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by freen 2y ago
There’s an urban legend in NYC that every incoming mayor since something like 1890 gets a letter, handed down from mayor to mayor, signed by all of the mayors, that says something like, and I am guessing here, but it is supposedly a very sh
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by freen 2y ago
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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by freen 2y ago
Downvoted why? By the by, USAID was investigating Starlink in Ukraine. [0] CFPB and Twitter “money” [1] FAA and spacex. Etc etc etc. [0] https://oig.usaid.gov/node/6814 [1] https://www.npr.org/2025&#x2F
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by freen 2y ago
That not science, but yes, Putin has completely succeeded geopolitically. As has been shown multiple times in debates, the only actually adversarial environment Trump has allowed himself to participate in (Obama went to the GOP and explaine
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by freen 2y ago
Modest proposal: hacker news is not the most left leaning of web forums, However, there seems to be a fairly consistent and relatively unanimous view that the actions of the current republican administration are deeply problematic. If you h
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by freen 2y ago
They say on the internet, a direct result of DARPA funding.
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by freen 2y ago
USAID saved thousands and thousands of lives every year. And that is a massive understatement of the suffering and misery USAID prevented. It’s gone. People are dying because it’s gone.
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by freen 2y ago
We have seen it happen over and over again. When was the last time real science came out of Russia?
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by freen 2y ago
Tackling the “budget” by having an llm screen NSF grants for the word “bias” IS unserious.
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by freen 2y ago
Indeed. The only trick that consistently improves the lot of all participants in a civilization is to take a portion of the private surplus and apply it to the public good. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
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by freen 2y ago
Might be worthwhile to share who you are, you as humans. Lotta trust to give to a random website.
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by freen 2y ago
The United States elected someone who seriously thought drinking disinfectant was a good treatment for COVID. Also “shining a very bright light inside the body”. The obvious response: “it was a joke you humorless liberal!” It was not a joke
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by freen 2y ago
Ahh yes, the age old “let’s use a precious metal to denominate our currency” idea. Cryptocurrency bros are literally speedrunning the entirety of monetary system failures. All of them. You’d think, maybe after the first couple they’d read a
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by freen 2y ago
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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by freen 2y ago
Ehh… the Supreme Court actually did this for Trump. All “official” actions of the president are immune from prosecution. Biden just acted on it.
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by freen 2y ago
“Yes the planet got destroyed, but for beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.” https://frankkliewer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sharehol...
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by freen 2y ago
And steal the ip from your startup and then go public.
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by freen 2y ago
Yeah, nothing says “order and rules” like revoking and then reinstating all federal grants over the course of what, a day or two? Less? The order of things is that the GOP breaks everything, Democrats fix it all and get blamed for the painf
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by freen 2y ago
Oof. Correct.
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by freen 2y ago
Hmmm… what level of agreement would constitute sufficient cause for massive change? Eventually happen? What percentage of the Great Barrier Reef is gone? How about this every single climate change skeptic I have offered this wager to has de
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by freen 2y ago
Ooh… which ones? Classic Edgerton’s Fence: If you don’t know why someone put up a fence, don’t take it down.
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by freen 2y ago
Yeah, bureaucrat equals evil is an easy position to take: No one likes following the rules until they are responsible for cleaning up after the people who didn’t follow the rules.
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by freen 2y ago
Civil law is only available to deep pockets. Contracts are enforceable to the degree to which you can pay lawyers to enforce them. I will run out of money trying to enforce my terms of service against openAI, while they have a massive war c
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by freen 2y ago
Who will enforce such a rule? Speedrunning the history of civil society the dumb way. Law is the history of transgressions against the public good.
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by freen 2y ago
Actually, yes, they actively agreed to them. Clicked the button and everything.
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by freen 2y ago
There is an open doubt whether a fully functional coffee machine is currently orbiting Venus, however one of these hypotheses is different than the other. Hint: expertise matters, evidence matters, and in a field where buildings/laws&#
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by freen 2y ago
Did OpenAI abide by my service’s terms of service when it ingested my data?
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by freen 2y ago
Would love to see votes of case law where individuals/people/conpanies have successfully sued/prosecuted/convicted for violating the first amendment rights of other people/entities/companies etc. I bet spammers
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by freen 2y ago
Correct. It is the same, legally, and with respect to the first amendment to the constitution. You cannot force a private (read non-government) entity to endorse, publish, promote, host, etc. anything. It’s their choice. Morally equivalent?
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by freen 2y ago
I have some delightful “medicine” for you to buy. It’s cheaper than the alternative, though, if there is rat poison in it, there is nothing you can do! Caveat Emptor is a shit way to run a society. It incentivizes the sociopaths. Both Hippi

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