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by pear01 7mo ago
I meant during the two world wars, which should have been obvious. The idea you think I know what NYC is but forgot about 9/11 says more about you than I. Iran had nothing to do with 9/11. If that was the point you were attempting
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by pear01 7mo ago
China is also an ancient civilization. Americans view of themselves is highly inflated by the sheer luck of being two oceans away from everyone during both world wars. Save for Pearl Harbor there were no notable attacks on the American home
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by pear01 7mo ago
Isn't it useful to pair identity with common reasons to identify? Why else would you ask? Are you saying your fraud detection and speed beats Stripe, or just your price?
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by pear01 7mo ago
For those of you taken aback by this and perhaps seeking out some theoretical context this may be useful as a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_computer Was surprised to see no mention of wetware in the com
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by pear01 7mo ago
That's not what I'm doing and I think you know that. Reform takes time. If everyone gave up just because things were difficult n times nothing in government would ever change. The state is not a startup. Behind every significant p
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by pear01 7mo ago
Ah interesting thanks for pointing out the ambiguity in my statement. I definitely did not intend that ambiguity but you also rightly point out it sort of works either way. I would think this would lead to more upvotes than downvotes but pe
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by pear01 7mo ago
Don't be needlessly cynical. This is a good effort. So is the ban on stock trading. This administration is such that it is bringing corruption to the fore in a way not seen in generations. Things are always hard to pass at the start. K
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by pear01 7mo ago
There is no such thing as an "unbiased will of the majority". That sort of terminology might have flown back in the 18th century with Rousseau and the like speaking of a "general will" but in today's era of social s
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by pear01 7mo ago
The invocation of "lobbyists" in this context is meaningless. People lobby for all kinds of things. Doesn't really matter once it becomes a law anyway. If people could just say I don't agree with this law, it "makes
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by pear01 7mo ago
I mean even if we accept the premise the problem is if you start to engage with this game then the next Congress can do it too. Pretty soon you'll have "Middle Dakota". And on and on. At a certain point the USA is going to ha
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by pear01 7mo ago
Apparently in the opening hours, perhaps the very first strikes... which may explain why the attack happened during the day instead of night as is often typical (night often furthers the US technological advantage). I picture in my head the
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by pear01 7mo ago
Brings to mind the infamous line from Nixon: "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal". This was during the Frost/Nixon interviews, years after he had already resigned. Even after all that, he still believed
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by pear01 7mo ago
Speaking of markets... Polymarket was trading yes on this happening at quite interesting odds, "yes" was trading at around 30¢ or better over the next few days just a few hours ago... I was quite surprised to see it that low... an
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by pear01 8mo ago
Why would you believe that? If that were the case what was the issue with Anthropic even about? You, and your colleagues, should resign.
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by pear01 8mo ago
fwiw DC is essentially the same situation as PR in this regard. DC would essentially be a blue city-state (state) which is also why DC statehood resolutions always fail. It's an open joke in DC if you ever visit there the official DC l
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by pear01 8mo ago
Congress is the problem, but not in the way most describe. Congress has abdicated its powers because as an institution it is broken. Several inland states with total state wide populations less than that of major metro areas on the coasts h
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by pear01 8mo ago
What point do you think you're making? That's not the question. You're just repeating the same obvious geopolitical comparison everyone regurgitates these days. The question is about whether any of that can be meaningfully at
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by pear01 8mo ago
And that was true when we built things too. So what point are you making? If only FDR was an engineer then maybe we would have ramped up production and taken on the Axis across two oceans. But oops he was educated as a lawyer I guess we&#x2
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by pear01 8mo ago
That guy is so annoying his subpar analysis has become such a trope. America used to build things too. Lawyers have been part of the founding and fabric of both societies. Trying to reduce China v America to engineers vs lawyers is so reduc
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by pear01 8mo ago
It's also rare to just "discover" an entire continent that is basically free for the taking since Europeans annihilated native populations through disease and technological superiority. Much of what makes America unique is ti
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by pear01 8mo ago
He is also surely happy the Trump administration no longer sees fit to investigate or pursue anyone with connections to Epstein. Previously Lutnick had lied about the extent of their relationship, yet even after the recent relevations he ca
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by pear01 8mo ago
That wasn't the objective fact in question, and I think you know that. A humorous one to contest anyway, given it is well known most Americans take a dim view of federal politics, especially when their favored party is out of power. Th
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by pear01 8mo ago
It is hard to police guns when there is free travel between the US states, yet only individual states can be relied upon to pass any reform. A broken federal government means guns are easily exported from red states with practically zero gu
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by pear01 8mo ago
If you understand the meme "very well" then what do you mean by "telegraph of bias"? The joke is that Poland was largely irrelevant compared to the United States in that context, making Bush's (and your own) comebac
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by pear01 8mo ago
did you also take poland being omitted to be some sort of conspiracy? seems you missed the point of why that "Actually, you forgot..." moment became such a punchline. Like it or not Brave is a very niche browser with rather insign
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by pear01 8mo ago
You mean the the case where he came to her door dressed like death with his face almost completely covered? Pretty extreme bar your setting. I would think most people would agree it could still have extremely (and surprisingly) potent accur
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by pear01 8mo ago
Weird way to agree with someone, end with an insult just because you're not sure whether or not you should take the least charitable interpretation. You would think the rest of my post would have been a clue. Moving past that, yes we a
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by pear01 8mo ago
What point are you attempting to make? Or are you one of a minority of people that refuses to see the difference between (say among other things) the unrealized gains of someone like a Musk vs someone's working class parents saving up
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by pear01 8mo ago
Get money out of politics (reverse citizens united) and enact term/age limits for all public offices. These problems will be solved. Most Americans agree on most things. Don't let the politicians who benefit off of dividing us foo
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by pear01 8mo ago
If a researcher uses LLM to get a novel result should the llm also reap the rewards? Could a nobel prize ever be given to a llm or is that like giving a nobel to a calculator?

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