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by nvy 3y ago
Regulators keep big fish from engaging in predatory behavior. Is the SEC flawed? Absolutely. But the SEC makes markets more free, not less.
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by nvy 3y ago
I've since lost the contents of my clipboard but search r/openai
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by nvy 3y ago
Hey, at least you can admit you're a sexist. That takes courage. So much for "curious conversation".
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by nvy 3y ago
Which "token hires" are you referring to, specifically?
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by nvy 3y ago
They do in Canada. Can't speak for the US but I don't see why it would be different. It's called the Board of Directors for a reason.
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by nvy 3y ago
A lot of people are missing the key point: the CEO doesn't own the company. The Board does, and the CEO and other officers are hired by the Board to run the company on their behalf and on investors'. Based on the insider details
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by nvy 3y ago
>Who goes to the library before noon? Parents with young kids/toddlers. Story Time at my local public library (not NY) is very well-attended.
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by nvy 3y ago
>it's probably 99% the web I thought it has been reasonably well-established that ChatGPT was trained significantly on pirated textbooks?
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by nvy 3y ago
For mostly good reasons, though. Safety systems are a cost center, but they'd have prevented Chernobyl.
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by nvy 3y ago
Yep, back when we still believed the lie of "Don't be Evil", and before the tech darlings of yesteryear ruined society by turning all of technology into a surveillance panopticon just to sell us a few more ads. I hate the fut
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by nvy 3y ago
Edit: Lol predictable response proving my point. You got your money, who cares if your product hurts people right?
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by nvy 3y ago
The joke is that DOD is the long arm of US foreign policy. Can't prosecute? Invade.
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by nvy 3y ago
A lot of people, myself included, have it installed but never use it after they dropped SMS support. Only a tiny fraction of my contacts use Signal, and most of those are also on Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, and others. Signal offers essent
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by nvy 3y ago
RR doesn't make automobile engines any more; they're BMWs under the hood. RR's aero engines are generally very well-regarded.
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by nvy 3y ago
Can't forget nectarine! https://scenestream.net/demovibes/ Soundtrack of my youth
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by nvy 3y ago
Definitely a PNW thing. The rain here causes moss and other problems that aren't prevalent back east.
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by nvy 3y ago
I have one of the lcdfans modded Thinkpads. It's a "T70"—a T60 with an i7, 16GB of memory, the old style keyboard, a giant SSD, and, importantly, a high DPI display. It's an awesome machine but it might as well be a des
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by nvy 3y ago
>Both Google and Apple (and their very highly paid economists, analysts, and CXOs) are betting that this deal is more beneficial to them than the alternatives. That's tautological
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by nvy 3y ago
I think we all know it's going to be on-battery DRM.
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by nvy 3y ago
Yep it's a complete anti-feature and I have no idea why it's still in use.
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by nvy 3y ago
That was the point behind AdNauseam, I think.
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by nvy 3y ago
Ads are ads as far as I'm concerned. They're all universally trash.
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by nvy 3y ago
>These shows take pseudo-commercial breaks and send you 2-3 ads tailored to you specifically. My wife didn't believe it until I did a simple Amazon search on my phone for automotive batteries. Not more than 30 minutes later the ads
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by nvy 3y ago
>If you argue this further I'm just going to conclude you're trolling and won't respond again. >You are wrong. Face it.
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by nvy 3y ago
You are factually incorrect. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7081045/ >In clinical medical research, causality is demonstrated by randomized controlled trials (RCTs). https://www.sa
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by nvy 3y ago
Goodness, are you not familiar with the phrase "correlation does not imply causation"? There are ways to establish causal relationships, the gold standard of which is to conduct a double-blind controlled trial. To claim as you hav
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm not familiar with MSNBC and have never even heard of Mother Jones, but surely it's not controversial that Fox News is unreliable? They're an absolute punch line everywhere outside the US.
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That's because we have more evidence for evolution and vaccines than we do for gravity . Those "contrarian views" are little more than fringe conspiracy theories. A fair hearing on those topics is at best a sentence or two.
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by nvy 3y ago
>So the first-order goal he had when he built Stack Overflow was to build a system with mechanics which encouraged helpful people tended to stay and argumentative jerks to be frustrated and go elsewhere. Well, that failed spectacularly.
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by nvy 3y ago
>she's pretty doubtful of my claim that server racks are normal household items. Haha, she's got you there.

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