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by worrycue 3y ago
Why not though.
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> you must put yourself in the position of one who believes the opposite of what you do This presuppose that I even have a position to begin with ... I don't understand why anyone would adopt a position before the discussion/
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> It is about stepping out of the opinion you inhabit and trying to look at it from your opponent's perspective. But you do this automatically when you are trying to discern the truth - invalid arguments are to be eliminated. The wh
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> Students were paired off and given a biblical passage to examine, say, Jonah and the whale. One student would have to defend Jonah while the other defended, basically, God. After ten minutes, the teacher would say "switch" an
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by worrycue 3y ago
Didn’t see that. Viewed image on phone and didn’t scroll. I think it depends on the carrier whether APNs are required. Can be automatically set nowadays with iOS 16 according to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201699
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by worrycue 3y ago
I think the app is just for you to check your data usage. Things will work without it. Just insert the SIM card and reboot.
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by worrycue 3y ago
What is PIP? Seriously I don’t know. I skimmed Wikipedia, none of the definitions fit.
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> Most people already type questions into google when they want to know stuff. I do that because I want Google to search for a webpage where that question (or similar; how Google figures this out I do not know) is asked and hopefully the
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by worrycue 3y ago
Frankly I can foresee reduced online participation on places like Stack Overflow. Why would anyone help train AI, that employers are eager to replace you with, without getting anything in return? The “work together with AI” is just a transi
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I’m not saying oil rich countries necessarily have strong diverse economies. I’m saying that they do OK regardless of their political/economic system. Saudi Arabia and Russia has been trucking along all these decades despite their less
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I wonder how much of the USSR’s success (until it wasn't) can be attributed to Marxism-Leninism rather than the fact that the country produced oil. It’s like attributing the success of Saudi Arabia to its theocratical monarchy. Oil is
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by worrycue 3y ago
I think most of their users are just happy with the way things are and don’t want any changes that might screw things up. Overall they trust Apple to take care of things - that’s why they bought Apple stuff in the first place - and feel tha
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Meanwhile, I'm not convinced it's "not an insignificant amount of money" is the appropriate phrasing. It's a lot of money to him, but certainly something he can afford. Jeff Bezos famously put that much each qu
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> keep it strong My theory is that he is desperate. He was forced to buy it. The interest from his loans to buy Twitter are estimated at a billion a year - and now interest rates are high so he can’t swap them for cheaper loans. That’s n
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by worrycue 3y ago
It’s actually pretty fast now after the bug with Windows Defender was fixed. You should give the latest a try.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Are you equating engaging with internet nonsense to changing the world? Helping vaccinate the 3rd world and fund the WHO, I can see a changing the world. Ranting on the internet 24/7, not so much.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Do you see other billionaires wasting time on “internet nonsense”? This guy bought a social media network and was on it 24/7 before that. Even Zuckerberg who made his fortune with social media seem to post less than him. I have never e
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by worrycue 3y ago
Then just delete the offending information. No need to delete the account and the game they contain.
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Not him but I have video games I didn't complete and books I stop reading midway. You already wasted your money, why compound the loss further by wasting your time on things you don’t care for.
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> politics cater to other aspects of our (often irrational) needs compared to what religions aim for It’s a team to bat for and even comes with its own dogma for you to blindly believe in. Usually lead by charismatic leaders providing&#x
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by worrycue 3y ago
> As the saying goes, “all models are wrong, some models are useful” While the astrology “model” is obviously wrong, it must have been useful to someone at sometime for it to have gained such a popularity. Not much of a model IMHO. You j
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by worrycue 3y ago
I “fish” with google when I don’t know the terminology is what I’m saying. With some luck Google will have correct question on the first page of the search results.
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> Half the power of LLMs as they currently exist is that they can often extract the intention of the user's question in a way that search engines usually can't I don’t know about that. Google is pretty good at including “simila
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by worrycue 3y ago
> but automation never net removed jobs from the economy it makes more. That’s true for more limited forms of automation - e.g. the loom, heavy industrial machinery, even computers - as people just move on to other jobs and society gains
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by worrycue 3y ago
I think what he meant by the “cyberpunk dream” is actually the “solution” to the cyberpunk dystopia - i.e. “the net” was supposed to be a refuge from corporate/government monitoring and control. In the early days of the internet it kin
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by worrycue 3y ago
I don’t think he is claiming he ran a relay and could see the traffic passing through it. Just that he had a good idea what moved about on the network from following random links as he explored it - popular stuff would load fast, non-popula
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> If Von der Leyen wasn’t corrupt, I’m sure she wouldn’t have any problem handing over her texts. Haven’t found much on this. Frankly there is no need to allege corruption against this particular EU politician when there are better examp
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by worrycue 3y ago
> It is not quite right to say that "they haven't released anything", there is e.g, the Toyota bZ4X, widely regarded as a really bad car (1). And other EVs that have made no impact (2) So technically they have "joined
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> Because you need something to begin They have experience with electric drive trains/motors with the hydrogen vehicles and experience with batteries with their (plugin) hybrids. They just haven't bothered to release a full EV
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I was just saying I don't think they are as far behind as many think. They seem to have all the components to make an EV. As to why they haven't executed and delivered a car, who knows. Could be lack of profitability at the projec

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