loki49152

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by loki49152 3mo ago
"Google contains multitudes" It does not contain people who flout Google's privacy, security, or intellectual property policies. Those people are, quite rightfully, un-contained from Google with speed they can't muster f
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by loki49152 8mo ago
A lot of the people who comment here are techie provincials who literally have no understanding that the things they believe, or at least the things they recite as their beliefs, are ideas that might be analyzed and judged against reality.
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by loki49152 1y ago
.... as opposed to what? What do you think they should have done, sat around waiting to be captured so the could be featured in a NoKo TikTok video?
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by loki49152 1y ago
The latter is an "impossible question" because it's a meaningless question.
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by loki49152 1y ago
"You essentially outline why it should be broken up." No, they didn't. They explained why breaking Google up would kill all of those "free" services. "Google is a monopoly, they exert monopoly power and enjoy m
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by loki49152 1y ago
We don't need new regulations. This is probably covered by commercial fraud statutes, as they represented the sale of the device as a sale of tangible personal property. There is no condition required to complete that purchase - the of
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by loki49152 1y ago
That's not entirely their fault. Those programs were designed and instituted to make as many people as possible dependent on them so they would become a captured voting bloc.
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by loki49152 1y ago
You can derive morality from observation if you aren't looking for ontological "ought statements". Hume's position assumes that the religious approach to morality is the only one possible - that morality consists of thes
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by loki49152 1y ago
She didn't "feel like she needed Social Security". In fact, she instructed her fiduciary to not apply for it on her behalf because she didn't need it, and her detractors would use her participation to smear her. Her fi
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by loki49152 1y ago
And she didn't engage in hypocrisy. It has a meaning.
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by loki49152 1y ago
The NixOS team is an order of magnitude more unstable than their software. The most surprising thing here is that anyone who needs their systems to actually work would rely on it, given the history of the project and the maintainers' p
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by loki49152 2y ago
- their attempts at having kids decades later take longer or fail completely Isn't that normal when you try to have kids "decades later"?
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by loki49152 2y ago
LLMs don't do formal reasoning. Not in any sense. They don't do any kind of reasoning - they replay combinatorics of the reasoning that was encoded in their training data via "finding" the patterns in the relationships o
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by loki49152 2y ago
Not to mention the reincarnated Norse gods
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by loki49152 3y ago
No. According to the Mujahadeen who did work with CIA, ObL was considered an "extremist" even among them because he expected to go to war against the US immediately after they were done with the Soviets. According to them, he didn
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by loki49152 3y ago
You can't have an ideology that claims both "people have a right to things that others must produce" and "bodily autonomy". This isn't a potluck dinner. You can't just mix and match contradictory beliefs b
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by loki49152 4y ago
No mention of Strigoi. I guess they're still covering that up.
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by loki49152 4y ago
"we don't put people to jail for things that hurt their health, like alcohol, or pizza." And yet people keep trying to get the government more and more deeply involved in the medical industry, which would lead to exactly thi
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by loki49152 4y ago
It's easier to snark at something than to actually address its content. Witness the vacuous "dunkage" of that quote above. Literally any book with heroes, people of principle, or people who achieve things can be in the second
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by loki49152 4y ago
Citizens United didn't change any established laws. It reiterated the already-existing fact that people don't lose their free speech rights just because they've banded together into a business entity. The Clinton campaign tri
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by loki49152 4y ago
This is an absurd take on social relations. It's equivalent to declaring that you're owned by "society" from birth, with an unchosen obligation you can never escape, because everything you do with other people is done &q
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by loki49152 4y ago
I've noticed that headlines on some of the major news outlets sometimes change after the javascript fully loads. I don't follow WaPo, so this isn't unique to them.
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by loki49152 4y ago
Sun machines always seemed to have weird environment-dependent behavior. In college, one of our classmates got the nickname "the human eclipse" because no matter what time of day, no matter what else was going on, when he walked i
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by loki49152 4y ago
You don't want to start a business. You want to get a new job working for someone who has started a business.
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by loki49152 4y ago
Few people remember that Trump likely won the nomination due to "cross-over" voters in states with open primaries. There was an organized effort by Democrats to cross-vote for him as the Republican candidate under the belief that
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by loki49152 4y ago
Fascism does have a body of works. The inventors, Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini, were quite proud of themselves and their creation. They wrote and spoke a great deal about it. The idea that there is no explanation for Fascism and th
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by loki49152 5y ago
In terms of mathematics and physics he was a genius. In every other field, he was just some dude. In fact in this instance he's repeating the common Germanic gestalt. Nothing profound, nothing out of the ordinary, just standard-issue P
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by loki49152 5y ago
You do realize that this is, in fact, very similar to what the people who stumped for "just letting us have bike lanes" have progressed to advocating, right? Totally car-free roads, roads that technically are car-usable but have b
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by loki49152 5y ago
"I think you're kind of overreacting" There is no such thing as "overreacting" with foraged mushrooms. The bar for "competent" identification is far too high, and the downside of being not-quite-competent-
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by loki49152 5y ago
This should be what we expect to find, at least in US schools, because it was the explicitly stated, intended purpose of Progressive Education. They designed the entirety of their program after the Prussian model which was to produce worker

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