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by jemmyw 3y ago
> people will not vote for welfare unless it's means tested I would. We have so much wealth, food and stuff in Western countries. We could provide a basic level of comfortable living for anyone with no strings attached. We could the
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Were we just cynically capitalising on people's New Year's resolutions, all of which are bound to fail? Or was there something more to it? It can be both
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by jemmyw 3y ago
It says outrageous. They are interesting takes on what is possible. A third party winning the US presidency would be interesting to say the least.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't think the downing of that drone increased Russian aggression. Russia doesn't want a war with the US but seems to want to push boundaries as far as possible and win it's war in Ukraine. The US response of giving weapon
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Luxury is a loaded term, I probably should have used something less vague. The examples you gave are still luxuries even if they're only $10 more than the basic version - the cheaper plane ticket still gets you there, the cheaper wine.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
When you're spending money on a luxury item/service and there's a cheaper (in this case free) alternative, the it's hard to not write in this way. You are justifying it to yourself as much as anything. I also pay for Kag
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Uh yeah that's the article I talked to this person about. I think, it was some time ago, but the dates line up. I even still had the article open on my laptop on the plane. I'm neutralish on the subject though, it was just a relat
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Sure but I'm not sure that was true when the book was released. Although I still don't find the book convincing. I personally find 8 hours too long.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
From a political point of view is it actually good for the republicans though? People moving to the red states might not be red voters.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
A few years ago I was sitting next to a military phycologist who was flying home from a conference in Auckland, and she was reading this book. I had recently read the article, so we had a conversation about the book. She argued that the pro
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by jemmyw 3y ago
From the scientific meaning of "proves", as in it tests the rule. In this case it tests the rule and finds the rule to be false.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Yeah I heard on a podcast with a biologist that it only happened once and was a mystery. I'm glad to hear that's probably wrong as this is one of the bottlenecks suggested in limiting the possibility of alien life.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Why do you try to solve the problem at all? Wouldn't it be better to say "sorry I can't do any work from this location because of our IT policy" and let your organisation sort it out if they need you to work from a hotel
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I looked at the photos on the article and I'm hard pressed to call that mimicry. The leaves of the vine could just have a ragged and smooth configuration. The Wikipedia entry for this plant just seems to repeat the same source as the a
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't really get what this person is complaining about. Sure, old film upscaled, coloured etc. is not as good as if it had been shot on modern equipment. Still looks better than the original, for the most part. I couldn't even r
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by jemmyw 3y ago
It's an easy and uncomplicated read though. My kid just read it, took awhile but he didn't have any thoughts about giving up.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
What an ass. But here's a link to a Q&A on the DNA study https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine...
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by jemmyw 3y ago
They don't run any js code concurrently. They'll call into native code that does run concurrently, or at least concurrent io, but when it gets back to your js code it is all synchronous.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Unlike Promises and async/await, Effection is fundamentally synchronous in nature My understanding is that async/await is fundamentally synchronous. Your JS code runs on a single thread, as far as you're aware, unless yo
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Mac + Android here. I imagine there are a few where I work as the company provides Macs. I've always preferred Android to iOS.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
You're right, I misread your comment slightly. I'm not sure we can say... if it's a conventional war then it's bound to be bad economically during war time, but there was a massive bounce for the US after WW2, could the
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I used to believe that but the same arguments were made about WW1 before it happened. Russia still invaded Ukraine despite the west threatening to make it economically disastrous. I think this economic dependency argument is quite weak. War
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Looks like hot dogs given the sauce selection. I didn't know there was a set length for hot dog buns.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> But I have yet to find a single viewer of Melrose Place who has any memory of seeing any of the artworks while watching the show. Pretty much sums it up. All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so r
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Oldest art that we know of. I bet a lot of other art from that era and before has already been destroyed. We should just count it lucky that we've found and documented any of these things.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
That was a well written comment. I read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49201192-the-sunken-land... earlier this year and it has the same kind of vibe about Brexit, without ever mentioning it. Your writing rem
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by jemmyw 3y ago
You can still get a Sony Xperia flagship with a headphone jack and SD card support. I've got one, it's pretty good.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
As an outside observer who is a little closer to it I think that's not really the dynamic. The states that are deeply conservative have a significant minority who are not conservative. The spread of conservative and liberal views also
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Humans do take quite a long time to learn though, so maybe the data is sparse but still substantial.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't really understand why they quote was posted then. In the context of the discussion do we care that LLMs might not (I'm not qualified to say do not) tell you about how humans learn language? From the perspective of intellig

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