marcus_holmes

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by marcus_holmes 5d ago
My point was that "both of these people are currently free" isn't the flex it appears to be. And again, why are we so focused on judging Snowden and not focused on judging the crimes he exposed? I would think that history wil
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by marcus_holmes 5d ago
They're mostly male?
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by marcus_holmes 5d ago
Why is the focus always on what these people did, and not on the crimes that they exposed? Why are you saying "if they had done it differently they would be treated better" instead of "I am ashamed of the evil and illegal act
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by marcus_holmes 5d ago
> Seems Epstein was a more commonplace sleazy creep into young prostitutes getting him into age of consent trouble in some states but not others As I understand it, the victims weren't prostitutes, but were just kids groomed into do
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by marcus_holmes 5d ago
Assange is only free because he was not extradited to the USA, and effectively served ~10 years imprisonment anyway. Manning got a presidential pardon. I wouldn't hold either of these up as a shining example of how the USA treats whist
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by marcus_holmes 6d ago
You appear to have a fascinating mental model where the world is divided into "felons" and "law-abiding citizens".
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
Yeah true to an extent, but that wasn't what the parent was talking about. There's a huge ongoing discussion about Australia's national identity, most recently fuelled by the rise of Australia's home-grown MAGA mob, One
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
Let me Kagi that for you... https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-rea...
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
Putin has the same choices Trump had: face the music or start a new song. Trump was under pressure about the Epstein files, so he started a war. So far, so normal. It's what politicians do. He thought it would be a simple war, but that
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
Basically the same. We love seppoes as people [0]. It's just the government we're annoyed at. [0] though if you could learn to moderate your voices in public spaces, that would be great.
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
100%. The only conceivable threat of invasion would be China, and they can just buy Australian resources [0] for far cheaper than it would cost them to invade us. I don't understand who the cookers think we're defending against. [
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
But there's whole communities of Americans who identify as Irish, or Anglo-Saxon, or whatever.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
I like that too. It fits with the "there's no such thing as infinity, there's just really big numbers". So space is not infinite, it just doesn't have edges.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
Yeah, other ex-British colonies with similar problems are doing great work in reconciling their differences. We could learn from them.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
You should read more Krugman. There's a whole argument about this.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
At least there's a chance those ones might actually turn up. They'll still be useless, but at least we'd actually have them.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
It's because the British heritage involved committing huge crimes against the indigenous folks that we haven't really acknowledged and haven't dealt with. We can't move on until we do. So we're kinda stuck.
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
If they'd only just admit they didn't invent Pavlova, it would definitely be obvious. But the Kiwis are a stubborn bunch...
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
You do not understand it. You are probably listening or watching the same folks who are calling the UK an "Islamic sultanate".
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
yeah that's the chap. Mine is slightly too large for my phone though. It still fits easily in my pocket. And it means I can pull out the e-reader without pulling out my phone, reducing the temptation to "just check..."
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
Because it's only profits that must grow every year. And if you can't increase prices, or market share, or the market size, then you must cut costs. And if the only way to cut costs is to destroy the product, then that's what
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
I have the reverse. I have a tiny e-reader that fits in my pocket next to my phone. I pull that out instead of doomscrolling on the phone, so I read on trains, on the toilet, etc. It's much more convenient than carrying a dead-tree boo
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
Or, and I'm just pointing out the obvious, read the book on an ebook reader and maintain the wallpaper value of the original dead tree book.
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
It's part of the growth paradigm - that everything must continue to grow. Let's say your product is mature. Your market is pretty much saturated; everyone who wants to use this product is using either yours or a competitor's.
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
This is awesome, I love it.
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
This. I don't understand why OpenAI aren't being prosecuted for that attack. Even if you allow that the LLM can't be held responsible, the sandboxes were clearly not up to the task and the whole incident was mismanaged. There
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by marcus_holmes 11d ago
this. It's all about the money, as usual. They don't have any commercial way of stopping the Chinese models from eating their lunch, so they're trying regulation.
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by marcus_holmes 13d ago
Only very partially free, though. The govt still has massive control over the markets, and especially the banks. They still plan a lot of their economy.
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by marcus_holmes 13d ago
Afaik corps can only have board voting on the basis of share ownership ("one share one vote"), but you can mess around with how many votes each share class gets. Co-ops can have more democratic voting arrangements, and usually hav
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by marcus_holmes 13d ago
Isn't most of the moderation from downvotes rather than mods?

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