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by istjohn 2y ago
That's absolutely false. Yes, there were Palestinians in Gaza before the Nakba, but the reason there are refugee camps and the reason UNWRA exists is to provide for the Palestinian refugees from the Nakba.
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by istjohn 2y ago
> In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well.
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by istjohn 2y ago
OpenAI never acted with total disregard for safety. They never punished employees for raising legitimate concerns. They never reneged on public promises to devote resources to AI safety. They never made me sign any agreements restricting wh
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by istjohn 2y ago
You would want to calculate the threshold by choosing your target epsilon and delta and an 'm' equal to the largest conceivable size of the stream. Fortunately, the threshold increases with log(m), so it's inexpensive to anti
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Woah, that's neat!
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by istjohn 2y ago
They are forgetting that pulleys can be coaxial.
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AI
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by istjohn 3y ago
It's called a peace dividend
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Primitive Technology made a crude knife from the iron in scum collected from a forest stream[0]. 0. https://youtu.be/dhW4XFGQB4o
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by istjohn 3y ago
This may be approximately 25% of the theoretical maximum bandwidth (1.2 Pbps) [0]? 0. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/56240/maximum-th...
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by istjohn 3y ago
No, as the article describes, musk oxen are native to Alaska, only disappearing in the 1800s.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Those arguments apply equally to the use of stimulants for ADHD treatment and to coffee use for a pick-me-up, yet both practices have fierce advocates.
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by istjohn 3y ago
> “If I give stimulants to the average person, they’ll say their mood, their thinking, and their energy are better,” Goodman said. Why shouldn't healthy people have access to long-acting stimulants under the supervision of their doc
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by istjohn 3y ago
Then you stopped before it got interesting.
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We need to get money out of politics.
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I just see someone who led us into the Iraq War on lies, who gave us Guantanamo Bay, waterboarding, Abu Ghraib and ISIS saying, "Aww, shucks. I don't pay them critics no mind."
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i agree, but it still kinda interests me
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Seconded. It's fantastic!
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by istjohn 3y ago
What were the disastrous consequences of the 91% income tax rate on the top bracket in the 1950's?
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Without laws, you have anarchy. Laws create the institutions necessary to have an economy capable of creating wealth.
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Just who is buying off these corporations if no one has vast wealth?
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Well, you can prevent the concentration of wealth in the first place. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices
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by istjohn 3y ago
I've never found Doctorow insightful--even his fiction. I don't know what people see in him.
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by istjohn 3y ago
What cargo were they delivering to England?
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by istjohn 3y ago
This page states that it is spherical. https://www.freefallaerospace.com/nasa-balloon/
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The owner of archive.is does that to people running PiHole.
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I used Audacity to excerpt a clip from a podcast the other day and the ads were obvious just from the shape of the waveform. The ad section waveforms were half the height of the rest of the podcast. I don't know how representative that
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by istjohn 3y ago
I can't wait to get access to ChatGPT with voice so I can practice my Spanish. I suspect that the utility of vanilla ChatGPT for language learning will soon obviate the need for any custom apps.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Why? Everything is political.
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by istjohn 3y ago
I don't particularly care what the venture capitalists who own this website want me to do. Nor is it surprising that they don't want politics here. Political consciousness can only be bad news for the uber-wealthy.

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