jfengel

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by jfengel 8mo ago
Gosh, I cannot imagine why nobody wants to engage with you.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I'd have expected mass deportations to decrease the unemployment rate, since there are now a bunch of job openings. Some of those jobs will just disappear (resulting in job losses, which is what the headline is about), but unemployme
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Likely, the long-term outcome would be the same. Harald wouldn't have been in a great position to fight of William, either. He might have simply ceded southern England without even a fight. And given William's subsequent Harrying
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by jfengel 8mo ago
We are not near the first step and will never be near the second step. Conviction requires a 2/3 majority. The only way that could ever happen is for the Republicans themselves to decide that they're done with the administration
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by jfengel 8mo ago
That was the OP's intent -- it's meant to be sarcastic. That's why "both sides" was in quotes. It's a common form of argument: I can do (very bad thing) because you did (slightly bad thing). It even has a Wikti
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by jfengel 8mo ago
* The plan, called Vegas At Par, offers to accept foreign currency directly from travelers abroad at a rate that’s equal to the U.S. dollar, regardless of what the exchange rates are.* Wow, that sounds like a bad plan. But not just the idea
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I enjoy the core irony of the piece: * He's correct that liberals are not, in general, smarter than conservatives * He's wrong about practically everything else Starting with the title, which was originally "Liberal Elitism F
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Anybody who works with the military has to deal with that moral dilemma. Many people believe that the military has some legitimate use. They have to figure out for themselves how do deal with the the possibility that it can also be used ill
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Sure. And since they can't reach a contract they do agree on, there is no sale. They cannot be compelled to sign a contract that they do not agree to.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
"Attempt" is doing a lot of work there. Companies are driven by a profit motive, and are practically required to renege on promises that are not legally enforced. In a different world they would have earned trust and deserve the b
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Put some company stock in escrow. If they fulfill the promises, they get it back. If not the government keeps it, and uses it to build whatever needs to be built.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Bragg is an absolute national treasure. It will take time to warm to his successor, who is doing a fine job but I've grown so used to that voice.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
"The law" is the contract. The Pentagon agreed to terms of service. The law is not on the Pentagon's side. The contract did not change; what changed is the Pentagon breaking the contract. Perhaps you think the law shouldn&#x2
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by jfengel 8mo ago
If they're doing it against the terms of service (and publicly so), I can't pin that one on Anthropic. They've done lots wrong and maybe they shouldn't have gotten in bed with the military to begin with, but this illegal
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I don't know. I guess we'll find out the hard way.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
When it comes to the environment the most efficient use is to leave it in the ground. Hybrids work for trains because they are so large and don't need big swings of acceleration or to climb steep grades. They can run the diesel generat
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I'm surprised that cooling takes less energy than heating. I imagine that depends a lot on the temperature range; they only need so much to cool a room even on a "hot" day in the UK. Still... AC still feels like magic. I know
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Those exceptions were accumulated over time rather than compiled into a coherent schema. I don't expect a finished product to be a single page, but neither does it require the literally millions that it currently takes up.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Like I said: every word out of your mouth there is a lie. Yes, I know the links you're about to hand me, to right-wing disinformation sites and actual news articles that don't say what you're pretending they say. These are st
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The "growing distrust" is due to a concerted disinformation campaign which is independent of the facts. There was indeed much negative information that the public was not aware of, and they should perhaps have held more skepticism
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Until recently, antivax was largely a liberal form of anti-intellectualism. It was a reaction against large pharmaceutical companies. It didn't really become a conservative position until COVID. It's mostly an anti-progressive thi
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I feel like this points out a very general problem with the law: it generates a lot of boilerplate text. Lawyers don't really read it; they skim it for the relevant bits. Obviously lawyers should not be cheating with AI, especially whe
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Pretty close. The wave function is still symmetric, but it takes on a bimodal distribution, with very little overlap. For any given event, it will be affected only by the half of the distribution that it's in. The other half has basica
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Do they usually end with mate-in-1? Or mate-in-2? I know at that level they're generally capable of identifying "probably a mate in 9 or so" and knocking off rather than wasting time. I wonder how much closer it gets.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Yes, that. They are convinced that women are terrible people who deny them sex for no reason. Not surprisingly, women don't want to have sex with men who hate them. Breaking out of that loop is nigh-on impossible. It's hard to mas
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It is too easy, which is why I don't find it funny. But often, people don't seem to mind telling "easy" jokes... perhaps because they don't have the requisite wit to invent difficult ones. Minorities have their own
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by jfengel 8mo ago
A racist knows that the slurs are offensive. He knows that people will be hurt by it. He may also use the term even when he doesn't intend to harm people -- just as you might casually use otherwise-offensive words for excretion or copu
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by jfengel 8mo ago
And yet he went on to include potatoes in LotR. There's something so fundamentally European about potatoes, despite being (comparatively) new there. And British in particular. They're stodgy, bland, filling, comforting, and really
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by jfengel 8mo ago
That's why we use AI to summarize your AI slop back to (hopefully) the actual content. AI is very good at writing things that don't need to be written. (That's why it's great for homework -- the purpose of the assignment
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It is often asked what an actual foreign agent would do differently if he were trying to destroy the country. I don't think that's entirely valid. Nonetheless, there is enough overlap that the question keeps getting raised. So...

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