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by wan23 8mo ago
I'm not making an argument, you are. You suggested that the long history going back to 1906 makes these actions normal. I'm merely pointing out that what they were doing back then was immoral, which may undermine your argument ina
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by wan23 8mo ago
From your link: Causes for denaturalization under the 1906 Act included fraud, racial ineligibility and lack of “good moral character.” In 1907, Congress expanded the laws on loss of citizenship by marking for expatriation all U.S.-born cit
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by wan23 8mo ago
At some point when the compounding was ramping up it was difficult to get the drugs even with a prescription and being willing to pay the full no-insurance price. Nowadays you can mostly get it, but insurance coverage is spotty. Because of
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by wan23 8mo ago
Alternatively, an intelligence agency might publish what they want you to think they know, or simply what they want you to think.
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by wan23 8mo ago
The fifth amendment gives you the right to be silent, but they didn't write in anything about biometrics.
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by wan23 8mo ago
Is it good or bad when companies research their own products and release the results honestly?
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by wan23 8mo ago
A challenge: can you write down a definition of thinking that supports this claim? And then, how is that definition different from what someone who wasn't explicitly trying to exclude LLM-based AI might give?
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by wan23 8mo ago
You don't have to believe that LLMs are conscious to observe that you get different results to a question like "Is it okay to steal candy from a baby if you really want it" if you precede that question by "Answer as a hi
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by wan23 8mo ago
I like that store but it's not exactly convenient. I'm a New Yorker - my apartment is small and I've never had a driver's license in my life. I need to buy small amounts of food frequently rather than load up, so going t
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by wan23 8mo ago
Liberal still means liberal, and still means all the things you said. Without getting into the merits of any particular side, IMO we have a categorization problem. People use the word liberal for all types of left ideologies, which is a mis
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by wan23 8mo ago
Obama deported more people than Bush or Clinton, but chose to deprioritize (defer action) on the most sympathetic and focused more on troublemakers. Some might call that pragmatic use of limited resources.
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by wan23 8mo ago
Attention is not a moat, it's the thing that's in the castle's treasure room. Without something that makes your service sticky attention may well just walk right out the door.
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by wan23 8mo ago
Given the choice, end users choose free or cheap and ad supported over full price in huge majorities. You have to weigh "I don't like ads" against 200 million (!) people on Netflix's ad supported plan and how much enjoym
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by wan23 9mo ago
That's not how it works - in the case of impeachment the Senate holds a trial, and they are allowed to use their own definitions of treason, bribery, etc. The Supreme Court is in charge of what the regular courts do and can make ruling
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by wan23 9mo ago
Funny you should say that after today's FDA announcement. (Not taking any side here just interested in how we determine what is a consensus these days)
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by wan23 9mo ago
What's your definition of sketchy? For me I'd say by definition a non-sketchy brand is one that has some kind of social proof. The next question though is who do you trust?
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by wan23 9mo ago
One thing that's tricky about analog clocks if you're not used to them - the hour hand sweeps unnecessarily over the course of an hour so you have to find the hour hand then go backwards. We have the technology to make clocks wher
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by wan23 9mo ago
This is part of the learning curve. When you vibe code you produce something that is as if someone else wrote it. It’s important to learn when that’s appropriate versus using it in a more limited way or not at all.
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by wan23 10mo ago
A different way to look at it is language models do know things, but the contents of their own knowledge is not one of those things.
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by wan23 10mo ago
Do you think each person is responsible for enforcing federal laws? Like if you personally are not spending your own time and money to round up those in violation of federal statute then you're doing something wrong? And if not, is it
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by wan23 10mo ago
Maybe think about it narrowed down to an individual level - maybe you installed a camera or two around your property for whatever useful reasons like monitoring your children, and then later you find out that you are required to share all o
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by wan23 11mo ago
I'm wearing a ~$4000 MR-G today and I'm really happy with my choice. IMO the best thing about Casio as a brand is that they sell $15 watches and $8000 watches that do basically do the same things but appeal to different people. Th
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by wan23 11mo ago
Ideally, the government wouldn't be doing anything that requires tracking like this. We got by for hundreds of years without it.
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by wan23 11mo ago
Photons reflected off of objects are not the actual objects. I wouldn't go so far as to say that sensing these is a particularly special way to know about things compared to hearing or reading about them. Further, many humans do not se
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by wan23 1y ago
Generous is a strange choice of word - it's like implying the government is entitled to its own citizens' money, and we should consider ourselves lucky that they weren't taking as much of it.
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by wan23 1y ago
Grey markets aren't the same black markets. Ideally the government would be omniscient, efficient, and benevolent so that it could properly regulate things to the benefit of the masses, but in practice it government isn't very res
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by wan23 1y ago
Pedestrians always have the right of way on city streets. Jaywalking is just walking.
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by wan23 1y ago
I use it to do all the things that I couldn't be bothered to do before. Generate documentation, dump and transform data for one off analyses, write comprehensive tests, create reports. I don't use it for writing real production co
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by wan23 1y ago
I can't imagine anything much less newsworthy than a hiring freeze during a reorg
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by wan23 1y ago
If life's a game where you try to get the best score you can, more years gives you more chances to rack up points. Philosophically* there's nothing more important, and therefore nothing has more meaning than this. * different peop

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