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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
You know what else is heritable? Wealth, the possession of which tends to help with standardized test scores.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
>>IQ is highly linked to genetics. Citation desperately needed. How can you prove that empirically? What is your methodology for controlling for environmental factors in making that assertion, including factors associated with access
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
I am certain those neural interface folks would be very happy to have an objective answer to this question.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Slow your roll, first we have to get through the Bell Riots, the Irish Reunification and the Eugenics Wars.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
You are missing the point. Assistive tools do not replace the fundamental cognitive process. This does.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
This is fundamentally different. It replaces, and thus atrophies, cognitive faculties in a way the other tools you mentioned never aspired to.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
The children yearn for the mines
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
"Fascism should more properly be called Corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
I had a rather unsettling thought occur to me the other day. There are many people in this world, to whom truth and reality are fungible, malleable, unimportant things in the face of their agendas. These same people are overrepresented at
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Except, in many cases the police and courts shield and enable abuse for years or decades, oftentimes at scale. So in reality, this approach is effectively one that silences victims and enables abusers.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Good enough for protecting the privacy of criminals, good enough for the rest of us. Seems like a solid ad campaign for Pixel+Graphene
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Yes, this only solves for them not being able to continue charging you, they would still be within their rights to continue to accrue debt in your name and report it to the credit agencies in this case, utterly ruining your credit and ultim
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
It is smug because the average person is not a geek running a micro rack in their basement (nor does the average person possess the time, means or expertise to spin up and maintain all such should they even want to). It is smug because, to
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
All the difference. The difference between what is real, what is possible, what is plausible, what is feasible, and what is mass delusion. "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Who Goes There?
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
He is purely a hype man, and many people are too gullible/invested/dumb to see it, call him on it, or care.
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
Might want to tag that as /s, because in these idiotic times, people might read it as stated sincerely. We'll all recollect, very soon and very clearly, exactly why managing risks such as these is very much worth it, and necessita
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
This is not limited to academia. The very first computer I ever touched, came out of a dumpster where my father worked at the time. Guess they were undergoing a tech refresh, and this financial institution had some apparently rather lax m
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by nyc_data_geek1 1y ago
The climate change that, if left unchecked, will almost certainly lead to the death of much of humanity, and the majority of life on Earth. Hundreds of millions of climate refugees knocking at your door.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
New York City consists of more than Manhattan. There are plenty of other places on subway lines where a million dollars buys a lot more.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
When in Rome, observe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
He's already the richest man in the world, and a drug addled fascist nutjob (in true fascist tradition). Why would he care?
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Military needs terminators that do acrobatics. That is who this is for.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Breaking monopolies doesn't kneecap US companies. Noncompetitive markets do that. Forcing healthy competition is how we keep competitive advantage, failing to do so is how we lose it. See: Deepseek
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Don't forget ecology
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Fair enough. I took the phrasing to mean social networking as it exists today in the form of prominent, commercial social media. That may not have been the intent.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
You go into this process with a perspective, you do not build a solution and then start looking for the problem. Otherwise, you cannot estimate your TAM with any reasonable degree of accuracy, and thus cannot know how much to reasonably ex
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
The Internet had plenty of very productive use cases before social networking, even from its most nascent origins. Spending billions building something on the assumption that someone else will figure out what it's good for, is not goo
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
We have one. It's called Democracy Now! Democracynow.org

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