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by roughly 7mo ago
Yeah, I mean, it'd definitely be better if we could just tell the deficit weenies to fuck off, but given that we keep having to have that argument with everyone to the right of Bernie, it's nice to be able to throw it back in thei
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by roughly 7mo ago
The poster above asserted maximizing ROI wasn't a goal - that, and I quote: > protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance Given the number of our citizens that die from, eg, preventable diseases, that seems like a far, fa
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by roughly 7mo ago
Honestly, a lot of these programs become substantially more expensive when you add the bureaucracy and hoops required by means testing. The economics are easier if you just give kids food and skip sorting out whether they deserve it or not.
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by roughly 7mo ago
Then surely universal health care, strict anti-pollution measures, and worker safety efforts are next on the list, alongside access to healthy food and efforts to reduce the number of miles the average person needs to drive daily.
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by roughly 7mo ago
We've been at this for 2.5 days, and the president is suggesting this could last a month or more. I suspect the long term ROI on free school lunches is going to far exceed that of this war, as well.
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by roughly 7mo ago
Unfortunately, I think "Theocratic Iran with the bomb" is on the "good" side of the distribution of potential outcomes here.
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by roughly 7mo ago
Next time someone asks how we're going to pay for, eg, free school lunches, keep this site in mind.
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by roughly 7mo ago
I never understand why questions like this get downvoted around here.
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by roughly 8mo ago
What in Meta's history would lead you to give them the benefit of the doubt like this?
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by roughly 8mo ago
Everything else in this article is horrific, but this stuck out to me: > “The algorithms sometimes miss. Especially in difficult lighting conditions, certain faces and bodies become visible”. Right, “difficult lighting conditions,” not s
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by roughly 8mo ago
1% of iPhone sales is more people than live in most countries.
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by roughly 8mo ago
Neither George Carlin nor I am saying that the average person cannot invest in companies, nor that they should not be able to (well, I'm not, at least). We are both saying that the rules and conditions under which you and I invest in c
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by roughly 8mo ago
> No equity holders got anything out of the liquidation - whether big or small This statement is not supported by the link you posted, nor any other reporting I've seen on the matter. What I have seen is that TSG is senior to all of
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by roughly 8mo ago
> changed the battery in a Apple store a year ago (and they broke the screen in the process so got a new screen too) Huh, I had a 12 mini and had the same thing happen at an independent repair shop I used to frequent. I've been pret
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by roughly 8mo ago
Cool, thank you - it was an awkward enough phrase that it was either a legal term or a management euphemism, glad to hear it was the former and the BBC wasn't just parroting MBA-speak.
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by roughly 8mo ago
Right, just like all of those people who put their money into Brewdog and then got nothing for it, while the larger investors potentially got made whole. It's almost like there's two classes of investors or something - common peop
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by roughly 8mo ago
I mean is it in common enough use that it shouldn’t stick out to me that a newspaper decided to use it instead of “fired,” “sacked,” or “laid off?” It’s got a whiff of “was involved with a shooting.”
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by roughly 8mo ago
As George Carlin said, “it’s a big club, and you’re not in it.” Capitalism is not for the little guy, or at least not the version we’ve built.
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by roughly 8mo ago
Is “have been made redundant” normal phrasing in the UK, or did the BBC just decide to use that kind of bloodless phrasing for “fired?”
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by roughly 8mo ago
“One of the four balloon animals of the AI clownpocalypse” is the best sentence I’ve read all week. I think this is why the LLM revolution has been so existentially depressing for so many senior engineers - we’ve spent our entire careers fi
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by roughly 8mo ago
They've been preparing for this for 40+ years - this has been the existential threat for Iran since the revolution. You're right they can't win, but I'd expect this to get messy.
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by roughly 8mo ago
And, to be clear, the way you affect change in democracy is coalition building, listening to others, supporting your allies in their aims, and in turn having them support you, even when you don’t fully agree or understand. There’s no magic
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by roughly 8mo ago
So is the theory that OpenAI believes it can’t compete on the open market or that they don’t know this will eventually cost them their consumer business?
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by roughly 8mo ago
It feels like Sam's playing chess against an opponent who's playing dodge ball. He's leveraged this situation to get OpenAI in with the DoD in a way that's going to be extremely lucrative for the company and hurt his big
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I’ve been a pretty die hard Mac user for 25-odd years now (I own a HomePod, for fuck sake), but this is the first time I’ve taken pains to _not_ update to the latest OS. The Tahoe UI/UX is really just inexcusable, and nothing else I’ve
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by roughly 8mo ago
Trevor Noah pretty much nailed this in the first Trump admin: https://x.com/thedailyshow/status/1177221786720559105
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by roughly 8mo ago
That was part of Paramount’s offer/threat to WBD, though - “the administration likes us.” I agree with you that it’s unlikely to block the merger, but I think saying this is a win for the consumer is ignoring a whole lot of context.
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by roughly 8mo ago
It’s not a dispute about antitrust policy either, or at least not directly. Paramount has been aggressively reshaping its content to please the current administration for purposes of buying political favor. There’s an antitrust component to
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by roughly 8mo ago
> People don’t like the politics of Paramount’s ownership but from a competition perspective this is the better outcome. This was a much more compelling argument 14-odd months ago. People don’t like the politics of Paramount’s ownership
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> What I don't get though is, why did the so-called "Department of War" target Anthropic specifically? Because Anthropic told them no, and this administration plays by authoritarian rules - 10 people saying yes doesn’t mat

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