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by georgespencer 3y ago
I'm sure the author has sincere concerns. I found the sweeping generalisations tough to read: > [Vision Pro is] an extremely alarming harbinger of how tech giants are going to know even more about our private lives and radically res
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Context: https://www.vulture.com/article/tim-heidecker-and-gregg-turk...
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Same transition some years ago. Siri is noticeably much, much worse to me. Borderline hopeless on a mixture of HomePod + HomePod Mini hardware.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
In criminal law this sort of nonsense is explicitly inadmissible in court. It's why during the OJ Simpson criminal trial it was not possible for the defense to do anything more than point out inconsistencies with the chain of evidence:
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Amongst culture. I don't know what this means. > Doesn't matter that you don't agree. It is fundamental to this discussion that the narrative you describe is fringe (credible polling puts it at around 30% uptake) and
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by georgespencer 3y ago
This is a keen insight I had not until now appreciated. Thank you.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> attempted a grammatical correction on Very relaxed about informal grammar, the point is that this: "Certus found that of those who believed Epstein to be murdered…" is materially different to "Certus found that of those
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I will be explicit: if, after reading the DOJ report and reviewing the facts of the case, you believe that Epstein was murdered, then your critical thinking is sub-normal. An average police officer would grok this. If a powerful individual
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> or remain there. Whilst I'm impressed with the speed of your climbdown, you have now broadened your definition of "installed" to the point where it is utterly meaningless.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
It isn't interesting or useful because conspiracists fail to interpret "don't know" or "unsure" appropriately given the context of polling. It doesn't mean "I have reviewed the facts and I am undecide
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by georgespencer 3y ago
And would make the two guards who admitted falsifying reports… the worst patsies in history? And presumably the FBI and DOJ are in on it too? And the camera footage showing nobody entered his block is fake too? It's so achingly dumb.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> evidence of a suicide is virtually nonexistent 1. Epstein was found hanged in his cell 2. Video footage from the communal area an assassin would have to use for entrance/egress was analyzed by the FBI and showed nobody entering hi
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Insider poll Sorry but lol at Insider being your source for robust polling of the American zeitgeist. In 2019 Certus put the figure of Americans believing he was murdered at 35%, with the remainder believing it to be suicide or "d
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> It's a narrative of the popular culture Amongst idiots. > eg Clinton's bj in the whitehouse A thing which happened, was admitted by Clinton, and proved by DNA evidence. Epstein's suicide is different because the evide
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> It's easy when your world view hinges on the fact that responsible adults are running the world. Or when you look at the reams of evidence supporting a verdict of suicide and the other side has conspiratorial non-arguments like th
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> And the cameras just happened to be out of order when he chose to kill himself of course. I know you think this is really brilliant invective, but it just reveals that you don't know what you're talking about. Epstein was bei
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Yes with their stock at a near record low for the decade, now is certainly the time for Boeing's largest shareholders (Vanguard and Blackrock) to take decisive action by inexplicably murdering someone five years too late to make a diff
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by georgespencer 3y ago
If you believe Epstein was murdered you are in a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of very gullible or very simple minded people. Upon a cursory review of both the facts of the matter and the very best arguments conspiracists can copy and paste, it
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> fowl play It's "foul" play. > Sure, it's nowhere near "beyond a reasonable doubt" To the extent that I do not think it would even be admissible in court in many (all?) states. Hearsay, not under oath, n
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by georgespencer 3y ago
It's far more likely that he simply changed his mind after making the statement attributed to him than it is Boeing would arrange for him to be murdered five years after the fact.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> US is largest contributor to IMF it would be a joke to suggest their opinion has no sway. Russia was pursuing this strategy prior to IMF involvement. The membership of the IMF was supportive of the strategy. The United States' Tre
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> No. The economic shock therapy. Ah, so you mean the United States' inaction in providing aid to Russia after Yeltsin and the IMF began to aggressively reform Russia's economy? Your logic is that the United States installed
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> We should thank people that put him there. Checks notes - The United States. Huh?! There's nothing inherently wrong with an administration exercising soft power to help a favoured politician in another country – even if they somet
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I'm on the very cusp of this, you helped me realize. Thanks.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Would love to try this (have a less sophisticated pre-LLM approach running locally), and also use Safari as my main browser. Instant paying customer for Safari, right here. Also find myself having a pretty severe allergic reaction to websit
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by georgespencer 3y ago
You think his short to medium term plan is to raise $7tn to build dozens of fabs?
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Not sure I follow… does someone (me? Another poster?) say that Confluence is better?
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Excited to try this! A few years ago someone gave me the excellent advice that I should stop saying “no” to fractional roles I was unenthusiastic about, and instead price them accordingly. The first thing I did was to stipulate a $500 daily
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Heads up that your Google Doc is private!
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by georgespencer 3y ago
If you have enough candidates that it's too much work to reject people, you likely have enough candidates to merit at least a simple templating and candidate management app or plugin. It is absolutely trivial to one-click reject groups

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