jkf
2d ago
Nice list! Could add "Famous Five" and "Swallows and Amazons" et al if you want to inject some anglophilia and normalize free-range activities. (eg. looking for pirate treasure, or being a pirate, depending on one's taste"
jkf
6d ago
Also, in this case, Russell specifically admitted that he didn't even consider whether he could safely stop at the yellow light.
Yeah it's more a case for "don't talk to cops" or at least "know what the law really says and don't openly admit to breaking it" which sometimes works OK for traffic cops.
"I was really close to the intersection as the light changed and didn't think I could safely stop in time, so I proceeded into the intersection at my current legal speed" is all you should ever say about entering an intersection on a yellow; "IDK IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST OMG I CAN'T EVEN" would possibly be even better if you think you can pull it off.
jkf
11d ago
Wouldn't the next step be to actually do this? We've "made fusion power" quite some time ago, it's just not significantly energy positive, so not super-useful as a generating station.
There's no such requirement if it's a method of making gold -- it doesn't even need to be net-positive in terms of gold value for it to be an interesting thing to try in the lab.
So I'm a bit suspicious that it's not actually that easy to do -- although maybe they are kicking off Project Rumplestiltskin at Livermore Labs as we speak, who knows.
jkf
11d ago
I can confirm that I have bought womens' razors at times because they were cheaper (slightly) and didn't have the dumb 'lubricating strip' that clogs up with beard if you don't shave often enough.
jkf
13d ago
Arguably, it depends. If I want to study breast cancer, then I likely want to select "people with boobs"
I don't think silicone bags get cancer -- are estrogen induced breast deposits in males particularly vulnerable?
with the wokes probably prefering "SAAB"
Is that really what they are saying now? I'll be polluting their data by answering "99" in the future.
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jkf
15d ago
Gamers are not flattered because no one but Elon ever wanted to be an accomplished PoE player on top of a world-class business career, and Elon did it in such a cringe way that if anything, he tanked their status along with his.
If they are so much better than him, they should be able to slaughter him despite his PtP account though, right?
Maybe the gamers feel low status because all their grinding doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the end.
jkf
15d ago
I mean it's certainly possible to release your training code as well as the resulting weights for an LLM -- now I'm curious as to whether this company is actually doing that or not?
If not, agreed that "OS" is a big misnomer here -- there are certainly lots of individuals floating around who might like to train their own version of this and could afford to do so (FIRE startup retirees spring to mind) and "you can use our weights" is quite different from "you can try to make improvements on our process". More like free beer than free speech.
jkf
15d ago
at least they had the fig leaf of 'it is not about ideology, but the bad term is hurting really people!'
"it's not about ideology, the bad (incorrect) term is polluting our data" seems pretty good -- we are talking about a medical database here, peoples' sex is actually a thing that matters; gender not so much.
(to the extent that it's a thing that actually exists, which I agree that the thrust here is that it's a 1:1 match with sex, and therefore would be redundant to track separately)
jkf
15d ago
I think gardening leave is still legal in both places though; after all it's just an extended notice period with modified duties essentially?
jkf
15d ago
that Army Corp biologist page that included fish gender.
Fish... ah, pretty clearly don't have gender? It can be pretty hard to even tell what sex they are without cutting them open, nevermind enquiring as to their feelings as to the roles imposed upon them by fish society.
Maybe next time the Army Corp biologists will write their report using proper scientific language; serves them right if you ask me.
Canadian Scots were much less border-inflected in general, so I think the selection effect would be pretty different. Handgun availability is probably more like Massachusetts than Scotland, but nothing like the Southern states.
Scotland itself can be... pretty violent? Knife fights are I think statistically more deadly than handgun wounds...
jkf
18d ago
"don't party on your own supply, and never front on a front" is common knowledge -- sounds like this guy was doing both.
jkf
23d ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure he's talking about the shrubs around people's houses -- prophylactic burning is probably not a great control mechanism there...
jkf
24d ago
Should be possible to slaughter a calf in a rad suit -- the L*** helps those who help themselves, y'know?
jkf
25d ago
It's just the no-fun brigade up to their usual tricks -- Peterson has been railing about this kind of mundane intervention to suck the enjoyment out of life for regular folks as incipient tyranny for some time, and I'm inclined to agree. See also health-justified alcohol taxes (now spreading to countries where people can't really afford them and could really use a drink, eg Mexico) and 20 mph speed limits in the UK.
jkf
28d ago
If nothing else, a reasonable suspicion that someone bought the seeds of an illegal plant make it much easier to get a search warrant
Not sure how you get from "Bill got a letter in the mail" to reasonable suspicion?
The only way you are getting busted either way is the cops gaining entry to your house somehow (tipped off or there for other reasons probably), in which case "I just like to keep my fruit in a carboy" isn't going to do you any more good than "I thought those were tomato seeds".
jkf
28d ago
Yeah, but I thought you were arguing that controlling weed is harder relative to controlling alcohol, and I'm not seeing it.
IDK why you thought that -- I said ' "I dropped some seeds in the bush someplace" isn't bad... '
Doesn't that imply that attempts to ban it are actually keeping the potency down?
IDK, maybe? Careful illegal growers were certainly making very potent weed back in the 90's; probably earlier. How potent does it need to be?
jkf
29d ago
The US government did try pretty hard for like 50 years and failed abjectly, so it must at least be... fairly hard? I'm prepared to accept "both are above the threshold of hardness that the richest most powerful nation in the world can accomplish"?
jkf
29d ago
Ok, so, like, not like buying fruit legally at the supermarket, as if it's just a regular Tuesday grocery day.
No, more like putting the fruit in some sort of carboy, adding yeast, monitoring fermentation, etc -- do you really think it would not have been possible to charge somebody for doing this during prohibition based on the "I just like to store my fruit that way" defense?
What does it depend on?
Whether there are male plants present and whether flowering is correctly triggered before it gets too rainy (for outdoor growing) causing your weed to become mouldy. The proliferation of different strains these days is at least 80% hipsterism.
jkf
29d ago
What am I missing?
That marijuana is even than this! People are growing it illegally right now!
jkf
29d ago
You will be surprised to learn that people have been growing pot illegally for a long time -- you used to be able to buy seeds mail-order; I imagine you can get them on the internet these days without needing to go particularly dark. Or you get them from your pot growing friends. What I'm trying to say here is that the potency of marijuana doesn't depend as much as you seem to think on the strain.
Not white enough for Americans to care all that much about them, no.
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