eqdw

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by eqdw 4y ago
Honestly, I'm starting to get burned out on the political hysteria around GPT. Yes, GPT is biased. We know, because they openly say that they're biasing GPT. Thing is, they don't think it's bias. The people biasing chatG
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by eqdw 4y ago
> The problem is that no automatic method we have now will catch context. I disagree. The problem is that nobody is willing to be realistic about the limitations of automated moderation and proceed accordingly. If we can't create an
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by eqdw 5y ago
Ten years ago I moved from Canada to the US. I was 2 years out of college, and the tiny local software consultancy I worked for went out of business after our clients refused to pay their invoices. (My hometown is notoriously stingy). My tw
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by eqdw 6y ago
Weird... their name is EPA not SPA
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by eqdw 6y ago
This author appears to be completely unaware that, in the US anyway, the progress of the pandemic has been completely and totally disconnected from all control measures. San Francisco, where I'm told (and believe, based on having lived
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by eqdw 6y ago
It's adorable to go read old Scott posts and remember when I was as naieve as he is
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by eqdw 6y ago
What does it do to the poor suckers who keep working only to have all their money given to people who sit on their asses all day doing nothing?
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by eqdw 6y ago
Talking about airborne transmission would make it too obvious that masks are pointless security theatre. Can't have that
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by eqdw 6y ago
Very, very poorly. I do not feel safe talking about it in this forum, as I am sure I will get yelled at by dozens of people for at least 4 different reasons.
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by eqdw 6y ago
Fox news is a laughably pathetic excuse for news. But, so are the rest of the major corporate news outlets. In the US, they're all garbage, and Fox isn't any worse than the others. The best way I can describe this is by analogizin
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by eqdw 6y ago
The intermediates between the farms and the grocery stores were closed by law, for the most part
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by eqdw 6y ago
Yes. This is why weev went to prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach tldr: AT&T has an account status page that, for mobile devices, did not require any authorization. Something like /
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by eqdw 6y ago
> I find it interesting how over 20-30 years corporations have reprogrammed people to believe working from home (WFH) is a perk and not a burden. And, people are celebrating how progressive these companies are. There are a million and on
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by eqdw 6y ago
This doesn't make any sense. What does a "60 day cut" even mean? As I understand it, H1Bs get processed now and then get issued in like October. It is more than 60 days from now until October Wouldn't the only result of
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by eqdw 6y ago
Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse" I don't expect the WHO to be infalliable, and I don't think this reflects malice or incompetence (they updated as information became avail
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by eqdw 6y ago
Now do all the protests from 3 years ago
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by eqdw 7y ago
I am prepared by keeping 20 grand cash on hand. I'm a foreigner on a work permit. I'll be fine _financially_ in a recession but if I get laid off suddenly my legal residency is threatened, and I need to have an emergency fund to d
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by eqdw 7y ago
It's really more the second amendment that makes it harder to do
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by eqdw 7y ago
Fun fact: a used PCR machine is only $2500. And if the prices on tests kits out of asia are accurate... You could literally test yourself in your own home for that price. And then you could test a thousand of your friends. If you wanted to
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by eqdw 7y ago
According to this very report, 80% of cases are "mild or moderate". This can mean anything from getting the sniffles for a while, to full on pneumonia (but not enough pneumonia to have to go to the hospital). Yes it is technically
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by eqdw 7y ago
I don't know how you can rationalize "this was so bad that China cut off half the supply chains in the world" with "its just a flu bruh"
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by eqdw 7y ago
What differences in behaviour would you have expected to see in the CDC if their budget wasn't cut? I'm not seeing it. This thing spreads too fast to meaningfully stop it, China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, are all examples of this
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by eqdw 7y ago
While I agree with the general gist of what you're getting at, I think you're stating it much too strongly. In a sufficiently volatile and capital-starved environment, I think a straight majority of current businesses would be unv
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by eqdw 7y ago
Discussions like this are frustrating to me because they always seem to skip over what feels like a crucial element: Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone? I get the feeling, in general, when people talk about wanting to &
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by eqdw 7y ago
Couldn't you just graft the old water filter's RFID chip onto whatever new filter you wanted?
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by eqdw 7y ago
I had the same problem in Canada. Then I moved to the US. Now I have recruiters begging me to come work at their company at least once a week. You should move to the US, it'll be much easier to find work
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by eqdw 7y ago
I don't know what OP's suggested solution is, but if I had my way, I'd just eliminate recommendations entirely, in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search (eg "give me more cute puppy videos").
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by eqdw 7y ago
I fundamentally do not understand people who watch recommended videos. They are almost never relevant to me. I watch videos on youtube either if they come from channels I have chosen to subscribe to, or specific videos I have been linked to
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by eqdw 7y ago
1) Because I want it and what is this, soviet Russia? Dead serious. The mentality that everything you want to have needs to be explicitly justified to society before you are permitted to have it is a sick twisted authoritarian mindset. I th
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by eqdw 7y ago
I read halfway through and couldn't tell if the subsidies were thinks like tax breaks that _every_ company gets, vs tax breaks that they get _specifically for being fossil fuels_. I consider this distinction to be important, so I stopp

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