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by xdennis 3mo ago
What's even worse is when you go though such PRs and your comments are handled in minutes, with replies explaining the change with perfect spelling and em dashes. At which point you ask yourself: "What am I doing here? His agent w
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by xdennis 3mo ago
A country is not a contract, it's a culture. It's quite audacious to want to be part of a country, but also to be so quarantined from them as to not even want to learn their language.
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by xdennis 3mo ago
> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fa
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by xdennis 3mo ago
It's all about what you actually care. Piracy helps people who can't afford to pay or have no way of acquiring legally. LLM training helps megacorps replace people. If you side with common people against megacorops, you're ok
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization". It is.[1] Perhaps you mean it's not a statutory Foreign Terrorist Organization, like Al-Qaida or Hamas. That is a harsher designation, but that's not pos
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Why the scare quotes? Are you denying he was a cop?
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> A sentence of 30 years in prison for obstructing an investigation is excessive Being excessive is the point. It's to deter others from trying to copy their actions.
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> Brown people existing doesn't hurt you. BBC: About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish national TV. https://www.bb
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Biden. His policies led to a huge increase in illegal immigration. Look at the huge jump due to his policies: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20240127_EPC... The same was not true for Obama, who wa
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> To me too, then I got to the leaders quote on TV: "We must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." Firstly, you should probably cite that. Searching for it leads here. Hopefully, you didn't manufact
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by xdennis 4mo ago
People are trying to have a serious conversation here. There's no need for dismissive jokes.
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by xdennis 4mo ago
A country is not just a random set of people. They have to be linked by a common set of values. Importing people who don't want to assimilate, or importing more people that can be assimilated will lead to disaster in the long term. Add
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Curiously enough, Romanian, though a Romance language, was also spelt with the Cyrillic alphabet. Probably because we were under the Bulgarian empire (the ones who invented Cyrillic). In the 1800s when we switched to Latin, it didn't h
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Probably because Persian is an Indo-European language, and alphabets are better than abjads (alphabet without vowels) for it. Semitic languages are easy to write without vowels because the meaning is very obvious even if you omit the vowels
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Stop spreading misinformation. They were found guilty by a jury of their peers of providing material support for terrorism[1]. They shot a cop in the neck. They coordinated on Signal to bring firearms. They didn't plan to "protest
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> However painful these price hikes are, and they are painful, it is worth remembering that computing has become incredibly ubiquitous and cheap. Counterpoint: it's also become essential and poorly optimized. Back then you could liv
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by xdennis 4mo ago
Romanian is isolated now, but even quite recently there where languages forming a bridge between Romanian and the rest of Romance languages. For example Dalmatian, whose last speaker died in 1898. Now, most people think of Dalmatians as the
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> "EU is left". Haha, good joke. You are out of touch. The left supports the EU far more than the right. See this Pew poll from 2025[1]. In Europe, for every country, the left view the EU more favorably. The largest difference
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by xdennis 4mo ago
It's useless to judge left vs right on a global scale because different countries have different standards. For example, supporting universal healthcare does not make you a left winger in the UK. Or, take conservatism for example. It w
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by xdennis 4mo ago
That's one aspect, which is a bit of a gray zone. But Anthropic trained on pirated books. That is explicitly illegal.
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> Yeah, like all those Chinese bootleggers selling DVDs for a few dollars rather than $20. Free market! It's supremely ironic analogize distillation to copyright infringement when it's literally what Anthropic was found guilty
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by xdennis 4mo ago
After a while you age out of getting carded. The vast majority of alcohol is bought without ever showing any ID.
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by xdennis 4mo ago
It's surprising to me to hear that these systems are considered racist when they're the same ones that are so color blind that they generate pictures of SS soldiers as African American women.
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> If someone hacks you/deceives you and somehow they got $5000 from your debit card, then your bank account is $5000 smaller. That's a myth. I had my debit card cloned and some money stolen. The bank gave my money back. Debit c
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> Europeans being so scared of debt is so funny. I've never understood this mentality. It's like walking through a dangerous neighborhood knowing that you have excellent health insurance. If you get stabbed, you'll probabl
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by xdennis 4mo ago
No, it just means you'll achieve nothing. The right has been complaining for a while that billionaires want us to eat bugs and own nothing. Instead of forming a common cause, left wingers only complain about right wing billionaires whi
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by xdennis 4mo ago
The biggest scandal is probably how authorities ignored rape gang activities out of fear of being perceived as bigoted. See https://rapeganginquiry.co.uk/ .
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> This feels deeply insulting considering humans also created taxation, organized warfare, and raisins. Offtopic, but why do people hate raisins so much? No other dried fruit gets so much hate. I would imagine it's something genetic
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by xdennis 4mo ago
> That doesn't show they were purged. There are many reasons their numbers declined. Fun fact, what you're arguing is actually one of the reasons Charlie was murdered. He notoriously said that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake
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by xdennis 4mo ago
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