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by tchaffee 4y ago
That's not cheap for the millions earning less than $200 a month.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
The left does not maintain that. Many people were charged and convicted. You can find a rare person claiming these things, but the vast majority of the left believes the corruption happened. Lula's involvement however is debated.
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What do you mean he was popular in his first term? He left office in his second term with an 87% approval rating.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
The judge that convicted Lula was found to be biased against Lula and the charges against Lula were thrown out. "On 9 June 2019, The Intercept published leaked Telegram messages between the judge in Lula's case, Sérgio Moro, and t
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Owning a house is not an obsession. Shelter is a basic human need and people across many cultures own houses. And no, it's not one thing, it's just one example. People aren't getting paid as fairly as they used to. Yes qualit
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by tchaffee 4y ago
You're cherry picking data to confirm a political bias. I'm not interested in trading counter examples, but if you could provide a scientific source that shows the pattern, that might be actually convincing.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Lots of middle class professionals have essentially the same output as their forebears did 40 years ago. No, they have much higher output. > They are not expanding the pie. They are. > They are nonetheless richer in absolute term
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Republicans don't undo things in a matter of weeks. Obamacare is one example. Roe v. Wade is another.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
That's a different topic. We are talking about the middle class getting less than they did in the past, and that extra money going to the rich.
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Drawing is also a mechanical skill. Drawing a perfect circle for example takes practice, and does not involve the kind of mental / seeing skills you described.
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Drawing absolutely can be categorized as better or worse if you are talking about its accuracy to reality, or your ability to draw exactly what you want. Which is what people are talking about when they say they are not good at drawing.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
It's not envy. It's rightly expecting a fair share of the pie you helped make.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Use an abrasive sponge instead of sandpaper. No dust.
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Automation has never eaten jobs. People just do more interesting or more valuable work.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
It's a crummy hand when the cause is increasing wealth gaps. The money was there and is there. Policy has shifted how much of it the middle class ends up with. That's crummy.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Wind turbines don't decimate bird populations. Windows and cats kill far more birds. The numbers aren't even close. Climate change and fossil fuels also kill birds. With wind turbines it is however manageable. The tech to detect b
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by tchaffee 4y ago
You gave nothing to compare those prices to so it's impossible to determine cheaper or not cheaper.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public... ? No. > Ban and criminalize the unethical application, not the tool. No one banned the tool. You've created a strawman arg
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Think automated spam and the damage it does. The artificial constraints you've imagined aren't even realistic.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
If you release the model then it's easily automated, isn't it?
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Why are you using platforms where "purple-haired moralizers" are in the majority and can therefor successfully deplatform you? You can't be deplatformed from a platform that these folks don't use. What's far more li
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Is a system that can generate images of gore, or of sexual acts really on the same level of risk as medical experimentation? Are you sure that's what AI ethics is really concerned about? I of course haven't read all the poss
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> if you trained with lots of data you’re not supposed to use (no consent), you probably should be forced to release things That doesn't sound right at all. If you've used my work with no consent, it would seem that shutting yo
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Would you apply the same thinking to nuclear bombs?
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Anecdotal: Both my wife and I have varied our diets in significant ways for long periods. I've never attracted mosquitoes, she always does.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> There are many, many cities with much lower crime and much higher Do you mean cities with lower arrest rates? I don't know of any reliable source that shows actual crime rates. > Suggesting the crime problem we're discussi
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by tchaffee 4y ago
That's a fair criticism. Which is why I questioned the validity of comparisons in my first sentence.
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> a city so rich Crime goes up when income gaps get bigger. https://financesonline.com/how-income-inequality-affects-cri...
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The numbers speak for themselves. Read more at the link. Between 1991 and 2010, overdose deaths in the country decreased by 50 percent, HIV infections decreased by 65 percent, and new heroin users decreased by 80 percent. Today, the so-cal
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by tchaffee 4y ago
That's not right. It's not that they don't allow open drug scenes. In Lisbon you can easily find the part of town where everyone is smoking weed outside. With Switzerland if you want your free heroin it's at the doctor&#

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