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by qcnguy 1y ago
Inability to competently manage finances within the framework of populist democratic politics is one of the top reasons governments suck at running things and "public *" often ends in failure.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Rail freight is dying everywhere outside the USA, where passenger rail died instead. Mixing the two on the same lines is very difficult and causes tremendous problems, you can't even do it once passenger rail speeds get high enough. Ra
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by qcnguy 1y ago
But they aren't the authority on whether things actually work or not. Reality is. It's very common for developers to want to toss everything out and rewrite even to the detriment of the product, business or users. It's also v
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by qcnguy 1y ago
That's because women themselves voted against it. Which is actually the history of the female franchise everywhere. The suffragettes were reduced to bombing campaigns because fellow women did not agree that women should be allowed to v
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Roads are much cheaper and more useful. They can be used for moving freight whereas good public transport keeps freight off the lines to avoid timetabling problems caused by blockage.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Eh no, that is an actual failure mode. Germany is experiencing it right now. What it means is everyone ends up being forced to use horribly broken public transport and it screws up everyone's business and personal lives. It is possib
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Sorry to hear that. The people you know are not representative. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/the-great-cove... "The psychology of masks: why have so many people stopped covering th
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Your first link is agreeing with me. "Wang et al. review recent advances ... The authors suggest that airborne transmission may be the dominant form of transmission for several respiratory pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2" (airbo
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by qcnguy 1y ago
> You didn’t need a bar chart to recognize that GPT-4 had leaped ahead of anything that had come before. You did though. I remember when GPT-4 was announced, OpenAI downplayed it and Altman said the difference was subtle and wouldn&#x2
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Nobody was persuaded, they were forced by law exactly because it was obvious to everyone with their brain switched on that masks didn't work. Remember how when the rules demanding masks on planes were rescinded there were videos of who
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The point of masks, originally, was to catch saliva drops from surgeons as they worked over an open body, not to stop viruses. For COVID its use was novel. But having an intention isn't enough. It must actually work. Otherwise, you are
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by qcnguy 1y ago
LLMs are good at copy editing. They recognize when words are misspelled or grammar is poor very easily, despite not being able to see individual letters. For understanding the guy's point it helps if you know anything about Heather Cox
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It would require a queueing and progress tracking infrastructure once a request gets too large to process in the span of a few seconds, which is a lot of stuff to build for a very rare operation.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Which group of people giving modern training in philosophy should we judge the field by? If they can't use it correctly in such a basic case then who can?
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The concerns of voters were absolutely not respected, you are completely right about that. The political class is completely bought into mass migration being a moral good, which is why getting it under control requires a complete replacemen
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Every party says they want to reduce immigration. Labour says they will "stop the boats" etc. Neither have done so, of course, it's all lies. The Conservatives don't want to reduce spending on benefits. They always def
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I gave some examples of reductions in power post-dating the founding of the US in a reply to someone else above.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
If you define the US as the federal government then yes it has rolled back its powers several times: - The Prohibition was implemented and then ended, i.e. the state gave up its power to ban alcohol. - The Bill of Rights itself post-dates t
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The UK didn't want unlimited immigration from the EU, and the EU refused to even consider the possibility of an exception, so the UK left. It's not complicated, it's old history, and the fact that people are still describing
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by qcnguy 1y ago
If the best thing you can say about the EU membership is there were lots of exceptions, that is an argument for leaving, not staying. In reality the exceptions were mostly a work of fiction. For example, the UK was originally assured that t
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Both Eurosceptics and pro-federalists routinely claim that 80% of all European law originates at the EU Commission - the exact number surely depends on the precise definition of law, but if both sides of this argument agree on a number as h
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by qcnguy 1y ago
At the moments at least, it's Labour who are defending this law and implementing it, and Reform who are against it. So very much not a tag team.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The UK has had many such laws and still does. During its time of EU membership the British constitution effectively gave up most of its power to a foreign government. The echr still binds parliament and the courts, again to rulings of a for
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by qcnguy 1y ago
They do if they are libertarian governments. Although it's popular to pretend they don't exist, there are plenty of examples of governments reducing their power over history. The American government is a good example of this havin
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It sounds totally broken. IntelliJ starts in a few seconds for me. 10 minutes is crazy, maybe your system has no free RAM at all when you try that.
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This bug is a logic error iiuc so language wouldn't help.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
But you're not addressing my point, so you cannot be denying it. You can obviously compute a trend line on this data set, as with any. That doesn't mean the trend matters or can be described in normal English as "storms getti
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Now do from 1900-2025. Remember, if climate change makes storms worse, then storms should have got clearly worse over that period because CO2 emissions have been continuous. That's not compatible with the story told by the data and I t
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by qcnguy 1y ago
My claim is correct! A trend line calculated for any natural dataset will never be exactly zero. This doesn't mean humans need to speak in scientific notation as if we are robots. You are well aware of that, so please stop playing sill
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Before getting to the Irish-specific details, we must observe that there is no historical debate about whether the Holodomor was deliberate. The Soviets deliberately imposed far-left ideology onto the farmers which destroyed their productiv

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