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by fastball 2y ago
That isn't the failure mode at all, that was given as the result of the failure (once it was already too late to reverse course). The next line which you forgot to quote was: "The world pays next to no attention as the American
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by fastball 2y ago
Not letting Iran get nukes sounds like a great way to avoid further escalation in the region.
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by fastball 2y ago
Musk and DOGE do not deserve a dunk that is a lie just because they deserve some comeuppance in general.
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by fastball 2y ago
1875 being the result of Y2K work makes no sense to me. Also the social media claim was that "this is how COBOL works", not "this is how the SS system works". It does not seem that the person who made the original social
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by fastball 2y ago
Lot of weasel words in there. "Virtually no one" and "genuinely important" stick out. You also say that these people have a PhD, not that they did the genuinely important research when they were getting their PhD. The
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by fastball 2y ago
No, the claim without substantive evidence is that COBOL backdates to 1875. If the source-of-truth for SS payments is the database and associated COBOL system, and that system reports payments being made to 150 year olds, that is bad. We sh
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by fastball 2y ago
You literally have that backwards. The misinfo is that COBOL would be back-dating to 1875, as is made clear by the linked StackExchange thread and anyone else that has actually used COBOL. Regardless, people without an accurate age in the S
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by fastball 2y ago
Where have you heard the Trump admin wants Israel to attack Iran? I haven't seen that news. And yes, ending the Russian-Ukrainian war is in fact de-escalation, even if giving Russia what they want is the outcome.
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by fastball 2y ago
You don't think European moral values are wildly divergent? Also Europe isn't exactly known for its technological innovation in [current year], so not sure what technology you'd be talking about anyway. If you want moral alig
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by fastball 2y ago
What are you talking about? This isn't about Elon Musk. This is a SE thread about whether or not COBOL backdates to 1875, consensus being that it does not do that.
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by fastball 2y ago
What is one subject you need to be doing a PhD in order to research the subject?
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by fastball 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up :)
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by fastball 2y ago
You don't need to pursue a PhD to do research, which I think underlies some of the pushback. If you don't care about the credentials or being an career academic, a doctoral program can add a lot of friction for little benefit if t
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by fastball 2y ago
EDIT: went ahead and mirrored their website[1] for the time being while they figure it out. --- Website seems broken (repo deleted?), had to go here[2] instead. And here is the paper[3] the website is about. [1] https://cambrian.
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by fastball 2y ago
I guess the basis in law is "I fired the entire DOJ so there is nobody to enforce it, we'll just have to wait until those positions are filled again".
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by fastball 2y ago
I'd expect that as well, but we can't really assume that. Being a minority does not make you underrepresented. Underrepresented means there are fewer than you'd expect, given population-level numbers. In the Rust community
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by fastball 2y ago
I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
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by fastball 2y ago
The "blue" is specifically about police, so it is not as generic as you make it out to be.
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by fastball 2y ago
Is it incessant? I would expect the average Asahi Linux user to know how to search GitHub issues and just upvote a request for a certain feature. If many people are creating noise that isn't great, however understanding which functiona
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by fastball 2y ago
That is assuming everyone who is one of those groups first sees themselves as marginalized. imo it would've been better to not have that first question and just ask people which group they identify with.
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by fastball 2y ago
That seems to be more about culture, which is separate from race or location.
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by fastball 2y ago
Which in that case is Denatonium Benzoate.
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by fastball 2y ago
It was a joke.
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by fastball 2y ago
I didn't say anyone forced him to make the original offer.
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by fastball 2y ago
How do you mean? There were major loans to buy Twitter, but AFAIK Musk brought on a bunch of other people so that's not entirely on him. Other than that what is he extended into?
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by fastball 2y ago
Is anti -confirmation bias a thing? More likely to notice politics when it is not your own politics.
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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, I am saying all this in full agreement that there should be requirements for cancellations to be as easy as subscribing, which we have. That said... Companies are a collection of people. They are not your slaves either. Saying "
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by fastball 2y ago
Depends on where the structural discrimination is and what form it is taking. "American society" is a little broad – I don't think there is a single solution (at that scale) which will do more good than harm.
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by fastball 2y ago
The status quo is equal footing. Profits and companies are not being put over people when you require people to cancel a subscription that they created. To claim that is to assign almost zero agency to "people". Forcing companies
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by fastball 2y ago
The comment I was replying to suggested an FTC "mandate". I think its great if Kagi proactively chooses to do this themselves. I think it bad if you force companies to do this.

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