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Why would you put a much smarter than average kid in an ordinary government school in the first place? That's like making a naturally athletic and fit kid attend 6 hours/day of occupational therapy to learn to walk
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Market seems to think pretty highly of Tesla's prospects given the 1T+ market cap
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The river has an English name - the Danube
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The AI Con – Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna
(businessinsider.com)
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Archive URL: https://archive.is/bAMRf
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All of those are part of the basket of goods and services tracked in the Consumer Price Index
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The minimum wage is not relevant as very few people make it. Wage earners at the top, bottom, and middle can afford a better (materially speaking) quality of life in the USA than at any time in the past: https://data.epi.org/
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Inflation-adjusted wages are at all time highs at the top. Inflation-adjusted wages are at all time highs in the middle. Inflation-adjusted wages are at all time highs at the bottom. https://data.epi.org/wages/hourly_wa
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We're more automated than we've ever been & unemployment is close to all-time lows. Why don't you get back to us with this when it's at least 6 or 7 percent...
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Can India build new aqueducts/pipelines to divert water from the headwaters they control? Dams only have finite capacity after all
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The world should never have allowed an Islamist govt to get nuclear weapons. I'm not a military strategist - would it be possible to neutralize the threat of their current weapons with anti-ballistic missile defenses and so forth? If s
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Which area are you speaking about, exactly?
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3 different answers in 3 tries for Claude? Makes me curious how many times you'd get the same answer if you asked 10/20/100 times
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2y ago
What's confusing about the word bullish?
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Subsidizing a service with public funds does not make it less expensive, it only changes who pays the expense.
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In what country would it be legal to deny someone insurance based on their genes? Has such a thing happened before?
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I've typically heard it rumored that populations get overestimated, as corrupt local officials in developing countries want to get more resources/power allocated to their district
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Having the passwords available automatically when logging in to gmail on a new device feels simpler and easier since I'd be doing that anyway, as opposed to needing to DL a new app
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What's keeping me from moving away from Chrome is the password storage & autofilling. Is Firefox's password manager just as good?
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> people do not have a right to a fair trial--in the extreme, this would lead to a contradiction with other rights (e.g. judges being forced to practice law at gunpoint) Could be avoided by restating it as "a right to be tried fairl
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A very early one at that
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Windows can't be even 1 of those 3T by itself right?
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Typically tech companies that end up with fat profits are near-monopolies with dominance in market share or with moats on their expense side, like Apple's vertical integration or Amazon's logistic network. What's the scenario
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Jordan and Lebanon are repressive and autocratic?
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All the opposition had to say was "I'll end wokeism and immigration and will also [popular policy Trump is against]" and they could have easily won themselves
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Yes, but if we study them more we may manage to decrease some of that distance
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There is basically no large city outside of subsaharan African & maybe the subcontinent that has that development style and anything even approaching a sustainable 2.1 total fertility rate
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Network effect, as in TikTok's case, is a big moat!
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Sometimes it's the first mover to a critical threshold of user value-add
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You can argue philosophically that on some level everyone has a point of view and neutrality is a mirage, but that doesn't mean you can't differentiate between an LLM with a neutral tone that minimizes biased presentation, and an
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