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So what do you conclude from this? Here is a thing that has happened. At a mediocre state university, 10 or 20 years ago, a required course for a CS major was linear algebra. (I like this particular example, because math is as un-fuzzy as i
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As I understand it, when there's a law that says something like "the bank has to report cash transactions over $10K", and you divide all your transactions into chunks of $9999 to evade it, then there's a law that says yo
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I'm not a lawyer, but the traditional "Circular 230 Disclaimer" in the US suggests to me that either the US works similarly or many people think so. You know about "structuring"?
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I had originally misread that as a New Jersey company, and it makes more sense now that I realize it must mean the Channel island.
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The Cradle Will Rock (1937)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Context for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248142
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I believe a formal citation (APA style) looks vaguely like this: gonzo41. (2023, March 22). Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down (By cryptoz). Hacker News. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from http
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My impression is that the cheap stuff comes from mines, which are dried up ancient oceans. Ancient oceans...that weren't full of humanity's toxic waste... I'm not saying mined salt is healthy before it's purified, I have
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I did get a similar check from my state government too.
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Bing has essentially stopped working for me, and I'm mad. Mad because (pre ChatGPT) I had been getting better results for a little while than with Google, and also mad because I expect Google will soon screw up their search engine in t
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>It certainly is a citation That, to me, is a statement about someone else's intent.
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The article implies that you have to buy kosher or fancy gourmet salt if you don't want iodine. That seems weird, every supermarket I can think of has "regular" plain old Morton salt in clearly labeled non-iodized canisters a
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It's not really a citation. "Dunning-Krueger" has become shorthand for people not knowing what they don't know. Kleenex and Xerox sympathize.
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What does ChatGPT have to do with "AI-assisted interactive Web search"? Did they roll out something new?
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Could you give any concrete examples?
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I can't see it as compiling. It has nothing to do with compiling that I can see. If it did, then wouldn't it have been released as a compiler update?
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A magical form of artificial intelligence was invented that eliminates all this busy work. End users can now type whatever they can imagine into a computer and it will program itself. This miracle technology is called a "compiler"
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>This is what many older people don't understand. If you remember before gmail, then you are ancient. Tell us, gramps, more about these $25/month Yahoo! email accounts.
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>I mean its a real indictment of the state of America if a $1200 check can just radically reshape the economy. It sounds like a very small amount of money when you put it that way. What do you get if you multiply by the number of people
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Maybe you wonder what it is Makes people good or bad Why some guy, an ace without a doubt Turns out to be a bastard And the other way about I'll tell you what I feel It's just the nickel under the h
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There are tons of "hyperbolic rants" on HN but the comment you replied to looks to me like an attempt at humor and rather short to be called a rant.
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Challenge it to dodgeball.
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>It's OK, you simply lack imagination. "Imagine" is a word that has more than one sense. I can "imagine" a possibility whether or not I think its probability is > 0%. Saying "I can't imagine" ca
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I saw the movie you're talking about. It was called WarGames and came out in 1983. But forty years later, killer drones are all over the place. "imagine some worst case scenarios that end in global thermonuclear war" Ok, sure
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Yeah, I'm saying real examples may be useful to reduce resistance.
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>That is far a better use of resources I think you have misinterpreted my comment. The phrase "symbols of blue state bloat and waste" is in no way an assertion that they are bloated and wasteful. It's an assertion that n
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Nothing is in stasis right now. There's no mechanism to make things pause and then happen all at once. If AI can enhance lethality of drones right now, in Ukraine or elsewhere, then they will start using it immediately. If it doesn&#x2
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I am wondering if you mean that to be a startling or radical idea. Not necessarily universities, but I do think that lotteries to determine admissions to schools is a real thing. Magnet schools or something? I don't know first hand.
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I hope and expect that any foolish use of inappropriate technology will lead to prompt disasters before it generally affects people who choose not to use it. As was once said, the future is here, but distributed unevenly. We can be thankf
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State governments that are absolutely the symbols of blue state bloat and waste run applications to serve millions of people with a couple of hundred employees.

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