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by lisasays 4y ago
Were they wearing it at all times? Probably not. BP told many of its cleanup workers that they did not need to wear breathing protection because the toxic components of the oil had evaporated or were broken down in the waves, accord
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They cleaned up BP’s oil spill. Now they’re sick – and want justice(theguardian.com)
3 points by lisasays 4y ago|2 comments
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by lisasays 4y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preponderance_of_the_evidenc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
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by lisasays 4y ago
How can you say "we don't know"? The evidence seems overwhelming.
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by lisasays 4y ago
You used GPT to crank out a bunch of boilerplate. Not to create (or even make meaningful changes to) an actual, working system. With actual users. There is huge chasm of difference between the two.
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by lisasays 4y ago
It means they're going all out on a pure garbage, 100% manipulative content format. With no pretense of any intent to actually inform, or connect the reader with other human beings in any meaningful way. The very essence of generative
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by lisasays 4y ago
"In the first months of 1919, in the wake of uprisings, soviet republics were proclaimed in Bremen, Munich and Saxony. The deployment of Freikorps troops put a violent end to them by the beginning of May of that year at the latest.&qu
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Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated(theguardian.com)
10 points by lisasays 4y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 4y ago
The "I just want to see how you think" line was always BS. Like they can actually tell. The people using these questions just want some magical button to push that supposedly will tell them whether you're "good" or
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by lisasays 4y ago
Well there used to be this thing called https://meetup.com/ ...
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by lisasays 4y ago
Also, talk about a non-apology: Betsy S, I regret that this misunderstanding caused you distress. I never intended to demand anything of you. I only ever wished you well. "Betsy, I regret that with this misunderstanding on
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by lisasays 4y ago
After all, the PRC doesn't do it today. Except for what's going on in the Uyghur internment camps. Which does look a lot more like what went on back in the day. And (in the CPC's view) it's for their own good, no les
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by lisasays 4y ago
My take is a source is "bubbly" or not on the basis of its content. Not the portion of people in your immediate vicinity who happen to read/listen to it.
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Forensic analysis of the use of CS (teargas) by police in Portland(theguardian.com)
3 points by lisasays 4y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 4y ago
Yeah, I didn't chose my words very well. It seems fairer to state that, in the large - people don't like spending an ordinate amount of time in the fully encased, totally immersed environment that VR provides (even if, hypotheti
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by lisasays 4y ago
Which numerous credible accounts? We're going in circles here. You know the citation I'm referring to; you also know that the source you're linking to mostly doesn't address those items (except for one, and mostly by
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by lisasays 4y ago
No - just that we should focus our attention more on those who actually pull the strings.
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by lisasays 4y ago
It's not about the spokesperson. When it comes to matters of litigation such as these - you can be very sure that the message comes straight from the top.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Because our society has firmly decided to stigmatize and shun these people.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Very probable that Stallman hitting on students never happened Don't know what to tell you other than that this belief is plainly at odds with numerous credible accounts to the contrary.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Never mind the morality issues (which you don't seem to care about, or are happy to relativize with some form of "everything is messed up in the USA anyway, so it doesn't matter" argument). The bottom line is that in al
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by lisasays 4y ago
What about the "being deceitful" part? Not an issue for you?
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by lisasays 4y ago
Yup - one has to keep in mind that if they're bullshitting their various "employers", they're probably doing the same to our hapless journalist as well.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Not always. Think about the algorithms that casinos use.
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by lisasays 4y ago
OTOH - having them be open may ultimately lead to stable algorithms that can't be easily gamed.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Disagree. While it contained a dose of humor -- the primary message clearly was not humor, but the serious need to warn others about the need to be wary of this guy. As buttressed by the data points in the sibling comment to mine.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Let's be realistic here: we're not going to "reverse" ageing. The article title is unfortunate. A better description of what may be possible, per language deeper down in the article -- and what would be arguably much
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by lisasays 4y ago
The point is that these women had an apparently justified need to be concerned about unwanted sexual advances a certain senior staff member. And to be prepared to fend them off if necessary. It wasn't about dorky geek humor, or making
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by lisasays 4y ago
Or get caught up in "took our jobs" rhetoric, or whatever. Except it's not rhetoric or "whatever" to them. The threat is quite real.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Unfortunately the various hoof-in-mouth statements (about child-adult sex, the Esptein-Minsky remarks) aren't the main reason people are seeking to "cancel" RMS. Rather, it's that he apparently had something of habit of

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