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by spaced-out 3y ago
No it doesn't, agriculture makes up less than 3% of California's economy and is heavily subsidized (read - money is taken from other industries are given to farmers by the government). It's tech companies, tourism, and the e
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Yep, politicians keep saying that most cops are good, but it seems like even the good cops are ok with stuff like this. Whenever this topic comes up you have some people arguing that it's not a big deal. Often these people admit to ha
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>A sword can be wielded by a knight to defend the weak and innocent and serve king and country. If you read about medieval warfare you'll see knights often used their swords on the weak and innocent at the behest of their lord. If
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>I will work for fair wages; honorably guarding my reputation and my colleagues in our work practices, while respecting the intellectual contributions of others. What does this mean? What's an example of an unfair wage?
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Just one anecdote but I went to this modern art museum in Seattle last weekend that's small but well regarded: https://www.museumofmuseums.com/ I saw several mixed media pieces there (one was a diorama IIRC), which sai
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by spaced-out 3y ago
It because a lot of people are already struggling with the cost of housing. It's hard to tell people they should be worried about this company exploiting them, when their only other option is to pay someone else even more money to kee
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Does the opposite work too? What if a human doctor mis-diagnoses me but I can prove in court that an available medical grade AI would have given the correct diagnosis. Could I sue for that?
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Just that the person has the right to choose no medical treatment. You also have that right. If a doctor says you will certainly die without treatment, you can say no. The doctor doesn't write in the note that you are fine, just th
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>It might catch the tumor in 99.9999% of cases, better than any human doctor. But missing a malignant tumor 0.0001% of the time is unacceptable, because it spikes the hospital's malpractice costs. So every single scan still has to b
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by spaced-out 4y ago
You really think Meta hired this recruiter as part of some plan to keep smaller companies from being able to hire recruiters?
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by spaced-out 4y ago
It is possible to generate good quality hands with Stable Diffusion with ControlNet. Here's a video talking about generating different hand positions from models created in Blender. There's also discussions about this on r/
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Twitter was so awful before, that it relied on people to safeguard the keys to the kingdom. This is very bad practice...that can be accessed by the board of directors, the executive managers, and designated maintainers. LOL, you realize
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>I want strong moderation and “banning” for myself. I would ideally like this to be as automatic as possible, perhaps via default blocklists that update on an ongoing basis, that I can still opt out of if I really cared to do so. This is
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by spaced-out 4y ago
So the author spent the article responding to Twitter takes from journalists and looking at stats from economists who are pretty much all old and financially secure... I didn't see anywhere where the author looked at what teenagers the
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by spaced-out 4y ago
"Begs the question" is an idiomatic phrase in English that works in that context.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
No coding required...yet. I've been playing around with generating stories with ChatGPT for a while and...English (or any natural language) is really bad at being specific. I've made progress by learning some specific words to de
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>No newspaper could take that excuse. Toys R Us couldn't say "oh jeez, we didn't realize that a corner of our store was being used by child pornographers to spread child pornography and also recruit children" and not
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Not sure why that's my problem, I'm not the one making money by promoting reactionary videos to reactionaries. The reason I think we should see it as our problem is because I think the solution companies arrive at is just to t
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>The most recent, the oldest Do you not recognize how lousy of a video sharing website this would be? Spammers are going to be constantly uploading marketing and other low-quality content with irrelevant keywords, while users that actua
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Personally I'd find it delightful if the rage-engine got smashed with a legal hammer and my Youtube recommendations were as useful as they were fifteen years ago. Why would it be safe for them to use an older recommendation system?
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Damn, the CIA had good taste in art, who knew...
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by spaced-out 4y ago
> You cannot stop hackers by doubling down on the very policies they seek to amend, You're assuming their goal is to "stop" every hacker, it's not. It's to secure this revenue stream for ag tech farm manufacture
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Antisemitism is more common among left wingers than right wingers Yes, I remember that left wing protest where people chanted "Jews will not replace us". Remind me, which president was it that said there were "good peopl
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Depends on what country you're looking at.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>If you engage in editorializing (read: controlling) content beyond what is necessary to comply with laws and regulations (eg: no child porn, no tangible death threats), then you should be liable for the content you subsequently publish.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Maybe what matters to NSA bureaucrats making contracting decisions is knowing that Bezos will give them lucrative private sector jobs? So wouldn't that mean the last thing they'd do is raise a fuss about what some random WaPo
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>It would be safe to assume that this metric is a reasonable proxy for Twitter staff's political leanings. No it wouldn't be because it doesn't way what percent of employees donate at all. I assume the percentage is prett
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by spaced-out 4y ago
This is very true, and there's certainly nothing I could do if our industry becomes filled with people who are willing and eager to put in 70 hour weeks for months at a time. All I'd add is look where it got this guy: still fired.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked be
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by spaced-out 4y ago
It was out of question in the mind of those officials, at that time. NATO was expanded under later administrations.

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