Kerb_

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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I dunno about "most places". I definitely had to get a boating license, though for some reason the law had an exception for people born before 1978. A cursory search show most states have some sort of legislation regarding it. Man
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Facebook used to post sites you visited. Not even interacted with by liking, it would show that you have read a certain article. They still collect that information, but they no longer publish it on your feed and rather keep the information
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
That precedent was and still is legally used to federally regulate marijuana harsher than fentanyl, a precedent I strongly disagree with, so you'll have to forgive me for believing that the degree to which something causes harm matters
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
On a level playing field where both are equally subsidized, solar and wind would still outcompete coal. Their point seems to be applicable to the degree to which harmful power generation is subsidized relative to regular power generation, n
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I promise you the fancy technology is in the electronics, software, and implementation, and not the fact that the cylinder with legs looks like another cylinder with legs
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Using ableist language on Hacker News, however, is alright? I dislike Elon too, but this comment feels a little out of place and date, especially for the point it's trying to make
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Funny, when someone was falsifying documents about me and forging my signature, attempts to raise awareness to my issue were also downplayed as "airing dirty laundry". Is it a new buzzword or something to help large businesses pun
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Exactly! I read that riddle and thought "a couple islands over the international date line" solely because of the last line, but still had no idea what the name of these islands thousands of miles away from me were named. Might as
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I still call my 12 year old cat a "kitty". If someone marked my answer as incorrect because "chicks aren't chickens yet" I would think they're wasting their time with riddles instead of actual intelligence test
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Yes! Or a situation where the public was not under any misconception at all, where there were multiple intermissions throughout the play calling attention to the fact that it was a work of fiction, but someone made up the idea of mass panic
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Would you like to explain how the transportation system with less emissions per kilogram per mile is causing more harm than one of the least efficient forms of terrestrial transport?
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Or, you know, fiction writer. Some of us like little stories.
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Pretty sure surge protectors are less effective against dips than they are spikes
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Sounds like you're just a low-engagement user tbh
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Pretty interesting how being anti-prison rape is considered an ideological argument. But hats off to the real winners of this situation: the bisexual rapists who get to rape no matter what ideology their captors have, I guess.
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Jesus, sounds like it's just the UK prisons trying to project their awful "justice" system on their own victims. I give the American justice system a lot of shit based on my personal experience with it, but it sounds like pol
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Cis women who rape women and cis men who rape men have always gone to prisons aligned with their gender identity. The issue with the normalization of rape in prison is unrelated, and should be solved without throwing trans people under the
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
In some countries you have legal rights to information collected about you. This can include information collected by social media sites. Just because Facebook has a forced arbitration agreement in their TOS doesn't mean it's vali
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Even the biological impulse to argue online is appearing in language models, just check Reddit
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I've used multiples images of Christ to play with AI image models. Remaking the old "Jesus on toast" image was fun. Facebook is full of boomers sharing the Jesus face AI generated into scenes. I feel uneasy when religion is u
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I haven't ever made a typo, all of my mispelings are intended and therefore not mistakes
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I'm guessing the bottleneck lies in surface area to effectively collect samples rather than the effort to inspect samples and processing them to determine origin. The roof is going to have contaminants, sure, but so is any other collec
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I would say integrated circuits in general are not incapable of reason by design, even if some examples may be. Somehow a bunch of meat and fat is capable of reason, even if my steak isn't.
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Domestication, the process we put animals in to make them peaceful enough to provide a calorie surplus without stomping the early humans to death because they got scared by a branch
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
I've been very confidently informed that these AIs are not AGIs, which makes me wonder what the "General" in AGI is supposed to mean and whether generalization is actually the benchmark for advanced intelligence. If they&#x27
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
It transcends the training data, I get the usage intended but it certainly is ripe for misinterpretation
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Yeah, if you're gonna call AA some sort of nefarious organization it would definitely be a cult, not an industrial complex
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
Nah, Ms. Pac Man absolutely slays. Lara Croft is unnecessarily sexualized. I'm definitely going to be unbothered by the first one if we're gonna ignore the second.
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
That gender is a social construct with abstractions used to simplify expression when creating fictional characters?
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by Kerb_ 2y ago
But it's not the primary use... If the thieves had iPhones they woulda been altered that they were being tracked. It's a good use, but not one that should be relied on

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