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by viridian 2y ago
Glib defeatism and the automatic surrender to any entity more powerful than you is sad, pitiable even. The main way states exercise power is by making large enough shows of force that people behave exactly as you do, and roll over in submi
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by viridian 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I think this is a degenerate, self-defeating way to view your relationship to the purchases you make. By stripping away any agency you may have and shifting both blame and responsibility onto the market, government, o
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by viridian 2y ago
Are you arguing for a nihilistic worldview where one should abstain from caring about suffering and exploitation, or just calling OP a probable hypocrite? If the latter, what position do you take that isn't hypocritical?
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by viridian 2y ago
I don't think the political will to do this exists. From the perspective of the state we care way more about drugs than we do about plastics, but people have been ordering asthma drugs, psychedelics, stimulants, steroids, and retinoids
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by viridian 2y ago
I vibe with his comment, so I'll go to bat for his statement, even though I don't precisely know what he was going for. Kids are very variable, and a simple one time statement of "don't hurt animals" will absolutely
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by viridian 2y ago
Everything is securities fraud is just a subset of the general idea that everything is fraud. By which we mean, "every company is lying about things, all the time". Turns out this is trivially true, because the game theory for rat
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by viridian 2y ago
Depends on your architecture. For scaling out rather than up, node and python are both far more performant because the footprint of minimum viable environment is much smaller. When you need to serve anywhere from 10-200,000 requests a minut
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by viridian 2y ago
Those do exist, but as far as I'm aware the most common structure currently is that it's mainframe consulting companies and their consultants that command those salaries. Anyone in an actual employee position I've never heard
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by viridian 2y ago
What? It absolutely is. One has a face value of $1,000,000.00 The other has a face value of $0.00 If Apple offered me one of these right now it would completely change my life, and the other would be something I wouldn't even take them
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by viridian 2y ago
The common man wasn't running for president back then. The first person approaching anything of the sort had the most contested election ever up until that point, and also almost kicked off the civil war 40 years early. That age limit
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by viridian 2y ago
Not that you aren't correct overall in terms of difficulty, but llama3 definitely still has a handful of fine tunes that I'd say outperform the base model by quite a bit, like the hermes model from Nous research, and we're on
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by viridian 2y ago
> Most administrators at large companies are cautious about rolling out new software versions to their employees. They (normally?) test before broad deployment. In my experience at both a 70,000 company and a 260,000 person company, both
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by viridian 2y ago
Canceled my prime subscription about a year back. Amazon's response to low quality garbage filling their platforms has, humorously, been to erect walls and opaque processes that in the long run benefit the people selling low-quality
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by viridian 2y ago
Are you paying me for that 4-5 hours of my time? If not, you'd better be a damn sight better in terms of what you offer as an employer, versus the rest of the market. I get that it's different for the unemployed, but we shouldn&#x
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by viridian 2y ago
I think the correct thing to do no matter the scale of the fuck up is you, as the person doing the confronting, admit to what you did wrong that led to this outcome, as well as addressing what they did. They didn't do that, and they th
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by viridian 2y ago
Just like with the debates a couple weeks ago, it's because of an /r/politics live thread hitting 30,000+ comments. Reddit seems to be seeing a lot of black swans recently.
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by viridian 2y ago
Your intuition is right, and can be explained by looking at both the visible spectrogram and also the CIE diagram. In the former, what we call green takes up an inordinate amount of the spectrum. In the latter, green clearly takes up the la
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by viridian 2y ago
The difference is, lots of companies are building out AI solutions right now. And when I say lots, I mean a significant percentage of fortune 500s who never had any intention of touching crypto or VR with a ten foot pole. Also, based on my
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by viridian 2y ago
Maybe at some point it was, but we are well past sbux owning the term. You can see for yourself, do a google search for "third place -starbucks" and filter down to results in the last 24 hours. You will still find news articles, r
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by viridian 2y ago
Naming can be hard, because names are important. My wife and I legitimately sat down and came up with a list of 50 names we each liked, and from the 98 we had totaled up, we applied a series of different filters to get to an answer over the
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by viridian 2y ago
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
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by viridian 2y ago
Unless you have a personal history with this user, you are making a lot of unfounded assumptions and sweeping generalizations about them.
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by viridian 2y ago
I do think the global mega banks are too big to fail in ways that other entities are not. You can force their assets to be wholly absorbed by other entities, like the Obama admin did with WaMu and Bear Stearns, but you can't liquidate
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by viridian 2y ago
In my experience, most people who work in tourist destinations can't afford to travel for vacation. Do you think the average Costarricense or Resident of Cancun is taking yearly trips abroad on a wage of under $5/hour?
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by viridian 2y ago
Based on wikipedia original viewership numbers, the office UK saw about 63 million views during its original run, and the US show saw about 1,463 million, so it definitely was the more popular show by orders of magnitude. It also seems to b
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by viridian 2y ago
I've contributed to two, and neither used mailing lists. One lived in discord, the other handled comms via github issues and project contributor messaging.
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by viridian 2y ago
This just reads as "propaganda is when people say things I don't like". An actual, academic study of propaganda, such as the course that the University of Nottingham offers, makes clear a very different fact. The USA is far
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by viridian 2y ago
I mean yeah, pretty much every meta-analysis says this, even when they produce high quality comprehensive evidence. The reality is that labs employ people who have families to feed, and the PI's primary job is to keep money rolling in
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by viridian 2y ago
Name and shame is a worthwhile practice. Driving potential business to The AI powered CMS known as Wisp, is not a good reason to avoid contributing to the common consensus about the company. And the common consensus in this thread, which I
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by viridian 2y ago
This reads as needlessly hostile, maybe from assuming the worst interpretation of what kohbo is saying. Charitably, I read it as 'Telling someone to get good at the thing they are struggling with doesn't work'. This is simila

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