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by jjk166 8mo ago
Are we going to pretend that no one has ever gotten a stupid answer to a stupid question from a human government employee? It is an impossible to make something completely fool-proof, those who try underestimate the ingenuity of complete fo
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The checks and balances do exist, they're just not being used. It took some extreme circumstances and decades of work for a single party to seize control of all the levers of government, and active collusion to continuously enable this
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I believe you meant graft, not grift.
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Of course we did. We all switched from early social media sites that didn't employ such algorithms to those that did, and when new social media platforms came around we progressively moved to more algorithmic ones. Hell half the reason
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For context, Yoon is the 5th south korean president to serve a prison sentence; and a 6th committed suicide while under investigation, which is 42% of all korean presidents.
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The lead guy is bisexual, and it is a very important part of his character throughout the story.
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He's in very heavy makeup in Guardians of the Galaxy (and his blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Captain Marvel), and while you can get a good look at his face in The Hobbit, his character doesn't get much screentime and isn&#
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by jjk166 8mo ago
No, Joe wants to have substance and vision. The tragedy of his character is his slow realization that he just doesn't have it. Indeed it's the tragedy of all the main cast that each has some of what it takes to make something tr
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I think it's best appreciated as an original space opera that just happens to have the same name, especially given that so much of the show is genuinely original.
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Pretty much all of this rests on the assumption that recent changes in software hiring practices are primarily driven by AI, and that such changes will continue and spread across industries without foreseeable limit. The reality is that hig
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The alternative is higher n. The study makes a claim, it does not present the evidence necessary to back up that claim. Until someone does a larger study, no conclusion should be drawn.
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I'd be curious what kind of variation there was across his 54 different designs. If he's discovered the existence of a narrow window where strength dramatically increases, that seems a much more interesting find than if this whole
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> Blocking (or more accurately: restricting) access works pretty well for many other things that we know will be used in ways that are harmful. Historically, just having to go in person to a court house and request to view records was en
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> Free to ingest and make someones crimes a permanent part of AI datasets resulting in forever-convictions? You're conflating two distinct issues - access to information, and making bad decisions based on that information. Blocking
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Nearly all decisions are recoverable. Most things are rather low risk, and when there is significant risk there's typically a way to hedge that risk, like through insurance or contingencies. You'll make countless decisions in life
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The area they would expect to find it would be much narrower than the area they would expect a plane overhead to be able to observe it.
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There is a military base with its own airfield located within El Paso basically right next to El Paso International Airport.
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Solid article. It's nice when an author asks what we're actually trying to do and makes reasonable suggestions rather than just explaining the current situation.
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by jjk166 9mo ago
> You are entirely right, because 98%+ trips in a car are commutes or errands that average 6 miles in distance. My figure was based on miles travelled, not trips. Further, your assumption that local travel would severely skew the data se
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by jjk166 9mo ago
> Asking people to drive 600+ miles for business is not a good use of business time, even if it is more expensive, typically. It isn't more expensive typically, but yes when the value of a person's time is considered it's
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by jjk166 9mo ago
No one is saying flying is cheaper than driving full stop. The claim from the beginning was flying is cheaper than driving beyond a certain distance. The point of comparison is what it costs an individual to move from point A to point B. Th
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It depends how you define the problem. Certainly a human can look at a part and say "that's a lower reciever" but you probably can make something that functions as a firearm exclusively from inconspicuous parts. For the more
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I would not describe travelling alone as "very specific circumstances." It is extremely common. 70% of all car trips are solo, and the average number of occupants for all car trips is 1.5. That you can get more bang for your buck
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The accepted legal method of declaring illicit gains on your tax documents is pleading the 5th amendment for specific questions related to the source of the funds. Fun fact, you can also take deduct business expenses for many expensees rela
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> Few drive 600+ mi empty or alone. Because if you are going 600+ mi alone with minimal luggage you fly, because it's cheaper.
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No one is arguing the working poor exclusively fly, the point is there are plenty of people who do fly for whom the fee is significant.
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It's not useful. Indeed that's likely why we die of old age - there is no selective pressure to remove harmful mutations that don't reduce your ability to pass on your genes so such harmful mutations just accumulate over many
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> at least if one corrects for preventable accidents and other such things You can't really correct for these. Yes there are genuine accidents that will kill you under any circumstances, but for a lot of things both your odds of hav
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Thinks through possibilities -> realizes what it is proposing is a bad idea Hell put WOPR in charge of everything
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If nothing else, it's not the only hail mary you could potentially go out on. Would you give up the potential of being part of a trial for a drug that has actually done the work and demonstrated real promise in various pre-trial tests

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