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13d ago
It was after times of war, but if you want something better fitting, Estonia stripped all ethnic Russians of citizenship after it left the USSR.
Wasn't it only the Russians who moved in after the annexation into the USSR (which very well could have been most of them, I guess)?
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14d ago
Only 70,000 people watching this on YouTube? The human species really has tuned out to a surprising extent.
Well, the only part of that meaningful to anybody who's not a high-level Go player themselves was the outcome. (People did point this out to EY in the responses to that post.)
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14d ago
How can one go from acknowledging enormity of the thing to being better prepared for being economically replaced by machines or rendered incapable of keeping track of accelerating reality?
Wouldn't that in itself be enough to bury the case even if all the dictionaries of the land agreed that biannual means twice per year?
If there was a clear shared understanding of what the parties were agreeing to, confirmed by 20 years of practice, then should it even matter that the wording of the contract says something different according to common English usage?
(Your cousing lawyer seems to think so, but you say he's a bit pompous so maybe he's too focused on showing off or something.)
EDIT: Actually, shouldn't the uncle be suing the guy he bought the land from? Presumably, he was the one who agreed with your uncle that buying the land will involve the transfer of rights and obligations of the easement agreement so he was the one who misled the buyer about the terms of that agreement and who could've benefitted from that by having the buyer agree to a higher price under the assumption that there's an extra $7500 of revenue attached to the thing over the next 10 years.
I hope one of the Motte's resident lawyers comes and explains how all of this is wrong and my notions of common sense don't apply.
Hmm, the first linked thing dug up an article from a real local Bri'ish newspaper dated something 2010 about the guy's intention to do the marathon thing.
I fed the url of that to the Wayback Machine and the first snapshot is from, like, three days ago, which is suspicious.
But then, I don't know what' the Internet Archive's policy for which pages they snapshot and it seems, uh, implausible that some random irrelevant publication would falsify their records to stick it to the chuds.
But then the article has a quote: "He will be setting off on Monday, July 19, and is aiming to complete each marathon in less than six hours." Which means he'd be running them at a rather casual jogging pace. Maybe doing ~40 km per day like that isn't some kind of implausible superhuman achievement.
But the leg fracture thing still sounds like bullshit.
And the article also has this amazing quote in it:
To prepare for the race Mr Arday, who is also studying for a master’s degree in physical education, has been training hard for five months, running 12 miles a day from 4am to 6am and 10pm until midnight, fitting in a strict routine around his teaching and studying.
Yeah, I think gettting less than 4 hours of sleep per day while running a daily marathon split into two parts for several months would be an implausibly superhuman achievement.
So perhaps some of Arday's claims weren't completely made up, but significantly embellished.
(And none of this matters with regards to the plagiarism accusations and the fact that he got kicked out which probably wouldn't have happened if there wasn't a there there.)
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1mo ago
If not, who do you propose we should charge for Arday's death, if someone else is responsible? Maybe the writers at the Guardian or the Telegraph.
Who's proposing to charge anybody for Arday's suicide?
It's good to distinguish between what's good and what's legal with the understanding that law can never completely account for the complexity of moral judgement. There are bad behaviors that perhaps should never be made illegal, but that doesn't mean we can't still consider them bad.
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1mo ago
It’s not a new thought, it’s just one that’s been proven correct.
Seems like all the people still saying that LLMs can never do anything truly intelligent because they're mere next token predictors didn't get the memo. (Hm, should that be "didn't get the preprint"?)
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2mo ago
Some say the correct acronym is FAGMAN.
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2mo ago
All those examples look like shallow references where a thing was named after a biblical or Catholic thing to sound slightly cooler. Are any of those media Christian beyond that?
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2mo ago
The "Mike Jackson" part seemed really on the nose, but reality is stranger than fiction.
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3mo ago
These are the days of progress towards the Singularity, just believe in and hold fast to the shining vision of paradise on Earth!
A whole lot of people died due to boiler explosions in the early days of the industrial revolution, but in the end it all turned out quite awesome. (In the old sense of being grand and powerful. Don't @ me, Uncle Ted fans.)
This pattern of argument is not convincing -- where people bring up anecdotes about most spectacular fuck-ups and then use them as basis for sarcastically mocking the idea that anything useful could come from this.
