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by thunky 11mo ago
To be fair (not that this is a good excuse) the article says: The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their Countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution,”
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by thunky 11mo ago
> This doesn’t make any sense, because 99% of Dems have tried to increase access to healthcare, and 99.9% of Repubs have tried to reduce access to healthcare. This is the problem. All conversations about policy lead to "it's th
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> When exactly were the democrats supposed to "fix" the ACA without compromising? The Democrats did have full control when they first passed the ACA and they ended up getting in their own way. But I never said that the Democrat
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by thunky 11mo ago
It's both of their faults. Blaming one party or the other is what got us into this this hole and what keeps making it deeper. The ACA was passed in 2014. Congress (both Republicans and Democrats) have had since then to get off their bu
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by thunky 1y ago
> That has in part become the issue in modern politics, any compromise no matter how minor is seen as a loss. Because to those who are now getting hit with huge insurance bills as a direct effect of that compromise, and may have to go wi
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by thunky 1y ago
> But by default you also start with a new random seed every time you run the tests, so you can build up more confidence over the older tests and older code Is it common practice to use the same seed and run a ton of tests until you&#x27
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by thunky 1y ago
And you won't get far trying to cast critics of Israel's actions as Jew-hating. It's a tired move.
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by thunky 1y ago
> The script now works like a standalone executable But whoever runs this has to install uv first, so not really standalone.
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by thunky 1y ago
Agree to disagree. I'm not looking at it like a line by line explanation of the code. Think of it like commit messages, but better. Better because: 1. commit messages are usually not very informative and the context is implicit. 2. com
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by thunky 1y ago
> I didn’t say anything about pull request descriptions. But that's what we're talking about. This is what you criticized: automated walk through of a pull request, where it steps a reviewer through initially the overview and
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> You can have both sync and aync communication Sure, and PR descriptions and comments are a way to do that (async). But IME it helps to start with a good description of what the changes are rather than just having a pile of code changes
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by thunky 1y ago
This sounds like you're making an argument against pull request descriptions in general. Like you just want to see code changes and have a meeting about it.
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by thunky 1y ago
> I still voted, because my personal laziness or moral superiority does not trump the very real world effects of the "bad ones" winning. Lazy people like you with post hoc rationalizations exist here too, and they're just
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5% tops.
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There is a subtle difference though because a vote is supposed to be a act of support. With the trolley problem there is nothing to support. Voting for party A/B is a reward that encourages party A/B to do more of what they'r
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by thunky 1y ago
> I wonder if the Democrats seeming inability to stop right-wing abuses has been partially motivated by the knowledge that successfully stomping out that sort of corruption would curtail their own abuses, too. Absolutely. And we know thi
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by thunky 1y ago
> around 36% sat at home or abstained, but in practicality they basically said they were fine with whoever won. Or, they were not fine with whoever won. We've got two abismal parties to choose from. Yes, there's an agument fo
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by thunky 1y ago
> Wonder Dog I think you meant Insult Comic Dog.
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by thunky 1y ago
I mentioned Andrew Yang way up thread. He proposed a "freedom dividend". Something like that is a start. https://2020.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
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by thunky 1y ago
> Is that what you want to happen? If yes, we don’t have anything to discuss further. If not, you have the power to be part of the change. I think I've been pretty consistent that I think the change necessary is a social/politi
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by thunky 1y ago
> You are yet to show how this benefits humanity in a way that outweighs harm to humans who lose their jobs I think it's pretty obvious if you think beyond trying to protect the status quo. The benefit is simply that machines do wo
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by thunky 1y ago
> Perhaps what you mean to say is that certain people, heavily featured on this forum, are working on something that causes harm to many No that's not at all what I mean to say. I see technological advancement as inevitible and good
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> There are a lot of average people out there. I don’t need to hear their ill informed takes, either Do those people host podcasts doing long form interviews with interesting people too?
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by thunky 1y ago
> Not at all What I'm saying is that the automation is happening, so we need to deal with that reality. > stop plugging their ears and shouting whenever someone talks about the issues it causes Exactly.
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> Does it really need to be stated that “some technology would not be harmful if only the reality in which the technology was used was different”? If someone is arguing to limit that technology, then yes. > but work is a mechanism tha
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> Having to pay bills is part of current socioeconomic reality. This is a man-made reality though, and we have as much power to change it as we did to create it. > Deriving satisfaction from being a useful member of society and social
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by thunky 1y ago
> a perverse incentive for obstructionists to shut government That doesn't make any sense. A politically manufactured government shutdown isn't the only way to reduce government or taxes. But regardless, fear of poor incentive
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by thunky 1y ago
> 1) humans benefit from having jobs and 2) human benefit is the end goal. There's no law of nature saying that a human must work 40 hours per week or starve. The current dependence on work is a consequence, not a goal.
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by thunky 1y ago
> Well yeah, of course they are. You still owe taxes. When the government reopens the taxes you pay will still be allocated. I think you missed the point. If the government is doing less due to shutdown, taxes should be less.
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> You don't need MCP Depends on who the user is... A difference/advantage of MCP is that it can be completely server-side. Which means that an average person can "install" MCP tools into their desktop or Web app by po

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