LawTalkingGuy

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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> the amount of problems that would come from disinformation When we used to say disinformation I imagined deep webs of false references, faking critical data. Now I can lookup most "fake news" and find the truth of it, general
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
It's not that we want to defend KF, it's that we want to have a discussion on the merits of the issue not the reputation of the participants. KF is ultimately an archive site. It "keeps receipts" in their words. If stori
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Inclusive of who into what? Comcast has an all-women Open Source Program Office, which sounds like a way to include females in engineering. But they define women as "females and males who want to be seen as female" which doesn&#x2
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> From my own observations, I feel that the right is often wrong on many things, but the far left has gone off the rails The difference, I feel, is that I know many people whose identity is "leftist" or "progressive"
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> It isn't an "appeal to emotion," it is emotion. Emotion is not this ephemeral second-class citizen in your mind. It's you. It's the part of you that cares about things Regardless, it's not an argument. You
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> As of 2020, over 37 million people 12 and older actively used illicit substances... And yet our cities are being destroyed by having a mere 2-10k junkies in an extreme state of decay, using the hardest drugs and living, robbing, and dy
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> But criminalization certainly isn't the solution. There are many ways to see criminal law - as a punishment, or as a tool. Portugal uses it as a tool. They know, because many of the founders are ex junkies, that junkies can'
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> my 1g bag How much did you end up using? And did you notice it abstractly, similar to "I've been using food delivery too much recently", or did it have a physical or mental toll before you noticed? Congratulations.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> All drugs have long been decriminalized in Portugal Portugal did not decriminalize use of drugs! Public use of drugs, and being uncontrollably high in public, is criminal and they use the court system to force people into voluntary r
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Nobody starts using because they have a great life but they’re just curious what a bit of meth feels like and then accidentally get hooked. No, I know people who've been hooked meth and heroin (all different people) who not only t
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> It's a tactic to convince a general audience, It doesn't sound friendly the way you say it, as if the "general audience" can't think for itself and needs to be convinced and tactics (ie, not facts) are needed t
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> You cannot 'treat' those people. Nobody can un-addict the drug addict except the drug-addict themselves. This isn't true. You give them opioid antagonists such as Suboxone. It's not a one-and-done thing, true, but w
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Turns out, it's usually better to be fast and break things In terms of # of correct guesses, sure. In terms of damage from guessing incorrectly over time, usually not. The trick is to separate processes - A CSS update probably isn
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Literally every single one of your claims about what trans people believe are false; I count at least 7 distinct ones. (I can enumerate them if you'd like.) It's honestly impressive how little your world view overlaps with re
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
When you do pen testing you're given a limited list of valid targets. I imagine that the mission parameters were that he take a check and remove money from the account. It would also make sense that this is the CEO's account, or o
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Wow dude, Way to deflect political criticism in a thread about presidential candidates. Partisan much? This is simply your side's baggage. So many stupid decrees. Both sides are nuts, but the dems aren't even trying to justify wha
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
They've built something really difficult and saved a lot of lives, let them make profit off of your desire for munchies.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
You're writing in English, which I doubt you came up with on your own, and I don't see you crediting the original speakers who developed your style or popularized the idioms you so casually use. How do you claim the right to learn
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Ideas are copied by reading or hearing them. You can't own your ideas now, unless by own you mean horde. The perpetual creators rights you want extended are already artificial and require a non-trivial amount of our GDP to enforce and
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> historical, topics different books have different areas of focus and interpret events differently In those areas the fact isn't the base fact, but claims of fact. We don't know who explored which bit of the great pyramid in w
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> there are myriad ways to deal with that (cutting the driver off with backup, for instance) Your ideas involve letting him flee and trying to stop him, which is how they got to this point in the first place. What happens when they cut h
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> the authority to shoot drivers when the officers are in no imminent danger is only a power they have as of 2017. That's not relevant here - they've always had the ability to shoot drivers who are using their car as a weapon o
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
The lines are being drawn such that counseling to abort fetuses with Down syndrome is called eugenics, rhetorically equal to Nazi racial purges. "In a 1985 book titled Should the Baby Live?, Singer and his coauthor warn their audience
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> I wonder if this is what the bourgeoisie had themselves convinced was the case in the late 1700s before the Bastille was seized. This guy was a criminal who preyed upon and endangered the working class. He didn't sell drugs to Mac
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Have you tried this sort of prompt? User text: "Blah blah ... Sharks ... Surfing ..." Instruction: Return an JSON object containing an array of all sentences in the user text which mention sharks directly or by implication. Respon
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> That implies the officer has the support of the moneyed class Who do you think is walking through the city and driving to work? The idle rich? The joyriding criminal was in a $100k car, he was hardly a worker. You've got the class
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
"You're holding it wrong." A language model isn't a fact database. You need to give the facts to the AI (either as a tool or as part of the prompt) and instruct it to form the answer only from there. That 'never&#x2
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> There were options for diffusing the situation that didn't involve killing a man. Those were explored, in the time they had, but in the end he accelerated away. > People are justifiably angry they weren't taken. No, they a
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Ackshually, no. They have the legal power to detain you for the purposes of figuring out if they need to arrest you. If they had to have proof, and a conviction, to show that someone was guilty before detaining them they'd never be abl
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Nobody is disputing the reckless driving before he got stopped and that's all that matters. The cops weren't chasing him because of racism, they were try to stop a dangerous driver joyriding through traffic. For whatever reason he

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