight 1y ago
I get and agree that 'super accounts' like Musk or Taylor Swift or Barack Obama can have an outsized impact that is too powerful. Strongly argue that TODAY has far more diversity of thought being communicated on various media than
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Ive noticed very clearly a material change even on this site, where a comment with a conservative viewpoint would get downvoted into oblivion, and now I seem to see far more diversified opinions. Which is great, I want that.
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Manufactured consensus is literally the name of the game for the big news networks. News is/was paid vast sums by the government to tell a certain story. That is Manufactured Consensus. Some countries do a better job making the news se
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Funny you should choose Walmart as your hardship example, as they have a very generous educational benefit program for their employees. Many corporations do. All are contingent upon showing up for work! It’s ok to have obligations in exchan
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by ethagknight 1y ago
And your position is a demand for someone else to pay you to attend class?
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by ethagknight 1y ago
I’m glad it worked for you, however this is not an opinion, it’s a worldview, and it is unethical and unscrupulous to use government funding to pay people to remotely attend a community college course. This is several steps beyond the inten
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by ethagknight 1y ago
Can’t show up for one day? That is such an incredibly low bar to also ask them to sit through a long series of courses and test. These college colleges are state funded, so if the person is overseas or on the opposite side of the US… then w
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by ethagknight 1y ago
The whole discussion revolves around credentialing and certification that you actually learned the stuff you claim to have learned, that you jumped through the hoops required by a given college system whose reputation you want to lever into
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by ethagknight 1y ago
You present hypothetical scenario of up against the reality they getting paid to “attend” online class is a total farce, diluting the value of a diploma or degree from that community college system well also stealing away resources.

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