username332211

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by username332211 11mo ago
That was chattel slavery which doesn't generate the same feelings of devotion compared to divine monarchy. We've all seen the great sadness of the North Korean people at the passing of their Dear Leaders. This in spite of the tend
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by username332211 11mo ago
Sorry. https://www.maxwellanderson.com/pompeian-frescoes-in-the-met...
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by username332211 11mo ago
There are frescoes of statues[1] and architecture[2] in Pompeii. Feel free to compare them with the reproductions. [1] https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2232/fresco-of-a-statue-o...
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by username332211 11mo ago
Or, if you were less charitable about the nature of Bronze Age social organization, you could say it's a society of former slaves hopelessly romanticizing their former masters. On a related note, I think the whole mystery of the Bronze
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by username332211 11mo ago
It's a lot less interesting once you look trough the names of senior Russian officers - de Tolly, Bagration, von Benningsen, Wittgenstein, Osterman-Tolstoy. One begins to suspect that the reason Kutuzov replaced Barkley was for a sort
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by username332211 11mo ago
You create things of concrete and tangible value. In the eyes of the many, that makes you unworthy of generosity.
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by username332211 11mo ago
If sociology is so much more rigorous, why aren't sociologists invading the economic field? Surely they can use their rigorous statistics to produce papers on economic matters and put the entire field to shame? If anything, we're
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by username332211 11mo ago
> You absolutely have lost money. You haven't realized the losses, but you are definitely poorer and should re-evaluate your risk tolerances based on your current worth. They say long ago somewhere far away an astrologer managed to
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by username332211 11mo ago
> There's also a willingness to be less upset humans making a mistake than a machine. There's willingness to be upset at anyone with deep pockets who can be found accountable. And the motivations for that aren't emotional,
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by username332211 11mo ago
I'm sorry but what? Delaware law exclusively protects the interests of the board of directors. It allows for a unique provision - the hilariously misnamed "Shareholders Rights Plan" that enable a board of directors to issue s
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by username332211 1y ago
I agree, but I still suspect OpenAI and other LLM companies do stuff like that, when an example of a hallucination becomes popular. If I see some example of an LLM saying dumb stuff here, I know it's going to be fixed quickly. If I enc
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by username332211 1y ago
Couldn't you just add a large number of repetitions of "There is no seahorse emoji." to the training set? Edit: Come to think of it, training on a Q&A format is probably better - "Is there a seahorse emoji? No, there
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by username332211 1y ago
South Korea isn't some sort of backwards nation and I'm sure it's chaebols share the same culture. Having had unfortunate encounters with government IT in other countries I can bet that the root cause wasn't the national
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by username332211 1y ago
The crackdown on immigrants is just an excuse. The real reason is different, the government is out of money and it doesn't believe most of the current welfare bill goes to people in genuine need. (Hence why the previous misadventures o
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by username332211 1y ago
I really doubt that. America's Congress seems to have very little difficulty in debanking people all across Europe, and obviously, they have no access to any European identity system. Canada infamously froze the bank accounts of anyone
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by username332211 1y ago
Do you happen to know how many of the interesting studies replicated? A book can cite of studies, but the principal conclusions could be based only on a small subset of the citations. I particular, I'd be very curios to know how many
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by username332211 1y ago
> It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). Given the prevailing tren
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by username332211 1y ago
> In principle, there is nothing really that wrong with a digital ID, as at the moment you have a bunch of UUIDs (mostly) so its not actually that hard to marry you up between departments. It depends. Here's a nice example for you -
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by username332211 1y ago
> Generally, yeah, to use the online government and financial services in Sweden need BankID, which is almost always on your mobile phone. Can someone explain to me why phones seem to be considered more secure than online communication c
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by username332211 1y ago
Perhaps very many. Perhaps few. Perhaps none. I'd like to sidestep the question, and ask, is lethal violence justified as a retaliation? But I'd like to ask that as an ethical, not as a strategic question. Suppose the starts align
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by username332211 1y ago
> As for your comparison, the actual threat from more Luigis is small. There are at least thousands of CEOs at or above the level of Armstrong? And one death, over a seeming period of several years? It's less about the murderer hims
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by username332211 1y ago
Those were efforts at preventing British colonies from becoming Soviet colonies, weren't they? There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.
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by username332211 1y ago
I have nagging the suspicion that the knowledge that a good portion of the population wants them dead is a slightly more significant factor in pushing elites to the Republican side compared to the Trump administration's threats.
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by username332211 1y ago
> How many of those comments are bots? Wasn't there a group cheering in front of the courtroom when the judge dropped the terrorism charge? Those people were not bots. > How many people say things online they wouldn’t say in pers
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by username332211 1y ago
Have you seen social media's reaction to that murderer Mangione?
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by username332211 1y ago
Apart from the Suez crisis and the Rhodesian embargo was there any serious British attempt to maintain the empire after the second World War?
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by username332211 1y ago
And yet, the culture of the realm is probably innocent even there. There are very sound financial reasons why nobody in that island aspires to work in any sort of science and engineering. Similarly, if you are the sort of person interested
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by username332211 1y ago
Somehow, I have the nagging suspicion that the laws of parliament and it's budgets have more to do with the state of British enterprise than the appointment of a sexually-predatory prince as a trade representative. And that you are wel
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by username332211 1y ago
Worse still, they want to sell it below market value, but they want to be paid as if they were selling tickets at market value. I remember finding some story about a contract for Ke$ha or Kathy Perry or some other pop-concoction of the prev
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by username332211 1y ago
And yet, I suspect if you look at the publications of "reliable" institutions in the 1980s, you'd find far more ridiculous things than you'd ever see in the modern era. For one, half the things I see from that era had so

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