fatbird

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by fatbird 6d ago
Give me a dictionary, a computer, and infinite time, and I'll generate all possible English texts: Shakespeare, works regarded as surpassing Shakespeare, new holy books, math proofs never even imagined... none of which is either "
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by fatbird 9d ago
I think you're leaving out a key aspect of the problem: not one of those people had the scope of responsibilities to really fix the issue. There was the website, windows update, and OS team, all being fed by a variety of product teams
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by fatbird 9d ago
One thing that the earlier documentary on Theranos, The Inventor, made obvious is that Holmes is pretty charismatic at a personal level. At one point, Gibney is trying to interview her, but the camera he’s setting up isn’t working for some
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by fatbird 10d ago
An unarmed woman climbing through a smashed window with a capital police officer on the other side, sidearm drawn, warning her not to advance, in the middle of a crowd storming the capitol building while a gallows stood outside, waiting fo
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by fatbird 13d ago
I've yet to see anyone address the more immediate problem for (humaniform) robotics, which is that it runs counter to the economic benefits of specialization at industrial scales. A robotic warehouse that's just like a human wareh
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by fatbird 15d ago
> "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt," said the late Pierre Trudeau. ht
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by fatbird 15d ago
I've been referring to it as the "United States of Lower Canada" (USLC) since, and calling my American family members "Lower Canadians". They giggle in a kind of resigned way.
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by fatbird 20d ago
As you seem to know, the prion example was to highlight how industrial scale operations create industrial scale problems, namely the bone-and-meal feed that was throwing all the cow brains into a common pool from which all were feeding. I
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by fatbird 21d ago
So this butcher was standing in his insufficiently cleaned butchering room telling you about how he should really be doing what industrial slaughterhouses do, but he just can't be bothered? Or did he have his own methods of sufficient
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by fatbird 21d ago
Industrial operations have industrial scale problems that require much higher standards. The local butcher might not scrub the floor and walls with the same industrial anti-bacterial detergent, but he's also not running hundreds of
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by fatbird 25d ago
Agreed, but my point was that these things are hideously complicated and there's an endless source of details to hold up and say "NOT FAIR!" and it's ultimately about finding an agreement, not about the course of natural
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by fatbird 25d ago
The U.S. also has a huge amount of trade barriers that are indirect against the rest of the world. Don't act like the U.S. is the victim here. One example: In Canada, there's a vibrant french language film industry, meaning films
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by fatbird 25d ago
In the softwood lumber dispute that's been going on for decades, the US raised (legitimately) the point that in Canada, land is granted by permit to loggers for only nominal fees; in the U.S. loggers have to pay significant amounts for
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by fatbird 29d ago
NATO funds no one and trains no one. NATO is a treaty about military cooperation and a bureaucracy for facilitating it. Or do you believe that NATO is secretly a more powerful, and comprehensive entity than it appears to be? The countries
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by fatbird 1mo ago
So the short version is: Russia felt threatened and invaded. It didn't do that for any of the Baltic states. It didn't do that when Finland aligned with NATO by joining the PfP in 1997, or joined NATO in 2023. All that had to h
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by fatbird 1mo ago
If Ukraine surrendered now, ceding occupied territories and perhaps giving up some extra in the Donbas, all that would happen is a pause that Russia desperately wants to rebuild and rearm, and return in a couple years (as it did in Chechnya
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by fatbird 1mo ago
The same way they survived and evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with cancer and different bacterial infections and viruses and congenital defects: they suffered from them, sometimes died from them. They didn't lack mental he
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by fatbird 1mo ago
I've successfully addressed several issues with a therapist. I know other men who've also done it. It's about the same as getting a doctor's help with a physical issue--some easily fixed, some taking time and effort, s
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by fatbird 1mo ago
I kept expecting it to turn into a horror short story.
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by fatbird 1mo ago
May you someday experience the same lack of empathy you're broadcasting here.
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by fatbird 2mo ago
Also, having explained by example, finish with "quod erat demonstrandum"
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by fatbird 2mo ago
How much fact checking do you do on the research AI does?
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by fatbird 2mo ago
Availability and wait times vary widely by location. I'm on Vancouver Island in a city of 100,000 and can see my PCP and dentist within a week if I want (though for a while, getting a cleaning required making an appointment months out
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by fatbird 3mo ago
That's where I got an immediate migraine.
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by fatbird 3mo ago
No, Carmack is actually an incredibly smart and talented engineer.
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by fatbird 3mo ago
Iran will clearly end up much richer and thus stronger than before, with fewer international trade impediments. So Iran having a nuke is objectively much closer and more likely than before.
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by fatbird 3mo ago
The bad actors were killed, and the children of the bad actors took over. Same regime, now more firmly in control. While before, Iran's assets worldwide were frozen, they're now receiving back $25 billion of it. Also, the sancti
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by fatbird 3mo ago
This is very charitable assumption.
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by fatbird 3mo ago
For a second I was excited that someone had built a space station in Earth's orbit secretly. Perhaps a military station by a world power, perhaps a minor power's attempt to achieve a continuous presence in space, perhaps a privat
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by fatbird 4mo ago
Will Ferguson wrote a book named _Bastards and Boneheads_ [0] that told the history of Canada's prime ministers as one or the other. The bastards made history, the boneheads are remembered for their folly. Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau

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