smcg

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by smcg 8d ago
Sounds like these cops went on a power trip. They weren't listening to anyone or acting with logic or reason - they just wanted to arrest and prosecute someone.
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by smcg 8d ago
they work really well on people who don't think.
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by smcg 8d ago
you massively collapsed what AI companies have been doing by comparing it to old internet-scraping. Facebook flat-out admitted that they scanned copyrighted books for their AI. The image generators most definitely trained on copyrighted ima
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by smcg 14d ago
Not every place has space for landfills... which is why we often ship trash over to low-income countries.
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by smcg 15d ago
If you want to get rid of patents and copyright then entire industries would have to roll over and die (the music industry, publishing, Disney, etc). Also, people only invest in things if there is an expectation of profit. Your model for ra
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by smcg 20d ago
doesn't sound very universal to me
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by smcg 21d ago
Well, I was a child in 1996, so probably not. Tying relevancy to link frequency was definitely a novel idea at the time, even if it seems "obvious" or simple in retrospect.
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by smcg 22d ago
Hmm, maybe we should tax these corporations and use the money for free education. Crazy idea but it might work.
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by smcg 22d ago
hmm, I wonder what happens if we reach mass unemployment and homelessness...
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by smcg 22d ago
Civil engineering will keep shrinking unless pay goes up. I know a very good civil engineer with 10+ years of experience who switched to software development and doubled his salary.
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by smcg 23d ago
you're the one using the line "burning down institutions". they are not burning down, but they are on fire, and we are already feeling very significant effects from this. The Trump admin is illegally witholding allocated fund
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by smcg 23d ago
they don't care who lives or dies. they probably think it only affects "bad" people.
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by smcg 23d ago
That didn't stop... a lot of people.
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by smcg 23d ago
Scientific funding is in crisis.
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by smcg 23d ago
what hardware can a broke teenager get access to in a couple weeks? is this really better than learning how to program?
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by smcg 23d ago
India has/had a caste-based system. For many people they could not act outside of their caste.
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by smcg 23d ago
Unless those with power and money decide to stamp them out. I think this article is naively optimistic.
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by smcg 23d ago
sounds like a great way to not establish social skills
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by smcg 24d ago
Neurotypical extroverts don't need this advice, they already do it. These are things to work towards if you are introverted and/or neurodivergent. They are not "should be" things that you should be doing immediately; the
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by smcg 28d ago
What good is it if the only result is more corporate profit? If wages and standard of living aren't raised by this "Golden Age" then it is only Gilded.
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by smcg 1mo ago
This seems like it should be obvious that it should happen. The human body was not designed for ultra-marathons. At a certain point the body shuts down out of self-preservation, because the mind is exhausting it too much.
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by smcg 1mo ago
That's because this article is PR fluff for Sean Duffy to make it seem like they are on top of the air traffic controller problem.
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by smcg 1mo ago
Children of millennials are not college age yet, for the most part. What are you basing this on?
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by smcg 1mo ago
I'm not sure that you understand how competitive, say, youth sports are. It's not seen as purely recreation, it is seen as a necessary pillar of advancement. Parents don't spend all this time and money sending their kids on t
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by smcg 1mo ago
The market demands it.
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by smcg 1mo ago
From my experience interviewing students applying to Ivies, they are working even harder than before. I am blown away by their resumes.
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by smcg 1mo ago
Every employer in the northeast knows who Brown and Dartmouth are.
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by smcg 1mo ago
It's worse, obviously.
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by smcg 1mo ago
The schoolhouse was an intentional target - the children of some military leaders went there. They triple-tapped the school hoping to kill parents going in to save the kids.
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by smcg 1mo ago
I still think that the whole HuggingFace thing was deliberate to signal to investors that their technology is powerful. Maybe she didn't want to be the face of that, or disagreed with their handling of it.

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