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by pstuart 5mo ago
We're conditioned to worship. In the church, to a vengeful God. To our brave warriors for being warriors. To our protectors for keeping us in our place. To our owners, for being so wonderful that God blessed them with their w
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by pstuart 5mo ago
At least voting has opened up to the general public. The pity there is that misinformation, tribalism, and ignorance does not make for a well-informed voter, and that problem is just getting worse.
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Aside from the change in the economic landscape, there's also the fact that they wrote it with the elite in mind (white male property owners), so they already had complete control.
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Power should be a public utility, just like water and sewage.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
> Communist revolution is your own sadistic fantasy, not "the common good." da fuq? We've seen reports that ICE is already using AI: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-uses-ai-...
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I'm all for making organizations more efficient in their operations but that requires that their operations be for the common good. It would not surprise me if a use case of this is to refine their files on "political subversives&
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly. There's an innate tension between "freedom of speech" and "weaponized misinformation". I think Karl Popper’s "paradox of tolerance" needs to be front and center in this discussion -
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by pstuart 5mo ago
No worries! We just install our own oil wells and refineries for energy independence to take advantage of those sweet federal subsidies that have shifted back to fossil fuels.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I was commenting about "cyberlibertarianism" -- which is actively embraced and promoted by SV technocrats. Yarvin very much is a public figure in this area, but it's not about him specifically, it's the Web3 gang that wa
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by pstuart 5mo ago
No, I'm using Web3 as an argument against "tech solutions" and named Curtis Yarvin, a figurehead of technofeudalism, as a representative of technofeudalism.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
What? No mention of Web3? Hacks like Curtis Yarvin proclaim that code wranglers have solved all the problems and should be running the show because they made money flipping shiny shit to gullible buyers. Where is Web3 in solving all our p
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by pstuart 5mo ago
SF has a famously broken city government. As does Portland (the metro I now live in). Note they have huge budgets for their police and there's still plenty of crime -- does that mean they should give up on having police? I think if it
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by pstuart 5mo ago
That wouldn't be enough to do the job but it would be a great start if it was done right. My point was we've flushed $50B (and likely far far more) and what do we get for it? High gas prices. So hurray for the push for renewables
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Why are you singling out immigrants? The homeless in our metro area are very much domestically produced. But you do help illustrate a concern: homelessness is ultimately a federal issue, as some states dump theirs on other more "accept
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by pstuart 5mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Gosh, if only there was some way we could solve homelessness! Don't worry about it, as at least we can drop tens of billions of dollars to show the Iranians how big and powerful we are.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I guess this makes sense -- a brain is gonna do brain stuff. The only difference is that we're not present to witness it.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Participants also have to feel like they are part of the event rather than passive spectators.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I absolutely blame the voters. Vote for a clown and you get a circus. The man is a pathological liar and nothing he says can be trusted, although it's pretty reliable to consider every accusation is an admission. Last term he had grown
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I don't believe in Zeus, Pan, Santa or the Easter Bunny. Is that faith on my part? And as to the parent comment about "militant atheists", it glosses over the fact that we are outnumbered by militant theocrats who are activel
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I'm right there with you. Prior to 2016 I assumed that most people would "do the right thing" when it was made clear that it was the right thing to do. But now it literally feels like a bad horror flick where there's a z
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by pstuart 5mo ago
It's not just vitamin D, it's other things too (e.g., NO -- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10539323/ ). But yes, one can have too much of a good thing in this regard.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Waste happens any time people are spending other people's money (and it happens in corporate land all the time too). Any time people bring up concerns about fraud and waste in social problems only , I dismiss them out of hand as using
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by pstuart 5mo ago
> until the situation becomes quite dire. Ironically, it's already incredibly dire. People are stupid -- it's crazy making to watch this play out.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
A lot of the young ones are either escaping sexual abuse, thrown out by their family for their sexuality or rejection of religion, or aged out of foster care. There is indeed a spectrum of homelessness from temporarily distressed to broken
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by pstuart 5mo ago
TV news is garbage everywhere.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I'd assume that the ability to communicate without depending on cellular service could have a certain appeal.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
I believe it was "They were all like who needs generics in go. and now go has go generate and templates." I guess I qualify as a Go fanboi -- it is not perfect but gets the job done for a lot of us, sorry it doesn't work for
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by pstuart 6mo ago
This is all wild conjecture, but I'd assume that teaching the LLM to do that mapping is an achievable goal and then it get's close to automatic -- effectively slurp the source AST into a rust AST and render. My only experience wit
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Porting from one typed language to another seems like a perfect use for LLMs. I can see the appeal of both languages and why to consider such an action (e.g., rust is a mainstream PL vs zig's cult status (no slight intended)).

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