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by p-e-w 4mo ago
There’s a difference between the two. All politics is based on violence because violence is how laws are enforced. Thus by participating in politics (which includes voting), one implicitly endorses violence. By contrast, an online service i
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
No need. You can run the Gemma 4 and Qwen3.5 MoE models with as little as 12 GB of VRAM at 30-40 tps (Q4/Q5), and they both blow GPT-4o and DeepSeek R1 out of the water.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Well, presumably you outsource the job of inflicting violence to others, like most people do. Voting for pretty much any political candidate is equivalent to doing so.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> “Live and [let] live” is a pretty good role of thumb to live by for most people in most cases Absolutely nobody follows that rule. People just disagree on what is acceptable to inflict upon others with violence.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
With “intolerance”, of course, being defined however the person advocating for this resolution pleases, making the outcome indistinguishable from any other form of authoritarianism.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> the purpose of a project like this seems to be not just "here's some banned books" but rather "here's some banned books that I think are worth sharing / reading" Those aren’t banned books though. They
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Some people categorically oppose the death penalty, others oppose the death penalty “except when it’s justified”. I guess when it comes to Freedom of Speech, you fall into the latter category.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
There is at least one “banned” book, written by a former dictator, whose copyright expired in 2015, 70 years after his death in 1945. But that’s a good ban of course, because Freedom of Speech only matters when it concerns speech I agree wi
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Thank you for pointing this out. That list of “banned books” (that were unbanned long ago, and are now considered great literature) indeed seems more like virtue signaling. There are equivalent books in our own time, and using those inste
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
What? Elite athletes put in unimaginably more work than average athletes.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> Police state=bad. Industrial scale drug addiction in kids=also bad. Some compromise must be made. False. The whole point of fundamental rights is that they aren’t compromised on based on outcomes. “Torture is bad, but not being able to
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Turnout in the past few elections was already extraordinarily high. Clearly this isn’t the answer. And neither is protesting, considering that 4 of the 5 largest demonstrations in US history happened in the past 10 years and achieved nothin
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
No it’s not. A company that finds itself the target of potentially crippling government intervention is not an attractive investment.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
No way the US is going to nationalize a tech company regardless of what happens. The exodus of capital would be unimaginable.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Unfortunately for him, his main competitors don’t fall under the jurisdiction of his government.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Their gap over Chinese models like GLM-5.1 is nowhere near 18 months. In many areas, it’s less than 6 months. The best closed models 18 months ago were worse than Qwen3.6.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Reasonable-sounding arguments always come up in these debates, but in reality it all comes down to what you’re used to. Disabling natural scrolling used to be the first thing I did on a new system. Until I once was too lazy to do it, got us
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Benchmaxxing isn’t the only problem. Evaluating an intelligence is a task that generally requires at least an equally capable intelligence, if not one of greater capability. That’s why students are evaluated by teachers with more knowledg
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
It’s interesting how the idea that free speech is too important to sacrifice to any other cause, which was the position of Rousseau and other enlightenment luminaries, has supposedly turned from the foundation of humanism into a “dog whistl
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> I wonder how "free speech absolutists" defend the idea of people in low-income countries using these platforms to spread outrage simply to make themselves a little money By recognizing that undesirable uses of free speech are
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
If SpaceX is indeed overvalued (which I have no opinion on), it above all else demonstrates how unimportant spaceflight still is. SpaceX has been the only game in town for quite a while now, to such an extent that the intelligence agencies
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> Anything that can replace a deeply experienced s/ware engineer can replace anyone in the employment stack Nope, just knowledge workers. We’re decades away from automating many manual labor professions, even “unskilled” ones. Turns
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
People can’t even reliably recognize AI art anymore. The classic “AI images were everywhere in 2023, but I rarely see them now” phenomenon.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
One thing that’s rarely discussed about spaceflight is that for the foreseeable future, it will have to happen without the animals that humans rely upon on Earth. I think this will expose just how strong that reliance is in some areas.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
There’s no “blaming” here at all, just the observation that books that are considered to be representative of a certain culture are often only representative of that culture’s elite.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Persepolis absolutely DOES use the “hero’s journey” narrative archetype you’re claiming it avoids. The second part even ends by explicitly stating that she has grown into a different person, and is now ready to “face the world” when she l
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
This was a very different era, and the author belonged to the educated elite of Iran. Hardly comparable to whatever you’re referring to.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
That’s a rather uncharitable take on what the poster you’re responding to wrote. I read Persepolis a few years ago, and it’s hard not to come away with a similar impression. The first part often does resemble a fairy tale of sorts, while
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
At least to the kind of Iranians who were sending their children to French schools, yes. But of course the other kind of people very rarely have someone writing international bestsellers on their behalf, so this is all we’ll get.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
I’ve always wondered how much of the second part is truth and how much is fiction. That a teenage girl from Iran, living by herself in Central Europe with essentially no local connections, would become a drug dealer to her classmates, and o

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