stvltvs

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by stvltvs 7mo ago
I like the guy, but he was GOP-lite as a president, served corporate interests.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
We've got work to do, but it could be worse. Point is that the problems of the USSR weren't caused by getting rid of the hereditary peerage.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Getting rid of hereditary nobility has worked out pretty well for the USA.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
That does nothing to stop corrupt pardons during the presidents lame duck term, like those questionable Biden pardons before he vacated the White House.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
It's not a requirement in most places. This would be a significant change in practice.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Most state-issued Real IDs don't count as proof of citizenship under the SAVE Act. https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/will-save-act-allo...
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Note that drivers licenses wouldn't count as proof of citizenship under the SAVE act.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Proof of citizenship is not the same as the driver's licenses people are issued by their state. Not everyone has ready access to proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. It gets even more difficult if your current legal name
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
We really need to put limits on the pardon power. It's clearly enabling corruption. Ford should never have pardoned Nixon. It's been a slide down the slippery slope ever since.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Ignores sequence of returns risks. Yes there are ways to soften the blow of poor performance during early retirement, but it's still bad news for anyone relying on their 401k.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
It also tilts the economics toward extracting from more expensive oilfields if the price stays high long enough.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
The US and Israel have made it clear that they intend this to be an existential war, so the current regime might as well go with whatever low-probability strategy gives them a chance at survival.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
I don't know about Europe, but mining deforested most of Nevada's pinyon-juniper woodlands to produce charcoal during the 1800s.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
Assumes a long runway before retirement.
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
I'll try to remember this the next time the AI peddlers try to sell me AGI in "just a few years".
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by stvltvs 7mo ago
The culture surrounding it is all very cynical about women. It's also dripping with self hatred.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
They probably won't because they don't want a nationwide precedent if it's upheld by SCOTUS.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
Say what you will about the ethics of sexual depictions of fictional minors, the legality in the US isn't clear cut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
AI is an overloaded term, so I'm not sure whether insurers are using LLMs or more traditional ML, but they are already using "AI" to deny claims. https://www.liveinsurancenews.com/health-insurance-claims-de...
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
An argument for a robust social safety net for when a diagnosis threatens your career in a safety-critical field.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
I understand the concern about anxiety about their impending condition, but medical providers must not paternalistically decide to withhold a diagnosis from patients, at least not in all cases. If I got an early diagnosis, it would motivate
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
Honest question: Is there a way to get an LLM to stop emitting deprecated code?
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
The lack of a clear definition is the core of why this advice is unworkable, will never see wide adoption, and will be abandoned sooner or later. The fact that enriched white pasta isn't included on the ultra-processed list shows that
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
Agreement or disagreement are irrelevant if you're asking the LLM for something more precise than generalized racial grievance labeled by the public as DEI.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
The pejorative sense of DEI has probably poisoned the training data. You might be able to prompt around it, but the existing prompt is pretty lazy.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
I don't trust that smart TVs won't use my neighbor's open Wifi or a mobile network to phone home.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
That's what it means to mitigate the hazard, right?
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
> The Nazi took members of ethnic minorities and put them into death camps and massacred them in horrible ways. That's not how it started. It started with labor camps for political enemies and other undesirables. They became death c
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
There are lots of options between the extremes of open borders and putting children in internment camps in inhumane and dangerous conditions.
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by stvltvs 8mo ago
Because U was already used in vi, although that form of undo isn't super helpful IMHO. Both R and r are also already used, so Ctrl-r for redo it is.

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