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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Judges should have some amount of biases. A cold, calculating, unbiased judge in a world where laws are written by fallible humans would be terrible. Judges should be able to apply judgement, not be merely automatons that sentence according
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Frankly I don’t care, I’ll take human judges any day, because they have something AI does not: flesh and bone and real skin in the game.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Can you imagine how much more wild the speculation would have been if they had said that instead?
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Used to be that people had phones at the desk at work and a voicemail inbox. In a business situation I would expect most people to be reachable by phone.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Are you trying to say that banks can't be open on the weekends because then bank employees would have to work weekends? Much like any business that operates on the weekends? They would have time off during the week and wouldn't
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Charitably guessing that if they don't know how long they'll need to keep airspace closed then you give yourself plenty of time and rescind early if necessary, as opposed to continually issuing extensions which could cause confusi
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Technically impressive, but that’s about it.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I try to do the same, and do my part to smooth out the wrinkles in traffic. What I would really like in a car is not only my current speed, but the relative speed to the car ahead of me. Given my car has cameras and other sensors for cruise
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
> Sure, he's on path, MAYBE (that's up to immigration courts), to legal status but he's not quite there yet and it's one of those "Are we going to forgive past transgressions?" For a productive member of soc
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Still shouldn’t warrant five months of detention. Additional context: he claims ICE forged his signature on legal documents. He should be free while the case proceeds. Seems like exactly the kind of person who is not a flight risk, because
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
So more like “weir”.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
That sounds more like a traffic simulation tool rather than a game.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Unless they’re living entirely by themselves, they will always be dependent on poor people.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Sure.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
At a certain point you have to let adults be adults and make adult mistakes.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
> Unfortunately the "beast" is the Internet content itself. Don’t threaten me with a good time. Most of what’s on the Internet should not exist and the world would be better without.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Lots of “legitimate” ads are what I would consider scams, even if legally they are not. All the fine print, exceptions, limited dates, etc. often hidden from you as best they can makes it scam-like.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Yes, I’m well aware of that. I spent much of my childhood adjusting the antenna to get better reception. But I don’t see how that’s relevant.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I too got tired of paying so much for TV so I canceled and just stopped watching it. I find the attitude that one is entitled to entertainment media fascinating. People like to say that it’s not stealing because there is no physical produ
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Sounds more difficult. Not only is the moon further, you also need to use more fuel to land on it and you also have fine, abrasive dust to deal with. There’s no wind of course, but surely material will be stirred up and resettle based on al
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
You can read any article on CNN with Firefox reader mode. Probably works with similar features in other browsers as well.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Of course, some truly do “live” there, and good for them. And others just sit there waiting to die, unable to even feed themselves. I saw plenty of examples of both when my grandmothers were in assisted living homes. Unfortunately my grandm
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Oh, ok, so other people who’s time is worthless should just do it for free, got it.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Why aren’t they asking the person who deployed them? This is just out-sourcing free labor.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Smoking anything is bad for you.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
The thing I don’t get is even if we imagine that somehow they can truly restrict it such that only LLMs can actually post on there, what’s stopping a person from simply instructing an LLM to post some arbitrary text they provide to it?
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
The set of celestial objects visible to the naked eye during the day.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Before I was taught to use a graphing calculator, we learned by using graph paper and a pencil to plot linear equations. Once we had that mastered, we were taught how to use the calculators so we could be more efficient with our time and mo
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
You’re not going to win the “children in society” are abnormal argument. If you don’t like children, leave society.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Which is why inconsiderate smokers are awful people.

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