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by jpadkins 2y ago
why?
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CEO stands for Chief Executive Officer. a chief executive officer, the highest-ranking person in a company or other institution, ultimately responsible for making managerial decisions. Maybe you mean COO?
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by jpadkins 2y ago
Serious answer: I don't know, but we shouldn't rush to judge until all the facts come out. All we know is they did a raid on the CEO home (not the business?) and the CEO claimed politics is involved. I sincerely hope Congress per
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you don't have to tell the FBI! you get a chance to tell the judge when the FBI/DOJ presents their case against you. There are many recent examples of fed agencies doing aggressive tactics and getting overturned in the courts (Ra
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by jpadkins 2y ago
Have you considered that the police or prosecutors in this case may be incorrect or corrupt? Innocent until proven guilty is a cornerstone of our civilization. We should not shame anyone who has been searched or arrested by the police.
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The US was not founded on this "permission" mindset. It's a free country. If you are not harming anyone or violating any existing laws, you are free to build new products and services. You do not need permission from burea
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The AP does not in fact call who wins. They publish their opinion, some people trust the AP to be accurate (or not!). The election is only "called" when all the states have certified their results and the US Congress has accepte
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why? Is the US gov immune from corruption?
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> actually surfacing the content people want to see, Showing users what they want to see conflicts with your other goal of receiving reliable answers that don't need fact checked. Also a lot of questions people ask don't have o
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I haven't seen any comments on the topic of chronic inflammation. I am not knowledgeable on this topic, but we do know that chronic inflammation is linked to a huge number of disease end points. GLP-1 may be reducing (or preventing) s
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by jpadkins 2y ago
what caused this sudden change in greed? Were these actors not greedy before 2019?
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drinking fluoride in small quantities doesn't have a ton of evidence of benefit. Brushing your teeth with fluoride does.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
What is a better 2FA channel?
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He tried to get Hunter to pay for the repairs several times, and then took possession of the laptop as payment for services after a year or more. That is legal in the US. Given how public this story was, if what he did was illegal, local D
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> If you sell your body, most societies will punish you. > Why though? In stable families and societies, women use sex as control (power) over men. Younger women who sell sex are undermining that power structure. That is why they mu
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Vaccine hesitancy and general distrust of 'big pharma' started in left wing, hippy / naturalist culture in the 1970s. And lawyers suing big corporate pharma companies for harm caused to children is definitely a liberal thi
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a coalition that contains RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk are now far right?
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Elon was born in Africa and is not eligible to be president.
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we can also have wheels to make it energy efficient. We can call it "the mobile" or maybe the auto-mobile.
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to be more specific. People with power desire to retain that power. They will work with other people with power to keep that power if it's in their mutual interest. The people change over time, but the basic psychological need and h
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> we're already seeing that OpenAI has pivoted from improving on GPT-4's benchmarks to reducing cost, while competitors (including free ones) catch up. What if they have two teams? One dedicated to optimizing (cost, speed, etc)
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> vs an actual open source system where you can understand how the system is working and modify specific functionality. No one on the planet understands how the model weights work exactly, nor can they modify them specifically (i.e. hand
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by jpadkins 2y ago
the only thing radical is the opinions of people you are listening to if you believe SCOTUS enabled legally sanctioned assassinations. It was political hyperbole based on nothing, and it worked (with you). Think for yourself.
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You can trust well trained machines and well trained humans. Makes sense. Now we just need to figure out how to identify 'well trained' easily.
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The OG stated > What the ? You presumably go from not a millionaire to having $3,000,000, and you decide to risk it to triple it? That's some next level greed right there. This implied selling btc to get dollars is less risky than h
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by jpadkins 2y ago
Holding federal reserve dollars is guaranteed to lose value. Inflation is the stated goal of the Fed (as dictated by Congress in the dual mandate). So trading Bitcoin for dollars is almost always a bad trade.
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1) Is real but will have net positive impact on humanity (of course there will be losers, but like most new technologies humans will have more for less effort) 2) It is real but unlikely to end humanity. Much more likely to create large ar
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macro scale: GDP / labor hours worked. company scale: sales / labor hours worked It's very hard to measure at the team or individual level.
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Hook the protein model up to an LLM model, have the LLM interpret the results. Problem solved :-) Then we just have to trust the LLM is giving us correct interpretations.
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the new form of corp + government collusion does these weak investigations and charges, tying up the space for years and ultimately losing. It allows politicians to claim they are doing something, while securing access for intel agencies a

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