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That's like finding that very few PhD evolutionary biologists are young earth creationists. People who study economics wind up being neo-keynesians because that's what the data supports.
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Pick a lane. Either we have the resources to go after CSAM producers, in which case we should be using them; or we don't, in which case we should be getting those resources. In either scenario, banning IPs is a counterproductive strate
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> This adds to their risks and costs. That tips the economic balance at the margin. Charging would be bank robbers a fee to do practice runs of breaking into a vault adds to their costs; somehow that doesn't seem like an effective s
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Given that the second amendment was put in place by those very elites; that seems unlikely.
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We're talking about websites like Youtube implementing hardware and IP bans. If your argument is that these are easily circumventable by CSAM distributors, that seems like all the more reason not to use them to combat CSAM.
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Well work on making those resources available instead of, again, informing CSAM creators how to better hide their activities. I fail to see how repeatedly removing CSAM from a single IP address is more of a boon to CSAM distributors than pl
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One is not immune to being a Nazi because they are not evil, being a Nazi makes people evil. Much of the horror of the Nazis was that seemingly normal, reasonable people committed those atrocities; many without even considering that what th
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If you actually cared about CSAM you would want those posting it to self incriminate and then face consequences in real life at the hands of actual authorities. Websites banning such posters only serves to alert them that they need to impro
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The Nazis in 1933 hadn't done anything within an order of magnitude of the evil they would perpetrate in 1943. They nevertheless were still Nazis, and everyone who did not actively condemn them then was in part responsible for what the
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That's quite the legal theory.
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UK's population has gone up 16% since 1980. Average UK home price, adjusted for inflation, has gone up 104% in the same time period.
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Assuming AI stays on the trajectory they think it will doesn't mean they assume it will be infinite exponential growth. If you know for a fact it's sigmoid curve, presumably the path you think it will continue on is the sigmoid cu
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> SAN reached out to a user listed in the leaked data and confirmed that they had in fact downloaded the app. The user, who asked to remain anonymous over fears of retribution, expressed concerns that Cancel the Hate might be a “scam” af
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This illuminates how little has been provided to Ukraine more so than the benefit of increasing government revenue by such a modest amount.
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> Embody a pilot mindset, with high agency and optimism Fly away from here at high speed
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Their ability to convince themselves they are geniuses far exceeds your ability to convince them they're not. They've already decided that the decision was a success. The only question is are you still going to be around to suffer
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To manipulate is to control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously. It implies that you're getting someone to do something they wouldn't if they were aware of what was going on.
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If your principles don't stand up to scrutiny, you shouldn't hold them. Some of the greatest evils ever committed were done by people certain they were acting according to upstanding principles. There is a middle ground between fo
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Most likely neither, as you are presumably not voting for a politician who has committed rape or pedophilia because it is a legitimate, logical argument for not supporting them. Likewise I am rather firmly opposed to being thrown into a woo
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Rare Earths aren't rare in the "there is a small supply" sense, but in the "very dilute" sense. Rare earths don't concentrate into ores the way that say copper does. Rare earth deposits are just places where yo
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If we start using south-side-up maps, how are fantasy writers supposed to come up with shapes for their fictional continents?
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Please read the sources I cited. You are arguing about epicycles based on a fictional story you heard about them.
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No it didn't. Epicycles were from the get go nothing but an attempt to fit a mathematical function to observed data to predict future positions of planets. It's a geometric method of curve fitting which is a weaker form of the fou
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I want ICE to go after the drug traffickers and violent criminals they claimed were so common and such a problem. When drug trafficking and violent crime is completely stopped, then we can talk about the best way to handle skilled workers w
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Epicycles wasn't a theory, it was a model. It did not try to explain why the planets moved in the sky as they did, it only predicted where they'd be. Neither, for that matter, were copernican or keplerian mechanics theories. They
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And pure ellipses as predicted by newtonian gravitation also don't line up with actual orbits perfectly. In both cases they are just models approximating reality, one of which happens to be more elegant. I don't know how anyone wo
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> Now do down ballot. As I stated before, changing a political party from the bottom up takes time. While a good endeavor, it doesn't affect who is currently in the drivers seat. Either Harris or Trump were going to be making the de
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The "i" is there because it is a convenient way in our system of mathematics to write out such an equation, but that really comes from the fact that complex numbers have two dimensionality. Our best understanding of the universe d
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Last election the democrats didn't have a primary, and the republicans barely had one. Political change requires more than one day at the polls; it demands large scale sustained effort by many people, including those in positions of pr
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Voting third party isn't the same as staying home. If a third party candidate gets just 5% of the vote, the party gets federal election funds in the next election. This isn't some pipe dream, third parties were crossing that thres

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