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by trefoiled 3y ago
As fantastical as this passage may sound, most of the details McCarthy provides are historically accurate, and based on a particular event: The Great Raid of 1840 [1]. A thousand Comanche warriors conducted an extremely deep raid into South
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by trefoiled 3y ago
This seems like it could work in some way, but it's important to recognize that spam, and LLM usage already require payment in some form or another. There's a cost to sending out millions of emails just like there will be a cost
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by trefoiled 3y ago
It’s interesting to dismiss this criticism as “impossibly high standards” when VR as a market is clearly a disaster. The person you replied to is of the same opinion as the vast majority of consumers, who have either not purchased a headset
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by trefoiled 3y ago
That’s a particularly hilarious way to frame it but also an interesting person to pick considering he was born into a family of inventors and had the resources to attend an ivy league. Quite literally humanity might be much better off had h
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by trefoiled 3y ago
I agree with your fundamental point, but I find this quote somewhat confusing when applied to this conversation. Surely there are people who would have an equally great negative impact on humanity were they not working in a sweatshop, too?
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by trefoiled 3y ago
I think you'd be surprised by just how possible it would be to enter into a successful and good faith agreement with a warring tribe which has enslaved or massacred your people. Spanish colonists in New Mexico did so with the Comanche
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by trefoiled 3y ago
Point taken, but consider the context of where we are in this thread: discussing immigrants and foreign contract workers cheating in interviews and on their resumes for positions within the United States. Perhaps your point is more applicab
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by trefoiled 3y ago
Agreed, and it's also hard to consider the US as on some kind of general decline from high trust to low trust. American honesty has always been highly contextual. All it takes is a look into how we treated written agreements with Nativ
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by trefoiled 3y ago
I picked up on this too. Everyone involved has a perverse incentive to portray the narrative as the work of genius, innovative hackers. That's the issue with an article like this, where all the quoted sources are people directly involv
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by trefoiled 3y ago
even worse, Mozilla has begun using startup as an opportunity to deliver VPN advertisements.
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by trefoiled 4y ago
It's interesting reading this comment, because this perfectly aligns with my experience using the app on Android back before Apple shut it down. I agree with all of the article's points on how intuitive and helpful the UI was, and
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by trefoiled 4y ago
If it's a sign of wealth and abundance that fertility rates are falling, how do you explain that fertility rates are falling in the poorest areas of Africa, too?[1] [1]. https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/dramat
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by trefoiled 4y ago
this feels more like wild speculation than a plausible explanation
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by trefoiled 4y ago
Most Paradox game are available on Mac, strong possibility CS2 will be too
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by trefoiled 4y ago
As a response to the above challenge, this is quite the stretch
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by trefoiled 4y ago
For anyone interested, there's more to the accusation of Stoltenberg's involvement with intelligence from a young age than the author of this article implies by dismissing it as ridiculous on its face.[1] Whether or not you find t
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by trefoiled 4y ago
Why are we ok with “AI is equally as bad as the current bad thing?” Even then, it falls flat because the average person doesn’t understand this as well as you do. There will be some severe consequences because of this.
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by trefoiled 4y ago
I think part of the point here is that ChatGPT has no clue what you might mean here by "certainty" or being "wrong," and the fact that people have the impression that it could have an idea of those concepts is indicative
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by trefoiled 4y ago
https://archive.is/whwL0
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by trefoiled 4y ago
I understand why a Coleman camp stove might be a viable substitute, but why would you be better off with a system which performs worse in every way? This perspective also sweeps aside the living conditions of rural Americans, many of whom
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by trefoiled 4y ago
What do you mean by "a better approach" here? The key is that the poster you responded to survived by virtue of owning a gas stove, so it seems to me like step 1 is simply not banning them, which costs nothing and requires no work
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by trefoiled 4y ago
Not sure of the exact timeline here, but for a while Musk was explicitly promising that within a few years, true FSD would be a reality. He said you'd have to be insane not to buy a Tesla, because your car would be out there making mon
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by trefoiled 4y ago
I'm agnostic on the "reality" of the existence of machine elves and the like, but as someone who once got heavily into lucid dreaming, it's actually very common for people in dreams to argue with you convincingly that yo
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by trefoiled 4y ago
I've seen significant degradation in connection quality since the 5G rollout, but I'm on t mobile, and in the PNW.
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by trefoiled 4y ago
How do you know that we're able to measure most phenomena that exist in the universe?
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by trefoiled 4y ago
It's amazing just how accurately this describes my exact experience as a FE engineer tasked with creating a newish codebase for a client.
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by trefoiled 4y ago
this is very common
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by trefoiled 4y ago
This word is used as an alternative to "lifespan," and means the period of your life in which you are relatively healthy. Just because you're living well into old age doesn't mean you're doing it with your health in
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by trefoiled 5y ago
Because phthalates are ubiquitous, it's good to take a "best bang for your buck" approach when it comes to reducing your exposure to them. The two major things to watch out for are making sure to never heat plastic containers
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by trefoiled 5y ago
73% of Chinese people consider their government to be democratic. Only 49% of Americans said the same of their government. The Chinese Communist Party is seen as a meritocracy within China, which draws on an ancient tradition of bureaucracy

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