AI_WAIFU

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by AI_WAIFU 5y ago
> they cannot answer my phone and thus pretend to be me, can they? Yes they can, they can totally do that and if they do you're screwed. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22332315/sms-redirect-fl
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
Is that really true though? Men are overrepresented by multiples among the Homelessness, prison sentences, assult victims, suicides, gun deaths. Often by factors of 2-3x They're also deeply underrepresented in college, and the gap betw
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what Parler is doing? The reason it doesn't work is because network effects and collective action make businesses that try uncompetitive. Go against the grain and all of a sudden everyone you were trading with t
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
I think everyone is ignoring the nitroglycerin that's been poured onto what was originally just embers. Every single one of these social media platforms has had an enormous incentive to broadcast viral mind destroying rage-bait to ever
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
Does anyone know the risk of radiation bit flips in this case? I don't think it's an issue with ecc ram, but if it's not that could be a problem for certain applications.
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
> Other options have been tried and failed. To fix what? Police brutality? I don't think so. Here's some stuff that was tried and worked. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/18/
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
You could replace, "black" in that sentence with a whole bunch of other things. There's nothing special about race, and their shouldn't be. Again, multiple factors of variation. If someone is focused on "poverty&quo
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
> It assigns no positive or negative connotations to those items; they're things people said off the top of their head when they were asked "What does 'white culture' mean to you?" The result is the same, the sub
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
That's the point, it is broken. It's how "white supremacy" has gained so much traction in the US. Of course it will have gained traction if you expand the definiton to include almost 50% of the population.
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
Assuming that everyone who prefers Trump over Biden is prejudiced against the way people are born, is still bigotry. Not treating people with respect, regardless of their views, is also bigotry.
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
Of course, but a liquid lead reactor's failure modes don't usually involve a massive release of radioactivity all over the environment. Absolute worst case you'll get a meltdown and/or a coolant leak. But diligent materi
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
I don't understand who's bright idea it was to use water as the primary coolant for a nuclear reactor. IIRC almost every single major nuclear incident has been caused or dramatically exacerbated by having it boil away or cause a s
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by AI_WAIFU 6y ago
The first working nuclear reactor was hastily cobbled together in a tennis court. It's literally just a critical mass of inexpensive magic rocks, a control system, and some way to remove the heat. The only reason it costs so much is pr