jimbob45

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by jimbob45 3y ago
Abolishing qualified immunity leads to situations like Uvalde where police don’t want to intervene for fear of reprisal. Also, you’re probably barking up the wrong tree. Instead of pissing off the police unions and dealing with the eternal
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Their wealth managers must be tearing their hair out in frustration. If they instead invested all the money, they could easily weather the coming AI-induced collapse of their industry.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Really? I feel like flour babies were pretty effective for as far as you’d want to go with middle schoolers (I.e. no sleep deprivation).
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by jimbob45 3y ago
To reduce carbon emissions in the aviation sector, we should steeply tax private jet travel and direct those funds toward climate mitigation and green infrastructure. I'm guessing this is what your comment is replying to? I agree tha
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by jimbob45 3y ago
I ended up taking a 0 on every homework assignment and had a C in the class instead of an A+. Fuck that teacher. I'm curious why/if your parents didn't step in to correct the injustice.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
We have the most ethnically diverse population in the world. Blacks commit more than half of all US crime despite being a tenth of the population. We’re a gigantic state with both the least restrictive gun laws and the most permissive immig
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by jimbob45 3y ago
I guess the counterargument would be that the $225MM is imaginary money - he doesn’t actually make that much until he cashes out and cashing out at the wrong times is what we should actually condemn. That said, the rules for stock, stock ow
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by jimbob45 3y ago
It’s high time we start prosecuting cold robocalls as harassment. We don’t need to fundamentally change the rules of the system to keep around pests that don’t provide a useful or necessary service.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Maybe this is the new anti-crypto meta - we proactively take away the best acronyms that the crypto community would want to use.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
That would be my advice too. What was the point of “You don’t pay for what you don’t use” if nobody’s going to use it?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Anyone have the pre-edited version? It’s showing up in my Ctrl-F but I don’t see it on the page.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Observers say the dispute has the potential to limit who conducts education research in California and what they are able to study because CDE controls the sharing of data that is not available to the public. All data in Florida from publ
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Florida has the Sunshine laws which would likely preclude this from being a problem in the first place. Florida bad though upvotes to the left.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Shame they never fixed this. Would have been nothing to add a fn keyword at the beginning of all function definitions and then use the MS EEE strategy to bring it into the standard. Of the many changes the committee could make with C, I hav
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by jimbob45 3y ago
COVID was feared to mutate into something dangerous and that's why we took it so seriously. The Spanish Flu started out similarly innocuously and then turned into something terrible. That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at
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by jimbob45 3y ago
There's no way this is true but this is going to live on forever in my headcanon. I fucking love it when /pol/ gets this creative.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Google owns the world's most popular web browser, the world's largest advertising network, the world's biggest search engine, the world's most popular operating system, and some of the world's most popular websites
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by jimbob45 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838661 He’s responding to the original title of the article.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Are we not counting Haiti or Jamaica? If we’re counting “black” as “African”, then yeah. But then “There are no successful African countries” seems a lot less difficult to prove/refute.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Steinbeck was a hack. There aren’t enough calories in breastmilk to sustain life for an adult male. Also, equal opportunities for your whole population is a noble goal. Twisting that into, “Americans are delusional to think they could ever
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by jimbob45 3y ago
“Oh no, all the training materials for this technique/tool are in Chinese and are spread out across a variety of media. If only we had a tool that could slurp up all this training data easily and teach it to me not only in my own langu
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by jimbob45 3y ago
There's a high chance AI significantly lowers the barrier of gaining experience with these things.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
You shouldn't. Not only is this study trying to funnel you toward a conclusion, it's not clear what "songwriter" means in this case and they never choose to elaborate. Do they mean lyrics? In that case, they should know
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by jimbob45 3y ago
English has some niceness to it that modern Latin derivatives lack. Specifically, the ability to verbificate anything, the lack of having to learn everything’s made-up gender, and the lack of a centralized authority which allows slang to pr
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Isn’t Katyn hard counterproof against that strategy?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Not much of a stretch to believe the country responsible for MKULTRA would fund a huge and fake propaganda piece against the USSR. That said, it would have been pretty silly to waste as much money as we did in the rocket program if the goal
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by jimbob45 3y ago
The police didn't investigate child sex crimes because the perpetrators were non-white and the police didn't want to be seen as racist. What about that is incorrect?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
In fairness, Utah is arguably the most conservative state in the US right more by virtue of its hefty Mormon bloc.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
There is no shortage of perfect scores applying to Harvard. 1,000 people typically receive a perfect SAT score yearly.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
How does that work after the divorce? Do you get into another arranged marriage? Or are you free to pursue whoever you wish after you've had your first arranged marriage?

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