philwelch

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by philwelch 11mo ago
You’re making treaty ratification out to be some weird US-specific thing when it really isn’t.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Which is probably why Microsoft decided to focus so much on media features for the Xbone. What they should have considered was that they had won the Xbox 360 generation by being a better game platform; it should really be no skin off Micros
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Germany also spend the last couple decades buying as much Russian natural gas as possible, even to the extent of decommissioning their nuclear power plants, and only really stopped when someone (probably Ukraine) destroyed their pipelines.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
False. Treaty ratification is a recognized feature of international law. For instance, the USMCA was signed by all three parties in 2018 but didn’t enter effect until 2020, when the last of the parties—Canada—ratified the treaty.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Iran and Paris weren’t treaties. Neither of them were ever ratified by the Senate. Trump didn’t break NAFTA, he renegotiated it. NAFTA remained in effect until the new treaty, USMCA, came into effect.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
This was the Xbone/PS4 generation. The Blu-Ray drive is basically no added cost since the games were already distributed on optical disks, it’s like how the PS2 was one of the most popular DVD players. The problem with the Xbone was th
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by philwelch 11mo ago
My point isn’t that Tolkien was wrong to support the Nationalists or that he didn’t have good reasons to. Personally I agree with him on the point, but then again I’m right wing.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
> Also, Donald Trump has broken a sufficiently large number of treaties Which?
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by philwelch 11mo ago
> It is abundantly clear the USA is no longer a dependable ally, and that it will use all kinds of strings attached to hobble what they sell to be able to exert political pressure. This isn’t a US-only problem, and if anything the US has
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Tolkien was right-wing even in his own time, for instance he was a supporter of Franco.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
You’re right of course, but there’s another important way the US contributed. Who do you think paid for those French rifles in the first place? The Entente was financed by Wall Street for years, until Wall Street ran out of money and the fe
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by philwelch 11mo ago
That wasn’t a heroic effort, it was a straightforward application of mRNA technology paired with an FDA Emergency Use Authorization to bypass the onerous approval process. And even that 10 month process could have been significantly faster
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by philwelch 1y ago
There are still working workarounds, I have a local user account on my Windows 11 box.
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by philwelch 1y ago
Most voters don’t think for themselves, they go along with whatever views are fashionable in their social circles and media. That’s not a good thing but asking an LLM who to vote for isn’t any worse than asking a newspaper.
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by philwelch 1y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of people are worried about AI automating away their jobs.
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by philwelch 1y ago
Are there any other aspects of Xi Jinping Thought you think Europe should adopt?
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by philwelch 1y ago
That’s what customs is for.
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by philwelch 1y ago
I recall Anthropic publicly admitting that, at least in some of their test environments, Claude will inform authorities on its own initiative if it thinks you’re using it for illicit purposes. They tried to spin it as a good thing for align
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by philwelch 1y ago
It’s certainly felony murder.
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by philwelch 1y ago
People aren't helpless pawns and they aren't perfect either. There's variability in the human ability to make rational economic decisions, isn't there? So what do you imagine happens if someone routinely makes bad econom
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by philwelch 1y ago
I think you’re establishing a false dichotomy. By and large, poor people are poor because they’re irrational. The businesses that prey on poor people—shady used car dealers, payday lenders, bookies—are exploiting this very irrationality.
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by philwelch 1y ago
If Britain or Europe want a censored, state-controlled internet, they’re just going to have to block overseas traffic like Iran and China do. That is completely within their power.
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by philwelch 1y ago
> Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on? Either that or, if you can’t get a model release, make sure to blur their face in editing. This used to be standard practice.
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by philwelch 1y ago
This is a very reasonable concern in the general case, but airsoft in particular is probably one of the few social activities where it’s not entirely out of place to wear a balaclava and tinted goggles.
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by philwelch 1y ago
That's a provocative statement, especially taken out of context like that, but it doesn't necessarily imply the devaluation of anyone's life, and the broader context of everything Charlie Kirk said and the way he treated peop
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by philwelch 1y ago
Yeah, I guess the addressable market of “truck owners who can afford to buy another truck but not hire another driver” might be smaller than I thought.
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by philwelch 1y ago
> And it needs to be someone different from the person filling out the Rx, for Swiss cheese model of safety reasons. This is something I question. If you go to a specialist, and the specialist judges that you need surgery, he can just sc
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by philwelch 1y ago
Let’s suppose I go to the doctor and get tested for HIV. There isn’t a specialist staring at my blood through a microscope looking for HIV viruses, they put my blood in a machine and the machine tells them, positive or negative. There is a
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by philwelch 1y ago
For trucking I think self driving can be, in the short term, an opportunity for owner-operators. An owner-operator of a conventional truck can only drive one truck at a time, but you could have multiple self driving trucks in a convoy led b
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by philwelch 1y ago
> He merely intimated that trans people's lives are less valuable than others and that black people and women are incapable of intellectual equality with whites and males. False. > A debate about whether that is an indirect encou

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