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by mptest 11mo ago
'Coffin liquor' may be the most disgusting pair of words I've ever read, and I've been on the internet a while. Wow.
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by mptest 11mo ago
it does feel like, when you click the, "pay 400$ more for a 30$ hardware upgrade" button, that tim apple himself is laughing at me knowing their siren song has already worked and I am at their mercy, wallet open...
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by mptest 11mo ago
no one , and i mean no one , has to invent the history of evil corporations doing evil things. Climate change? Cigarettes?, shit let's go modern. CZ? SBF? if it's not clear to you may i suggest with the upmost respect that you
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by mptest 11mo ago
this is just a more abstract "bootstraps" argument. schooling in this country has been systematically attacked and deconstructed, and as the burger reich's leader says, "i love the poorly educated". this is not &quo
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by mptest 1y ago
earnest question, hope this does not come off as skeptical of the skeptical position on ai and especially their salesmen. I ask because I share your skepticism, not because i think it's silly, to be clear. does it ever occur to your ty
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by mptest 1y ago
Yeah sorry I didn't mean to give the impression this was common, this is like huge buyers, like OTC deals or seriously bad buyers. Back when mixers were first coming under the cosh some of the big/bad buyers cared about that type
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by mptest 1y ago
normally, and it's been a LONG time since I been anywhere near crypto, it's about progeny of the actual "coin" , ie how many private wallets has it touched since being mined. coins freshly "mined" go for more t
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by mptest 1y ago
The real answer is the same reason younger generations grew up learning how to use excel and word and windows, a rich company found yet another way to acclimate users to their ecosystem and bypass all those pesky regulations around tech and
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by mptest 1y ago
Pull almost* any thread, when the question is "why haven't we made more progress", and you'll find the same answer
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by mptest 1y ago
That being the better approach says volumes about the complexity of lithography. For anyone reading this, read Chip Wars by Chris Miller. The Lithography sub-story that threads through is amazing and fascinating and the whole book is incred
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by mptest 1y ago
Anthropic has a "style" choice, one of which is "concise"
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by mptest 1y ago
>A public alternative with private transactions Anyone heard of Monero? Kind of their whole purpose... I know, I know, crypto bad, but when censorship comes for [insert your thing/country here], it kind of becomes obvious why people
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by mptest 1y ago
No expert, more a hobbyist, but my understanding is that most serious people with longer timelines all believe "embodiment" training data ie data from robots operating in the world is the data they need to make the next step chan
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by mptest 1y ago
Literally had this report for years and literally heard the current president praise and endorse it on a hot mic. The fact that, presumably, educated people, are still acting surprised (or worse, legitimately are ignorant) when the reic-i m
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by mptest 1y ago
>I don't think anybody wins from this... Take one quick look at any wealth inequality graph over time and "who's winning" will be pretty clear. Someone always wins. This is simply a step at privatizing everything. Str
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by mptest 1y ago
https://youtu.be/MN2LJ5XBQS0 rest of the link is tracking to my (limited) understanding
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by mptest 1y ago
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by mptest 1y ago
Can highly recommend Pegasus: a spy in your pocket about this very topic and much more journalists have to go through. terrifying stuff. e.g. jamal kashoggi (and his partner) had it on his phone when he got murdered by SA.
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by mptest 1y ago
I think your only problem is too-high expectations. >examples where quality far exceeds our existing best in class work I'm no expert, but what percentage of the economy needs/is best in class work? I agree running up against t
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by mptest 1y ago
Yeah, almost like a rising tide lifts all ships. Almost like the wealth hoarding dragons are fundamentally anti social. If only there was a metaphor to explain that. Maybe something about a mythical creature, hoarding piles of treasure.
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by mptest 1y ago
>1 Sorry, I guess I should've been clearer and added Properly implemented anti dragon tools. I assumed that was self evident. I suspect it is, given you clearly are capable of recognizing the problematic dragons I allude to. >2
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by mptest 1y ago
>There is support for UBI from socialists too. The opposition comes from the "centre - people whose main concern is maintaining the status quo. Yeah, almost like that MLK guy knew what he was talking about. Changes from the original
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by mptest 1y ago
Capital and ideology by pikkety goes in to great detail in to how consent for gilded age wealth inequality is and has been manufactured. Most effectively, unsurprisingly, in the minds of... people like those replying derisively to my commen
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by mptest 1y ago
>I greatly enjoy your...fantasy role-playing terms It's not that, dragons hoarding mountains of gold has always historically been an allegory for the rich hoarding wealth. >'fulfilling' (for some) is always going to mea
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by mptest 1y ago
The German UBI experiment we're discussing didn't involve 'taxing workers to give to the poor' - it gave unconditional payments to people across economic backgrounds, most of whom continued working. Your assertion about
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by mptest 1y ago
Funny how a retort to UBI experiments' success in Germany immediately jumps to Marxism and command economies - systems completely unrelated to modern UBI proposals. These programs are being tested in capitalist democracies with positiv
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by mptest 1y ago
I believe the mountains of evidence that money in a 'poor' person's hands does more for the economy than when it is added to a dragon's pile.
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by mptest 1y ago
Shocker, a retort against evidenced based advocacy for clearly beneficial social policy utilizing red scare propaganda within 10 minutes.
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by mptest 1y ago
>A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments. Surprising only to those who have not read literally any other study on UBI. Th
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by mptest 1y ago
the answers to that question are hugely variable and depend on the objective and defining waste. if one values learning intrinsically, like most of us here probably do, it is pretty hard to come up with a waste of time, even taking the rare

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