DFHippie

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by DFHippie 8d ago
> The supreme court will acquisence slowly piece by piece to ever more draconian constitutional violations. It doesn't seem slow to me.
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by DFHippie 27d ago
To each his own. I love Dickens, though I haven't read that much. Dumas was also paid by the word. Still fun to read.
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by DFHippie 1mo ago
We've elected a president who couldn't care less about the country, much less its allies, has no knowledge or experience relevant to governing, and who chooses his underlings based solely on their looks and sycophancy. It's a
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by DFHippie 1mo ago
A web interface to classical texts is going to be anachronistic. If its purpose is pedagogical, it should include macrons, spaces, punctuation, case -- the works. Making every word clickable but leaving the reader to guess at vowel length s
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by DFHippie 1mo ago
> Texas which are covered with turbines Is "Texas" the plural of "Texa"?
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
Though there is likely life throughout the galaxy, it's probably difficult for one sentient spacefaring race to find another habitable planet they'd be comfortable on, i.e., one with a similar atmosphere and mass. If it's a l
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
> under miles of subduction Subduction only occurs at plate boundaries and is not nearly this fast. Continental plates float on top like foam and do not get subducted. It's the oceanic plate that is created at mid-ocean ridges and g
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
How churned is "churned"? Does this mean particular pebbles have have been found to have lain in their current arrangement for 1.8 million years, or just that not much has happened? I expect any arid region far from the poles or m
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
Right. You can vote for a government that will tax you and then fix misfortunes and injustices. It's probably a lot more effective and efficient than writing a check to a megachurch.
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
Qualia is an interesting topic, but "they don't have qualia so they aren't really slaves" doesn't have a great track record. This mental game is what tech overlords are engaging in when they characterize losers in t
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
It is my understanding that this claim about Americans' charitable giving does not disaggregate giving to food banks, Girl Scout cookie drives, political causes, the environment, cultural events, religious institutions, etc. Much of th
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
We used to live in a world where individual virtue was what everyone fell back on. That is the default state. It has many problems -- free riding by the selfish, for one, but also a lack of capacity to prepare for large-scale disasters like
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
The US is paying developers billions of dollars to scrap renewable energy projects. This is Trump policy. We're in a league of our own for sure. It's not all Trump, of course. It's also the people who put him in office twice,
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
It isn't the fact of change but the rate of change which is anomalous.
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by DFHippie 2mo ago
Russia is great at stuff that can be automated cheaply like influence campaigns. They're not so great at physical hardware and logistics and so forth. Not everyone is good at everything. Messing with elections by fooling the most volat
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
In the town where I live there are buildings from a 19th century pipe organ factory. My wife used to work in one of the buildings. The employees had scribbled various names and dates and witticisms on the walls in pencil. Their handwriting
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
It's striking to me how people who claim to speak for men and traditional values think that men are incorrigibly bad and that this is good and just. Maybe family formation would be better in Russia if marriage less often led to misery.
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
You mean "lawyers", right?
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
Everyone wants someone else to deal with it. It's like we have a live grenade and rather than defusing it or disposing of it we keep passing it around hoping it explodes on someone else.
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
> Such people are the worst of the worst of humanity. I don't know. There's a plentiful supply of bad humans.
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
There's also a propaganda feedback loop. It's not like Trump's voters are innocent, though. They want to be told lies.
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
Your comment reminded me of this classic: https://youtu.be/EYMjvXdrZIw?si=rYpJm3SP2kcAWPs_
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by DFHippie 3mo ago
I got the impression that there were three motors altogether and they were integrated with the axles.
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by DFHippie 4mo ago
I think you also named Alabama's problems. It's one of the poorest states and seems bound and determined to stay that way.
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by DFHippie 4mo ago
> A rich person and a poor person can train LLMs on copyrighted material in 2026. Updating an old adage for the modern age: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, an
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by DFHippie 4mo ago
The problem the Turing test was meant to solve is that we had, and still have, no means of recognizing a conscious mechanism. We lack a theory of consciousness that can be used to make a better test than "It could fool me", so the
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by DFHippie 4mo ago
Somebody, in a conversation of which there will be no record, told him it was a good idea, telling him it would be quick, he would be lauded as a hero, there would be vast mineral riches, etc. This person wanted to break up NATO, but this w
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by DFHippie 5mo ago
What is your threshold for rich and influential? You don't have to have Musk money to have sufficient pull to escape the consequences most people would face for action X. I don't think this is a difficult or controversial observat
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by DFHippie 5mo ago
After a few hundred years historical injustices move down the priority list. France isn't seeking reparations from Italy for the conquest of Gaul, for example.
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by DFHippie 5mo ago
I agree that our economic system is cold, transactional, and cruel. The problem kinder systems always face is that the people indifferent to the cruelty of capitalism, exemplified by these extortionists, are still there in the alternative s

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