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by lettergram 2y ago
Unrelated, but I had to do a double take! I too had two naked cats, Java & Mew Mew (sleeping like the firefox logo) - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.... Or sprawled - https://i.im
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by lettergram 2y ago
I built a system that did this years ago https://x.com/austingwalters/status/1041894765439201281 Ironically, it doesn’t use embeddings even though at the time and since I’ve basically exclusively used embeddings.
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by lettergram 2y ago
Yeah, pretty much better off for society offering low-interest loans to people trying to start businesses. That can produce value and jobs in products that other people value. A rising tides raise all boats, so to speak.
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by lettergram 2y ago
For me, it was the cuts between each call haha
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by lettergram 2y ago
> The whole idea of extortion is premises that people can exist somehow outside of society which is disconnected from reality. Or people can agree to collaborate (like a church or workers union) without extortion of citizens. There’s ple
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by lettergram 2y ago
The way I see land value tax and taxes in general is different. Tax is someone taking money by force. Supposedly this tax is then used to protect the land / assets from being seized. Over time every country seemingly has increased taxe
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by lettergram 2y ago
Not the original poster, but It’s probably more important because you can’t force people to wear masks. As such, the question is “can I protect myself?” If you can, there’s absolutely no reason to force other people to mask anyway & you
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by lettergram 2y ago
Starting a company myself, I took 6 months with no salary. After we raised, my salary was massively cut from where it was (30-40% of what I made the year prior). Then you have the fact I gave up guaranteed raises & promotions (to the tu
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by lettergram 2y ago
It’s the validation of that info that is KYC
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by lettergram 2y ago
Quite literally what my company does - https://ipcopilot.ai/ We discover innovative ideas in companies and help them protect their IP.
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by lettergram 2y ago
> We'll have a core directable glued-together stack that can take instruction like "make me a shopify site to sell cute mini traffic cones that are oscar-the-grouch themed, but make sure they don't violate any copyright th
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by lettergram 2y ago
Was just about to comment on the AMA when I read this. Not only do they do caps on total number. They also do ridiculous race quotas, so you’ll see good students skipped for subpar students. On its face, you may think that’s going to improv
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by lettergram 2y ago
Lmao I mean, you can look up the stats. Approximately no one dies from raw milk. Pasteurization started before refrigeration was common and when cities became larger so getting milk was more difficult. I think we’d know if people started to
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by lettergram 2y ago
I’ve been drinking raw milk for years. Amish all drink raw milk, as do most of the folks around me. Tastes better, naturally has lactase so lactose intolerant folks can drink it, etc None of us believe anything the cdc says because they hav
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by lettergram 2y ago
> These tractors can cost up to half a million dollars to purchase and about US $7 a hectare to operate. I was about to say... I use my $95k tractor to spray my 100 acres no problem
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by lettergram 2y ago
Hey man, those banks, brokers, and agencies are still in business lol still trust them?
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by lettergram 2y ago
Still used, just not recommended in vaccines for children under 6 https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availabi...
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by lettergram 2y ago
Yeah that’s one of them. There’s also often mercury - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index.... I actually had a similar theory as to where egg allergies come from. Many vaccines have eg
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by lettergram 2y ago
Yeah, I generally agree. That said, there’s a couple things: 1. You’re technically allowed to travel through anywhere with any firearms in the US (I only had a magazine, not a firearm) legally. That includes planes, but you have to check th
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by lettergram 2y ago
How dare you question the TSA, the best and brightest of us. \s As a funny counter, I recently traveled through 6 TSA checkpoints with a loaded magazine in my bag. I had it from when I was at my farm, oops. Was a little concerned because I
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by lettergram 2y ago
It’s not really a problem, you’d just use blocks of 4 to avoid the issue. Also why do we base districts based on racial breakdown anyway?
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by lettergram 2y ago
My wife enjoys going to these struggle sessions on DEI for academics (she has a PhD in neuroscience). She’s of the opinion she hasn’t been oppressed and in fact has regularly given opportunity because of her sex, so when lecturers try to re
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by lettergram 2y ago
HIV doesn’t kill people, secondary infections do after either the virus or drugs administered kill the person. Regardless, in a given year, less than 1% of people with HIV cited as the underlying cause listed die, far less. Currently, it’s
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by lettergram 2y ago
At the start COVID was claiming potentially 60-70%, then 5-10%, then <5%, then 1%. In all likelihood it's a sampling bias because only the very sick end up at the hospital(s) and are tested. I don't think we should worry at all
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by lettergram 2y ago
Across the board urban and suburban populations have much higher (2-10x) more violent crime (depends on category). That said, many argue the robbery reporting rate is far lower rurally. Things like a broken mailbox is not at all reported.
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by lettergram 2y ago
It’s pretty different crime. Rural crime is often “someone stole something from my yard” or “someone hit my mailbox with a bat”. City crime is “I was robbed at gun point” or “someone hit me with a bat”
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by lettergram 2y ago
I highly doubt that’s true, sending it back to earth is fairly cheap. Getting stuff to the moon can be expensive, but there will def be certain resources worth sending back. For instance, 10Kg of gold is worth $750k. Probably could just sen
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by lettergram 2y ago
They could just not cover injuries where a seatbelt isn’t warn. That said, we have evidence that seatbelt wearing didn’t impact insurance rates. Literally look at the rates over time, even after these laws were enacting, insurance rates ros
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by lettergram 2y ago
My reflex is to never mandate safety procedures. To put it simply, why should the state use force to mandate something like safety. The implication being if someone refuses the force of the state is used on them… which is definitely not goo
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by lettergram 2y ago
I really appreciate that DuckDuckGo has managed to get 2.5% of US search traffic. Frankly that is impressive. It now equals that of yahoo, while obviously a tiny fraction of the overall market it’s likely enough to sustain it Regarding gene

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