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by moate 2mo ago
Since people seem to be disagreeing with a fact: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1862/ https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/6/4/418/1... https:/&#x2
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by moate 2mo ago
You, uh, you're not from New Jersey are you? I promise you, we're not giving away land around here.
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by moate 2mo ago
so I hedged with "anytime soon" (we'll call it 5 years?) and also robot food production is not "AI" as "AI" is generally considered to be software (and the hardware that runs it I guess like the chips&#x2F
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by moate 2mo ago
McDonald's is perfectly fine food, depending on the problem you're solving for. If it's nutrition, you can do that. If it's affordability, you can probably do that. If it's availability, you can usually do that. If
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by moate 2mo ago
...that doesn't solve the actual problem, as all that guarantees is new officials. You need another step which is electing officials that are willing/able to enact policy change on this issue and who then do it. There's count
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by moate 2mo ago
"defend itself from tyranny". Burner, the tyranny is in the room and the 2A bootlickers all signed up to enforce it. Please show me the country higher on the global freedom index with more guns per-capita than the US. The "im
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by moate 2mo ago
Finding out the battle plan for your opponent and finding ways to attack their strongest points is absolutely valuable in public policy debate. I'd rather have this information available vs not if I found out my city council was about
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by moate 2mo ago
As someone who originally comes from a field that cannot be consumed by AI anytime soon (food service. AI can't actually be eaten) it's insane watching tech-dorks think "nobody actually cares about what they buy, which is why
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by moate 2mo ago
The irony here being that Netflix is currently in a massive layout to build a studio in NJ (like, 20 minutes from the old Bell Labs). Almost feels like giving that troll the finger!
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by moate 2mo ago
https://discoveratlanta.com/stories/things-to-do/atlantas-ma... Atlanta did a lot of the big ones.
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by moate 3mo ago
Whatever the conclusion of "is ICE the correct agency for..." the answer is no. But you use the brownshirts for things regular civil servants would gum up with protests and procedure adhering to the actual law.
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by moate 3mo ago
Why would you wonder that: https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-2026-midterm-elections... Of course they are.
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by moate 3mo ago
Okay, if you just want to have a conversation with yourself I can see myself out as you addressed literally none of what I said and went off on some affordability tangent about housing in general. Housing prices are too high for most people
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by moate 3mo ago
We created an extrajudicial prison outside of our borders to house "prisoners too dangerous for the normal court system", created an entirely new surveillance police force, and expanded FISA in response to 9/11. So if that&#x
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by moate 3mo ago
1- Costs of operating an larger house are higher than a smaller house 2- Yearly maintenance of a new house is cheaper than an older house (older the house, the greater this gets) 3- Easier to keep a smaller house tidy 4- Mobility/lifes
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by moate 3mo ago
Sadly, many people just want to be highly trusted in society (whilst themselves fearing most of the rest of it). It's why we flirt with/fall face first into authoritarianism every few decades.
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by moate 3mo ago
I can, we're living in it. Now imagine a world in which cops served the masses.
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by moate 3mo ago
Seriously. I'm as left wing as you can go and I still think that voting is useful to influence the system while building a critical mass of people willing to break the wheel. Saying "we'll never get class solidarity" is
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by moate 3mo ago
>>English majors seem to have banded together to crown only the most inaccessible and politically charged authors as worthy of attention Tell me you're an Engineer/don't hang out with actual "English Majors" (
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by moate 3mo ago
The article references "England has Shakespeare (1600s), Spain has Certantes (1600s) Russia has Pushkin (1800s)" whom I assume are intended as their nations' versions. You going to stand on your statement with that as a refer
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by moate 3mo ago
laughs in Melville
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by moate 3mo ago
Since nobody seems to want to do it, I'll throw Kurk Vonnegut out. We're a satire of a nation and he's our greatest satirist (sorry Sam Clemmens, you're too earnest, even when telling a joke.)
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by moate 3mo ago
As the saying goes: A few bad apples spoil the bunch. It's a rotten profession.
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by moate 3mo ago
Said by someone who's clearly never had cops after them...
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by moate 3mo ago
The problem with Flock is its continued existence as part of the surveillance state. Like guns or bombs, these are things with one intent, and that intent is always ALWAYS bad as the resource is inevitably concentrated in the hands of a few
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by moate 3mo ago
why not enjoy the piece>> The theft. I for one can't enjoy a piece of creative media made by AI because I know it only exists so that a handful of losers can profit off the wholesale theft of actual human creativity. Other people
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by moate 3mo ago
I could be! And in science when you posit a hypothesis you then back it up with data points of statistical significance. The authors of this study have done that here. To borrow from your example, if you saw a statistically significant amou
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by moate 3mo ago
Where was this listed in the study? I can't find this anywhere in either the linked page or the Github https://algorithmichiring.github.io/
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by moate 3mo ago
I'm going to assume that people aren't allowed to put "don't send me black applicants" into their process even if they do see race in the application as that's entirely illegal. The paper's conclusion, tha
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by moate 3mo ago
How would you like me to define "starting point" in a way that you believe you'll be able to understand? If you are trying to say "more data needed, headline misleading" you should say that instead of misrepresentin

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