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by xdennis 2y ago
> How many people are dead because you didn’t personally volunteer all of your disposable income to pay for their medical care? Insurance companies make a profit by taking money and denying claims. Your whataboutism is ridiculous. GP nev
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I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say a "small" company easily does 100 deployments a day.
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Why are you saying that like it's a bad thing? That's what antitrust means. Chrome is free because it's unfairly subsidized by Google Search. Standard Oil was also cheaper because it was a monopoly.
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> The idea that "shore" and "sure" are pronounced "almost identically" would depend pretty heavily on your accent. For an idea of how bad various accents can complicate recognition see how Baltimoreans prono
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But surely, it's only going to get worse: it will force the de-anonymization of the internet. You already have to provide a phone number for many services. If websites can't trust that their users are authentic they will probably
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> The more important question, who are those people that happily vote for a convicted felon, rapist Some people voted for him because of that. He was found guilty on 34 counts of paying a pornstar, Many people see it a persecution not pr
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The problem is that it doesn't stick and people see it as desperate. Trump was very favorable to Israel and has a Jewish daughter. Not typical fascist behavior. Debbie Dingell said Trump will build internment camps and put her in one.
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> former NYT employee here > The Times has been pretty good and covering itself imho. This is silly. It's like the people who say that the Bible is true because the Bible says the Bible is true.
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Why pay for the border wall if you can't build it? I really hate games that don't offer players agency.
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I would have expected paths to be an array of string/number (e.g. ["persons", 3, "name"]) because keys can be any string. Such a document may not be wise, but how would you update something like: { "charC
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by xdennis 2y ago
> "A single charge lasts up to eight (8) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13". > So, it has 28 hours of actual use time, got it. Reminds me of when Quorn sold 3 sausag
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> Quran 17:1 mentions Muhammad’s supernatural “Night Journey” to the “Farthest Mosque”, which Islamic tradition identifies with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Farthest (Al-Aqsa) Mosque being in Jerusalem is a recent invention. The ni
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> people suddenly realizing they were already recognizing genderless people without knowing it ;) Not true. It was used in the past to refer to an unknown person. I.e. "When a candidate arrives given them the test." You don&#x2
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> it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are Hard disagree. Google almost delights in not showing what you want. For political stuff it's very biased. If you search for something more obscure, Google really likes to &quo
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> Romance languages [...] evolved in the past due to the influence of "Vulgar Latin." Minor correction: they are derived, not influenced by Vulgar Latin. That's why so many words are different from Classical Latin, but sim
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It's not though. It's much more regular than english, but there are a lot of issues (which were addressed in the past). Take for example the sentence "Ea ia ia". It's pronounced /ja ja ia/. Some examples:
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Neat trick. Firefox does give a warning about it: > You are about to log in to the site “i-dont-have-linkedin.com” with the username “linkedin.com”, but the web site does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you. &
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> you're basically saying it's in the public's interest to give more power to Intellectual Property law Not necessarily. An alternative could be to say that all models trained on data which hasn't been explicitly lice
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> Lawsuits based on what? Copyright? > People crying for copyright in the context of AI training don't understand what copyright is, how it works and when it applies. People are complaining about what's happening, not with t
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Nonsense. Computer piracy started with sharing software. Music piracy (on computers) started in the late 90s when computers were powerful enough to store and play music. Bill Gates' infamous letter was sent in 1976[1]. [1]: https:&#x2
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> It's amazing how much the ethos on this site has shifted over the past decade It hasn't. The hacker ethos is about openness, individuality, decentralization (among others). OpenAI is open in what it consumes, not what it outp
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by xdennis 2y ago
He was sentenced to "imprisonment for public protection", which is life imprisonment by another name. I don't understand why they would use such an euphemism instead of calling it what it is.
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> I teach CS, and oh we know but I don't know what to do about it. You could give students larger projects and have them present their homework. It usually doesn't take more than a few minutes to figure out when someone has che
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The entire codebase is one call to `api.openai.com`. If I sold you an electrical generator, but the way it worked was by plugging it in, would you say it's fair to say it's a generator?
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> Key features: - Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local) Sorry, but we have a fundamental disagreement on terms here. Sending requests to OpenAI is not 100% local. The OpenAI API is not free or open source. By your definition, if you used
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Hezbollah is designated a terrorist org by the following countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Hezbollah...
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They recently introduced pagers because they're less trackable than phones. Presumably the ones which have pagers are more important so its probably more impactful than targeting 1 or 2 percent of the regular terrorists.
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That sounds nice, but by that logic no bomb would ever be fired. Under international law collateral damage must not be excessive, but it is permitted. If it was unacceptable, evil armies would do what they want and good armies would never f
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Hezbollah are a paramilitary group at best, not civilians. And they are designated terrorists in many countries.
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> Has the world really changed so much in these last ~4 years that we can't even imagine going in to work 5 days a week now? I think we are going further and further away from "the future". In 1964, Arthur Clarke said that

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