carlob

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by carlob 3d ago
I don't think killing people solves world hunger, we already produce enough food to feed everyone, it's just not evenly distributed.
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by carlob 4d ago
and that has definitely improved everybody's experience at concerts /s
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by carlob 18d ago
The fact that corporations have more privacy rights than people is dystopian.
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by carlob 18d ago
A great example of this triad is driving a car: many people choose to do so every day and a small but not insignificant fraction of them will die because of it.
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by carlob 18d ago
> Nobody is forcing people to risk their lives to infringe on other people's rights. Except poverty, ignorance, hunger, addiction, untreated mental illness...
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by carlob 18d ago
Or you could have a society with a welfare safety net or even viable forms of transportation other than a private car. It appears that places where that happen also tend to have much lower crime rates as an added benefit.
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by carlob 21d ago
let's set aside for a second the fact that this is not how things work, but you are off by an order of magnitude EDIT: parent comment was edited: it used to say $15
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by carlob 1mo ago
...on openai request to spin up some critihype
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by carlob 2mo ago
a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?
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by carlob 2mo ago
at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us
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by carlob 3mo ago
And who is the kingmaker behind those three? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.
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by carlob 3mo ago
> trying to stay cool FTFY
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by carlob 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxists on the other hand advocate for the violent ove
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by carlob 4mo ago
500 TB/25 GB = 20.000 if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude
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by carlob 5mo ago
Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest salary inequality in the world. In Eastern Europe 100k a year puts you at what 10x minimum wage? I think that would be considered a pretty high salary in France or Spain as well. I think your f
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by carlob 6mo ago
I'm curious: I do cycle in jeans and a t-shirt while in the city. Up to 45 minutes I'm perfectly fine, but if I'm on the saddle for over one hour I really start to miss the chamois. What's your experience with that?
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by carlob 6mo ago
> 'war' > anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident I don't really see much of a difference nowadays
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by carlob 7mo ago
Right, it says exclusive rights, which does not translate to "we siphon everything and you get a tiny percentage of our profits", it means I can choose to say no to all of this. To me the matter of compensation and that of authors
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by carlob 7mo ago
> What have Governments ever created except for laws that stifle innovation/progress every single time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ In all seriousness without the government you would have no innovat
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by carlob 7mo ago
Why settle on some private agreement between creators and ai companies where a tiny percentage is shared, let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.
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by carlob 7mo ago
The 'long' code for checking apples is shorter, but it's missing the external for loop. So I guess you could say it's not (ahem) an apples to apples comparison.
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by carlob 7mo ago
I do wonder if throwing a similar amount of computational power behind old school rule based algorithms like the ones in Mathematica's FullSimplify would have yielded similar results.
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by carlob 7mo ago
add some error correcting codes and you have invented some sort of qr code
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by carlob 8mo ago
To be fair it is January, so your crispy water has to be grown in a heated greenhouse.
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by carlob 8mo ago
I would really like to know some stats about the Voronoi cells, like average size, largest and smallest...
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by carlob 8mo ago
At some point a few years ago I didn't want to get a mac with the crappy keyboard so I bought a Thinkpad, I think it was a t480s or something of that era. The speakers were so bad it was impossible to understand the dialogue while watc
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by carlob 10mo ago
There was an interesting plot I saw somewhere reversing the old thing about Halloween being the deadliest day for kids by dividing the number of dead kids by the number of kids on the street on a given day. It turns out that Halloween ends
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by carlob 11mo ago
And ricotta, how can you forget ricotta!
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by carlob 11mo ago
The problem lies squarely in the fact that some fundamental thing is getting contracted out to some company.
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by carlob 11mo ago
Usually the medical part of it all is strictly worse in the private sector (at least in my country) because the public system has a pretty strict competitive exam to get in, whereas profit driven private companies hire the cheapest doctor t

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