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by starkd 26d ago
Exactly, AI-generated text reads so smoothly, that the same short-circuit shifts my attention away from deep focus and onto scanning of the text, looking ahead to get the gist of it. Forcing myself to read the text fully feels almost painf
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by starkd 27d ago
So now the Library of Congress has to manage all these submissions whenever someone scans something? How do you even go about enforcing such a thing?
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by starkd 27d ago
How is Anna's Archive getting around the copyright violations of hosting all these books for access to all? I suspect it won't be long before they get sued and are forced to shut down. I spent some time reading the web site, and
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by starkd 27d ago
Good to see someone making this point. I'm confused by the panic, because they are making it out like AI companies are destroying every copy of the book. They only need one, and they destroy it after scanning it only because they don&
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Axios: Next roadblock for electric cars: Early adopter era is over(axios.com)
4 points by starkd 3y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 3y ago
>> According to the official settlement website, each person who qualifies and files a claim will get around $7.70. Woohoo! I can now retire!
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Google to pay out $23M settlement over search results; how to apply(wpxi.com)
3 points by starkd 3y ago|1 comments
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Fungi may offer ‘jaw-dropping’ solution to climate change(thehill.com)
1 points by starkd 3y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 3y ago
That would explain my Radeon Graphics card I never managed to get working properly. It arbitrarily froze. I was told that it did that for Linux and that it was guaranteed to work on Windows. But when I tried it on Windows, it did the exa
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by starkd 3y ago
The state is not the only means by which a society conducts charity. It needs to encourage charitable giving through various avenues.
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by starkd 3y ago
Exactly. Scientology is not a religion. Its barely a business dressed as a religion. The standard for tax exemption should be charitable non-profit.
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by starkd 3y ago
They did reference satellite data. However, I do not know to what extent satellite data can show turbulence. The article implied a total cause, but I suspect its a bit more complex. Not sure how you would tell if its more common. I re
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by starkd 3y ago
Corporate marketing departments have been pretty adept at promoting their products on the backs of this science. They are far from unintelligent. Populists, for all their deficiencies, are fairly adept at eventually detecting marketing plo
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by starkd 3y ago
Plus the solutions are narrow in scope. For instance, we are led to believe that it will be solved if only we all buy electric cars. It might help for certain areas, but it is far from a complete solution. It comes off as a corporate grif
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by starkd 3y ago
This kind of framing also keeps us from imaginative solutions, because only one solution is implied to the exclusion of all others. Hence, the suspicion is that it is merely another political agenda. I think its probably why nuclear energ
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by starkd 3y ago
Perhaps that 20-25% portion that you disagree with them on is actually a lot larger than you think. These differences of opinion are not exactly minor. They are fundamental to the other 75-80%!
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by starkd 3y ago
Hence, the requirements they have a DEI office in order to get funding.
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by starkd 3y ago
Congresses set budgets. Presidents have little to do with it. The last time the budget came into balance was in the late '90s (Dem president, Republican congress). Due to gridlock and some real spending restraints that were put in pla
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by starkd 3y ago
Maybe because the congress is the place the budget gets written? The president has little to do with it. Democrat congresses tend to initiate larger spending packages. Regardless, that still doesn't address the debt problem.
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by starkd 3y ago
You must be young. Debt limit debate has been going on longer than that.
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by starkd 3y ago
Strange how I suspected I was reading something from ChatGPT before I got to your last sentence. I think maybe we're already starting to rely on ChatGPT as an authority way too soon.
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by starkd 3y ago
Maybe because that's the only way we end up talking about it? Would you prefer they keep the Gephardt Rule and keep lifting it and go on to start planning another massive infrastructure package? People are sick of the finger pointing.
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by starkd 3y ago
No one cares about any of that political posturing. We can argue back and forth about who is going to get the blame, but eventually its got to be addressed or its going to bite us even harder than it already is. Like it or not, the debt li
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by starkd 3y ago
He doesn't have the power to do that. If he does and gets away with it, don't complain when that power is abused by other presidents in ways you disapprove.
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by starkd 3y ago
But new immigrants will need a vibrant economy they can assimilate into and pay taxes. If not, we will just be swamped and become another shithole country. That helps no one.
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by starkd 3y ago
As if Democrats aren't postering here? This isn't a dem/repub issue. If you can't see that, you are falling for it just as much as anyone else. Its that kind of thinking that is forestalling reasonable measures that co
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by starkd 3y ago
I'm still waiting to see the results of the massive infrastructure package that was passed in 2008. We've had a few more rounds of such spending, supposedly because of outdated infrastructure. You have to wonder how many more ti
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by starkd 3y ago
you think it can just keep going up forever? The issue is not whether we reach a sovereign debt crisis, it is when we reach it. Sure, we've been able to avoid it up to now. But eventually something's going to give.
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by starkd 3y ago
What are you talking about? He is refuting the doomsday claims that the entire reef was dead. He is pointing to its regenerative capacity after mass bleaching events. He never claimed it had completely recovered. But crying "its the
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How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?(spectator.co.uk)
6 points by starkd 3y ago|10 comments

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