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by tdba 3y ago
Water is wet
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by tdba 3y ago
Legally speaking what would have happened if an audience member had actually shot and killed her? As I understand it you can't actually give someone permission to kill you, at least in the USA.
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Show HN: One-click chatbot for your website(instabot.us)
1 points by tdba 3y ago|0 comments
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by tdba 3y ago
Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs A big influence for sure, but that claim is a stretch. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His
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by tdba 3y ago
Hopefully we actually jail some bankers in the coming corporate-real-estate-triggered global financial crisis.
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by tdba 3y ago
Both Germany and Japan violated the normal, commonly understood rules of war - we responded It's worth noting that Britain bombed German civilians before Germany bombed British civilians. See https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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by tdba 3y ago
I didn't say there was a biological basis. David Reich doesn't say there is either - he is well known to be opposed to the idea. But there are observable differences - how they come about is another question. And any difference
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by tdba 3y ago
Even scientists who dispute the idea of a genetic basis for race agree that there are observable differences between races. There are real ancestry differences across populations that correlate to the social constructions we have. We have
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by tdba 3y ago
To put two and two together, by your definition: Antiracism is the active process of identifying and eliminating ideas that suggest one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any way If there are observable dif
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by tdba 3y ago
Free markets => prosperity is absolutely not true and the consensus view of economic historians moved on from this idea in the 60s. In the period 1950-2000, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China all achieved their economic mira
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by tdba 3y ago
I might say "preview" for huidu
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by tdba 3y ago
I use it daily and it works great. It doesn't do all that much, but what it does do saves me a bunch of time. I reach for the git CLI when something goes wrong, but that's not often.
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by tdba 3y ago
The external facing screen conveying the user's eyes and a sense of what they are looking at is a simple but really great idea that makes this device feel much more faithful to the idea of augmented reality than any predecessor.
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by tdba 3y ago
One of the main points against the validity of the Trials is that some of the most high profile defendants confessed to things that were either not true or greatly exaggerated versions of the truth. E.g. Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Ausc
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by tdba 3y ago
By snuff out do you mean... execute?
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by tdba 3y ago
Interestingly that has been illegal since 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co .
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by tdba 3y ago
In summary, humans win the Turing test ~2/3 of the time against current SOTA LLMs. One of the more interesting tactics used was to target a weakness of the LLMs themselves: > ... participants posed questions that required an aware
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by tdba 3y ago
The full statement so you don't have to click through: > Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
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by tdba 3y ago
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
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by tdba 3y ago
This is why people on both the right and left should be up in arms over the Durham report.
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by tdba 3y ago
Non-linear dynamics and chaos by Strogatz https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-... I literally read it cover to cover like a novel
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by tdba 3y ago
Interestingly, Ford put his money where his mouth was and dropped the price of the Model T by 5x over the production period. Very hard to imagine today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Price_and_product...
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by tdba 3y ago
>just install eslint with insane defaults where do I find these insane defaults?
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by tdba 3y ago
Why did they honor treaties rather than just continuing with open conflict? The juice wasn't worth the squeeze. In general you only fight a war when a) you're being attacked or b) there is something to be gained by doing so that,
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by tdba 3y ago
When you're getting colonized, I don't know if it really matters whether the colonizers honor their promises more or less. Consider the Maori, the gold standard for a colonized people who managed to get a full treaty with the Brit
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by tdba 3y ago
High/low trust at root refers to how you behave to other members of your nation, not foreign peoples. Every nation ever has always tried win zero-sum interactions with other nations (e.g. who gets the land, resources), and all existing
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Barleycorn (Unit)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tdba 3y ago|0 comments
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by tdba 3y ago
Would be great if it somehow kept track of a score. As is it's amazing to look at and the plot is vaguely interesting, but it doesn't feel like an actual game .
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by tdba 3y ago
Incredible! Is the random looking stuff at the top an oscillator for timing seconds?
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by tdba 3y ago
Then, nine seconds later, Mr. Pichai apparently attempted (unsuccessfully) to delete this incriminating message. lol

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