khriss

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by khriss 12d ago
Unfortunately, decades of media conditioning and extreme polarization has led to a situation in which the normal checks and balances have been severely degraded or are non functional. A significant fraction of the population is happy to ove
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by khriss 12d ago
> like the behaviour of Fable, not the behaviour of Opus - the fact that many people speak about this is evidence. I'm wondering how much of that is the harness vs the model. Overall, the 'feel' of a model seems to be lar
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by khriss 13d ago
You can thank Citizens United for that.
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by khriss 13d ago
Good for you.
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by khriss 15d ago
If that's enough for you, then by all means use Chrome.
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by khriss 15d ago
> you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else. The problem with this is that increasingly Google is insisting on having a phone number to create a Google account. Further, they are aggress
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by khriss 19d ago
The extent to which this administration will go to protect and enhance obvious and blatant corruption is truly breath taking! What's heart breaking is that in spite of overwhelming objective evidence, the same MAGA folks who were apo
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by khriss 19d ago
> Those second-order effects are easy to mitigate with sensible public policy. Regrettably, sensible public policy seems to be in remarkably short supply these days.
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by khriss 19d ago
IIRC, the Binance founder simply paid Trump off and got a pardon, with Trump himself admitting afterwards that he 'didn't know who the guy was'. So, the assertion that there are no real consequences anymore for 0.1% continues
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by khriss 19d ago
Oh no! Surely under capitalism the competition from other producers would ensure that such a thing could never happen. Surely this is a freak event /s Many commenters have pointed it out, but it's such an important point that it
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by khriss 21d ago
> If you throw a party and a guest refuses to leave Show me where the govt has actually revoked their visa? Instead, because they cannot cancel the visa legally they are trying to create as much pain as possible for these visa holders
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by khriss 22d ago
Thanks!
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by khriss 22d ago
You know, you're only supposed to drink the kool aid, not chug it by the gallon.
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by khriss 23d ago
I think most would say yes? The sheer amount of misery Elon has caused with the DOGE antics would alone qualify, IMO.
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by khriss 23d ago
> I use AI to generate a textbook style reading material for me along with "verify yourself" types of exercises along the way This is fascinating . Any chance you have your workflow or prompts documented and would be willing t
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by khriss 23d ago
> Then vote for someone who will make the debts go away? As opposed to vote for someone who gives even more power and money to the oligarchs? You bet your last dollar that people will choose the former over the latter.
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by khriss 24d ago
Hmm according to this theory, the president can be an absolute dictator since according to your logic, oaths are not legally binding and by definition the president literally reports to no one. If this is the thinking amongst MAGA then mayb
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by khriss 25d ago
And how many times did Alexander Hamilton apply tariffs to islands inhabited by penguins while specifically exempting Russia and Belarus?
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by khriss 25d ago
> DSA's agenda is socialism via the democratic process, and > The DSA wants to abolish the existing US democratic process. So, getting into elected office by winning elections is wanting to abolish the democratic process? I think
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by khriss 25d ago
I was actually thinking of them overturning Humphrey's executor vs United States....
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by khriss 25d ago
The craziest thing is, that in spite of the obvious, balatant corruption and supreme incompetence of the US govt, Trump still has around 35% approval rating. That means the hardcore MAGA base is a third of the US population. I genuinely d
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by khriss 25d ago
Well, of late, what was considered settled law is being reinterpreted at a remarkable rate, so maybe there is hope for this 'settled' law to be overturned....
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by khriss 26d ago
And to add to that, a very loyal set of voters who will literally vote for more of the same even when it directly and empirically makes their lives worse.
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by khriss 26d ago
> 10y later they're richer than ever Overall as a country, undoubtedly. However, a vast majority of Americans are worse off than a decade ago. A lot of wealth was created, relatively little went to the people though.
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by khriss 27d ago
Quick question, without looking it up, can you list the number of laws you can break which will result in your license revocation? The law is sufficiently complex and broad that there is essentially zero chance that you are not breaking a s
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by khriss 27d ago
> It's also majority private sector funded, Really? Wasn't it supposed to be 100% funded by Trump's cronies, who of course were doing so completely out of the goodness of their hearts. Why did that shift to 'majorit
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by khriss 27d ago
Hmm let's examine how well the US sanctions against China and Russia are working, shall we? Forget those, how well are the vaunted US sanctions working against Iran?
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by khriss 1mo ago
I'm curious as to how your experience actually using the plan for more than preventive coverage? IIRC, plans before the ACA had a ton of customer unfriendly provisions which made the insurance far less usable in practice. E.g. denying
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by khriss 1mo ago
> ACA was predicated on studies like this, to no avail ACA was also predicated on broad participation. As with all insurance, the bigger the pool, the lower the premium. Insurance of any kind is primarily a risk arbitrage business and fu
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by khriss 1mo ago
Heart rate, no, but monitoring breathing is possible using mmWave radar(eg 60 GHz Doppler radar nowadays, or the 5.8 GHz band earlier). Resmed S+ was probably the most well known, but it's been discontinued for a while now. If you sear

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