mahogany

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by mahogany 7mo ago
> annoying meme in feminism and history generally, that people in prior eras were idiots This sounds like a strawman to me but I’m not well versed in feminism. Do you have examples? On the topic of science, isn’t the criticism more that
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by mahogany 7mo ago
> If you want to reduce air travel for environmental reasons, then tax it more. > Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful. First, none of us have any power to "tax it more" so this is a dead end of
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by mahogany 9mo ago
> You always have to review overall diff though and go back to agent with broader corrections to do. This thread is about vibe coding _without_ looking at the code.
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by mahogany 9mo ago
The more you see and review LLM-generated code, the more you can detect its fingerprints. Obviously you're not going to prove this is LLM-generated. I wouldn't bet $1M that it is. This could be 100% human made. But read the same l
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by mahogany 11mo ago
Assuming you are in the US, consider that your perspective may be influenced by the modern (since second half 20th century) education system which so strictly stratifies by age. It actually is much stranger to me that we would expect peers
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by mahogany 11mo ago
Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.
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by mahogany 1y ago
I'm 50% sure this was written by an LLM.
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by mahogany 1y ago
“Traumatic overtraining” does have hits though. My guess is that “traumatically” is a rarely used adverb, and “traumatic” is much more common. Possibly it completed traumatic into an adverb and then linked to overtraining which is in the tr
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by mahogany 1y ago
> It’s basically the Laffer curve which argues that tax receipts can actually go down with higher taxes rates as tax’s can discourage growth if high enough. What you are describing is if we are on the right side of the curve. But is ther
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by mahogany 1y ago
I don't necessarily read it as condescending, but I do read it as presumptuous. What someone "should" do depends on many things. Maybe, because this is software in alpha stage, they should _not_ focus on this part of the code
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by mahogany 1y ago
> I didn't say he won't put tariffs on those countries, I'm said he doesn't care about them one way or the other. How do you know that?
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by mahogany 1y ago
Is everything in the store junk? This is ultimately a non-sequitur -- the tariffs are not targeting junk, and not everything made in China is junk. Prices across the board will go up, a tax on everything. It's funny that the same party
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by mahogany 2y ago
> We want secure housing, good education, healthy food, and an opportunity for promotion in life. Those things can only come with good jobs that are accessible to the whole working class, not just the well educated who make up most of th
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by mahogany 2y ago
> but is that only because we're exploiting poorer people in markets with fewer worker protections and fewer environmental protections That's definitely happening, but there are other possible reasons. For example a good could
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by mahogany 2y ago
> Tariffs should be expansive enough to take things like cheap labor in foreign countries or lax environmental laws out of the equation. Define "cheap labor". Is any labor that is cheaper than American labor bad? If not, how ar
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by mahogany 2y ago
> My understanding is that yes, the national debt is still increasing, although the administration is counting on tariff funds to supplement revenue. Would you agree? Let me see if I am following. The tariffs are ostensibly about spurrin
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by mahogany 2y ago
> but that doesn't mean it is uniform, or the payers and recipients are the same in terms of participation, returns, or even time. I’m not sure if I’m following, but a (let’s say) 20% cut to the value of an average retiree’s pension
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by mahogany 2y ago
> Still fits within a populist agenda. Not a lot of sympathy for mutual funds and the wealthy holding treasury notes that get inflated away. Wouldn’t this include average people’s pensions, IRAs, etc, too?
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by mahogany 2y ago
If there are no reputable sources to point to, then where exactly is GPT deriving its answer from? And how can we be assured GPT is correct about the furnace in question?
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by mahogany 2y ago
I used “directly” because I am looking for evidence supporting the cause and effect relationship between tax cuts, such as those proposed by the current administration, and net positive debt effects (or increased government revenue). It’s a
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by mahogany 2y ago
> No to the second question. The theory.. You answered “no” but then postulated a theory. Asking earnestly - what is the evidence that tax cuts have led directly to debt decreases?
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by mahogany 2y ago
> At the end of the day, we (the citizenry) cannot afford to stay in debt. It makes our country weak. Are you then opposed to the administration’s proposed tax cuts? Won’t that negatively impact the ability for the government to pay down
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by mahogany 2y ago
I’m not sure how the first part of your comment is related. I was referring to the potential defying of Trump’s orders by CDC employees (the topic). The main point was about “anti-democratic” which again only makes sense if you know that it
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by mahogany 2y ago
It’s illegal to defy the law here but “anti-democratic” is a huge stretch unless you know how “the public” feels on this specific issue. Clearly people voted for Trump for all sorts of reasons and do not wholly align on everything he campai
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by mahogany 2y ago
It is immediately wrong in Step 1. A newborn is not a 2:1 ratio of height:width. Certainly not 25cm width (what does that even mean? Shoulder to shoulder?). This is a perfect example of where not knowing the “domain” leads you astray. As fa
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by mahogany 2y ago
> Using the official number as a conservative guess, that's still 5 feds for 13 arrests (a 38% ratio!) FYI an informant is not a fed.
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by mahogany 2y ago
Ingesting vitamins from Amazon is certainly a choice. One I would not make in 2024.
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by mahogany 2y ago
> What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Billionaires already routinely sell billions in stock "at
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by mahogany 2y ago
How can you determine that the bribe was for an official act if “… courts cannot examine the President’s actions on subjects within his “conclusive and preclusive” constitutional authority”? In other words, if courts cannot even examine the
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by mahogany 2y ago
“They can’t arrest a husband and wife for the same crime!”

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