mtgp1000

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by mtgp1000 6y ago
There's no proof of that. In fact there's still no proof to my knowledge that nicotine itself is harmful - to the contrary, it may have neuroprotective properties.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The noise and evidence of a broken window acts as a strong deterrent - as well as a warning system to those inside. Using a stolen/copied/fabricated key is comparatively silent.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>but had a hefty implied message There used to be a word for this as well; we called it "putting words in other people's mouth". One can criticize aspects of a movement without being against the whole movement, or the peop
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Counterpoint: Elon Musk is the only (publicly visible) CEO who is seriously talking about going to Mars and direct interfacing between machines and humans and making tangible steps toward these futuristic goals. His rockets are [mostly] n
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
It appears that there is a higher than usual proportion of negatively scored comments ITT. I think that might say something about the so called silent majority - the very people who are [rightly] unwilling to comment publicly because of the
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I believe it was Comcast who was performing payload injection (possibly over https with cert fuckery) a few years ago to display warning overlays that you've been caught torrenting. That was egregious.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>This is an encultured attitude, not an innate one The only encultured attitude I see here is the modern western delusion that the average child (or person) intrinsically wants to make the substantial, multi year effort required to learn
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
They may have transitioned from communism, but communism leaves psychological scars (or rather adaptations) which are passed on for generations through culture. The nature of authoritarian socialism is such that it breeds mistrust and selfi
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
A growing number of netizens are starting to believe that we are already living in an American Weimar Republic. And it's hard not to see the many social and political parallels - I'm not familiar with the economic side of Weimar G
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
As someone who occasionally has run-ins with mods, I have to remark that moderation as of late has been quite welcoming to "dissenting" opinion, exceptionally so given current events. Thank you, dang, you have shepherded a glimmer
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I hadn't heard of this service until just now but I worry that it is another volley against the consumer in the war on the attention span. It can't be good for individuals or our collective to consume all of our media in short, pr
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
On the other hand they're investing in Africa where I don't believe anyone else is. I don't think opportunities for Africans to learn/practice software development in their native country are very common. Moreover while
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
It's purpose is to presume innocence, a tenet which seems to be rapidly fading from society.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done. I think these lessons are less appropriate as o
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>But, rather than an irrelevant "bitter" lesson about how big machines can perfom more computations than a human, a really useful lesson -and one that we haven't yet learned, as a field- is why humans can do so well withou
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Are you suggesting that media are pro-police right now? After nearly universally coming out in support of the current protests? What term would you prefer? One that does not presume innocence?
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>all their varying climates causing different socioeconomic structures to emerge Which supports my point, that trying to view native practices through modern concepts is a bit like forcing a square peg through a round hole. >One of th
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
How do you think warring tribes treated each other? You are aware that some proportion of native tribes kept both native and black (and probably white to a lesser extent) slaves, right? It's also interesting that you choose the word &q
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
This reads like a series of increasingly terrible decisions. I don't have access to the full article but if they are laying the case for having Robinhood regulated (as I suspect) then I'd say what's even more unfair is prev
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
If they're non-citizens what does it matter to them if they break the lease?
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>In my view, those who work in AI need to elevate those who have been excluded from shaping it, and doing so will require them to restrict relationships with powerful institutions that benefit from monitoring people. I am not going to ch
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Handwashing practices, physical greetings (kissing in some cultures), sharing of eating utensils, personal space, city density; There's no reason to expect R0 values to be the same all over the world.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
How about we start with the blatantly racist assumption that I'm white? And the fact that such behavior is being normalized by BLM and allies, and I'm being held hostage for not going along with a movement which I believe is about
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The people downvoting you were clearly not watching the streams of protestors chanting and screaming into megaphones. The rhetoric was consistent across the country. The premise is that the system is white supremacist in nature and must be
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Have you been paying attention to what BLM has been saying? What do you expect these people to feel when they are being accused openly of white supremacy and Nazism, simply for not going along with leftist politics? That's a unilateral
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
TD is not far right. 4chan is "far right". 8chan is "far right". But there are regular far left threads on chans advocating for all kinds of radicalism (including violence) as well as making legitimate talking points - n
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
There are discussion websites other than reddit... Also calling the_donald "far right" really indicates the bias of discourse online. Which is part of the problem - people are deliberately loose with language and netizens (at leas
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture The "radical right" enclaves on the internet are literally the only places where you won't be banned for
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I don't know anything about the legitimacy of this IPO, but if they have a competent ML team, then what terrible things they can do with their data are [unfortunately] worth killing for if you're an authoritarian government.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I read a few paragraphs and this seems to be a good source for what I'm describing. As usual, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. https://fee.org/articles/how-the-federal-government-created-...

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