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by mcphage 1y ago
Nowhere in the Constitution is stated that a fortune cookie cannot rewrite the Constitution itself.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I’m not sure how reporting on a thing of concern that is happening counts as clickbait. That’s just… reporting.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Hey, welcome to 2025. Always nice having time travelers visit. Not sure why you picked this year to travel to from the past, but it was not a great decision.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> You’ll get a few more years of being able to have kids after you know who you are. I think the problem with that is: having kids both induces a lot more learning about who you are—as well as changes who you are.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Then, the national debt needs to be paid off or a good effort made towards that. He has zero interest in paying off the national debt.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Magazines do it a lot.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I will note that we have a great tool for this problem that is (or at least can be) "statically typed": the relational model. Databases are precisely what you want for this sort of problem Relational databases still lock you
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by mcphage 1y ago
The Metaverse was a waste of billions of dollars to develop a product that nobody wanted. In no world was that a smart business move, or one that should be emulated. Doing nothing is better than flushing money down the toilet.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Unless you believe operating like this what makes Russia or North Korea poorer than the USA, which I think is very dubious. Rejecting people who look at reality with people who tell the leader what they want to hear is a big part of wh
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by mcphage 1y ago
They were not fired for providing inaccurate numbers, they were fired for making Trump look bad.
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by mcphage 1y ago
The future numbers are going to be significantly less accurate.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The only way they are related is with this "chain of social progress" framework, and even within that framework, they are not the same issue. The way that they are related is that PBS childrens' shows deliberately addres
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by mcphage 1y ago
> It will regain its trust, but it has a long, uphill battle to get there since, especially since the months leading up to 2016. Why do you think that? Do you imagine that the individuals and institutions pushing the idea that the media
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well, looks like that problem has been solved for you!
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by mcphage 1y ago
> When I say it's political, I mean that it makes points without nuance on historical and current issues which range from widely accepted and important ideas [...] to what I would consider less widely agreed upon and important ideas
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by mcphage 1y ago
Another possibility: how they carry the basket is different. Maybe when they were sharing the load, they could use both hands or rest some weight on their body, but when they're carrying their individual basket they can only use one h
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The characteristic feature of Arays is that all but the last element have their next element and all but the first element have their previous element. Where are you getting that from? That's not the characteristic feature of Arr
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by mcphage 1y ago
Thank you!
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Knuth has a whole section on puzzles in his newer writings That sounds really interesting—can you share which book / fascicle / article that's at?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I really doubt that Gemini was using the Fantastic Four poster itself when it said it recognized Ebon Moss-Bacharach as The Thing.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Bro it's not a "weird art game about trauma" its a rape simulator. What game are you talking about?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yeah, I guess you’re right. If you don’t want to buy your chips from Nvidia, you could buy them from… Hmm.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whose company has absorbed a bunch of ex-Biden staff, says one scenario is that most entry-level white collar jobs disappear. "Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced,”
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by mcphage 1y ago
> was subtly different for every single viewer. …I don’t think you know what people want. People don’t want a 80 hour video that nobody else sees, they want shows that they can talk about with their friends and make fan content for that
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by mcphage 1y ago
Glulam beams might be manufacturable on site—and it might even be better, since you can make very long glulam beams, but long beams are more expensive to ship.
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by mcphage 1y ago
"Dear DJI customer, congrats! For free, we are sending you a brand new hardware update to your DJI drone, a super battery pack! Please attach it to your drone immediately and try it out, the improvements will be positively explosive!
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by mcphage 1y ago
I thought the same thing :-)
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by mcphage 1y ago
Of course you can. Viewer reaction is difficult to predict, and exists as a spectrum. Even the same person will have different reactions at different times based on their mood and what else they've been looking at.
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s saying something about you. It doesn’t say anything about the photo.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I imagine they’ll feel even worse when the war crimes trials start. Ah, well.

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