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15d ago
In this case, the girl should have followed her initial instincts; in fact probing about it more positively would have revealed that she had a pretty accurately understanding of why the others were cross with her.
Now I'm curious. Why were the others cross with her?
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21d ago
Lots of materialists attempt to resolve this by saying that neural patterns are subjective experience, but this doesn’t actual solve the problem, it just declares it not to exist.
I think there's a symmetry here. One side just declares a problem to exist without any convincing argument other than "it seems so to me" and the other declares it not to exist without any convincing argument other than "it seems so to me". (I'm with the eliminativists, btw.)
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22d ago
It's pretty standard in tech to have stocks as part of your compensation even for entry level positions. I would be surprised if no other highly compensated industries did that. Now, the question is, are the workers at these companies "average Joes"? Dunno. But they probably don't count as elite corporate supermen either. There's way too many of them, for one. (Something, something, if everybody is super, nobody is).
For the average Joe, stocks are a white elephant gift. When and how does he sell them?
He logs into the website of the broker company contracted by the corp to manage stock grants and clicks the "sell" button.
How does he track the taxes on it?
Well, that depends on your country of residence. For example, in one country I'm familiar with, you pay a flat tax on the sale price of any stocks you obtained as part of your renumeration, at the end of the fiscal year in which you sold. There's like an extra form to fill.
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23d ago
Perhaps Scott would be a race scientismist.
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23d ago
Not if it comes with risk of being sanctioned for violating EU environmental regulations and losing access to the cash money.
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1mo ago
I am not an electrical engineer, but I cannot think of anything that could generate sound in a computer that isn't a fan or its speaker. I don't think solid state electronics can make noise?
I think power supply components can generate coil whine. Lots of laptops do this but it tends to be fairly quiet and not a swarm of bees.
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1mo ago
Now that's real grammar Nazism. The will to impose proper Kultur on us savages.
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1mo ago
There's a lot of speculation about who knew what in Charlie Kirk's killer's social network. Is there a general legal duty to report that covers people who learn about a planned a murder?
If it turned out the killer shared his plans with somebody and that person responded with "you're retarded, also never talk to me about this again" but did nothing else, would they be criminally liable?
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1mo ago
From the Numantian solution to "actually, we'd pull a superweapon from our ass and Just Win." It's funny how your participation in this thread was motivated by rightful disdain at that Jim guy's crass violent barbarism, and now you've arrived at fantasies of rightoid genocide.
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1mo ago
Because you'd leave in a huff, or because you'd kill him, or because somebody else would kill him? Or maybe you'd kill yourself? What?
Throwing around apophatic insults and speaking in riddles isn't as cool as you think it is.
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2mo ago
"SNITCHES could be here" he thinks, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be SNITCHES anywhere."
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2mo ago
Everybody is a badass on the Internet.
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2mo ago
It's a depressing second world country with a population shrinking from outmigration because it's poorer than Mexico.
By what metric is it poorer than Mexico?
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2mo ago
wasn't (and likely isn't)
Sir, you were in a coma and woke up in the future.
Checking the inclusion of an element in a hashtable is a constant-time operation, or at least constant-ish -- you still need to compare the elements so it's gonna be proportional to the size of the largest one. So the limiting factor here is memory. I suspect keeping a dictionary resident in RAM on a home PC shouldn't have been a big deal for at least 25 years if not more.
I think there should be an even longer period where it would be fine to keep the dictionary on disk and access it for every typed word, because no human could plausibly type fast enough to outpace the throughput of random reads from a hard disk. No idea how long into the past that era would stretch.
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2mo ago
It could also draw media attention to your case, cause a shitstorm, and force somebody to actually look into it and fix the problem. The martyr strat sometimes works.
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2mo ago
Does it only matter to those people when they're relying on GPS coordinates or something like that, or to anybody trying to keep things at a certain attitude in general?
The latter would be surprising to me. Like, did pilots in the 1950s have to think very carefully about Earth's exact shape?
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2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the real European doctrine for cavalry units in WW2 was to use them as mounted infantry units that dismount and shoot guns during combat.
(The infamous failures of Polish cavalry charging at tanks supposedly didn't actually happen, though they did charge at some infantry formations a couple of times, to mixed results.)
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2mo ago
Okay, so 'nobody' includes the very person making this story.
Isn't this a bit unfair? Earlier he said:
For one thing, almost no one is arguing total LLM incompetence; there are some neat tricks that they can consistently pull off.
From the quote, he doesn't seem to be arguing total LLM incompetence or denying that there are some neat tricks that they can pull off. He seems to be saing that they are insufficiently competent to consider the problems to which they're applied "solved by AI".
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3mo ago
No eugenics, but you need to write an email to Joseph Manderley.
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3mo ago
Ok, I trust you and concede that the guy was in fact harassed by police during normal working hours.
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3mo ago
Was the Nazi-saluting pug guy calling for violence?
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6mo ago
The difference is that domestic producers you compete with will also add VAT to their final price and transfer it to the relevant tax authority, so being an importer doesn't disadvantage you.
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6mo ago
In 2025, peace broke out.
You can find all of them on teh Youtubes. For now. Go watch the dank memes before it's too late.
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