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by hammock 1y ago
That doesn’t explain why lawmakers would allow their own government to (indirectly) spy on them. Or are they so full of integrity that they would say “I must be spied on as well as my constituents, you know, for fairness”? /s
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by hammock 1y ago
And why would country A’s lawmakers allow that legal loophole to be used against themselves? They wrote the laws no? Or are they being blackmailed, or is their power a facade?
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by hammock 1y ago
Why would the US send unredacted personal email of justices and senators to a foreign country?
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by hammock 1y ago
> officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators. > The terms of the Nimbus
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by hammock 1y ago
Not counting the gobi desert , China is only 5x the size of Texas so it’s nothing to sneeze at
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by hammock 1y ago
The comment was posed as “theoretical” which I took to mean they were looking at possible future developments, not the current state of affairs. Would you say for instance that the national guard cannot be justified in response to any riot,
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by hammock 1y ago
You make a great point and if you really think about it, it’s probably true no matter your political leanings. The federal government may be too powerful, as an institution.
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by hammock 1y ago
> I think we can all objectively say that the level of civil unrest that could theoretically need a National Guard response is basically zero “The level of unrest that could need a response is zero” can you clarify what you mean by this?
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by hammock 1y ago
Ok I guess I didn’t realize over-optimistic was the same thing as optimistic.
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by hammock 1y ago
Is that a bad thing?
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by hammock 1y ago
What music do you listen to?
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by hammock 1y ago
For sure but I haven’t seen one for home use in nearly 40 years. The risk of having mercury in the hands of Joe Schmoe or his garbage is probably not worth it There are plenty of stories around this
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by hammock 1y ago
Why are they even selling mercury thermometers for oral use when an alcohol one (the red liquid) does fine
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by hammock 1y ago
Did they test the air or just the soil? You mentioned they imagined the taste of the air but didn’t mention if they actually tested the air. And who tests it?
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by hammock 1y ago
Trump’s EPA had a plan to reconsider a 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos, but that was pulled back in July and the EPA will indeed preserve and defend the ban.
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by hammock 1y ago
People don’t talk enough about the risk of fire. The crazy thing is when a battery installation catches fire they don’t actually fight the fire. They just have to let it burn out. The resulting environmental damage is terrible. This happene
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by hammock 1y ago
When I was a kid I was amazed at how many of the other kids would take pool water in their mouth and drool it out, simply as a normal part of their treading water. I thought they were weird for this but it was really about 1 out of every 3
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by hammock 1y ago
The “following” are not my claims but quotes from the studies, which are independent of each other and free to make their own claims. My claim (if I made one) is that we were misled about how much we know whether the jab stays at the inject
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by hammock 1y ago
> and it has more positive effects at social level than at individual level Now it raises the question should we be reasoning in our head then? Is there a better way to solve intractable math problems for example? Is math itself a red he
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by hammock 1y ago
I posted a terrible source, my fault, moving too quickly. Here are three published human sources. Now you have heard the claim and seen some evidence. mRNA vaccination stimulates robust GCs containing vaccine mRNA and spike antigen up to 8
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by hammock 1y ago
I pulled a bad source, my fault. Thought more people were familiar with this. Here are three published human sources. mRNA vaccination stimulates robust GCs containing vaccine mRNA and spike antigen up to 8 weeks postvaccination in some cas
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by hammock 1y ago
Is this related to Cardioid patterns for directional microphones?
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by hammock 1y ago
They can induct just can’t generate new ideas. Its not going to discover a new quark without a human in the loop somewhere
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by hammock 1y ago
> I think the valuable idea is probabilistic graphical models- of which transformers is an example- combining probability with sequences, or with trees and graphs- is likely to continue to be a valuable area I agree. Causal inference and
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by hammock 1y ago
Is this different than a RAG? I didn’t see anything about remembering documents, just vague “context” What is the easiest way for me to subscribe to a personal LLM that includes a RAG?
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by hammock 1y ago
Is this different than a RAG? I didn’t see anything about remembering documents, just vague “context”
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by hammock 1y ago
Which episode is that?
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by hammock 1y ago
Increasing biodiversity
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by hammock 1y ago
Yes but if you don’t know the answer by the time the light goes on (the question is finished read), you will never get in. And if you buzz in without knowing the answer you will lose points. So you have to know the answer before the light g
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by hammock 1y ago
In university, how can you get a 4.0 with an 85% average? In high school they added 1.0 to honors courses but I don’t remember the same thing happening in undergrad.

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