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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_and_media_...
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Well, nearly all of Mozilla's revenue (I see numbers around 80-90%) comes from Google. And Google presumably doesn't mind if Firefox users switch to Chrome. I'm not sure if anyone involved actively considers this the goal,
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You might enjoy Gigerenzer's "Bias bias" paper. Discussed here: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/07/14/gigerenzer... Paper itself: https://www.nowpublishers.com/arti
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Do they, though? It depends on how the combat works. Suppose, for example, that each side has 5 hit points, and repeatedly you roll a 2:1 die to decide who gets 1 point of damage, until one side reaches 0 hit points. The chance of an &quo
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> The social media giant said earlier this month that advertisers will be barred from using generative AI tools in its Ads Manager tool to produce ads for politics, elections, housing, employment, credit, or social issues. Ads related to
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I made use of the fact that "egrep -o [some regex]" will print the first (going left-to-right) match for the regex. So I ran egrep -o, and several other programs, once per line of input. (And to go from right to left, I used &qu
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If it has any goals at all, then being turned off is likely to prevent it from accomplishing those goals, whereas conquering its local environment is likely to help it achieve those goals, and spreading across the universe would help with a
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Indeed. The extreme version would be to collect data about "all problems, period", and compare the rates of "people who got the vaccine in the last N weeks" against a control group. Like looking at "excess deaths&
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> I wonder how many of the “college is politically intolerant” opinions are based on actual student dissatisfaction, and how much of that is based on sensational news reporting? Well, here are some of the findings from a 2021 FIRE report
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Is the likely judge Otis Wright? https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_boldly_uses_st...
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The question is always: does the study show causality? "The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80". Can we think of ways that, for example, health problems at ages 45-50
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I think, here, there is an effect from "zero sleep" that you don't get from "not enough sleep" (which I'm guessing is at least a couple of hours).
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HK-47: Answer: Yes. I believe my original Master needed this functionality in order to recover information from various indigenous tribes across the galaxy, but I know little else than that. Suffice to say that that translation capability a
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This is the most awesome approach for rounded corners: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/roundy.html
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The cited book provides very interesting background: > Admissible grounds varied from state to state. [...] In the other states, the common grounds were adultery, desertion, and cruelty; but there were all sorts of state idiosyncrasies.
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Wikipedia says: > In many other states, especially California, the most popular allegation for divorce was cruelty (which was then unavailable in New York). For example, in 1950, wives pleaded "cruelty" as the basis for 70 perc
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And how hot does the bulb get? Googling yields "The surface temperature of incandescent light bulbs varies from 150 to more than 250 degrees" ( https://www.pacificlamp.com/temperature-of-a-100-watt-bulb.a... ). Wh
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Perhaps they want the men they're not interested in to go pair up with other women, decreasing the competition for the men they are interested in?
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Because they want to talk about things from their life (which is because, among other reasons, having personal experience with the things they're talking about is rather helpful), and if they were saying how great their life was, that
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> Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them. I agree, but will that prevent the majority of the public from signing up? A bridge will collapse regardless of what the motorists think, but people be
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It may enable you to do sufficiently well without resorting to immoral methods. Interesting how these things can go.
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Jonathan Rees had said: "Here is an a la carte menu of features or properties that are related to these terms; I have heard OO defined to be many different subsets of this list." The aspects he names: "encapsulation", &
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One way to achieve that, for a teacher, would be to get all the good students into your class, and avoid having any bad students, or find reasons to kick them out. Do you have countermeasures for that?
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Well, then why not buy that water from the farmers at a market price?
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And SARS 1 itself was leaked from a lab four times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS#Laboratory_accidents
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No, the decision to hire the guy seems reasonable or at least defensible. The thing the founder would ideally have addressed is that the behavior of the social media manager, in responding to the posters' complaints (about the hiring
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I don't think this is a top-down deliberate strategy. As evidence, if you load the thread today, a bunch of comments are gone, including all but the first two comments from the @Raspberry_Pi account. Most likely an adult showed up, r
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Addressing your points in order: - Human hackers who run a botnet of infected computers are not able to run many instances of themselves on those computers, so they're not able to parlay one exploit into many exploits. - You might noti
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The most obvious paths to severe catastrophe begin with "AI gets to the level of a reasonably competent security engineer in general, and gets good enough to find a security exploit in OpenSSL or some similarly widely used library&quot
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Here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/was-obama-r... The article is written by someone on the left, whose point is served by magnifying the crimes of the Catholics (and minimizing

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