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by slg 2y ago
> They should do oversight for intentional and significant wrong doings Would lying to the board not count as "intentional and significant wrong doings"?
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>Being skeptical about various possibly biased stories from involved parties would mean not accepting any as true. Party A accused party B of being a liar. Party B did not respond. In order to defend party B, you need to accuse party A
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Defending him is just as much "jumping to a conclusion" as criticizing him. If anything, it is a more active decision because he hasn't even offered a defense yet to this latest round of accusations meaning a defender must c
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It could have been posted May 20, 2024 and I don't think it would have any real meaning. Musk has zero credibility with this sort of thing regardless of when it was posted.
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That argument flows in both directions. Why defend the guy if you don't know "how everything went down"?
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by slg 2y ago
Arguing the American government has some level of moral superiority over the Chinese government doesn't address my question. As an American, what threat does the Chinese government's control of TikTok pose to me that Musk's
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But what is rarely addressed in this conversation is why the American people should be more scared of the Chinese government owning this type of service compared to an American billionaire who is widely regarded to have some sort of persona
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by slg 2y ago
> In each of these instances, it is becoming clear that schools do not know what the rules about AI should be and that they are often being made up on the fly. This seems a little uncharitable to me considering society has no idea what t
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by slg 2y ago
Which is what makes me wonder if this might grow into a galvanizing event for the pro-creator protests against these AI models and companies. What happened here isn't particularly unique to voices or even Scarlett Johansson, it is just
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by slg 2y ago
No, it is expected to last another couple days until Earth is out of sight from the sunspots ejecting this plasma, but the reports I have seen have predicted that we are past the peak.
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by slg 2y ago
For one of the worst solar storms of the modern technological era and the worst in 20+ years, I have been pleasantly surprised by the limited number of issues like this that have actually popped up.
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It is easy to cherry-pick examples that go in either direction. For example, try to photocopy a dollar bill and see what happens. As a society we have drawn some lines regarding the minimum expectations for preventing abuse. There are obv
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by slg 2y ago
>Wishing to live in a world in which no one could ever break the law, or in which companies were somehow magically responsible for guaranteeing no one would ever misuse their products is not a good outcome. This is classic straw man stuf
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This article misses the point. People don't want the tech companies to provide the consequences for breaking the law, they want tech companies to do a better job preventing the law from being broken in the first place. And if society
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by slg 2y ago
Sure, this was back of the napkin math and there will be plenty of ways to improve it. The problem is that the more details you add, the more difficult it will be to find actual numbers to put on these things as opposed to using the above
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by slg 2y ago
I think that would be a statistical mistake to cherry-pick the cutoff like that. What would be the argument for ignoring the X months/years beforehand in which no one died? If I asked you for the odds of the next three coin tosses bei
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by slg 2y ago
And I can get 4-5% by just holding cash in a high yield savings account right now. The point of the 4% rule is that is has remained true over large scales of time in which a lot changes. Compare that to your CTO example, and that 9.5% yie
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by slg 2y ago
Yes, it is 2 dead out of 32 total [1]. We can ballpark these odds relatively easily. Dean was 45 and Barnett was 62. Let's assume they are somewhat representative of the average whistleblower and the average whistleblower is in averag
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by slg 2y ago
You pretty quickly when from "yielding 8% on distributions alone" and "REITs that often yield 7%" to "pays 6% today". There are plenty of windows in which an investment in O wouldn't have met your origina
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Do you have an example of an REIT that fits your hypothetical that has a history of delivering these yields consistently for decades?
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The thing about retirement, especially early retirement, is it (hopefully) lasts a long time. It is foolish to assume that the trends of the last couple of years will continue on indefinitely rather than return to historic norms. Banking
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by slg 3y ago
And here is the response thread from the state senator that introduced it. https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1784964914236227757 Has anyone with less of a bias actually analyzed this bill because I'm no
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by slg 3y ago
>It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning. That isn't a defense of the quality of the practice. Something can have a bad "design from the beginning&
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by slg 3y ago
Politicians lie which is why communication alone can’t be trusted the way actions like voting can.
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by slg 3y ago
>Again, we have an actual case on hand. Which is the disconnect here. I criticized a general practice of which this is an example while you are focusing exclusively on that one example.
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by slg 3y ago
>In the Senate, pretty much everyone has made their views known on at least Ukraine, Israel and TikTok. There is a reason I used the word "accountability". There is difference between talk and action and accountability is abou
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by slg 3y ago
People's positions on the bill are the one thing that is known. The problem is that it allows politicians to avoid accountability on the individual issues within that bill. A vote on this doesn't tell you directly whether a poli
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There is no reason a compromise needs to be formalized into a singular piece of legislation. Doing it this way helps politicians avoid accountability because it gives them plausible deniability to say they didn't support specific prov
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by slg 3y ago
And that wasn't expected to happen in the Senate. Also that is the vote total for this bill, not the previous one that passed the House last month.
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by slg 3y ago
>The "Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" was approved as part of a larger appropriations bill that provides aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Regardless of your opinions on TikTok, this t

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