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by merpnderp 3y ago
Only 3% of Harvard admits, according to the data they submitted for the case, were in the bottom income quintile. 70% were in the top quintile. Harvard wasn’t doing crap to fix income inequality, just keeping rich families rich while embrac
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by merpnderp 3y ago
Not everyone is a pacifist willing to live in slavery. Sometimes people need weapons to defend themselves.
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by merpnderp 3y ago
People have been pointing out the folly of not allowing regular burns for decades, no idea why it is only now getting traction with this weird take. It's not like the divide between those who wanted controlled burns and those who didn&
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by merpnderp 3y ago
Last time I bought a car, I called around until I found a good deal then I went there and talked to them to get the actual number. Then I called the other dealers I'd spoken with and asked if they could beat that deal. I spent 8 hours
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by merpnderp 3y ago
If you look at all the crazy coincidences that were required for life to develop on Earth, it starts to make sense that we're alone. Single star in the system, need a big Jupiter to block space rocks, our target is a rocky planet close
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by merpnderp 3y ago
I had to open the link in my browser, then use the Safari tab sharing thing to open that same page on my phone, which then opened it in the store to the correct app, because I ran into the exact same problem. Apple store search is a broken
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by merpnderp 3y ago
This is great, but keep in mind firming cost of renewables is quite expensive and not carbon friendly.
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by merpnderp 3y ago
Blame those who chose coal over nuclear in the 70’s. That choice killed millions from air pollution, gave us global warning, and stole a future of cheap plentiful energy.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
I couldn't believe they were raising $35 million rounds with a brand new embedding database that was open source. Then I poked through the dozens of lines of code and realized they had implemented the same DB I had. LOL, much funny.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
It is not so simple as to say salaries went up so inflation went up. Inflation from decreased supply at the same time as increased Treasury spending through stimuluses, coupled with the workforce shrinking, is what caused salaries to rise.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
The joke about not kneeling 5 times a day because of a wheelchair was not a massive racist rant. There are no examples of early GPT-4 going on massive racist rants. I often wonder what drives hyperbolic/hyperventilating responses like
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Look in the technical report at table 8, the base model performs significantly better than the RLHF model in math and science questions. And arguably performs better in helping people who cut themselves. It is hard for me to fathom how &quo
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by merpnderp 4y ago
I see comments like this and I wonder what do people actually learn in school. Adam Smith wrote extensively about this (surely people still learn about him). His premise were people are naturally greedy, and it is good to use a system that
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by merpnderp 4y ago
The obvious solution is a carbon tax, but you'll be called a right wing nut job if you promote that.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
How does the average person go about a non cloud connected router? They barely know what it is, let alone what it means to administrate it over the cloud software. How is this their fault for not being a IT professional capable of understan
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Couldn’t a judge issue a warrant to take control of the keys needed to update the warrant thus sidestepping the first amendment prohibition on compelled speech? Everyone would think it is Rsync updating the canary, but it would be law enfor
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by merpnderp 4y ago
If we have to pick between the first amendment and the courts helping to secretly enforce what are quite often shady laws, how should a people born to the Enlightenment choose?
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by merpnderp 4y ago
There were a lot of companies that did everything they could to keep people employed. My company lost a lot of money keeping us on.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Absolutely. Many H. subspecies were tool using.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
The FBI/CIA was censoring rando Americans for stupid jokes and everything in between that and real journalists covering real stories that the FBI didn’t want ran. It was bad.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
I can’t imagine in living in a place where people can just ran out, spit on your windshield, rub it around with a cloth, then demand money and if you don’t pay up you might get shot. What insane people vote for this?
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by merpnderp 4y ago
I keep hearing vaccination being promoted, but the last major study I saw showed no statistically significant difference in natural immunity + vaccination versus simple natural immunity. This also seems to be a topic treated as a fringe con
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by merpnderp 4y ago
He was the only major politician pushing for the one thing that would have hurt Russia the most - European energy independence. I’m not sure how people can see how he consistently pushed for real containment of Russia then ignore it to beli
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by merpnderp 4y ago
There is too much demand. If we could make all the stuff we can afford to buy, then we wouldn't have inflation. But it is how we get $12 for a medium #1 at Burger King, which is flipping insane.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
This is my trick. I tell myself to just do something small then I can quit, which always turns into doing it all like normal. But having the option of bailing makes it feel so much better, which makes the suck less sucky.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
I think the website has some bugs. The section results often appeared before the section finished loading and often the section video would never even run. Hope he can figure out how to remove the bad data.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
"119 mile under active construction" does not disagree with "the state has not laid a single mile of track." Under active construction could simply mean the land is being graded and prepped, or with modern weasel wording
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Google returned nothing which contained exact matches of some of the more interesting dialogue. It would be a serious find - worthy of a paper - to disprove that GPT-3 is generating novel text/code.
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Except Google isn’t creating anything new, Copilot is. I’ve had it kick out some very interesting short stories based on Sherlock Holmes, so if I published those would they infringe?
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by merpnderp 4y ago
Socioeconomic status tracks with academic ability because more well off parents are more likely to read to their kids, participate in their education, and get them help when they need it. It’s a lot like how being tall tracks with being in

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