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> I hope that the Brexit disaster has shown that it is essential such decisions have a supermajority backing. LMAO! That's a great freaking point! Obviously, simple majorities are perfect recipes for the shitshow they're curren
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> The Good Friday agreement permits Northern Ireland to leave the UK and to join the ROI, there is no path to independence here. Which, despite what most people think, isn't the utopian goal of the Catholics there, afaik. More like
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3y ago
How do you know if it's boilerplate? Can you fetch it for me?
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3y ago
> He got them started, but owning something isn't a contribution, frankly. Just an aside, he didn't get Tesla started. Although, he's often cited as the founder by news organizations, there is zero case for that claim.
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3y ago
Yeah, it does seem like this list bends over backwards to paint everything negative. I'm not OpenAI fanboy, but the guy that wrote this makes me feel like I should become an OpenAI fanboy.
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3y ago
> the traffic will just continue worsening indefinitely (or at least until people give up on the area and move somewhere else that is more livable). While it's incredibly hard to believe, it is true. If you look at population statis
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3y ago
> You have any evidence for that claim or just assuming? To be completely honest, and while I only have a degree in Finance and don't work in the industry, it would actually be considered irresponsible of a financial services compan
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3y ago
> Plus, these guys were (mentally) able to keep to those bitcoin for 100x of growth. Given the time, I'd wager growth was completely fortuitous. They held it for the same reason I hold mine. Conversion requires either a source willi
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I thought an NSA agent was anyone that provides the information or resources whilst the analyst (operator) was the one directly employed by the NSA. In other words, an "agent" of the NSA would imply they are not "federal agen
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> Shares for Texas going blue were still at $0.30 on election night. You think that's bad? Every month or so for like 6 months, there was another bet that the FBI was going to arrest Hillary by the end of the month and odds would be
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> It's the same problem with requiring age verification for porn. It's not that anyone wants kids to have easy access to this stuff I do. Anything to avoid "the talk", tbh. I grew up Catholic. I never had "the ta
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> * unix filesystem commands Father of the century, just for that alone.
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Thank you so much! I was afraid to say it was the "FireWire" because it seemed anachronistic in my head.
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3y ago
Also, Elon's ad-hoc policy on TOS banning being, "Things I like stay. Things I don't like get banned." really does expose him as culpable for everything not banned. It was always a stupid policy. But this adds yet anothe
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3y ago
On your set top box, you'll find a bunch of inactive ports on the back. One of them (I don't remember which) is there from an outdated law which was to bolster some digital VHS technology. I think it's called like VHS-D. I le
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3y ago
Maybe the model will get smart enough to go to SciHub and Libgen? IP holders and distributors come after me with evidence, I'll just pull out my belt and tell them I gotta go teach some naughty GPUs another lesson.
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You know what? You might be right. However, Verizon seemed to pitch it as some sort of "brain" when I was there. At least, they definitely implied the transistor originated there. But thank you for clarification. Always appreciate
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1966?? So, like, pretty much all the world-changing, paradigm-shifting revelations were in West Village? So, while working with Verizon, they falsely claimed it to be Basking Ridge, NJ (which they bought and boasted as the Brains of Bell to
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3y ago
Well wait a minute...I don't think it would be competing with them in the end and I can't see him overcharging OpenAI, of all companies, for the use of this product. I honestly feel like this appears a genuine effort to help the i
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3y ago
I felt like it couldn't be further from the flu. The dead giveaway was that it was completely bereft of stomach issues. While it absolutely awful, I could shockingly eat like 7 donuts. Hilariously, I mocked my niece that ended up givin
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Wouldn't there be a natural tradeoff between how contagious it is and how deadly it is, though?? A virus that quickly kills all the hosts would probably not spread very far. I feel like if there could exist one in nature, no species wo
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Well, that explains why the username looks like something either auto-generated or made up on the spot in under 10 seconds.
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Firstly, I know nothing of the industry and am just speculating so don't take my question the wrong way... Wouldn't the the sudden cascade of layoff announcements at big tech employers be interpreted as a leading indicator by empl
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> I think best to me is to assume other drivers are not paying a lot of attention unless there are obvious hints that they are and if you don't have visibility somewhere, assume that something could be there. Well, that's just
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3y ago
Stupid laundry machine spends all day on reddit downvoting my jokes and memes.
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3y ago
Yeah, maybe. But a tiny home isn't gonna hurt.
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Fine. They're trying to kill you, but they also want to frame it as a suicide. Does that cover all bases?
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> Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow? Yeah, seriously. Are they just being complete dicks for no reason? Only alternative is they want to deprive her of Unemployment or
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It really depends on how your body and mind react to the drug. While I can consume and deal with large amounts of LSD, I can't take a single Wellbutrin without freaking out. Couple hits of weed is same way to a lesser extent. As far as
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3y ago
So...You're gonna do what he did?
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