jMyles

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by jMyles 4y ago
About damn time. The entire ban is simply to drive a cultural wedge between between identities - you can be a pot-smoking hippie, or a gun-totin' traditionalist, but don't you dare have be more nuanced than that. There has never b
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by jMyles 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing a piece here, but the entire discussion (and indeed the thread in question) is regarding the filing of income taxes.
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by jMyles 4y ago
I'm not sure if you mean it this way, but your comment reads as if you presume that taxes on income are the only way the provide for "the functioning of a country". I prefer wholesale deprecation of the state - also to advanc
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by jMyles 4y ago
It is possible to refrain from oversimplifying (all police officers are "bad", all unions are "bad") while still synthesizing a plausible theory: Police union interests are aligned with the interests of drug cartels and
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by jMyles 4y ago
Sure - I agree wholeheartedly. And I think we conduct a better service by walking back our welfare state and allowing many more people to join us.
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by jMyles 4y ago
I mean, I'm sure many people have different thoughts, but if you're specifically asking my views on borders, I very much prefer completely open borders. This is a huge country with plenty of room, friendly people, fresh water, and
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by jMyles 4y ago
> The stakes are high — real families can be separated and lives ruined by a denial. It is understandable, then, that some people throw everything they have at the wall during the green card process. The system tells them that marriage,
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by jMyles 4y ago
> No shit, what are these people thinking? after all of the years of hardwork to get the citizenship, they would just send it for what? for fun?? The article dances around the subject a bit, but I think that the answer to your question i
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by jMyles 4y ago
My goodness; I haven't watched it in a couple years, and I have to say, I still literally laugh out loud. The timing is just so solid. I also want to say on a personal level that I really like Gary; he has been so friendly to me every
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by jMyles 4y ago
> This begs the question of what differentiates Bitcoin? I don't agree with the thrust of the argument either, but I think it's a genuine assertion and not begging the question. > Now I’m also of the radical opinion that se
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by jMyles 4y ago
I think JFK is a great movie with a few flaws. Things that are covered well and faithful to the evidence: * Basically all the parts of the movie which are set in Dealey Plaza (reconstructed like no other film has done before or since) * Osw
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by jMyles 4y ago
Intentionally engineering features that make a pathogen more dangerous (whether or not that's the origin story of SARS-CoV-2) is not the same thing as putting antlers on a mouse. Or even putting antlers on a human. Electricity is wond
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by jMyles 4y ago
> given our current economic systems What can possibly be the benefit of requiring this constraint? Remove the idea that this is necessary and watch how much relaxation comes to the deliberation on this topic. "Current economic syst
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by jMyles 4y ago
OK yeah, sounds totally reasonable when you put it that way.
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by jMyles 4y ago
Yeah, makes sense. Burying 5% of the output... maybe that's what some civilization did 60 million years ago?
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by jMyles 4y ago
> and then export these “completely clean conventional fuels” to the rest of the world. ...not where I thought you were going with this argument. Aren't we looking for ways to take the CO2 out of the air ? Rather than to sell it s
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by jMyles 4y ago
> SVB might have lasted longer if their depositors had not been running for the exits. But why assume that lasting longer is a good thing? They might have got themselves into even more difficulty. How is this different from, you know, mo
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by jMyles 4y ago
Look, if he died while engineering a virus, he wouldn't bother to code "AAAAAAA" he'd just say it!
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by jMyles 4y ago
Awesome! I love KLCC. Oregon has great public radio, with KOPB of course being super popular, but I think the smaller KLCC is just as good. Also, don't sleep on KBOO in Portland. As for the notion that I work in radio: I have flirted
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by jMyles 4y ago
It's just... not a very good song. It's very on-the-nose and trivial. I've tried again and again to get ChatGPT to help me with song writing, but everything seems to come out hokey. We need to teach this thing how to love, h
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by jMyles 4y ago
Do you mind if I ask which is your local / most frequently listened-to station?
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by jMyles 4y ago
What I'm suggesting is that we step back from referring to our public radio stations - even NPR member and associate stations - as "NPR stations" (with perhaps exceptions for the regional bureaus and arguably WAMU) and instea
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by jMyles 4y ago
Anecdotally, I agree that Nancy's sits different in the stomach (in a good way, in moderation). I like it after at least a couple weeks in the fridge.
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by jMyles 4y ago
> I listened to a piece on NPR Friendly correction: Radiolab is a production of (my former client) WNYC, not NPR. My sense is that the creative freedom and energy at WNYC is substantially different than in the NPR editorial process.
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by jMyles 4y ago
> I always wonder about people who go to a French restaurant and want Pizza. To be fair, this is more like trying to lookup contact information for the local pizzeria, and realizing to your surprise that the phone book you've picked
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by jMyles 4y ago
WoW gold and FF14 Gil are not decentralized, and Monopoly money cannot be sent over the internet.
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by jMyles 4y ago
> Always been a bit perplexed by the anti-blockchain attitude here. It's very small but _very_ loud. I surmise that the vast majority of us are curious and hopeful for blockchain tech as a socioeconomic critique.
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by jMyles 4y ago
> There really and objectively is no reason for cryptocurrencies to exist at all. Are we just destined to loop over this argument `while True`? Without byzantine-fault tolerant decentralized currencies, how do you deprecate state control
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by jMyles 4y ago
> these AI models are not unlike any previous software in legal issues Agreed. However, the previous 'legal issues' related to software and the emergence of the internet are also difficult to take seriously when considered on
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by jMyles 4y ago
> The question is if this data is legal to scrape ...it is? I didn't see that question raised in OP's text at all. What do legacy human legalities have to do with how AI will behave? > Because it's false equivalence?

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