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by ggggtez 6y ago
>160k Add a zero for SF.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Money buys food to eat, a home in a safe neighborhood, a night out with friends, nice clothes for dating, an education, etc etc etc. Even if you are discussing depression and mental illness, money buys you therapy, medication, etc etc. Get
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work So you should expect that happiness levels would remain constant despite paying lower wages for the same job. They don't. So your hypothesis i
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by ggggtez 6y ago
In the US, it's possible to be let out of jail for a life sentence in only 7 years, when you account for parole. Judges are elected officials, so sometimes they like to make a nice big show of giving out a 1000 year sentence to appease
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It probably will come down to further court cases, but likely, yeah half of Oklahoma will be subject to Oklahoma state law, and half will be subject to tribal law. That's no different than a state being neighbor to a different state wi
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Yes, stores often sell excess stock to goodwill.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
To be fair about (3), I think they already do that. They mention in the article that the cards are redeemed by people in your country . Unfortunately, the gift card is an item that is intended to be easy to give to other people, just lik
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Your data doesn't show testing rate. Maybe it could be true, but your data doesn't come anywhere close to showing it... And in fact, when we actually find the data that would prove it, the data shows the opposite. [1] If you check
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>partisan First point: Do you really think it's partisan to point out that governors from the same political party tend to follow similar courses of action? Second point: let's use your own data against you [1][2]. According to
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Bizarrely, the reason that there is even a discussion of making them liabile for user speech to begin with is because of prostitution, pedophiles, and terrorism. I would hardly call those issues "extreme left". This change is actu
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Maybe this is just one of those pet issues that I can't get behind. Hiding "www" does not strike me as some evil scheme to prevent savvy users from bookmarking websites. It just doesn't. They already had the feature yo
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> is the ToS legally binding if you are just searching Based on the LinkedIn case my guess is no, because it could be considered "generally public". But that ruling is highly suspect and likely to go to the supreme court, imo.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Are you saying that the president of the United States doesn't have the ability to speak his mind and be heard by those who want to hear what he has to say? The same guy who's every tweet is reported in every online publication wi
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>In 1967, Miami police Chief Walter Headley used the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" during hearings about crime in the Florida city, invoking angry reactions from civil rights leaders, according to a news
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>Selling only perfect fruit is literally foodwaste right there. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you haven't exactly explained why "food waste" is a bad thing. I've given a reason why it could be considered a go
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It seems like you are making an unstated assumption that food being thrown away is a bad thing. I'm not convinced. Let's say a farmer wanted to reduce foodwaste. So they only sold perfect fruit that they knew would get bought. Tha
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Someone below pointed out that when other random users post these phrases, their comments are not deleted. Possible alternative explanations: 1) The CCP is autoflagging comments from known anti-ccp users 2) The CCP is autoflagging comme
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Your idea doesn't sound particularly tenable. A pay social network that limits you to only your close friends and family, that will have no network effects, have less features, and be more difficult to set up... It's easy for peop
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>Another concern, they and others said, was that some proposed changes would have disproportionately affected conservative users and publishers, at a time when the company faced accusations from the right of political bias. This is the s
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Let's imagine for a moment that a decentralized social network actually took off. How long until those ads crop back up anyway? Instagram should give us some idea on how sponsored content might look in such a system. According to some
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I don't think that "user-agents" are the hard part either. At this point, I think any grad student would happily write a NN implementation that took various posts as input, and returned to you a sorted list based on your pref
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This is a false choice. The real problem stems from the fact that the model rewards engagement at the cost of everything else. Just tweaking one knob doesn't solve the problem. A real solution is required, that would likely change the
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by ggggtez 6y ago
You wrote a lot of text, but I think you are speaking from a position of ignorance or emotion, to be honest, on the topic of high salaries. You seem to be arguing that it's impossible for anyone to be paid too much, because of the simp
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Your quote directly contradicts you. And way to cut out the context of the quote > Ancient Greek philosophers disputed whether the seat of consciousness was in the lungs, in the heart, or in the brain. The brain's pre-eminence is no
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Research shows that eating food puts people in the mood for romance, but no one is going to claim that lunch is required for sentience.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The two camps are "those who believe humans are special" and "those who believe strong AI can exist". The only reason you see people even arguing computers can never be conscious, is so we don't have to face the pos
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by ggggtez 6y ago
As for ASMR, it's the worst example of the bunch. It's just a physical response to an audio cue. We have that every day all day. If someone yells in your ear, you feel pain. We have audio-induced physical responses all the time, a
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>But when a computer reads a poem or sees the color blue will it feel it? I suspect that is unlikely. That's just your meat-person bias. When someone can point to the part of the brain that causes the feeling of "feeling"
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Considering the discussion of AI and Consciousness comes down entirely to definitions of words, I think it's reasonable to point out where these definitions will lead us. Of course what I'm saying is absurd. And yet, isn't th
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by ggggtez 6y ago
On the one hand, I appreciate the notion of the author that consciousness is related to any system which changes over time as a result of itself. That you can use this definition to try to measure whether a human in a vegetative state is st

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