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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Do you mind citing specific proof you have in mind? The article I linked to has all kinds of proof, but if you want a carefully laid out argument for intent, I recommend the Amnesty International report https://www.amnesty.o
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It is fairly well documented that groups of people can show cognitive abilities that exceed that of any individual member. The classic example of this is if you ask a group of people to estimate the number of jellybeans in a jar, you can ge
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> Why would they use a very strong label that they don't even have proofs for? There's plenty of proof of intent which has been addressed by actual international law experts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G
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Political content of all kinds often gets flagged on HN as lots of people don't like it and flagging is the easiest way to express that disapproval and impact front page placement.
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> This post mentions intent once Intent is something that will be proved if the any of the war criminals in this conflict (on either side) ever face justice. The relevant authorities have been pretty clear there is adequate evidence of i
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You've missed the point entirely. The point is not that you can't recover the codes. The point is that if you are concerned about uploading codes due to the security implications (which most people on here are) then you need to do
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Every step you make someone who is being socially engineered jumo through, is an extra chance for them to realize what is happening, especially if those steps contain warnings.
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> Yes but preventing what we can of it at this stage (which isn't much) will cost as much as a world war and will have huge impact on people's lives. You seem to have gathered the wrong impression here. Yes, a certain amount of
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by shkkmo 2y ago
What you are missing is the context of this phrase. It is almost exclusively used when talking about two entities are already competitors. Some of your confusion may come because this phrase is intended neither as a statement of fact, nor a
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I think dementia and euthanasia is already legally and morally very complicated so not sure that is the best example. I do think that dementia often causes problems due to strain on caregivers and cost of outside help. If you have systems o
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I'm partially with you, in that I do see tragedy in these choices. I see tragedy that we lack the cultural and economic institutions to support peope towards the end of life in ways (especially ones that don't make them feel like
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> “It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added. So it sounds like the judge specifically had issues with the use of sealed bids.
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It's correct if there's a new, open auction that does even better than the current Onion offer.
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This is completely false. Debt can absolutely be sold for whatever it is worth. In this case, the Jones' debt owned by the Sandy Hook families is fairly valuable to Jones' other debtors because it means they get a bigger slice of
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We should either close the loopholes or eliminate the tax.
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"cross-country" has a similar meaning in many contexts, skiing, biking, planes, running, etc. I believe it was originally coined in running and then extended to other pursuits. The 'country' part of the term comes from t
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Kindly show your work.
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There already was somewhere to turn. Chevron based rules could always be explicitly modified by new legistlative directives. Additionally, courts still had final say and could strike down agency regulations if they were based on unreasonabl
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> And then you can work to punish malicious actors in Silicon Valley who violate important investing norms. That's a pretty generous way of framing it. It's not like this was a concerted effort to protect all small start ups o
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When something bad happens, we were usually already involved in some way or other, often by funding or arming one of the sides.
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"rendering engine" has a pretty clear meaning and is a pretty poor term to use for a system for tranforming one kind of text bits into another. Perhaps you should consider using less confusing terminology in your vocabulary? http
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> That's just something people do because they feel like it, are bored, enjoy it in their spare time? It's an emerging technology and platform. There are economic advantages to having early access to learn what it can do. Furth
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> One could say that it's the intent which varies between a heart transplant and an Azrec blood sacrifice I would say that consent is the key distinguishing factor and intent follows afterwards.
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> As he explained it, the big problem is the field's dependence on funding from the Gates Foundation. Philanthropic funding isn't bad per se but the issue is that Gates specifically wants a legacy. That means he's not real
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Not really true. Mosquitos are an important part of the ecosystem, they (especially their larva) are important food sources for other creatures. However, most species of mosquitoes do not bite humans and not all of those are capable of spre
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Volunteers can be abused in many of the same ways employees can be. In general, if a volunteer at a for profit compan is doing work that benefits that company, this can be considered "competing" with paid employees and mean the vo
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> why would a company pay them anyway? Because we have laws to protect workers. You can't just not pay an employee and call them a volunteer as a for profit company. There a legal limitations on what a for profit company can do with
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> This is so weird. They are mad that they didn't get paid for voluntarily participating in a program that never offered any pay? Companies have been getting ever bolder about abusing volunteer and crowd sourced labor. When the part
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> Then it's just a matter of estimating someone's "compute" from how fast they solve a given class of problems relative to some reference computer. Heh... "just"... Good luck with that.
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"provides upward pressure on wages" is true, but you simply can't get from there to actually demonstrating the "marginal producivity theory of wages". It is pretty clear that the employment market suffers from sever

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