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by jasmer 4y ago
? Not only is there a very specific meaning to 'mathematical' the article is in fact dead-on example of good design rules. 'Mathematical' alignment would mean centering on the basis of width or height, whereaas 'opt
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? Kuwaitis are absolutely the most grateful people of the American re-constitution of the war that started in 1993. They would have been the first to tell you that the 'war never ended' and that Saddam, then even nuttier than befo
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People should go back to the office but anyone beyond entery level should have at minimum a cube enough of this 'open workspace' nonsense.
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Yea I'm pretty sure 'space' is a metaphor in the story and that it's not even specifically relevant. He's living in a 'genetically selective orthodoxy' where 'diversity is abhorrent' kind of thin
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It's odd that everyone talks about 'genetic enhancements' as a measure of success or opportunity because I never even thought about the film as being about that. I thought the film was far more about eugenic fascism, and that
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I'm not nearly as optmistic. This is bureaucratic entrenchment across many systems and will take a 'movement' to unseat. The populist paradox is that most people probably disagree with this, but are not willing to stick their
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Yes, good point, this is as much a 'psychological' phenom as anything else. Particularly in the areas of populism and conspiracy theory.
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Because 1 million people were not 'murdered' it's a fabrication on your part.
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That's some QAnon Economics right there. The suggestion that the US benefits more on a dollar basis than a nation selling a commodity in that currency is very false. Iraq is the primary beneficiary of it's Oil exports irrespective
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Yes, it's unfortute that Saddam invaded Kuwait. Thankfully Iraq has some semblance of governance and has valuable Oil assets that it can export, courtesy of US taxpayers. Iraq benefits far more from it's exports than the US gains
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Definitely performative, but even in that context still kind a fun.
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The US didn't get any of the Iraqi Oil. Ironically, it was Europe and China who benefitted in that regard. Also notably, the US 5th fleet defends freedom of navigation in the Gulf, which is mostly about Oil, and China is the #1 recipie
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's 100% fair to question the geopolitical morality of any nation, especially the US, that's fine - but - as a South Korean, maybe you should consider for half a second the 50 000 Americans that died so that you would not be liv
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That's not 'abuse' and it's a material concern they have. It also has something do with the 2x pay.
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I definitely did not imply there should be a moral imperative. Moroever, the 'making the audience contemplate her culpability' in having attacked a man before she was hit, is definitely the 'verbotten' form of depiction,
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I'm definitely not suggesting their should be a moral lesson and I indicated quite the opposite. Also, there are plenty of characters with moral ambiguity on Netflix, they're just not that good. 'Perfect Teeth, Perfect Smile&
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touché
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My god man 'this is like slavery' (!!) and 'the ethnical issues'. It's software man. Stop it with this 'AGI' nonsense and even 'AI'. Let's call it 'adaptive algorithms' and see i
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Yes, this is my point, and the commenter is displaying exactly the moral tendency I'm wary of in cinema. Ironically, if you just watch the darn film, you see it for what it is. It's also not a morality tale, it's mostly just
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Thanks for that example because 'smoking' is exactly an example of what I mean. 'Game of Thrones' initally was pretty good. Towards the end however, it veered a bit to safety as they had to 'make it up' given t
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"So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. I plowed through all
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AGI is a bit of a glib concept ... our technology will not be like an 'autaumaton'. Everything we make is 'systems' oriented, and is not at all like our human conception of 'intelligence' dervied from the fact
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This is possibly an existential moment for many of us, a feeling we have not had in a long while; Google, since probably 2007-ish has been 'unnassailable'. This could be shift in market conditions and internal cultural conditions,
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Oh classic bugs, yes. Bugs and Kermit are essentially 'adults' whereas newer kids characters are themselves kind of infantalized, obviously not children, but removed from all hints of potential conflict or ascerbic nature. I reall
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by jasmer 4y ago
Wolf of Wall Street is Scorsese, aka 'Casino'. One of the few remaining greats. I agree Andor has better writing. I could be crazy, but I feel that there is a 'sanitzation' happening, and it could be a multi-faceted thin
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+ Is there a post 2010 popular film where a violent boyfriend husband hits his wife? Wherein that woman antagonised the man, making the audience 'feel' her 'culpability' in some ways, wherein both characters are presente
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The OG Kermit was a beatnick frog poet! [1] Henson's Kermit had a kind of realism, he was kind but not cotton candy airhead. He showed contempt, anger, hints of cynicism and sarcasm sometimes even hints of what we would call 'viol
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Try a bit harder. The definition of a woman as being 'someone who defines themselves as being a woman' - and having no relationship to biology, would be considered 'false' by the majority of the world - including ironica
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Yes, and those things are extremely controlled as well. The delusion is entirely yours.

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