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3mo ago
So, I'm kind of clueless about this, but are reasoning models are actually different models, as in different neural net weights?
Like, do you get a reasoning model by running a single-pass model in a loop where you feed it prompts like: "first, understand the problem and make a plan for solving it, formatted like this", then "here's the plan you thought up before, try to execute point 1 now", and so on?
Or do you need a different model specially-trained for this kind of thing and it's a big secret black box how it all works?
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4mo ago
He was trying to run past security to get to the boss door. Clearly, we're dealing with a Dark Souls player.
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4mo ago
And also might not be generally visible.
It's not. 403 Forbidden.
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4mo ago
That wouldn't make grammatical sense. However, if the original phrase was "we need to reign in the Israelis", then maybe it could?
For example, if the speaker was one of those science fiction parasites that burrow into a person's nervous system and take over.
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4mo ago
How does one distinguish prejudice from postjudice?
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4mo ago
At least compared to your average European city where Europeans are the defacto minority.
Big if true. How did you arrive at this conclusion? (I want to check for myself.)
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5mo ago
"Your rebellious colony turned into France."
Brits on suicide watch.
Take nuclear waste for example - if you can just throw your highly radioactive waste into the river, fucking the nearby ecosystem and causing a massive spike in cancer for every living thing that is connected to that river (which is more than you'd think if you haven't studied ecology) you've actually created a problem that will be substantially more expensive to fix than simply following the regulation.
Nobody reasonable wants to throw nuclear waste into the river. What reasonable people want is to vitrify it and then keep it in containers in a parking lot-sized storage yard in the middle of nowhere and enventually maybe reprocess it.
The unreasonable people want to spend ridiculous amounts of money to bury it all underground or something because nuclear waste remains radioactive for millions of years and let's ignore the fact that the longer half-life something has, the less dangerous it is.
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9mo ago
This seems very likely to me to be an open-and-shut case of unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religion by a state employee, and I see zero argument for why it should not be pursued more or less exactly as it has been.
Ackshually... I wonder. It might be viewpoint discrimination, but is it religious viewpoint discrimination? If a student submitted an essay equally critical of trans stuff, but based it on appeals to evolutionary psychology and HBD and inescapable biological realities, I imagine they would get treated similarly.
So it's not clear that religion is the motivating factor here. I don't know if whatever rules there are against religious discrimination would extend to atheistic holders of naughty opinions, but I suspect they wouldn't.
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10mo ago
This will give the EU ready made versions of their own services that they don't need to build up from scratch,
Will it? I'd expect any company leaving Europe to delete their stuff before selling off the datacenters. Sure, the authorities could sweep in and compel the local employees to prevent this from happening, but this would be a rather blatant expropriation of intellectual property without a fig leaf of "this company is voluntarily leaving because they are no longer willing to comply with local laws, too bad!"
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10mo ago
To me this post seems to be a reflection of the absurd dominance of American power, how all of EU is America's bitch, and pointing out how crazy this is without taking sides. But most comments are about defending American actions as moral and proper and how this asshole Frenchman started shit anyway. Have I badly misread this or is everybody else crazy?
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10mo ago
In fact, if US ever goes to war against Iran, it could form Gay Berserker Corps formed 100% of gay men, who will know that surrender is not an option.
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10mo ago
At least here, people complaining about this stuff today are almost invariably bitter losers, rather than pointing at something real. There is discrimination against men, but it isn't really happening there.
This sounds... weird. It's happening. But not here! There are people here who are complaining about it happening here, but we can be confident almost all of them are bitter losers. Is it possible that you're lucky to exist in a bubble of relative reasonableness? Or maybe just bad at noticing things.
If I had a penny every time I saw someone who should know better say something like this, I'd have two cents (the first time was Moldbug, lol).
There's no such thing "hard binary restricted read-only permission" for Internet access. If you want to interact with anything over the net, you send packets. That's a write operation. The program doing it is affecting the world outside.
The only way you could try to have read-only net access is by hoping that all the servers out there follow some kind of convention on how they'll respond to packets. HTTP GET requests aren't supposed to result in a state mutating operation, but there's no HTTP police that shuts down every server not complying with that.
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