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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I remember GetHuman being helpful in the past. Not sure how it performs now: https://gethuman.com/
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I'm curious whether you think that resistance is genuinely adversarial or more based on ignorance and institutional inertia. For example, someone might have insights about the interconnectedness of all life and wants to transition to r
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I agree with this sentiment, but there have been cases of families who have had CPS called on them for letting their kids walk home alone from a nearby park [1]. It's frustrating to know that neighbors, schools, or authorities might in
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
In theory, courts don't "serve" anyone, but they do serve the rule of law. Courts _should_ remain impartial. Given this, it's problematic when the rule of law favors corporations over consumer interests, e.g. Federal Arb
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Former linguistics major here. Interestingly, 'lingua franca' originally referred to a specific pidgin trade language spoken in the Mediterranean. The 'franca' part referred to the Franks, who were originally a Germanic
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I agree. The causes of deafness I mentioned are diverse and fall outside the specific focus of this current study. Ideally, future research will address deafness caused by these and other other factors.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
This is great news. Hopefully this will be expanded to other forms deafness like those caused by ototoxic medication, ear infections, and general sensorineural hearing loss.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> get taxes 30% on it As opposed to paying more out of pocket or getting denied a claim? No thank you.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
This is addressed in TFA: > [...] the fact there's less money for research. > An early-career biological anthropologist said she was still awaiting contract details from AMU before putting pen to paper because of salary discrepan
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
What does it mean to believe "architecturally"?
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Likewise, just because you want to frame Chicano culture as "antisocial, criminal, and destructive" doesn't make it so either.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
No, your original comment is in response to an article that covers _Chicano culture_.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Weirdly this is something similar to what Satya Nadella said. > Yeah, I mean, it’s a it’s a very, very, very important question, the SaaS applications, or biz apps. So let me just speak of our own dynamics. The approach at least we’re ta
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
The person you're responding to didn't imply that privilege is a "sin". Not sure how you're interpreting that. Sinply put, most working class parents simply don't have the financial respurces to support an olde
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> don't mislabel that "positive-feedback engine". But it is a positive feedback loop in a technical sense. Think of a microphone providing sound to an amplifier, and that amplifier in turn providing amplified sound into th
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I would argue that social media’s positive-feedback engine contributed to its own demise. Anec-data: After being terminally online on Instagram, I decided to took a two-week break because I was noticed I was mindlessly scrolling through con
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
While looking for a typeface for my terminal, I happened upon the Braille Institute's website ( https://www.brailleinstitute.org/ ) which exemplifies more or less what you're describing. It is an aesthetically-pleas
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Cocomelon just phones it in. Almost all of their songs have some similar catchy intro leading into the song. Sometimes the intro is the same across different songs. Recently, my kid got into the song "Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Bell)
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
I agree with everything you said, except your last sentence. As a parent, and as a gun owner, I'm fine with there being gun control that leads to no more school shootings. And no, you can't depend on a "good guy with a gun&qu
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
It's a cyclical process.
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Someone I spoke with recently mentioned that it used to be that you could read a newspaper end-to-end and feel like you were informed. Now, it's an endless stream of information. I would posit that our brains weren't intended to c
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
I've been out of the translation game for quite a while, but I remember there being more to translating as a profession than just communicating ideas from one language to another. Sometimes precision and consistency is needed; complex
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Of course not LLMs, but approaches using mixed integer programming, genetic algorithms, and/or simulated annealing.
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Honest question: are air traffic controllers at risk for being replaced with AI systems? My initial thought is no, there is too much complexity, but AI could help ease the load. I'm not really informed about air traffic systems, just c
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
> Does the US really want a (hostile?) foreign govt to have clear direct access to [...] americans Apparently, American users want this? Approximately 700k users have joined RedNote, a Chinese platform. It's out of the frying pan an
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
I think the voters already informed her about that. The campaign was shut down a few months ago.
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
So, barring any sort of collective action, which seems impossible as you state, what other actions do you suggest? It seems the peaceful avenues of resolution have been captured by lobbyists, billionaires, arbitration forums, etc. What is l
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Insurance companies refusing valid, evidence-based treatments != denying unproven demands. Likewise, framing healthcare as either for-profit or purely charitable ignores successful state-driven models worldwide that operate without prioriti
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
> The order isn’t important. I would argue that it is, given the semantic shift that "to have" has undergone. “To have” historically has had a more tangible sense of holding or owning something in a lasting, physical way. For e
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by jonathanlb 2y ago
Probably the part where people were denied care that they needed in order to provide profits and dividends to its shareholders.

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