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by sickofparadox 2y ago
This may just be a formatting thing: I didn't mean to say that Phonics is good because it is both time tested and time proven, rather that it is time tested (stop) and proven (stop). I edited my above comment to try and reflect that in
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
The fact that teachers would rather chase fads that obviously do not work rather than practice time-tested and proven teaching methods is probably not a problem that can be solved with "great videos on YouTube".
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Very detailed texts on every level of networking, from NICs and LANs to BGP routing so I could bring it back up.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Your clinging to the idea that there is anyone at all who has said and meant, literally, that Kamala Harris was providing vasectomies to anyone is the kind of shrill idiocy that led her to lose this election. >"this is what's k
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Probably because it is? [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/nx-s1-5081386/planned-parenth...
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Surely insulting people by calling them "low information voters" (read as: stupid idiot) will win this time despite failing in 2016 and 2024. Also, people were at the very least offered vasectomies at the DNC rally[1], so maybe yo
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
To be fair to people, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to cope with the fact that a plurality or even most papers that come out may be found to be completely un-reproducible. For low stakes things like getting rid of a plastic spatula or cutting
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
I believe this is the ad being described by GP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRwkZWowI8o
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Horse behind carriage. People aren't having children so they don't interact with any, making them feel more justified in punishing parents for not doing things the way they think it should be done.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
They also do many things so radically different that it is always worth looking at how they handle it, especially given that 70 years ago they essentially had nothing but the remains of a post-war colonial city.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
As with many things the best model to look at is Singapore, which spends far less than most of the OECD with outsized results. They spend half as much on healthcare than the UK and far, far less than the US with results that often put them
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Money is a lot in US politics, but Michael Bloomberg will tell you himself that it isn't everything. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg_2020_preside... .
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Considering how much Valve has been working on getting Anti-cheat to play nice with Proton for the Steam Deck, I find that very doubtful.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Calling journalists "Advertising Leeches" would probably be an appropriate turnabout.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Its far more likely that there is no mechanism forcing the contract manager to care. The threat of law enforcement action is hazy, at best, and they know they can continue on scot-free.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Actually, I think the fact that he entered the country illegally and then proceeded to commit multiple forms of fraud to get hired by an contractor for the US government is extremely relevant. There should probably be massive penalties put
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
I mean nothing is preventing bad actors from writing their own code to do that either? This makes it easier (kind of) but the difference between a copilot written malware and a human one doesn't really change anything. Its a chat bot -
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Brother, it is not operating your computer, YOU ARE!
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
It can't form plans because it has no idea what a plan is or how to implement it. The ONLY thing these LLMs know how to do is predict the probability that their next word will make a human satisfied. That is all they do. People get ver
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
>why is tens of millions of people in a state enforcing the will of the majority on the others fine but hundreds of millions of people in the country enforcing the will of the majority on others "not caring about the consent of the
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Why vote at all? You don't care about the consent of the governed, we should just make you chairman of the federal government and have your enlightened rule bring us to a new era of prosperity!
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
"I know better than the people that voted for their own state government so I am going to force my will upon them." Mindsets like this are actually why democracies fail.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
The gym I belong to requires both a credit card and bank routing and transfer numbers, on top of like 13 different legal documents. It is the only one I can afford within 10 minutes of my house.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
They would compliment each other because the purpose of the awning is to prevent the heat of the sun from entering the house. Once it's in, even if there are insulating curtains, the heat is still in the house.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
This may be true, but only insofar as men don't read many books, period.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Well the US is a net exporter on oil and LNG, pretty much even on agriculture and every few months a new "world's largest deposit" of some critical material article comes up.[1,2] So I think we really are debating whether the
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Such is the cultural reach of America's blue jeans and rock 'n roll.
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by sickofparadox 2y ago
Segregating: "to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate" Are we going to play equivocation games with the definition of segregate?

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