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by zugi 4mo ago
It depends on a lot of things. If they've also applied to another college that's better suited to their ability, admitting then to a school where they'll likely fail is not really doing them a favor.
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by zugi 4mo ago
I used a discount buyer's agent and it worked great! We viewed houses on the internet ourselves, went to open houses ourselves, and arranged showings with seller's agents ourselves. Once we had it narrowed down to two houses, we b
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by zugi 4mo ago
Or, the world needs more of your field because it's now cheaper. I've often heard of house painting as an example of this. It used to take a crew of 8 with buckets, paintbrushes, and ladders to repaint a house. Then paint rollers
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by zugi 4mo ago
> Anthropic and US Government, there can be only one right in this situation. And just to be clear, that's a maximum of one right in this situation.
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by zugi 4mo ago
> The FDA has approved bemotrizinol (PARSOL Shield). This is the first new sunscreen ingredient approved in over 20 years, offering superior UVA and UVB protection... an advanced sunscreen filter that has long been used in Europe and Asi
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by zugi 4mo ago
Thanks for pointing this out! It seems obvious in retrospect, but the fact that SpaceX will be "valued" at $1.75 trillion after the IPO is irrelevant when only $75 billion worth of its stock will be publicly traded. $75 billion in
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by zugi 4mo ago
> using AI to do their accounting and bookkeeping A friend gave AI access to his accounts to summarize his finances. On reviewing the AI-generated report, he spotted a $500 monthly loan payment that he didn't recognize. He asked AI
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by zugi 4mo ago
A late 2024 international report https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from... predicts that by 2035, datacenter electricity usage will increase from 2024's 1.5% to 2-4.4% of global usage. C
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by zugi 5mo ago
LLMs are software. They take inputs and produce outputs. What humans choose to do with those inputs and outputs is up to us. Getting the pope involved makes it all seem more mystical and magical than it is. And these remarks only further fe
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by zugi 5mo ago
The article is thin on details about the sharing of names. If US companies responded to US government inquiries about speech regulation by forwarding the emails they received from Dutch regulators, those would unsurprisingly include regulat
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by zugi 5mo ago
> We've seen how irrational and ignorant stock traders are from other publicly traded space companies. Absolutely true, but ignorant stock traders making irrational trades only matters if company management pays attention to them. M
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by zugi 5mo ago
Stallman tried to introduce the term "intellectual monopoly", which fits better, since they really are monopolies granted by the government for limited periods of time, intended to promote progress in science and the useful arts.
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by zugi 5mo ago
Fortunately however it's not hard to tell when people calling others "complete moron" are acting out of bad faith.
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by zugi 5mo ago
> However, I have sadly come to feel that many journalists who write about science, and perhaps even some scientists, see their role as activism toward a specific outcome rather than discovering and describing reality as it exists. That&
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by zugi 5mo ago
I think it's more accurate to call the EU Parliament a "loophole that needs closing."
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by zugi 5mo ago
> I read somewhere it comes from training on YouTube audio Does it also insert "please like & subscribe?"
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by zugi 5mo ago
Ture but it starts off with basically argument from ignorance (or lack of imagination): > there's basically no reason to create this photo other than to mislead the authorities There are many other "for fun" possibilities:
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by zugi 6mo ago
I started listening to the podcast, but first they made me listen to several ads. One was for a company that survives by selling ads - basically this was an ad selling ads! Given the title of the podcast, I assumed this was some sort of met
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by zugi 6mo ago
You sir or ma'am have greatly improved my quality of life!
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by zugi 6mo ago
Since you opted to engage in this off-topic discussion, I'll just point out that the overwhelmingly vast majority of the one billion or so guns currently on the planet have never been used to kill anyone. It's statistically far mo
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by zugi 6mo ago
Fark is farking great! Though its old-school HTML doesn't flow so well on mobile. Can we get the best of 1999 with the best of 2026? Probably not...
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by zugi 6mo ago
Adding "bullshit" to a sentence does nothing to hide this kind of ambulence-chasing vulturism and exploitation - in fact it rather highlights it. I mean, one of the legal firms behind this is Milberg PLLC, https://en.wi
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by zugi 6mo ago
To be really fair, they're being sued by lawyers hoping to take 50% of the proceeds, or 50% of some settlement that they get by shaking down Costco via threats to its reputation.
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by zugi 6mo ago
> That plan enraged customers There is nothing wrong with a taxpayer who paid taxes later ruled illegal filing a request for a refund. This lawsuit is likely a shakedown opportunity for lawyers to enrich themselves. How Costco allocates
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by zugi 6mo ago
It would be, unless China isn't yet militarily ready. Also if China's Taiwan plan includes using surrogates like Iran to cause simultaneous trouble, then reducing Iran's capability asynchronously eliminates one US worry durin
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by zugi 6mo ago
> Turns out being a Jesus nerd was a secret requirement. Wish they could just put that in the job requirements. Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act, in making religious hiring discrimination illegal, sometimes just drives it underground. Ove
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by zugi 7mo ago
Automated voice systems that try to sound human but are in fact purely scripted are insanely annoying. E.g. "I think you said 'windshield', is that correct? ... Got it, thanks!" If you only have 4 options, just give me t
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by zugi 7mo ago
#1 is the symptom, #2 is the problem. High levels of home ownership combined with "local control" and "democracy" enables the "haves" who already own homes to weaponize government to keep supply low and home va
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by zugi 7mo ago
There are a bunch of free or cheap alternative apps. Probably not as smoothly integrated, but years ago a change to Samsung's terms popped up in the health app; I saw it said they could do anything they want with my private health data
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by zugi 7mo ago
I've had Samsung phones for years and never made a Samsung account. Every few weeks my phone suggests signing in or accepting new terms and conditions, and I refuse. I know Google is mining my information, but I convince myself I'

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