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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
or lease? or... There's probably a dozen words to mean that same word.
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
A consumer friendly policy could be: 1. Proration for a "lifetime" access (87 years) denied. In many cases probably close to 90% refunded. 2. irrespective, a Full refund for those who had never viewed the purchase. 3. A refund eq
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
For one quarter to half the price he could have had a motorcycle which is faster than nearly everything on the road.
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
> just as fast once you factor in the time it takes to review and correct the LLM Do you have a source for that claim?
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
> you do it on your own terms, rather than on the terms of the employer You've setup a condition where essentially every answer is true. I know someone who spins wool and dyes it and makes socks. Does it still make sense? Only once
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
There's a coming reckoning with how little effort actually matters in the grand scheme of things. If your job takes you 10 seconds or 10 minutes or 10 hours, you havent done a "better job". If someone sits and thinks for an h
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
we don't have to wait for one. But anti-corruption practices like watch dogs / transparency et al are the next steps before jumping to conclusions. Like IMO the real recourse is to come down hard on the abuses of power, and that i
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
> I think you're really underestimating the public's desire to punish criminals. Yes, i understand what you're saying hence why i mentioned culture. American justice (and cultural cues that inform the policies) seems to be
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
AFAIK there is no right to privacy in public, no? What I don't care so much about the data collection as I do about how it's used. Its not that the NSA surveils that bugs me. It's that they use kangaroo courts, "asdfasdf
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
nah, that's not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is IMO until the police have something to hide (besides their crappy securing of the usage) It's not really a news piece. If we had a story of a Police officer usin
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
So we'd rather a high speed chase, crashes, danger to cyclists and pedestrians? I'd rather a drone follows the car until it stops and the police arrive to retrieve it and give a hand slap to the offender. I know this is lagging, a
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
>Exposes reality of urban surveillance Sounds like they're saying we should be appalled by this usage of drones... IDK, until we have some proof of an truly innocent (found by a court) or no reason to be suspected person (eg profile
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
You're assuming economics is the ultimate goal and not just a tool in service of a greater goal.
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
should test? As in test the blood? Or test the hypothesis? if the latter I'm not sure it's enough of a stretch to say unprotected, hi-risk, promiscuity is a risk factor for blood borne illness like HIV? (Such that we need to resea
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
here's more irrational. Because they have >1M single men who will never have a bride. Maybe they want to come and take. Maybe Xi decides they're mad that we're defending Taiwain. Maybe the decide to do the inverse vietnam
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
Personally? China. Is it rational, IDK. It's just the largest more capable power at this moment. (particularly their industrial base and ability to out produce weapons / soldiers)
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
This is so much more fun than those dumb word games on linkedin
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
Ok, all the negatives aside, focused on silver linings. I am musing how it's good that the US is finding this out now, and not in a really big conflict on it's own home territory in which it cannot get out of (ie an invasion). Yes
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
calling people you do not know anything about "incredibly stupid" is not objective fact, and the reason your post was flagged.
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
Based on his push ups and chinups, i hoped there would be a national mandate of exercise for children aka recess and gym class. I'm not usually classified as "incredibly stupid" so your comment is off tone and not aligned wit
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
People have more unprotected, regrettable sex during travel and vacations, so maybe they're on to something?
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
> to his concept of China’s honor and global standing. Or his sinocentricity and even racism (as in superiority of chinese people). There's been a long standing view in China about their own superiority of others, including all the
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by maerF0x0 3mo ago
One of the problems with absolute authoritarian regimes is that the friends of those in power are defined as "not criminals", and vice versa for enemies. It's part of the reason I'm against presidential pardon. (Except f
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
The scorer (computer) on my dexa scan noted I carried "elite" (ie high percentile) muscle mass.
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
I'm with ya at 29.4. I carry a lot more muscle than the average populace, so I'm both high BMI and appear to be "fit" to casual onlookers. But dexa says 26% which is about double what I would like.
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
Yes thats what i was referring to, you're both correct on your respective angles.
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
> average age 72.0 years, body mass index 25.8 Careful before you assume you'll have the same outcomes. That's a group of people who are already fairly light compared to the American populace, and likely are suffering from sarc
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
> cell phones I more or less agree about it being near necessity, but I guess what i really meant was an $1100 phone on a $100 a month plan, When a $175 phone on a $15 a month plan would suffice.
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
There's a lot of quality points on both sides: Side A (market is unfair): NIMBYism, minimum/median wage not growing as fast as price increases, major governmental help to prior generations (inexpensive college, taxes based on purc
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by maerF0x0 4mo ago
> and the same liquid can be recirculated in a closed loop so no new water is consumed to cool the chips That doesn't mean a datacenter doesn't have a very high _initial_ need for water, or to replace _some_ amount of leakage,

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