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by mptest 2y ago
Yes. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/how-the-united...
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by mptest 2y ago
>why it got the prohibition treatment which ALWAYS fails. it leads to fentanyl instead of regulated pure heroin which we tax. It leads to the money that could go to put these people in addict centers in to drug lords' pockets. peopl
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by mptest 2y ago
>"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover
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by mptest 2y ago
Painkiller is a great little short series on them too. does a great job at portraying all of what you mention in a six hour tv format. it can get a little on the nose sometimes but the meat is 100% true
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by mptest 2y ago
>The inequality will continue indefinitely Uh, only if you don't vote for politicians who believe in reducing inequality??? Kinda silly to act like inequality is an innate force and not something we control with governments...
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by mptest 2y ago
>Yes, so you agree with me then. As I said in my first comment, this is policy overreach by progressives Yeah, obviously the prison shit is fucked up. And as I've said since the start, democrats are servants of capital, same as the
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by mptest 2y ago
>Why do you think that law Because misogynist and patriarchal (agree with you there) dumbass dems over correct when they finally pick an issue to do something about? See also: latinx. It's dumb and bad, but the other side is still w
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by mptest 2y ago
So teaching isn't a real job? Authoring books isn't a real job? Someone should probably tell a lot of people the bad news... >selling socialism with hand waving Lol, more like selling it with award winning, best selling, taught
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by mptest 2y ago
>both sides bad Yeah, but one is way worse. >law about criminals You said "everything". "Everything" is what I'm challenging. No serious effort is made to force women to make any concessions, except by the par
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by mptest 2y ago
They are fixing no problems. Before I get back to your comment, I have to ask. You earnestly believe the party voting for children to work longer hours, more dangerous jobs, the party ensuring rape victims and children give birth to their r
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by mptest 2y ago
>> The Republican party is the party of generational wealth transfer. >I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. They oppose estate or "death" taxes in general. That is what they mean. >The Republican party is
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by mptest 2y ago
They didn't explicitly, no. But implicitly, their constructive suggestions seem obvious to me. Reduce barriers to benefits often called "means testing" - also make them more comprehensive.
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by mptest 2y ago
Any update on that? There's a comment there that suggests a simple legal "you better not do that" letter is all it takes. Obviously, I am not a lawyer, but I was looking at Boox tablets
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by mptest 2y ago
This is not a helpful mindset. Because things were worse before, we should ignore how they are still not faultless?
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by mptest 2y ago
In human compatible by stuart russel he chronicles all the previous cycles. After deep blue, 'expert systems' even earlier - What I don't remember is if he describes the relative level of investment in each "boom"
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by mptest 2y ago
There's a video a while back I saw where they had a model that could predict instability in plasma before it happened, allowing operators to turn off the machine before the out of control plasma hurts something. [0] https://
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by mptest 2y ago
>chat bots Ignoring Alphafold, moderna partnering with openai, the new class of antibiotics, etc etc. There's a lot more to ai than chat bots. That's a disingenuous reduction. I agree that it's a bold bet though, burning h
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by mptest 2y ago
without the sarcasm people not voting is a huge issue. voter suppression is a central tactic for conservatives. Openly their cult leader recognizes "if everyone voted we'd never have another republican elected president"
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by mptest 2y ago
On topic: Warrantless searches are 'needed' to "stem the distribution of fentanyl" the same reason drug use has always been targeted. Here's a quote from one of the progenitors of the idiotic prohibition mindset (in
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by mptest 2y ago
>Yet nobody really uses fentanyl, meth, etc, without their life and home situation falling apart. Thus the idea of hard-drug users doing so in the privacy of their own home feels a bit unrealistic. Equally, the notion of "just stop
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by mptest 2y ago
Yeah, Prohibition of substances has gone so well this far. Why hasn't anyone thought of punishing drug users? That has always worked in history! How do people like you not realize the ONLY solution is to let adults have bodily autonomy
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by mptest 3y ago
Anyone stumbling on this thread: A man from the future - ananyo bhattacharya chronicles his life and it is thrilling. If anyone has any of the questions the OP has, the book explains them. There were plenty of open problems then, they just
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by mptest 3y ago
I'm not saying they're the same thing, I said explicitly anonymity is a downstream byproduct of privacy. I have yet to see a system or proposition that can maintain privacy AND kill anonymity. Every corporation could implement z
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by mptest 3y ago
>elevate internet anonymity to a new fundamental principle for organizing society You mean privacy? Internet anonymity is a downstream byproduct of our right to privacy, not some new concept devised in the internet age. We've had th
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by mptest 3y ago
Damn. Tell your parents you love them often. This comment made me deeply pine for parents that feigned even the tiniest bit of interest in what I'm interested in. Your folks seem wonderful.
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by mptest 3y ago
The worlds I see by fei fei li is exactly what you're looking for, intertwined with a beautiful story of a brilliant scientist's perseverance
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by mptest 3y ago
>You'd think by now that everyone—especially those who'd intend forging documents—would be aware of the 'mismatched' font problem but it appears not because it's happened in significant numbers of high profile ca
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by mptest 3y ago
If only there were someone, or some institution that could think more long term than mindless consumers. We could call it a Governing board or something!
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by mptest 3y ago
To expand on this, it was so perfect at the haystack benchmark that they invented a new one, basically a hundred needle in the haystack benchmark. they had to invent new benchmarks for the model because it blew all existing ones out of the
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by mptest 3y ago
Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks a bunch. I guess i subconsciously ignored it because people here didn't seem to hype it up too much. thanks again

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