wizofaus

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by wizofaus 4y ago
Can you give an example? I'd suggest protections against "tyranny of the majority"/"mob rule" are a cornerstone feature of any successful democracy. The point is to ensure that it's not possible simply by
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Neither, it's essentially a type of ranked voting that is often referred to as "two party preferred" on the assumption that for any seat, it will go to one party or the other, and it's likely to be one with the highest f
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by wizofaus 4y ago
We had serious water-usage restrictions and wide scale behaviour changes here (22% cut in consumption) in Australia with no increase in price.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> You can't just remove roads in the middle of cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_removal Plenty of other info online describing various successful transformation projects that basically involved gett
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> Many cities are doing it Can you give an example of a such a city (other than the obvious examples of having sections of the inner core of a city where car usage is restricted, which is pretty much the norm in many older European citie
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by wizofaus 4y ago
There's no need to ban cars - it would be quiet sufficient just for governments to stop building infrastructure (and making various laws around its usage) as though cars were the only type of transport that mattered. FWIW, in princip
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Sounds like the plot of some sort of dystopian sci-fi novel (as in, I'm pretty sure I've read one where that was more or less part of the plot, but can't remember what it was...I'm pretty sure it wasn't A Scanner
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by wizofaus 4y ago
That such a small amount of matter could generate so much power is pretty remarkable. I might be way off base but from what I can find online it seems you'd need over 2000 times as much uranium?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Apparently no, because it can be made by the fusion process itself, via contact with lithium, and there's enough proven reserves of the latter to supply us for 100s of years.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
They've typically still lost fat though, even if they've gained weight. I don't know what sort of stats there are comparing those who've lost weight and successfully kept it off (for, say, 10 years or so) via exercise&
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Except those that regularly take part in physically strenuous activities are often very much aware that excess weight makes those activities much harder (particularly if you're at all competitive), which provides extra motivation for b
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Yes, there's a distinction, but we obviously see non-human animals as being more similar to humans in terms our moral obligations than we do non-living matter, and generally the closer to being a human-like, the more we care about how
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Letting them grow to adulthood while giving them an opportunity to experience a decent sort of "chicken existence" (i.e. able to indulge in natural chicken-like behaviours etc.) definitely seems preferable to just killing them at
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by wizofaus 4y ago
But still managed to avoid hunting any species to worldwide extinction - so perhaps there's some hope.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> Just as it is much better to let many innocent people go free rather than imprison one guilty one Why is that a "rather"? I'm guessing you mixed up "innocent" and "guilty" there, but if so, I'm n
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> i.e. a patient really has some underlying illness that can be treated, but a doctor will not see it because of their bias and rather prescribe a lifestyle change to the patient. Or you have those who won't even see a doctor about
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The same was likely said of whale blubber 150 years ago.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
(I then got it to give me an example of a well-known song in Am and it replied "Love me to death" by Type O negative, of all things. That's actually in G# minor - interesting the web in general does a really bad job of guessi
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Which is wrong - that's Am7! (BTW without any further qualification a "7" is assumed to be a minor 7th, even for a major key - and you can even have Am maj7, i.e. an A minor chord with a major 7th - i.e. a G# - added). A7m
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by wizofaus 4y ago
But it clearly does have something to go on - the gmail messages of millions of other users! And as I noted in an edit, ChatGPT can fairly easily tell them apart, even just from the subject line/first paragraph (and even explains why
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Rather strangely, it would seem - I just had this response: "However, I am a language model and do not have the ability to edit or revise my responses once they have been generated" Except I've had no problem getting it to do
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I just logged in to check my gmail account (I don't use it that often) - and literally every single message in the last few months is spam, none were flagged as such. I didn't even need to open the message to determine that they w
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by wizofaus 4y ago
What does "in A7m" mean? In A minor using only 7th chords?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd say the arms race of AI- detection/detection-avoidance is inevitable. But it seems we're a way off given how bad common spam detection tools are today (I mean, it's likely that a lot of spam is written using detectio
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by wizofaus 4y ago
That's surely the extremely weak version of Roko's basilisk...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The most amazing thing about that story is that the city council replied the very next day! Esp. in Cairns - FNQ has something of a reputation of being somewhere that governments operate at an extremely laid back pace.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Why's there a need to? If it's highly unpleasant and there's a shortage of people willing to do it then surely it's a perfect opportunity for the development of self-cleaning tanks... As it is most of the truly unpleasan
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm actually curious in what parts of world anyone would genuinely consider nurses to be "highly paid". The hourly rates for some types of nursing work can be quite decent, but still markedly less than what virtually anyone i
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by wizofaus 4y ago
How is that non-delimited? Spaces and parentheses are still delimiters. Non-delimited would imply fixed-width tokens, binary machine language would be one of the very few that qualify.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
In principle even that could be solved with better tools (source map files and the like), but I agree, until such tools are universally adopted we're probably stuck with having to work with and store the same formatted code. As it is

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