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by leovingi 2y ago
Being told to remove DEI wording is not comparable to a war crime, please engage in a serious discussion and leave the hysteria at the door.
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by leovingi 2y ago
Don't forget funding Sesame Street in Iraq to the tune of $20M
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by leovingi 2y ago
Imagine being a party so pretentious, so horrible and disgusting that you lose to a fascist
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by leovingi 2y ago
>kids giving up violin because they can't compete with their Humanoid "servants" It's an interesting situation to consider in a fictional story, except we already have real-world proof of this NOT happening the way so
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by leovingi 2y ago
> Platforms were encouraged to create their own departments, and have. There is no "one" or "governing" body here, so this is more hyperbole in this already flagrantly absurd discussion. > Finally, in the midst of
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by leovingi 2y ago
As opposed to them being brave, independent champions when it came to suppressing discussions about Covid or the Hunter Biden laptop
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by leovingi 2y ago
> I haven't seen a single discussion be worse off due to fact checking The idea that there is some official governing body that has access to undisputable facts and they have the power to designate what you or I or anyone else can t
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by leovingi 2y ago
> The irony? AI tools might actually enable this renaissance. By handling the routine coding tasks, they free up developers to focus on what matters most: creating software that truly serves and delights users. How very naive. All produc
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by leovingi 2y ago
A more charitable interpretation would obviously be that the OP is very happy with the products and services that these companies build and provide and if the alternative is between this never happening and the companies becoming monopolies
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by leovingi 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Difficult to argue about this without the context, but even with it, there are so many unique and specific cases that it can essentially be brought down to the individual level. Some children can be pushed w
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by leovingi 2y ago
So which argument are we actually discussing here? Because in the OPs post and in yours there are two different arguments that, for whatever reason, are bundled together and used as a motte and bailey. Argument #1: Certain kids are privileg
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by leovingi 2y ago
>it gives the kids the impression that school is super important >We must have left some poor but capable kids in the wrong school. Both of those things cannot be true at the same time. Either school is important, in which case both t
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by leovingi 2y ago
Why are you using a word like "hurt" to describe the ending of a legally binding contract?
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by leovingi 2y ago
But it's true. I've written a novella-length book in emacs org mode and using a simple keyboard shortcut ended up with a generated ready-to-upload-to-KDP PDF. As far as writing tools are concerned, nothing else has come even close
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by leovingi 2y ago
because if it's an accident and someone is dragging an anchor behind them, if the cables are only meters apart then they are going to cut both
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by leovingi 2y ago
Like another commenter has replied, not only are you factually incorrect, you are incorrect on a moral level, because your argument is that if the statistics show that more bad things happen with guns acquired legally, then that somehow tru
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by leovingi 2y ago
Not the OP, but I don't interact with all the asians in the world. If I interact only with a small subset of asians and there's an observable statistical outcome when it comes to that particular subset, then that is the informatio
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by leovingi 2y ago
>Many times you can show useful UI before actual data is fully loaded (i.e. search / filter controls or basic data you already have). It can be done, yeah, but it has to be handled very carefully because it runs the risk of causing
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by leovingi 2y ago
One could even go further and expand this to the players themselves, as there are certain games that might be viewed as visual programming tools. Factorio is a great example, as, conceptually speaking, there isn't much of a difference
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by leovingi 2y ago
Given that the original comment implied that the reason we could not have an "open and really big" internet is because of the handful of oddballs that thought 5G towers caused Corona, yes, it might as well be literally nobody.
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by leovingi 2y ago
>so many people who thought 5G caused corona literally nobody thought this, perhaps except a handful of oddballs. If you want to make your case for describing the state of the internet, please avoid nonsense exaggerations like this.
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by leovingi 2y ago
Thank you for your input on certain names not being taken seriously CyberDildonics
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by leovingi 2y ago
The inability to recognise how an intelligence trait that correlates with pattern recognition might have an effect on being able to predict the long-term outcome of one's actions and provides the ability to work well with others in a v
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by leovingi 2y ago
Maintaining a high level of civilization
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by leovingi 3y ago
Machines can reliably beat humans at chess. Has that stopped anyone from playing? Has it stopped anyone from watching chess tournaments?
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by leovingi 3y ago
Do you pay the exact amount of tax you owe to the government, or do you always add a bit of extra on top to comply with the "spirit of the law"?
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by leovingi 3y ago
>to figure out what was an acceptable level for the exports they do But that is exactly what they did. The acceptable level of exports is whatever the law says it is and Nvidia followed the law. "to get around US export restrictions
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by leovingi 6y ago
>white trash You should apologize for this racist comment
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by leovingi 6y ago
ego-driven development If I am a senior engineer with a huge salary and I am asked to come up with an architecture proposal, and the end result is a proposal so simple (but correct) that a first year university student could've come up
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by leovingi 6y ago
Yes, I was obviously being racist instead of talking about decreasing the amount of people going out to restaurants and other public places, which is the main focus of the current containment measures all around the Western world. And if yo

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