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by jl6 3y ago
The first part is highly unlikely to be literally true, as even open content like Wikipedia is copyrighted - it just has a permissive license. Perhaps the prompt writer didn’t understand this, or just didn’t care. Wethinks the llady doth pr
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by jl6 3y ago
In theory, Wikipedia is an anti-nomic, as it disavows firm rules. But in practice, it plays out very much like a nomic.
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by jl6 3y ago
When we decline to execute a heinous offender, and decline to treat them as inhuman - even when they have offended inhumanly - it demonstrates the moral difference between us and them.
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by jl6 3y ago
I assume “steps” here means rounds? For reference, standard SHA-256 is 64 rounds.
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by jl6 3y ago
Unless you’re going to allow babies to vote, we have to draw the line somewhere. It’s also not true that a 17 year old is disenfranchised for 4 years - they can engage with the political process as an adult as soon as they turn 18. Presiden
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by jl6 3y ago
That’s not the argument. The argument is: restrict children from voting due to their lack of maturity in decision-making. We apply this argument in all kinds of cases that are super-uncontroversial so it’s surprising to hear that it makes s
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by jl6 3y ago
Why so uncomfortable though? We routinely stop children doing all kinds of things, for exactly the same reason (lack of maturity in decision-making).
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by jl6 3y ago
Certainly for most businesses it will be more convenient to just use the built-in functionality of the accounting software that they almost certainly already use, but for those who really want to do it themselves, there is a process (descri
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by jl6 3y ago
> tackling the issue of mental health What if reducing social media usage was a good way of tackling mental health issues?
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by jl6 3y ago
There are plenty of unethical outcomes available in the "let babies vote" scenario, to weigh against the allegedly-unethical scenario of having a voting age.
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by jl6 3y ago
Looks like open source clients are available: https://github.com/cybermaggedon/gnucash-uk-vat At least, in principle - no idea how well they work.
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by jl6 3y ago
I believe Chris Sawyer was also responsible for the PC port of Frontier Elite II (from the Amiga original by David Braben), and he put an advert in some of the spaceports, along the lines of “Coming soon: Chris Sawyer’s Transport Game”. One
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by jl6 3y ago
Arbib is a surname of Sephardic Jewish origin, and this particular Arbib has a Twitter account which more or less identifies himself as Jewish. I instantly identified the issue because I’ve seen it so many times before. When it comes to ano
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by jl6 3y ago
It seems to pointedly spell out the stereotypically Jewish names of the investors. This is a common anti-Semitic dogwhistle: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/echo Also seen in the now-banned browser exten
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by jl6 3y ago
So is this a genuine question or an antisemitic jaqoff?
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by jl6 3y ago
I guess if the benefits of a treatment are obvious you don’t need a lot in the way of research, or even science at all, to recommend it. But if the benefits are subtle or borderline, then it’s an interesting ethical dilemma. Which is the le
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by jl6 3y ago
These are not uniquely terrible times. It’s just that bad news and drama attracts more eyeballs than good news and harmony. Think about who stands to benefit from making you feel bad.
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by jl6 3y ago
> … just creepy and not age-appropriate. Probably not unrelated to the Yewtree types being untouchable in that period.
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by jl6 3y ago
It’s a spectacularly poorly worded graphic, but in case you’re wondering, it’s about alleged abuse of modern slavery protections to artificially delay deportation, not a threat to enslave people: https://commonslibrary.parliament
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by jl6 3y ago
The real reason we spot patterns where there aren’t patterns is because the human sensory system is tuned by natural selection to err on the side of caution in borderline cases. Our ancestors who thought they saw a wolf in the shadows and t
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by jl6 3y ago
The video in that thread appears to be of a Mac Studio with 192GB.
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by jl6 3y ago
Oh man, this makes me sad. I remember reading A Fire Upon the Deep based on a Usenet recommendation, and then immediately wanting to read everything else he wrote. A Deepness in the Sky is a worthy sequel. He wasn’t prolific, but what h
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by jl6 3y ago
> You’d think that this would have meant a revolution in how doctors understand and treat concussions. It hasn’t. The article takes a surprised tone that doctors haven’t updated their practices in line with the latest studies, but that’s
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by jl6 3y ago
> Archaeologists also unearthed a woman’s skull, smooth from touch, possibly a keepsake of a lost loved one. Everything else - the kitchen tools, the animal domestication - seems relatable. And then we get to the skull smoothing…
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by jl6 3y ago
1995 would have been a sensible time for them to pivot to digital. 1975 would not.
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by jl6 3y ago
Digital photography works not just because of the camera but because of the surrounding digital ecosystem. What would people do with digital photos in 1975?
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by jl6 3y ago
They could definitely all be unconnected. It’s not that suspicious. I guess we’ll find out if they ever publish post mortems.
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by jl6 3y ago
> The production of hydrogen is energy-intensive. It takes 50-55 kilowatt-hour to make 1 kg of hydrogen and 60 kg of hydrogen to make 1 ton of steel.47 The production of 1 ton of steel from hydrogen thus consumes 3,000 kWh of electricity
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by jl6 3y ago
Medium density cities would be great but if you have to force developers to do it, that means it will cost more, which gets passed on, etc. etc..
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Yes, I have a close relative who is deep into conspiracy theories, and in conversation we skirted around that one. He referenced the idea and then said something like “of course, we are told that can’t possibly be true, although there are s

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