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by smsm42 2y ago
ChatGPT is able to name other living Rothschild's, including another one named David, specifically David René de Rothschild, but somehow breaks on this particular one. If I ask it to list all living Rothschilds, it breaks when it comes
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What do they mean by social media? Is HN social media? Is Yelp? Is any site that has comments and discussions?
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> The reputations and careers (and liability) of serious journalists rest on uncovering important stories Maybe it used to be so, but not anymore. Now the careers of journalists (I don't know how to define "serious" withou
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> journalists are transparent because they have to provide evidence. Just count how many "according to anonymous sources" stories you heard recently, and how much of the "evidence" anyone would independently verify. Y
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> People love to demonize journalism, but who else will hold the powerful like Google to account? That sounds like "people love to demonize collective farms, but how else would you grow food?" The question begs the answer - oth
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Not illegal per se, but if you're under a preservation order and specifically instruct someone to use disappearing messages to evade it, it can get a bit iffy.
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In this case, hiding your chats is not exactly going to help you. If anything, it will be showing up prominently in the list of charges against you as destruction of evidence and impeding investigation.
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Good thing we're not in the absolutist monarchy now, and have such things as courts and laws.
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I don't know, looking back in over two decades of my career in the industry, I can hardly think of any communication that, if it ended in evidence, would constitute any trouble. Sure, some would be embarrassing for me personally, revea
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The whole point of swatting is to cause massive over-reaction by the police endangering victim's life. If it would just cause a regular visit by a cop nobody would do it - what would be the point of it, waste 5 minutes of person's
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I just read about a kid being arrested for $2 bill because the cops didn't know such bills exist. Not the first time it happens too. Some of them aren't exactly brilliant, unfortunately. And there are almost never any consequences
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To be honest, if it weren't labeled "bad art" and were put aside of other modern art, without any labeling or commentary, or even better with standard commentary about "the artists boldly defying the established conventi
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> show_wpcp_message('You are not allowed to copy content or view source'); Yes I am, you poor deluded soul, yes I am. There's absolutely no way for you to control what happens to the content once it has left your server. A
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by smsm42 2y ago
Trump promised to make the economy better. Is he able to do that remains to be seen, but his message was pretty clear, and he did have some success before COVID in that regard. Now, of course as any challengers, he enjoys the advantage of a
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Maybe because they are relevant, but you refuse to admit it because it would reveal your original claim as shallow, lazy and pointless.
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COVID didn't, people that distributed $5 trillion during COVID time did.
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Lower taxes.
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In fact, the response was much worse. It was like this: Response 1: You are lying. The groceries in my local Whole Foods are still very affordable to me. Stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. Response 2: OK maybe the grocer
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Rubbing and then blowing on it to enlarge whatever opening has been created usually works just fine.
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Google is literally NOT the gateway to internet. At most, it's a gateway. I haven't used google for search for many years now, and still manage to be on the internet. There are many alternatives. If people choose not to use them,
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Two things I don't get here. First: if I am not happy with my site's placement in google (I don't care, but if I did), and I complain, nobody would even acknowledge my existence. I have no idea how I could even talk to a live
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As opposed to value extraction under socialism, also known as "GULAG", "down to countryside", "killing fields", "reeducation camps" and "transitory labor regime". The most prominent featur
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I'm sure that the glorious Communist Party would build a google where every site is equal in ranking and always occupies the first page.
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> Concrete examples if there are so many! We were told mass surveillance against US citizens doesn't happen. It did and still is. We were told healthcare reform will not force people to change their insurance coverage and healthcar
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Thinking that one of the candidates will literally destroy the country is some weird meaning of being "impartial" that I have never encountered before.
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Could you point me to such analysis published in WaPo? I mean seriously, it would be nice to have a list of policies that Harris supported before she was VP, during the time she was VP, and now that she is a presidential candidate. Side by
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Yes, we have. Those same people who whine about "misinformation" are repeatedly caught lying to the public - for the public's benefit, of course, which they get to define. Which only makes sense - if you think the public is n
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It's fascinating to see the true believer. It's like those cult members that stayed in the cult when the day of the end of the world came and passed and nothing happened. They just said "well, it's probably going to happ
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Yes. People who want to control the information want to distribute misinformation freely and be guaranteed nobody can contest them. That's the link. The censors always will be the liars, because once you can control who can say what, i
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Well, somebody may care, and by random chance or a strike of luck they may just hire somebody whose opinion is worth hearing... I am just saying we shouldn't assume it upfront just because there's a bunch of guys that is paid for

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