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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, the results speak of themselves - all ethnic cleansings so far have been performed only with the help of AIs. Oh wait, actually none of them were.
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by smsm42 3y ago
You're thinking about being part of the society, nog being locked up 24/7 in a single room, and surrounded by people who care about you as much as the office potted plant.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Not systematically, but those still were the same institutions, with same staff and management, same warm and welcoming care traditions, etc. So I'm not sure their approach changed drastically.
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by smsm42 3y ago
I think he didn't pick Russian because the staff didn't bother to talk to him. So he didn't have much to hear.
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by smsm42 3y ago
They don't care. The function of those institutions isn't to heal people, it's to warehouse them where they won't cause trouble, or sometimes punish those who did cause trouble. It's not that expensive if you pay p
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by smsm42 3y ago
"Vaccines cause autism" is old and tired, but sodas are fashionable bad guys, so "sodas cause autism" is cool.
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by smsm42 3y ago
That came later, when Soviet mathematicians envisioned that the computers could provide a solution to the fundamental calculation problems of socialism. Soviets had very strong mathematicians, and they knew that planning as envisioned by th
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by smsm42 3y ago
As somebody who grew up as a person and as a programmer in 80s, the problem wasn't purity of the math or the chemicals. The problem was an extremely crappy level of manufacturing quality in everything and lacking facilities in quantity
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by smsm42 3y ago
For FDA, never permitting it is a completely acceptable outcome, and that's why it probably will never be permitted in the US. Unless somebody will find a reason to spend many billions of dollars to make it happen, which I don't f
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by smsm42 3y ago
In a year or two somebody would realize that YT is for videos and it doesn't make sense to keep music and podcasts there, and a new Google service is born... It's the circle of life.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Probably yes, until they audit you. I don't think many people who want to defraud IRS do it by faking 40 year old medical receipts.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Probably the latter, buf this would frequently be the case now in other providers too. Unless you want to wait for 2 months.
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by smsm42 3y ago
It used to be the case that anything that the Constitution didn't allow the government to do was considered not allowed. Too bad now it's the opposite - anything the Constitution doesn't explicitly prohibit it to do, it feels
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by smsm42 3y ago
Catastrophic bills. Insurance doesn't make sense for colds, routine checkuos and other cheap and frequent things. It makes sense where you get a rare disease whose medication costs 50k/yr or more. Unfortunately US system is an unh
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by smsm42 3y ago
Especially given the fact that in many insured providers getting a visit in person may take weeks, unless you're going to emergency care.
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John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights(reuters.com)
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by smsm42 3y ago
Russian has some neat words for in-law relationships, but I'd say vast majority of the population never uses it and has to hit the dictionary when they encounter it in the literature. Which IMHO is a pity.
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by smsm42 3y ago
I think there's a fundamental difference between "X can not be implemented" and "can we trust this provider to implement X correctly"? In this case, it can be implemented without violating privacy. But of course you
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by smsm42 3y ago
> Any system that can check balance, can link searches to a user. I don't think it's true. I can immediately see at least two ways how it can be done without identifying the user. 1. Each user gets X tokens at the beginning of
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by smsm42 3y ago
Calling violent domestic terrorists engaged in attacks on police, property destruction, arson and other obviously criminal acts mere "environmental activists" is very disingenuous. It's like saying "a mathematician dies
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by smsm42 3y ago
"I know you hired me to murder the competing gang, but I thought designing a new multi-paradigm type-safe VM-driven LISP-like automatically verifyable programming language would be much better use of the money".
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by smsm42 3y ago
Weimar wasn't random in any way or form. A lot of purposeful action went into making Weimar what it was, and the subsequent events what they were. It wasn't the result of random distribution of gains, it was a result of many purpo
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by smsm42 3y ago
This technology already exists. Step 1: grow trees (or any other plants, in fact) Step 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator Not the most clean or efficient technology, to be sure, but has been around for
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by smsm42 3y ago
My house lost about 60-70k from the top one of the years (I suck at timing the market). I couldn't care less - I'm not going to sell it anytime soon, and this price is imaginary anyway, and the imaginary price recovered half of it
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by smsm42 3y ago
What do you mean by "deserve"? It looks like you are making some kind of hidden morality market, where market gains are or should be distributed according to some kind of moral merit, based on unspecified criteria. But no market i
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by smsm42 3y ago
Are there cheaper places in Canada? In the US, if you can work remotely, you can get better and bigger house 2x-3x cheaper than, say, around the Silicon Valley or any similarly priced cities, and still earn hi-tech salary. Of course, you ne
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by smsm42 3y ago
Or, they'd do 60-year mortgages. US already has 30-year more or less universally, and those are actually backed by the state. I don't see why they can't move to 60 years. Let the next generation deal with the fallout, this is
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by smsm42 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the implications were that the mayor involved joined the legal firm that negotiated this privatization shortly after his term ended. This certainly looks very shady, but by itself doesn't change the financials on th
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by smsm42 3y ago
> What they sold was worth a lot more than that! Would you mind to walk us through your calculations, and share how did you discover that NPV of that income stream is a lot more than $1.6bn and what figure did you arrive at? > being o
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, if somebody ever reads properly made audited balance sheet of the city, it probably would be mentioned somewhere is there. But since it's not a classical debt, most casual observers wouldn't even realize it exists.

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