true_religion

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by true_religion 8d ago
We already have public support for the arts, and basic research, so going back to the fundamentals isn't necessary. We draw the line, where the voting public, and elected representatives decide. Our political system is squishy and does
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by true_religion 8d ago
They did that... I take it you don't accept their justification, but that doesn't mean an attempt wasn't made. I'm another part of the general public, and I accept their justification. We can all vote, or use whatever le
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by true_religion 9d ago
I do believe your first sentence, but the second one ... doesn't really follow. The unnatural and sudden nature of the US chip embargo has galvanized the Chinese companies to speed up development. It makes economic sense to do so rathe
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by true_religion 10d ago
It might even be grossly negligent to do that.
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by true_religion 11d ago
It’s more that society accepts that cats are part of it, and considers that people should adapt to cat behavior patterns rather than we not having any free roaming cats. It’s a deliberate choice to treat pets the same as non pets.
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by true_religion 24d ago
I feel like you're searching for an argument when all they did was ask for a factual point, and I gave them one. All the nuance you're trying to imply about technology and the time period being non-modern is already embedded into
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by true_religion 25d ago
Namely... every society in existence before the year 1496. Our current form of property rights includes copyright, which had no formal treatment until the city of Venice issued a decree that fined anyone who printed an author's work wi
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by true_religion 26d ago
If the model is told to not do something that is possible, it may do so anyways. However, if it learns in training that it what is told to do is truly impossible, that's learned helplessness which becomes baked into the model itself on
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by true_religion 1mo ago
No, this is market economics. Capitalism is simply where private individuals own the "means of production" (factories, tools, land) and operate them to accumulate profit. That is private as in not lords, guilds, cartels, governmen
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by true_religion 1mo ago
Yes but pre 1900s there were vastly more resources. The USA at some point had the lions share of the world’s easily exploitable oil.
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by true_religion 1mo ago
Or even the USA historically. Pre 1900s, America was a country of continual economic crises, and fractured politics. It was sitting at the time in the latest supply of easily exploited natural resources in the world, yet somehow could not p
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by true_religion 1mo ago
If there is something Korea doesn’t lack, it’s manpower. The US troops are more likely there as a political shield. Indiscriminate bombing would kill them too, hence drag the US into war so any enemies of S Korea have to act judiciously.
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by true_religion 1mo ago
It's the full video of the episode, automatically dubbed into Korean. I don't know why they thought they would get a fair use pardon. The test is "is this transformative" not "do we drive traffic to the original sou
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by true_religion 2mo ago
Entering the parenting field, I read a lot of studies which only involved women. It seemed reasonable: if you have a child, there's almost always a female parent that can be asked to include in the study, and women receive/need ma
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by true_religion 2mo ago
If a company's server is attacking yours, I'd go to legal@company.com before I go to H1.
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by true_religion 2mo ago
Probably terribly, unless you're using an accessibility tool that renders fonts and does OCR on them. IMO, this only stops scrappers that don't use any AI at all, if you really wanted to ... you could have the page render, then th
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by true_religion 2mo ago
It matters to consumers because businesses have greater financial power to pressure Sony into reducing prices than individual consumers. Additionally, businesses will not only sell Sony codes. They won't be like car dealerships, tied t
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by true_religion 2mo ago
They’re using a plugin to get the effect they want and for analytics. Presumably this is easier than a non js solution or they couldn’t find one.
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by true_religion 2mo ago
After writing a long article, creating videos, images, and no doubt doing multiple rounds of edits... why should an author also have to ensure that their publication works without JS? From what I can see, they're doing so codeblocks ha
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by true_religion 2mo ago
Why? This is a common transition that people use in speech and text. Close out previous paragraph. Segue to completely different topic. How else are you supposed to go on a tangent?
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by true_religion 2mo ago
If you remotely sign out, then when you delete the Apple IP files on the device, they aren't deleted off iCloud. So it's plausible they wanted MA to check for and delete the files first, then sign out.
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by true_religion 2mo ago
I'm not really surprised that it hacked so many systems. It was told via the prompt to act like a hacker and "solve" hacking problems, so treating every obstacle it faced as part of the problem isn't a wild tangent. If i
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by true_religion 2mo ago
I was under the impression that on HN you were obligated to assume the best possible argument, instead of the worst. Am I wrong?
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by true_religion 2mo ago
It would be nice if services like Substack supported exportability, so when a writer eventually becomes successful enough to migrate away, or the platform itself is no longer a good fit, then there aren't any losses. Convenience is goo
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by true_religion 2mo ago
When writing my comment, I did think to myself that the commenter might be biased, but it was borderline. So I deliberately chose to steel-man the argument. They are of course free to destroy their credibility and end civil discussion, but
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by true_religion 2mo ago
They are just applying the same logic behind all prescription medication to abortion pills. To this day, despite having taken them for the past 30 years, I still require a new prescription for Adderall because society deemed the addiction r
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by true_religion 2mo ago
To save everyone a click, it’s because they are required now to update the roads to ADA standards if they repave. So now more than 30% of the roads are in poor condition. ADA went into force in 1992. It’s been 34 years and LA governments ha
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by true_religion 2mo ago
It's open, with a small 'o', and no moral judgements attached to it. 1. You have the weights, so you can run the model yourself on your own hardware. 2. You have the weights, so you can do post-training and shift those weigh
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by true_religion 3mo ago
They wanted to permit/compel all students to get loans. When you set the bar on the floor like that, you need to handle the obvious case of people who are given loans that they could never pay off normally. In American tradition, it wa
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by true_religion 3mo ago
Bokom Haram regularly kidnaps children. The girls become “wives”. The boys become the next generation of soldier.

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