jncfhnb

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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Ehhh I suppose but I think that’s a weak point. The purpose of shutting down the internet is undeniably to prevent the people from coordinating rebellion and the help control the narrative of the war.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Your opinion appears to be people shouldn’t share opinions unless they achieve a certain level of activity behind. So, like, idk dude. I don’t see you campaigning to restrict free speech so shut up?
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
I guess I just feel like your appeal to skilled manual workers is pointless. They’re not really the focal point. It’s the large masses of people being relegated to the bin labeled “effectively unskilled”.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
It would work at sufficient scale and sacrifice
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
My anecdata is from just two families whom I am hearing from indirectly and have never met in person. The takeaways are: 1) they HATE their government more than anything in the world. They’ve seen the government killing its own people. 2) t
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
I don’t see any alternative angle though. Nobody thinks the IRGC is doing this for fun.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
You don’t get to gatekeep having political opinions
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Removing a white collar job from the economy puts a worker into the bottom tier _and_ reduces the wages of that bottom tier. We are speeding towards a servant class. Uber was the first wave. Now it’s more mundane things like getting groceri
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Violence against economic shifts from labor to capital have pretty much consistently failed though. At best they’ve won brief relief that eventually got swallowed by the invisible mouth. You can’t really fight this stuff because of global c
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Establishing consensus through discussion is the basis of democracy
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
I guess. But the framing here is not “clever, innovative IRGC” so much as oppressive regime fucking over it’s people to retain control.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
It’s very economically harmful to be disconnected. That’s the downside
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
This is all likely true. Although I feel people undersell how they work together. Iranians broadly hate their government, yeah. But the thing that gets them rioting is economic failure. Which the strikes have exacerbated. Social media is sw
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
Imo front end is what it’s best at.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
No not really. It’s just if you ask the model what percent of people like apples, it doesn’t know the answer. We don’t even need to get to the level of change of opinions. Models don’t “poll” their training data. If you give it five yes ans
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
That’s just fundamentally not a meaningful argument You need to assess calibration. Not “accuracy”. What does “in play” even mean?
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
This whole synthetic sampling thing really boggles my mind. It’s like… it’s difficult to come up with an example that doesn’t feel like a hyperbolic strawman. It’s just that dumb.
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by jncfhnb 5mo ago
That is abstraction of the implementation of the tool, not the output. Producing outputs you don’t understand is novel
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by jncfhnb 8mo ago
The phrasing you’re looking for is that 12% of Americans consume an average of 50% of beef consumed every day. By saying “on any given day” you are suggesting it’s a different 12%. The article does confuse this by identifying cohorts that e
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by jncfhnb 8mo ago
> is it normal, in the USA, for half of all people to only eat beef once every 8 days? Thats not the implication of 12% of Americans eating 50% of beef by consumed by all Americans that day. If I had to make up some numbers it’s probably
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by jncfhnb 8mo ago
> A recent study shows that on any given day, just 12% of people in the US account for half of all beef consumed in the US. This phrasing strongly suggests it’s not the same 12% every day. In which case… it’s probably not that noteworthy
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by jncfhnb 8mo ago
I feel like this article is littered with suspicious statements Like this one: > In fact, institutional homebuyers (those who bought 100+ homes in a 12-month period) didn’t even reach 2.5% market share at the peak level in this data line
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
Platform economics create monopsony problems. If you don’t play ball with steam, you don’t get access to most customers. End of story. These things are winner take all. Imo 30% is disgusting and needs regulation. Edit: see also, credit card
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
If the US tech companies stop behaving this way, maybe.
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
I’m surprised that Iran can contemplate affording this. There must be such immense losses of all the land, homes, and capital assets in Tehran. And then operational costs of moving people around, building new homes, etc. $100B is such a hig
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
> manufacturers targeted to areas with high rates of smoking-related illness Oof > epigenetic changes making smokers more susceptible to opioid use disorders This one seems… a bit mystic to me. I would have been much quicker to sugges
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
Seems dubious to me that smoking explains any of these things. I would guess just a cultural cofounder. Obesity and fentanyl would be my guess.
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
i just use the cheapest wireless keyboard and mouse I can. I’m accessing content through the browser so there’s enough typing that I wouldn’t want a non keyboard personally. Imo you only need remote like hardware if you’re planning to scrol
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
but that’s all consistent. “Expected” gain is less than 1 for the truth booths and sometimes > 1 for actuals; and is > 1 on expected value of the match ups, which aren’t binary questions.
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by jncfhnb 9mo ago
I saw a couple devils plan and felt they were trying to imply Mathematical scheming without substance. There was one guy who kept talking about “science” but then his “game theory” for a game of mafia was “social distancing” like Covid…

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