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by troad 3y ago
To be fair to the commenter, I've gotten weird moralising on completely apolitical topics from ChatGPT before. LLMs are (naturally) very sensitive to their prompts, so if the prompt includes something about being inclusive - at ChatGPT
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by troad 3y ago
> This is good, and I hope it stands. Once you demonstrate that you are in fact a citizen of the US, you cannot be denied entry, and IMO all the regular Constitutional protections should immediately apply. I'm chuffed about this, b
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by troad 3y ago
There's many different kinds of experience to be had in Venice. If someone comes as part of a tour group, and their Italian is limited to 'grat-see', then yeah, they're 100% going to have a particular kind of experience
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by troad 3y ago
> Your definition of misogyny is far too narrow then, if you're focusing entirely on the concept of individual agency, yet ignoring the larger structural inequalities and power dynamics that constrain women's choices and perpe
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by troad 3y ago
A) Denying the agency of women to make their own choices is by definition misogynistic. Asserting that when women make choices you don't agree with, it must be due to exploitation, is likewise misogynistic. Paternalistic too. Hardly th
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by troad 3y ago
I've lost track of the amount of things where the thing itself is cool but the fan club is insufferable. I've grown to really like Rust over the years, but this was very much despite the Rust fanatics, not because of them. Now tha
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by troad 3y ago
Right, so we agree, there's valid ethical issues to consider and be balanced against one another. Seems like you're trying to go for a bit of a motte and bailey argument here. The issue you raise is valid, but it isn't the on
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by troad 3y ago
> Poorly regulated markets exist and pose similar issues. Right, but this sort of applies to anything though. Labour markets, for example. Does the fact that Bangladeshi clothes factories are exploitative of their staff make hiring staf
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by troad 3y ago
I fully agree that we ought not dismiss valid ethics questions. These should by all means be discussed, and - as with any reproductive tech - they will be, before anything like this ever rolls out. I don't think "but yeah what if
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by troad 3y ago
I don't know what you expect to achieve by calling those selfless women who choose to do surrogacy prostitutes. The surrogacy sector in the United States is highly regulated, and surrogates are highly protected ( https://heal
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by troad 3y ago
While I appreciate there's a lot of new debates to work through, the possibility of a child with two same-sex parents would be revolutionary for gay and lesbian couples. It's striking how many commenters here thus far default to t
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by troad 3y ago
Linguists universally make fun of S&W. S&W is a series of misinformed and inconsistent stylistic preferences that mediocre English majors use to status signal to other mediocre English majors.
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by troad 3y ago
"I've been kicked out of my home, and through no fault of my own!"
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by troad 3y ago
I like the balance this strikes. I think the future is moving towards some combination of super stable distro + containerised bleeding edge packages, where required (and isolated, where possible). I'm still on a *buntu variant for now,
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by troad 3y ago
This is a fun little bite-sized post, but I wish it tackled more of the nitty-gritty. Does anyone know of any write-ups on the architecture of early-90s Windows that are more in depth, now that this has whet my appetite? (Or other OSes of t
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by troad 3y ago
They are, the US is just insanely strict with skilled migration.
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by troad 3y ago
I don't think anyone keeping a 1948 Dodge Custom 6 deludes themselves into thinking they're being productive in doing so, or that they're doing it because they're been too gosh darn busy to learn how to operate a new car
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by troad 3y ago
>> This seems backwards to me. German law is supposed to be consistent with the constitution, so is, essentially, a logically consistent system. If you can prove a logical inconsistency with basic law, then you can win a case on that
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by troad 3y ago
It's an interesting article. He rejects Linux because he has a "day job" and no "time and enthusiasm to tinker with computers for their own sake instead of using them productively as a means to an end". I mean... is
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by troad 3y ago
> Whilst this is purely speculation on my part, I have always assumed the reason they settle rather than go to court is because they don't actually want the patents invalidated. The patents serve as a barrier to entry into the marke
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by troad 3y ago
I really enjoyed you sharing this story, thank you. I entirely appreciate the situation you are describing, and whole-heartedly agree when you say language should be played with. It's a perspective common in post-colonial contexts and
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by troad 3y ago
I am not German, but as part of my degree I went over to Germany and did a course on the philosophy of law. From the perspective of Anglo-American common law, I can confirm it is indeed quite strange. German written law tries to be all-enco
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by troad 3y ago
Implicit bias training is pseudo-science. The balance of the scientific evidence suggests that implicit bias training has no effect at best, and a slightly adverse effect (i.e. more bias) at worst. Discrimination exists, and must be fought
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by troad 3y ago
> Now I am curious to ask these "uncensored" models questions that people fight about all day on forums... will everyone suddenly agree that this is the "truth", even if it says something they disagree with? Will they
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by troad 3y ago
I've never used NixOS, so I have no horse in this race, but I'm not sure this write-up is entirely fair. The first issue you describe is that you already have alternative Nix-like solutions in particular domains (R packages), and
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by troad 3y ago
From the fact you've spontaneously brought up corporate personhood as a bit of a strawman to pummel, it seems like your disagreements with the operation of the modern economy may go beyond mere cable standardisation.
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by troad 3y ago
> Having lots of alternatives is not always beneficial for society as a whole. A European sentiment if I've ever heard one. I'm pleased that Brussels has cracked the case of what the Greater Good is, and what sacrifices we must
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by troad 3y ago
> The EU tried the soft approach for many years, and Apple stubbornly refused to play. "We tried giving you an option, but you kept picking wrong, so we're taking your right to choose away."
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by troad 3y ago
> Then they go to other manufacturers and say "we have a new, much better idea. we should collaborate on it, so that it's standardised and we can all use it next year". Then they all ship it in Europe and we all have a muc
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by troad 3y ago
> exceptionally risky investments You make it sound like they were funding Musk's purchase of Twitter, when in fact they simply had too much of their money locked in treasury bills (typically considered the safest possible investmen

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