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by vivekd 3y ago
>hard transition from Platonism to empiricism during the Renaissance I'm highly suspicious of the historical accuracy of this popular claim. I don't think any such transition occurred. In fact I think the idea of the Renaissa
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Ontario Canada's NDP gov't tried this approach in the 90s for the public service in response to a budget deficit. They called it Ray days. The approach was very unpopular with public servants and the public generally. It was on
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by vivekd 3y ago
That's my interpretation as well. I was in a slum in Africa once and fell victim to that kind of random violence. I think it happens everywhere in the form of crime. Obviously no one likes crime so societies try and clamp down in tha
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by vivekd 3y ago
That's possible, I'm not sure to be honest, I'd have to read more about rural life in turn of the century America to really form an opinion on this.
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by vivekd 3y ago
This is an empirical question that I feel you are trying to twist into a political one. The sole question is can you on 100 dollars a month today live in a manner similar to what the average person in the 20s did The empirical questions are
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by vivekd 3y ago
Django provides an admin page that makes it easy for non programmers to update SQL tables so thats worth looking into as well
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Right, but staying on topic in terms of available material goods and income, I don't think available goods and resources was as bad as this thread was making it out to be
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I think life in the 1920s, while having downsides, was a lot better than many people imagine.
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by vivekd 3y ago
Cost of land fertilizer transportation animals etc have gone up to the point that I didn't think that life is possible for 100 a month Consider that If this was possible I could work at McDonald's for two years and then retire to
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There are cheap winter tires available for 90 bucks a tire in Canada, probably cheaper in the states. There are places that offer financing on tires. We require insurance which is expensive. There's no excuse not to require winter ti
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by vivekd 3y ago
>poll next to murdered woman about why she died >saying Democrats are causing covid >saying dead basketball player is useless I mean these seem like problems that could be easily solved by having a human intern read over the AI gen
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by vivekd 3y ago
Exactly! I would go further it applies to almost 100% of all advertising from TV to radio to billboards, poster ads ...
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Am I reading this right? Amazon accepted advertisers hawking junk ads which made ad prices more expensive and gave less relevant ads to their customers. This can't be a violation of any law or ethical rules... Does anyone seriously t
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by vivekd 3y ago
In Canada it is illegal to make naked pictures of kids even with ai. Not sure about US
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Isn't 'transfer momentum' just a round about way of saying "heat up." I think the interesting aspect here is that the evaporation is greater than what can be explained by heat alone.
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> quick answer rather than understanding things beyond their current issue Well yeah, what's wrong with that. Eg I work in construction I build concrete. I don't know about the various strengths and mixes of concrete. I just
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by vivekd 3y ago
You know when I get stuck I go to stack overflow and inevitably I see someone responding to a question with a link to the docs that is often unhelpful. If you don't know an answer offhand and haven't worked with the specific part
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by vivekd 3y ago
Mostly yes, there are exceptions. I thought Django and express.js were both well documented. Baseline code also seems to be well documented as a rule. However modules in a lot of languages, even important widely used modules are too often
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by vivekd 3y ago
Well the article provides an example >Stable Diffusion drew negative attention when requests for a “Latina” produced images of women in suggestive poses wearing little to no clothing. A more recent system (version 2.1) generated more inn
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by vivekd 3y ago
Google cloud and AWS VPS and many hosting services collect and provide this info by default. Chances are most websites do this including this one you are using now. HN does up bans meaning they must access visitor IP. Why aren't peop
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by vivekd 3y ago
I'm a keyboard user when on my computer, qutebrowser but I think your sentiments are correct, the numbers of keyboard only users are probably much much smaller than the number of people using Adblock. So OPs method is likely to produc
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by vivekd 3y ago
Well I agree with you there, I don't think Israel's response is justified either.
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Well first if tracking and selling data on non-registered users really is that trivial then the issue isn't Facebook it's every website that could be doing this. Second more importantly privacy seems to be a watchword for tech peo
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by vivekd 3y ago
>Have someone take a picture of you, even incidentally in the background in public, and post it to Facebook? They're tracking you I would agree this is a big deal if it's true but I haven't seen evidence of it being true.
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by vivekd 3y ago
I have a hard time believing Facebook is tracking it's customers through CCTV. In any case even if they are I still don't care because they're not tracking me. Know why - it's easy, I just don't use Facebook. Peop
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I donno, I know I'm in the minority but I agree with the parent. Facebook isn't going to people's homes and rifling through drawers. They're using information people willigly share in their profiles. They're not s
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Strange, here in Canada home prices have started to fall amidst higher interest rates. I wonder why the same trend isn't playing out in America.
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It's Chapter 11, not a good thing but hardly the end of the company. We work should survive this, this doesn't mean the business isn't viable
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Maybe some of the people in mainstream militaries are psychopaths who try and kill innocent families to spread terror. And I think some cases like the firebombing of Japan and Germany do fall under that. But on the whole I think I'm
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by vivekd 3y ago
We use the word war crimes for that. This isn't the same thing because there was no fighting at the time. It's not like there was an ongoing military engagement between Israel and Palestine on October 7. In this case there is te

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