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by gdulli 6y ago
Not that this point is made in good faith or deserves a serious response, but the different patterns expected in early vs. late ballots was well known and reported in advance of the election, based on well established patterns from past ele
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Bernie was the front-runner until the week where every single candidate simultaneously dropped out to endorse Biden That's not true. https://i.imgur.com/EnsuC7N.jpeg https://www.bloomberg.com/graph
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by gdulli 6y ago
Believing that occurrence of an event with a forecasted 30% chance (or 2% chance) of occurring invalidates a model is so fundamentally a misunderstanding of the topic.
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by gdulli 6y ago
What the fuck? Your position is that there's something virtuous about exchanging currency for goods as long as you can do it from home, but leaving your house to do it in person is substantively different at all, let alone worthy of di
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by gdulli 6y ago
I'm young and healthy myself, and feel the temptation of that mindset on a base emotional level. But I'm also smart enough to realize that someday I might be 62 and benefit from living in a society that doesn't give up on add
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by gdulli 6y ago
We're all aware of the mortality rate, but not everyone finds sacrificing hundreds of thousands of sick and elderly to be viable just because the denominator is sufficiently large. It's the same reason we don't tell wheelchai
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Now that's considered misinformation though Are you taking the position that science and medicine aren't or shouldn't be about altering conclusions in response to gaining new facts and knowledge?
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by gdulli 6y ago
It's not like the commercial leases all ended overnight. By the time many of those leases are done, the world will be on track towards normalcy instead of away from it, and people will be dying to get out of the house and interact with
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by gdulli 6y ago
Do you mean the increased productivity will be the competitive advantage, or they'll have a recruitment advantage to be able to attract candidates with a comfortable work space so they're not stuck at home? As a hypothetical candi
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by gdulli 6y ago
You're exactly right that we don't have a single important principle we need to protect, we have a complex tapestry of many that we need to balance. Total censorship with total security isn't the answer. Total freedom with th
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by gdulli 6y ago
Since they send traffic to Amazon from people who want to buy things, I don't think Amazon minds. And I don't think they care if they pay out to any one affiliate vs. another.
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by gdulli 6y ago
Even if that was true in the needlessly inflammatory way you stated it, it has nothing to do with this.
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by gdulli 6y ago
> It's weird watching many of my friends and people I respect cheering while it happens They understand that "free speech" is one of many principles we value, that these principles can clash, and we inevitably have to choo
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by gdulli 6y ago
> But who gets to decide what is truth and lies? Twitter does. On Twitter. That's practically a tautology. Is your point that you didn't know the answer, or that we should descend into anarchy because attempting to answer diffi
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Every restaurant has the right to get rid of someone destroying their place, why can't Facebook? In this case, the two are linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong "The restaurant is the cen
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by gdulli 6y ago
A poll is a fact. It's not wrong. A model that gave Clinton a 70% chance of winning is not proven wrong if she loses. We can't know if the model is right or wrong unless we run the election many times.
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by gdulli 6y ago
You may remember Burkman and Wohl from such hits as: > In a late April 2020 press release, a woman claimed to have been sexually assaulted in 2014 by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Only T
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by gdulli 6y ago
Do those people know they've been hired for show, so that Amazon can deny that they're not trying to solve the problem that they're profiting from?
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by gdulli 6y ago
I only started Fallout 76 this summer so I can't speak to the bad state it launched in. But the recent major update got good word of mouth and it was on sale for $15. I haven't paid a dime extra and I've had a full single pla
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by gdulli 6y ago
There's no basis for calling it a failure (or success) since many theaters aren't open and the ones that are have a limited capacity. And there's no covid box office precedent. They clearly didn't release it thinking it
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by gdulli 6y ago
Nolan also sold the corn that was planted for the Interstellar corn fields. Supposedly made a profit.
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Why must we keep having this argument? The fact that GPT-3 is such an impressive leap in regurgitation ability means that many more people are going to be hearing about it and it will be used in many more contexts. > If you do resea
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Moore's Law
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They're not making the argument that you can't get better results if you design a prompt just right. They're making the argument that it's "not a reliable interpreter of the world." It's still completely o
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by gdulli 6y ago
When covid is done, or effectively done, we'll be the same fundamental society we were before it started. This bubble of tech workers aside, most people don't want to sit at home all day. I like going somewhere to work where I can
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by gdulli 6y ago
The only Apple product I have are some gifted Airpod Pros. I can confirm they stopped working repeatedly and got me into a mall 3 times.
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Stripe monitored the developer community enough to see our initial posts If I can't trust that I'll get the benefits promised by a service unless my complaint about not getting the benefits reaches a certain threshold of vira
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by gdulli 6y ago
Best Buy price matches Amazon: "We match local retail competitors (including their online prices) and these qualifying online retailers: Amazon.com, Crutchfield.com, Dell.com, HP.com and TigerDirect.com."
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by gdulli 6y ago
> However, I confess that the success of GPT-3 has demotivated me to continue working on my own GPT-2 projects, especially since they will now be impossible to market competitively (GPT-2 is a number less than GPT-3 after all). Doesn&#x2
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by gdulli 6y ago
I don't see a trace of it on any legit site other than arstechnica. Show us a link from Forbes or IGN if it's on there. The only other sites I see it on are throwaway domains with stolen content. https://duckduckgo.com&

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