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by polski-g 3y ago
Energy usage is fungible. Just build more generating stations.
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by polski-g 3y ago
> In CA, it doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't water your lawn in a drought Yes, this policy is stupid. If the cost of water rose in response to scarcity, then it would incentivize institutions to build things to allevi
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by polski-g 3y ago
We have limitless power on Earth from fusion (solar via the Sun) and from fission via Uranium/Thorium.
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by polski-g 3y ago
Testosterone is positively correlated with openness to differing opinions and average testosterone levels have dropped by one standard deviation from 2000 to 2017.
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by polski-g 3y ago
When Meta "lost" 20bn, they actually spent it on salary. The employees then go out and buy things like the Tesla Automobile, an actual product.
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by polski-g 3y ago
Not in this instance, but couldn't a student immediately sue the university for defamation if they weren't using AI?
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by polski-g 3y ago
Will CarPlay read Twitter to me?
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by polski-g 3y ago
If they have no employees and no servers in the EU, there is nothing they are required to do. You could try to get a judgement in a US court based on a EU law, but that won't go well.
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by polski-g 3y ago
The case I literally just referenced allows you to paint nude children engaged in sex acts. > The Ninth Circuit reversed, reasoning that the government could not prohibit speech merely because of its tendency to persuade its viewers to e
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by polski-g 3y ago
FDB predicted this: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-the-fuck-do-you-tru... > You can’t make college admissions fair by getting rid of the SAT because colleges admissions can’t be “fair.” College admissions
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by polski-g 3y ago
> A lot of people have been talking about the idea that there is no such things as different races anyway Those people are stupid. So why should their opinion matter?
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by polski-g 3y ago
Such activity is legal per Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition (2002). Artwork cannot be criminalized because of the contents of it.
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by polski-g 3y ago
An overwhelming response absolutely solved the problem of German piracy during WW2. And of Japanese piracy during WW2. And Confederate piracy during the Civil War. If you start thinking "violence solves nothing", you are wrong: yo
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by polski-g 3y ago
OpenAI is more like a subscriber to the Times. Somebody who reads an article about housing policy, and writes their own paragraph on Facebook utilizing ideas from the Times article.
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by polski-g 3y ago
If you start talking about Palestine in your Differential Equations class, that is indoctrination. If you start talking about Jews in your CompSci 102 class, that is indoctrination. There is no reason to talk about anything besides the clas
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by polski-g 3y ago
> say they had experienced sexism in the workplace This doesn't necessarily mean there actually was any, just that they think there was. Maybe they got treated the same as anyone gets treated in the workplace: badly.
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by polski-g 3y ago
"Population mixing" has generally meant enslaving the boys, murdering the men, and taking the women as forced wives.
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by polski-g 3y ago
90% of GenZ uses YouTube: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1385604/us-gen-z-youtube...
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by polski-g 3y ago
Because they would need to win a war of independence from their overlord, just as the USA did. A vote is just the first step. Catalonia tried to do something similar a few years ago but they had insufficient planning and the rebellion was p
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by polski-g 3y ago
Do the Scots have a sufficient army necessary to beat NATO? How would they survive the UK making an Article 5 declaration?
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by polski-g 3y ago
The drop in fertility represents a rise in endocrine-disrupting chemicals like microplastics. Lower testosterone makes one less horny and more neurotic -- so we get cities of insane people worrying about completely nonsensical made-up risks
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by polski-g 3y ago
> I really feel we are at the beginning of a mass extinction Yes, because of you. Go have kids. Ethiopians continued to have children during a decade-long famine and their population still increased. Stop making excuses for your own self
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by polski-g 3y ago
Why? How does this generate revenue for CyberusTech? What is the long term goal?
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by polski-g 3y ago
People generally leave reviews because they are unhappy with a thing. That alone is sampling bias from Glassdoor. Rarely do people leave a review because they are happy with something.
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by polski-g 3y ago
That is not what I asked for. I asked for stats specifically on "starvation" -- the claim you made.
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by polski-g 3y ago
Please provide evidence that "so many people are starving in the US."
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by polski-g 3y ago
Climate change is the skeleton key of doing nothing. "Climate change means there is a drought" Nothing we can do about it, not build desalination plants, or raise the cost of water, or eminent domain farmers' property who ref
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by polski-g 3y ago
Abolishment of the Civil Service Commission in 1978 that guaranteed competency invited incompetent employees into the federal workforce. And if you've ever worked with someone incompetent, you look for the exit doors as fast as possibl
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by polski-g 3y ago
Violation of Title VII in hiring: https://twitter.com/andrealucasEEOC/status/17520065177614217...
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by polski-g 3y ago
There is a strong positive effect that more enforcement of traffic laws reduces traffic accidents: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/effect-high-visibility-e...

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