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by rexpop 2y ago
Unpublished in English, perhaps. There's a clip of Elon's dad saying that his caretaker had read the book to him, translating along the way, and so he'd known the name. It also coincides with an in-law's name, so he took
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by rexpop 2y ago
Oof, another syncretic hermeticism, and with the usual pinch of antisemitism! Bro, read you some "Foucault's Pendulum" and touch grass.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Thank you for this. I'm still convinced that evidence of DEI is not evidence of its culpability. The real "affirmative action" is the coddling of white men from birth to job placement, while women and POC are deprived of equa
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by rexpop 2y ago
"These tools suck; QED no one should be held accountable." I must have misunderstood you.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> You have unilaterally decided what I said isn't true Presented without evidence, dismissed without evidence.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> most people in our profession get to choose their job Choose, yes, but from a finite set. > Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circums
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by rexpop 2y ago
> we were sending USD $50 million to Gaza for condoms. This is a patently obvious and gross mischaracterization. The US has been providing a broad spectrum of humanitarian assistance addressing urgent needs such as emergency medical aid,
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by rexpop 2y ago
> What is Favela Chic? Favela Chic is when you have lost everything material, everything you built and everything you had, but you're still wired to the gills! And really big on Facebook. That's Favela Chic. > MySpace is a f
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by rexpop 2y ago
> You believe your llm are alive or not trained by a human. No, I do not. I see your point, in fact. As the story goes, "In the days when Sussman was a novice..."
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by rexpop 2y ago
> They want to argue with a machine about political issues or try to gossip with a llm This perspective exhibits an extremely limited imagination. Perhaps I am using LLMs to populate my calendar from meeting minutes. Should the system ch
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by rexpop 2y ago
Was Musk named "the Elon" after Nazi Werner von Braun's fictional Martian colonial leader?
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by rexpop 2y ago
> If you don't like it or think it's unfair, quit. That works once, maybe, but then you're at another firm copying the same model. Quitting again reveals a third firm with similar flaws. Getting together with our peers, we
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by rexpop 2y ago
Absolutely. I made my choice, and it was startups > athletics.
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by rexpop 2y ago
You make a good point that no one else had, afaik: PG is strawmanning, and not steelmanning his opponents. This is craven.
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by rexpop 2y ago
It's a typo. Paul's term is "priggish". And "political correctness" is a broad brush euphemism for, among other things, genderqueerness.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> pliability of youth Not entirely dissimilar to the exploitation of eg college athletes.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> the reason why conservative women are so mad about trans women is because they don’t want to share washrooms with the sex slave caste. I would like to see more of the HN caste engage with the very notion of a caste system, but I can&#x
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by rexpop 2y ago
Down-ranking "political content" requires a definition of "politics" which is, inherently, an ideological posture, QED all content that remains is "political content." It's an oxymoron.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Why do most users believe this when it's obvious to me that Musk is a petty tyrant who bought X to expand his petty tyranny?
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by rexpop 2y ago
It's more like "environmental," eg food deserts, and advertising.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Find someone! Make someone! Go online! Dear god, it's crucial that adults be capable of creating and maintaining relationships. If it's impossible then, well, that's hell on earth. Go out and make a new relationship! Do you
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by rexpop 2y ago
Not having a bunch of people to do that with is solved by going out and creating relationships and communities. This is the basis of democracy, of society. It's a tremendous loss for our species if we lose the impetus to connect. Do yo
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by rexpop 2y ago
I want to confirm that it's a religion for me. I'm not a spandex-wearing hobbyist; I ride my bike or take public transit because it is practical and inexpensive. I do not bike for fun. The structure of the built environment which
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by rexpop 2y ago
Hopefully it's not the last. We need to flip the script on cars vs pedestrians, especially since there has been a long history of anti-pedestrian propaganda funded by the automobile industry. Meanwhile, car-centric environments contrib
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by rexpop 2y ago
Ah, yes, the alleged unaccountable Cabals who have special backdoor access to our media! Where have I heard this before? Are you referring to PolitiFact, Snopes, Australian Associated Press, and FactCheck.org? They are not secret organizati
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by rexpop 2y ago
Bingo! This accusation is a confession. And what are people supposed to do about injustice? Resolve it without talking about it?
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Man seeks to tame nature [citation needed] This is a shockingly archaic outlook espoused by the outmoded likes of the 17th century's Francis Bacon who posited "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature", asserting t
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-H
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by rexpop 2y ago
There's nothing more "intense" than a parasocial relationship. Well, except an actual relationship.
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by rexpop 2y ago
It's obviously because he's rich. Nothing correlates more strongly with health. The idea that we're classless adults with equal access to resources and only character to differentiate us is an absurd, medieval perspective.

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