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by sahila 2y ago
Wouldn't AI generated art be derivative work done by Google (or whoever) when creating their Gemini models? So then Google owns all gemini created ai artwork?
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by sahila 2y ago
School being back on isn't a satisfactory answer to why there's a such a large increase. It went from 124 in 2019 to 349 in 2023, nearly 3x as many shootings. I don't know the answer but I would guess it's either Covid&#
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by sahila 2y ago
Because if you/they knew that, then they'd be buying more bitcoin. On a much smaller scale, your dollar goes up by 5% every year but you still use it everyday because all your monies are in dollars. If all your monies are in btc,
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by sahila 2y ago
>If anything, it's good for countries to have people coming in whose only effect in the economy is spending their money, better yet, money brought from elsewhere, an immediate net gain to that country's wealth. This seems debat
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by sahila 2y ago
> They are not told they need to get an engineering, medical, or finance degree to make going to college worth it, economically. This is a very well known fact. When I was in high school in the 2000s, it was a well known joke about how t
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by sahila 2y ago
> hostile foreign government I don't take this as a given and I believe the US government has caused more harm to its own people than China has today; US spies on its citizens, unfairly enforces laws against people, create laws that
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by sahila 2y ago
Please explain how they get next to nothing? We have a pretty damn functional society - police, firemen, judges, law and order, a military, roads, and the ability for them to do business and get richer. Society entails that those able to pr
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by sahila 2y ago
No, the biggest factor is that certain sports are more entertaining than others - even individual sports - and I'd pay to watch some but not others. I'd pay more to watch cyclists do the tour de france or tony hawk go on a half-pi
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by sahila 2y ago
Is your opinion that extremely wealthy don't try to reduce their tax share as much as possible, either through clever accounting on their current year taxes or by influencing politicians/policies to lower their taxes directly? Why
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by sahila 2y ago
Because no one is actually seriously proposing to pay prisoners the same rate as real firefighters; we just shouldn't be using prisoners. Would you allow prisoners to volunteer as teachers, nurses, engineers? Why is the market for fire
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by sahila 2y ago
Can the prisoners volunteer to be teachers or work at Meta too, or is only one market affected?
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by sahila 2y ago
Couldn't the same be said of a fire department with a $800,000,000 budget? Clearly they're not doing so hot, we should cut it further.
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by sahila 2y ago
She cut some 2% of the LA fire department budget, 17M out of 837M. The outrage is politically fueled more than any rationale reasoning.
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by sahila 2y ago
Fair enough, but I don't think that would be consistent when applied to people. Which is to say ethics likely isn't that important for most people - we often try our best to prevent death and may even increase someone's suffe
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by sahila 2y ago
When speaking of ethics, how do you measure the ethics of causing pain vs killing? I'd say even a 1% reduction in consumption (killing) is better than whatever pain reduction. I guess the point is you and others feel so strongly about
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by sahila 2y ago
What subject did you learn in school that you perceive to be useless today? Honestly, I think the baseline learning in math, english, history, and science are all great and should still remain. That's not to say there aren't usele
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by sahila 2y ago
What about the nanny wanting a 4 day work week, and what if they have children of their own?
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by sahila 2y ago
That makes more sense to disable as SMS is expensive. This is still fairly easy to set up yourself using a tool like IFTTT[1] or similar. [1] https://ifttt.com/search/query/twitter
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by sahila 2y ago
> One last point is that I think Peloton gets unfairly targeted for non-use. Gyms, all fitness equipment, even things like boats and motorcycles are frequently bought and never used. Just how consumerism works. What's different with
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by sahila 2y ago
Because they created the search engine, and truthfully profit motives produce better products at lower costs than non-profits generally across the board. The alternative is having government creating software and it’s hard to point to any p
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by sahila 2y ago
How does your rationale explain Internet Explore/Edge and Safari which both have abundance of money and still can’t outcompete Chrome? This goes back to the original point about Google search being superior to Bing, and not just becaus
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by sahila 2y ago
What does net net mean in this context? Is the implication that there's more riding ebikes vs regular ones and so they're more active? Hard to imagine that there's people taking long rides on ebikes, if they even last that lo
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by sahila 2y ago
Sometimes I wish we wouldn't limit these studies / conclusions to just children. Certainly children are more susceptible and lack greater control than adults but the negatives of high phone usage and social media propagates throug
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by sahila 2y ago
Why do you have the need to use different browsers? Use the one you like on all your devices is easy.
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by sahila 2y ago
Good to know, appreciate the context.
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by sahila 2y ago
I'm a bit skeptical about them actually being recycled though. How many of the appliances are recyclable? What parts of them are vs what ends up in the dump? Everything I've heard - and admittedly I haven't looked too deep -
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by sahila 2y ago
Maybe “better the devil you know than the devil you don't” applies?
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by sahila 2y ago
Sure and not to discredit your observation, but what other observations have you made in the last 5 years that didn’t pan out? Regarding politics, sports, stock market, covid, or other tech trends? The evaluation can’t be looking back, and
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by sahila 2y ago
Your comment just gave me a thought of how cool would it be if society had a mandated activity hour in the morning. I’m imagining loud speakers attached to poles outside making announcements and all businesses closed for that hour, and peop
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by sahila 2y ago
But it doesn't sound like it was an open auction since it says "given that they buyer LNR Partners effectively auctioned it to themselves, it's not certain that low $6.5 million price would have been available to other buyers

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