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by yawpitch 2y ago
The subtext of the subtext you mention in your first assertion hinges on the assumption the UK is where these people eventually want to live, once they have that education. A significant number of the British don’t even want to live here, p
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Love this, though: > at the end of the day, you have one voice. Humans are single threaded [..] there’s only one word that can come out of your voice at a time. Try listening to Mongolian throat-singing. Also try stress-induced stutterin
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by yawpitch 2y ago
How do I put this? First, the rich/wealthy are not paying for a “Free Photo Editor” that’s an alternative for Photoshop. They are also not paying for Photoshop. That’s not how you get and/or stay rich/wealty. Instead they
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> but that’s illegal A billionaire is about to [re-]become the unfettered god-king of Amerikkka (this time with more kakistocracy!!), I wouldn’t take that (current && temporary) barrier as a blocker to innovation. Get a rough p
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> And since they can not ever shed that dark passenger they can never be let back into society again. Words written by someone still sufficiently (and blissfully) ignorant enough of their own dark passenger they can still write these w
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by yawpitch 2y ago
There are no evil people. There certainly are no people who are born evil. There is, in fact, no such thing as evil. Evil is a delusion. So is good. There are only people and what actions they feel are justified in the moment. In a suff
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Actual peer-to-peer distributed networking, think torrents or crypto or IPFS, but you have to have proof of net worth (PoNeWo), or at least proof of class connection (PoNePo) in order to participate. Also they clearly need a matchmaking sys
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yes, but the redirection takes both time and energy , that’s what makes it such a good form of sabotage, the grit in the engine that’s too small to notice but still leads to pain and cost.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> and no less than Elon Musk I wonder how long it’ll take humanity to realize it’s not a good sign when he’s swooping in to help.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Just love this. My particular favorite is sending the http:// version of everything instead of https:// .
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No, there exists not even the remotest possibility that that opinion is worthy of (either remote or local) consideration. As for why , millennia of much -harsher-than-caning attempts to deter crime have long-term failed to do so while t
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> It's their duty to mark the road off if the bridge is broken. Ahh… you haven’t been to the less than beaten paths of Incredible India. If the bridge wanted people to know, it’d have warned them. Also, it wasn’t broken, per se, it
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Google Maps once sent me on a highway across Northern Vietnam that is completely submerged for a considerable part of any given year. It also once tried to have me drive through an underground cave system that’s inaccessible without rappell
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> criminal justice reform by using caning, which the U.S. also ought to adopt Ahh, an opinion not remotely worth listening to or having on the Internet. Shocking.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The more time I spend studying the underlying structure of these things, the more I think that what they’re going to do isn’t so much rot brains as drive those brains towards accepting / preferring / privileging the statistical me
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> The regulator also found that one-third of UK adults are not confident in judging whether an image or a piece of audio or video has been created by artificial intelligence. To be fair to the UK population in general, one third of this
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The irony of praising print and rhetoricizing reading on a website that is nearly unreadable due to intrusive visual ads is kind of a sign that collapse is an era behind us.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Interacting with non-sentient entities that mimic human identity can alter our perception of [human entities that might only mimic sentience]. The more I see people investing in conversations with LLMs, the more I see people trying to
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by yawpitch 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42242665
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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/Vekx4 A tire burst on takeoff, circled, landed safely.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Working fine for me, so no they have not shut down.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No, but thanks for spamming on their behalf.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ok, I’d like to read this article, but all the inline <code> blocks are styled to be utterly unreadable to my particular red-green colorblindness.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
How do I put this? “Dude, that guy just slept with your wife.” “Ok, yeah, but just look at the poor build quality of his junk.”
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by yawpitch 2y ago
If by “forces applicants to submit” you mean “politely asks applicants to enter anything in a form field”. Some people are just so sensitive.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
As you appear to be the author, line 3 of the first code example has a “qsort” where a “quickSort” should be.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The wall, in this case, is power positive sustained (and contained) reaction. Fusion power doesn’t exist and can’t do a damned thing until that wall is reached. Once it’s reached I’ll admit we’ve no practical idea where the next wall is
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Probably? Oh ye of little faith.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Fusion power has been getting closer — no really — for a long time. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ll be ecstatic when / if it arrives, especially if it does so with sufficient lead time to be relevant within my lifetime, but no number o
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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/93NX9

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