themacguffinman

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by themacguffinman 8mo ago
Sorry I meant that humorously in the vein of Ryan George's comedy YouTube series "Pitch Meeting" where one of his catch phrases is "I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back on that"
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by themacguffinman 8mo ago
You don't need to ask people to assume every blue-state government was bad, Nick "name a Democrat city that's prospering right now" Shirley will do that after you, you just have to tee him up by saying the first part: &q
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by themacguffinman 8mo ago
The essay reads to me as 5000 words on why epistemic standards should be lowered for effective fraud investigation. Requiring retrospective evidence - the highest epistemic standard - is too slow and expensive, so the government needs to co
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by themacguffinman 8mo ago
No government body is run completely on the ball, which is why it's such an effective bad-faith demand. I don't even know where this belief comes from. I'm certainly not aware of any historical scenario where authoritarian re
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by themacguffinman 9mo ago
AI is not the only way to make synthetic music. If you have an exact idea, you can use virtual instrument plugins for software like Ableton Live to produce music.
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by themacguffinman 10mo ago
The difference I see between a company dealing with this as opposed to an open source community dealing with this is that the company can fire employees as a reactive punishment. Drive-by open source contributions cost very little to lob ov
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by themacguffinman 1y ago
All major platforms have mechanisms to identify ban evasion. It's not so easy to create another account when, for example, they ask for a phone number.
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by themacguffinman 1y ago
Quite a narrow view to interpret what happened there as firing Gebru for publishing on AI safety. Google still conducts and publishes research on AI safety, just without Gebru who helpfully offered to resign if Google didn't name her c
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by themacguffinman 1y ago
What was the large family policy? I know about the one-child policy, but I don't think people needed a policy to have large families, it used to be the norm back then even outside of China.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
I think it is. It's one thing to point out dumb jerkiness which often stands out particularly in this administration, but self-reflection is realizing that you have your own blindspots for your equivalent of dumb jerkiness.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
I don't think most people consciously or explicitly aim to only vote for the guy they relate to. The people they relate to will just naturally be more understandable to them and better match their expectations of what a competent manag
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Why does it sound unreasonable? If it's problem that affects you deeply enough, if you sincerely believe that they're a core part of that problem, then I don't see why the person you replied to would be opposed to it.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Trump may be a bad leader but he'd still be just one type of bad leader. I'm not trying to fully relativize Trump either, they're not all equally bad. I agree with Slavoj Zizek's take on Trump's appeal and why a lot
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Yeah millions of people out of billions, I was talking in relative terms. Good to know that Debian could have a fighting chance in a world where everyone had zero marketing budget and there weren't any rich corporate backers that used
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Debian doesn't "work" like Android works. Almost no end-user runs Debian on any of their devices because no one wants Debian over anything else. If you want to achieve Debian's stunning success of having almost no consum
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
> This change makes zero difference to how the app functions. That's not true, different api levels have different restrictions and defaults even if you don't change any of your app code, that's why they force you to targe
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
> I dunno why anybody thinks a computer with a 10 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 16GB of RAM and a TB or two of storage is "an e-bike". Because it's marketed as an e-bike, shaped like an e-bike, and sold in the e-bike section of t
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
It'd be hard for me to miss the HDR/Dolby Vision color and brightness and the significantly higher resolution/PPI of the macbook display.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
What's the added risk here? It's fine to "risk" almost the entire iPhone itself to be manufactured in China but the servers for some random AI features need to be pure? Sounds more like technical marketing and the compan
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Do you know about referendums? Recall elections? Snap elections? Midterm elections? Strikes and protests? Or how about just letting your representative know how you'll vote in their next election to deter bad behavior they're cond
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
I can blame Microsoft. Every other tech company and OS figured out how to make it work and they're not exactly buckling under the weight of legal or political pressure on the matter of flags.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
It's likely that Canada will target exports from Trump-supporting states, which is a strategy that seems to have worked before. It may not have a large impact on the whole US economy but it can concentrate the pain to optimize the poli
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
If the politician doesn't return the favor, the briber can dump their coin and depress the coin price. Other coin traders can also affect this but the general principle still holds that you can add and remove fiat value from the market
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Here's a graphic one (it has a sensitive content warning): https://www.instagram.com/ajplus/reel/C0SHLYlSynD/ Some others that aren't graphic: https://www.instagram.com/middleeasteye
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
"anglo cultures" already had quite a lead before WW2, hard to miss that the previous superpower was the British Empire. The outcome of WW2 elevated America, there's no relationship there to broader anglo culture. Quite a stre
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
There's an ongoing trend of increased polarization, you shouldn't assume that politics and partisanship is the same as 20 years ago.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
A neutral source from a third party news outlet. Do you think bias is a one-dimensional tug of war that cancels each other out when combined?
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
"Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful." "You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - Paul Graham
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
"frustrates Linus" is a bit of an understatement here, Linus is considering removing bcachefs from mainline. If it's removed, I'm somewhat skeptical it can return once it's more mature. Kent seems to think that the
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Ads don't reveal targeting criteria, the visible content of the ad doesn't indicate the user's private profile, it just means an advertiser chose to target them. No one treats the ads you're shown as credible & accur

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