nyc_data_geek

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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Are you really calling into question the well documented developmental effects of lead in human cognition and behavior
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
"Whoever can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." and "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." etc, etc. So it goes
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Agreed. To see "Never Again" morphed into "Never Again for me, Now Again for thee" has been one of the most heartwrenching, sleep depriving things I've witnessed since some deaths in my family.
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
I'm not against generating more electricity, I am against generating unnecessary emissions using obsolete combustion based mechanisms, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't put words in my mouth. The current administration is e
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Yes and all of the credulous rubes still whinging about how they "can't imagine" how it's gotten this bad or how much worse it can get, or how "this is not who we are" at some point should no longer be taken as
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Seems like citizens are the ones who need protection from law and immigration enforcement, considering the public executions we've all witnessed in the past week or so.
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Electricity generation causes emissions, which enter the air. Cooling consumes water, as does power generation. We are not generating this power using renewable energy. Have you looked out the window lately at what is actually happening?
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by nyc_data_geek 8mo ago
Because we need air to breathe and water to drink more than we need pictures of garfield with giant tits
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by nyc_data_geek 10mo ago
I just did this on Youtube for the first time in a while, and it won't show me videos unless I start watching things first, unless I go to Shorts, where I am presented with an infinite scroll of what appears to be deeply unsettling and
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by nyc_data_geek 10mo ago
Don't threaten me with a good time
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by nyc_data_geek 10mo ago
Congratulations, you have invented taxes
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by nyc_data_geek 10mo ago
Because some reasoning is motivated
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by nyc_data_geek 11mo ago
Their automated product killed a living creature. Yes, it is by definition their fault.
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by nyc_data_geek 11mo ago
The grownups have left the building, and the brats have guns.
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by nyc_data_geek 11mo ago
And this is why they don't care how many people they fire. The intention was always to automate the warehouses, and as long as they do it before they exhaust the workforce, turnover doesn't matter.
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by nyc_data_geek 11mo ago
True, though Broadcom operates in a very similar manner in this regard.
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by nyc_data_geek 11mo ago
Or they can do things like buy VMWare, gut the support/engineering/sales staff, hound and threaten their install base, and ultimatley profit greatly by stripping down and destroying a perfectly healthy if relatively late stage bus
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
Yes, and the solution to the fact that corporations have your information is not to give more people your information.
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
Radiation is good for you now, a little bit, as a treat.
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
Exactly! We don't get luxury space communism until after we defeat the nascent Terran Empire... or else we end up the Terran Empire
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
Feel like we're doing pretty well on the Star Trek timeline, tbh. Got to get through the Eugenics Wars
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
Where do you think training data comes from
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by nyc_data_geek 1y ago
>At the same age Boomers have had significantly longer and better sustained market conditions to grow their wealth.
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
The extraordinary burden of proof is on the people making extraordinary claims, in this case that your thoughts come from an invisible, all powerful entity who we have never had any evidence actually exists, and wrote a book, instead of hum
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
No higher power ever wrote anything though. That's all human writing, human promises, human propaganda.
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
- thought crime
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
This is one of the reasons loss of biodiversity and mass extinction are so horrifically depressing, to me. All that marvelous complexity, all the blueprint information for it, all lost forever. Take the axolotl - it does not, seemingly, e
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
Probably Catch-22
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
There was an impact to consumers! The Cavendish is not equivalent to the Gros Michel, it is supposedly an inferior fruit as far as size, texture and flavor. Granted a slight degradation in quality just may not grab people, but they should
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by nyc_data_geek 2y ago
Fair point about monocultures increasing yields. That said, they are also more susceptible to being wiped out by black swan events (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease ) Resilience of your food supply shou

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