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by laverya 3y ago
And how many of them are radical religious nutjobs? I think it is plausible that "can spend decades learning a scientific craft" and "wants to kill everyone on the planet" are mutually exclusive personality traits.
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by laverya 3y ago
Yeah, but generally those games that push for new GPUs look spectacular, not like SimCity 5 from over a decade ago.
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by laverya 3y ago
That actually makes sense to me, then. Not a 'normal' residential IP = higher chance of fraud.
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by laverya 3y ago
> If you feel that grades should be used to separate or weed out students who don't perform as well you're trying to twist "education" into something that it's not: A caste system. I would say I am trying to retu
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by laverya 3y ago
> If everyone gets 90% or better on a test that reflects what you're supposed to learn then it should be celebrated as a teaching success. It is not a problem. Then perhaps there should have been more available to be learned. If mos
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by laverya 3y ago
> They got into Harvard Harvard admits quite a few people who would normally not qualify as the cream of the crop. Above average, even good - but the worst Harvard admit is probably on par with the smartest kid at the local community col
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by laverya 3y ago
"Back and forth all day long while doing drugs" is literally one of the failure cases. "Back and forth begging/busking" is another.
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by laverya 3y ago
> "Fire" in a movie theater is the classic example of the court deciding what sort of speech consitutes compelling action. "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is an analogy that was used to justify banning antidraft
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by laverya 3y ago
You can't legally sell domestic flights in a foreign country. (for these purposes, the EU is one country) This is true for Australia, for India, for the USA, for the EU - an airline like Delta can fly to Sydney from LA but not sell dom
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by laverya 3y ago
I think a lot of Android manufacturers would be willing to pay Apple for iMessage access/licensing. I strongly doubt that Apple would be willing to sell that without the EU forcing them to.
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by laverya 3y ago
My recollection is that the "key" there allowed a teacher to give out multiple tests with questions in different orders, and then you would mark the letter for the test that you were given in that section. So test A would have que
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by laverya 3y ago
I think you're confusing the point of security clearances. There's no blackmail risk in that drug use, and so it doesn't interfere with the clearance.
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by laverya 3y ago
https://archive.ph/7JLzW > In May 1973 the Supreme Court accused the government of flouting judicial decisions and the law. The medical and bar associations took a similar stance. On Aug. 22 the lower house of the Chilea
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by laverya 3y ago
At least part of the reason that individuals traveled freely is that only rich individuals traveled. Paupers from London didn't get on ships to the new world - not without selling themselves into indentured servitude. When the economic
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by laverya 3y ago
Only if you don't count active war zones. I'm pretty sure HIMARS has killed thousands in Ukraine over the past year, for instance.
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by laverya 3y ago
The payment should be by the employee, not the employer, but perhaps pre-tax. This way the difference between an H1B and a real citizen employee is transparent to the employer, and the employee can move between companies without issue (or e
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by laverya 3y ago
Okay, but this isn't a Cruise car colliding with a SF fire truck - it's a fire truck colliding with the car! Now, it's still not good that they didn't yield to the fire truck properly. But that's a very different le
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by laverya 3y ago
Yeah, executing drug dealers/smugglers at scale would require significant and likely negative rollbacks to our system of jurisprudence. The US used to do things like this though! (I say likely negative because a system of trials th
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by laverya 3y ago
The Singapore (and rest of Southeast Asia) solution set might work here, but there's no way we have the political will for it. If we won't execute the vast majority of murderers, there's no way we'll do it for people jus
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by laverya 3y ago
"Japan has a higher GDP per capita than Alabama" is fake news. It's also confidently repeated by most LLMs. https://twitter.com/MatthewJBar/status/1681554646664634368 My assertion is that things lik
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by laverya 3y ago
Isn't this done with every "sanitized" LLM? Fake news is all according to perspective!
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by laverya 3y ago
It's almost happened before! https://youtu.be/nfDoml-Db64
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by laverya 3y ago
The patch for this exploit is to load AMD's updated microcode.
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by laverya 3y ago
Essays are incredibly biased though! Do you really think that for some reason essays actually have to be written by the person applying, and can't be gamed with money? That an overworked public school teacher is going to write a be
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by laverya 3y ago
Is there literally any test in which: "Students of Color" receive scores in the same distribution as white/asian/hispanic students (same fraction of 1s, 2s ... 35s, 36s on the ACTs for example) AND Top scores are meani
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by laverya 3y ago
> nobody used low frequency at the time I don't think this is true. Low frequency was and continues to be the best option for early warning and over-the-horizon use cases. > good enough to throw up flak, though - and that's
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by laverya 3y ago
Bluntly, the people with the power to stop you from doing so. For SpaceX, that means the US government via the FCC.
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by laverya 3y ago
Depends on what you mean. If you want to be a fab, the answer is "hahahahahahaha how many billion dollars do you have?" If you "just" want to send custom designs to an existing fab that's far easier.
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by laverya 3y ago
There are 6 times more "events" listed for the 737-NG variants as there are for the MAX, so there wouldn't be much inflation. (There's also more than 100x more flights with the NG than the MAX)
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by laverya 3y ago
There's certain to be natal/genetic/etc differences in the kids, though. (Are infants put up for adoption more likely to have been born to mothers who are in poverty? Who smoke, drink or use drugs? Who are younger or older? D

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