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by imgabe 1y ago
We don’t have to figure out a solution to anything in other sovereign nations. Nor, can or should we really impose any functional, non-corrupt government on people who are unable or unwilling to do it themselves, unless you’re willing to go
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by imgabe 1y ago
We’ve been providing foreign aid for, what, like 70-80 years now? Have the dysfunctional governments fixed themselves yet? How long should it take? 100 years? 500 years? Maybe providing aid is just propping up dysfunctional governments by d
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by imgabe 1y ago
Among people likely to consider a terrorist attack, USAID is widely considered a front for the CIA to meddle in other countries' governments (and this has been proven to be the case in some instances). Which, if true, makes it a bad f
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by imgabe 1y ago
You're saying the US is simultaneously non-functional but also responsible for providing free healthcare to every other country? If we're non-functional, where is all the foreign aid providing free stuff for us? C'mon other c
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by imgabe 1y ago
> The point is that global health is also about access to a drug, not just existence. And that point is irrelevant to whether or not we should develop new drugs. > Countries that receive aid typically do not have functional government
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by imgabe 1y ago
And a treatment not existing means it will not be administered at all, adequately or not. You need to make the treatment exist first, then you can figure out how to administer it as widely as possible. You can't administer a treatmen
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by imgabe 1y ago
I thought we weren't a Christian country? Either way, individuals are welcome to practice any sort of compassion they want with their own money. The government collects tax dollars from citizens under threat of violence, and their only
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by imgabe 1y ago
USAID is not the sole source of administering AIDS and malaria treatments. No doubt many more people were successfully treated because those treatments exist. I don't think I understand your point. We shouldn't develop new treatme
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by imgabe 1y ago
That’s the one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk There is a sequel, but I haven’t watched it yet
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by imgabe 1y ago
I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows. Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography
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by imgabe 1y ago
Don't watch youtube? Want educational content? Read a book or a technical blog post or documentation. Want entertainment? Read a book or watch a movie or TV show. I've never found anything that great about YouTube.
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by imgabe 1y ago
I'm not sure what you want. It's not like $68k is poverty wages. If they don't do the overtime, maybe they only make $50k, which is still above the median personal income ($68k is household income, meaning that is usually w
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by imgabe 1y ago
Exempt jobs in no way shape or form start at $80k. You can be making $35k and be exempt. It has to do with the nature of the work, not a salary. You can't be non-exempt and have unpaid overtime. Non-exempt means you are required to be
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by imgabe 1y ago
If someone uses AI to produce an infringing copy of an existing work, the person who prompted the AI to do that can be sued just like if someone hand drew a copy or used a photocopier to make duplicates. That isn’t unique to AI.
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by imgabe 1y ago
"Good" is always going to be relative. Is it good if your other option is to be a programmer? Probably not. Is it good if your other option is working retail for minimum wage? Yeah, then it's probably pretty good.
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by imgabe 1y ago
So it's a below median income job (as 50% of all jobs necessarily are) with the option to increase your income by working more. Still not exploitation. There are salaried employees making less who also work 60 hours a week and don&#x27
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by imgabe 1y ago
Not everything that is hard or unpleasant is exploitation. 50% of jobs will pay below the median income. That's what median means. The existence of jobs paying below the median income is a mathematical certainty, not exploitation.
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by imgabe 1y ago
It's not just not liking the messenger. It's questioning the sincerity of their message when they don't practice it themselves.
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by imgabe 1y ago
A weird thing to be coming from an academic, which has 10x the cult of “make your work your entire identity” that corporate America ever did. But they don’t make any money doing it so I guess that’s why it’s ok?
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by imgabe 1y ago
Anything might be happening. Does anyone ever collect statements like this and see if they turn out to be true or not? Predictions like this show up in the news all the time and they’re pretty meaningless. They just slide out of public cons
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by imgabe 1y ago
I had been meaning to do this for the longest time. I even had a couple spare raspberry Pis laying around, but didn't want to set it up. Finally, I realized you don't need a raspberry pi at all. It's running in docker on my p
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by imgabe 1y ago
Why would OpenAI want users to be in longer conversations? It's not like they're showing ads. Users are either free or paying a fixed monthly fee. Having longer conversations just increases costs for OpenAI and reduces their profi
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by imgabe 1y ago
See I think the defining quality of the Nazis was the whole gas chambers and ovens thing and not so much the hand gestures.
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by imgabe 1y ago
You can vote for a different government. You can even campaign for a different government, or run for office yourself. It's this whole system we created for the people to control the government directly instead of changing buying patte
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by imgabe 1y ago
> You think I can only understand the conditions if.. what? I've directly worked at the factory? Published a peer-reviewed study? When do you think you understand the conditions? When you watch a TikTok video about it? When you read
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by imgabe 1y ago
> But it can certainly influence other people's perception of you... I think what we all have to decide though is how much that matters to us, should we decide to buy one anyway. Yes, this is a concern, and it's a direct result
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by imgabe 1y ago
The example is deliberately contrived and hyperbolic. In real life, if there is reliable evidence that someone is murdering people, the police conduct an investigation, we have a trial, and they go to jail. You know what we don't do? W
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by imgabe 1y ago
You personally know the conditions? You know that the workers would be better off not having the option of working in the Zara factory? I don't mean a choice between working for Zara and a hypothetical fantasy option of them working in
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by imgabe 1y ago
Some levers are effective and some are meaningless posturing.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Yeah, you'll notice that we didn't get seat belts in cars by boycotting car companies until they promised to add them.

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