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Blot2882

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    Comment #43117614

    > they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project Right, but they are visibly are. Russ Vought (project 2025) is the Office of Management and Budget directo…

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    Comment #43038717

    > real people don't talk about their stalkers so much. When I was stalked and harassed I kept the details light and didn't provide much in the way of actual community details becau…

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    Comment #41437002

    > Labeling something "flamebait" is a characterization of the tone of an argument, and whether it appears to be designed to incite low-quality discussion/flaminess Which is also no…

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    Comment #41422423

    > "the downright biblical flood of COVID misinformation that emanated from the right" is not a fact - it's an emotional plea The term "flamebait" is also an emotional plea, but we …

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    Comment #41387889

    No one is arguing Java is expressive.

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    Comment #41387250

    Thanks for your insight!

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    Comment #41385866

    That's interesting. I've heard complaints about Kotlins standard library in comments like this[1]. I understand they may be nitpicks but they seem annoying in practice. [1] https:/…

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    Comment #41384852

    I'm not sure how someone could see Kotlin as more expressive than Python, unless I am misinterpreting what expressive means. Python has a good language features and helpful abstrac…

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    Comment #41376476

    No hack job needed on someone who can't call themselves news without going to jail. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/all-the-texts-fox-ne...

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    Comment #41376437

    Not really? They control the ToS and are not under special obligation to enforce them correctly from the government.

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    Comment #41376411

    > There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID No, there wasn't.

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    Comment #41376394

    > But there was a lot of misinformation that the studies themselves were fake That was not misinformation. The idea that Ivermectin was helpful in dealing with CoVID was determined…

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    Comment #41371943

    Mono was, but newer versions of .NET run on Linux and Mac. You can install at the link below, and then making a project is just `dotnet new console` and run with `dotnet run` https…

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    Comment #41369833

    I go in more detail in my other comment but I would imagine this is a definition most people can't get behind. > intelligence can be reasonably defined as "knowledge and skills to …

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    Comment #41369661

    "g" is a measure of narrow set of skills and job performance outcomes that favor western developed society. It's not an observable, it's an inferred value. It makes sense that peop…

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    Comment #41368056

    > but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ. How does one find a definition of intelligence that allows us to correlat…

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    Comment #41352171

    If you were the one hosting it on your own server and storing CSAM that people were sending, yeah, you should be arrested. Nobody cares if you upload a messenger to github, there's…

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    Comment #41342878

    This is one of those posts that just tries to throw in as many rage baiting concepts at once in to maximize angry engagement. Bait aside, nobody calls you homophobic for asking goo…

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    Comment #41310679

    Always enjoyed Sony games. I will not forget that Sony didn't make the PS4 backwards compatible, claiming no one cared about that, and then later offered the ability to play older …

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    Comment #41301383

    > They don't exist anywhere in the document hierarchy so users have to mentally piece together what they're connected to, they carry no context, and they happen long (in computer t…

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    Comment #41271372

    > The point being why should any argument in this line end up with “lets extradite him to the US” Because New Zealand is willing to and he broke the law in the U.S. as well? Why wo…

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    Comment #41264531

    > Even if that’s true If it's true? It's a quote from the talk itself. > it misses the entire point of the parent comment Not really. I would say cheating on your wife with your PR…

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    Comment #41264186

    > extremely well liked By who? By what metric? That is a much shallower claim. I would wager the guy blaming their middling AI development on "work life balance" was not well liked…

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    Comment #41263837

    > if there are victims in 20 countries that why would any third party have priority for enforcing their law That's not really relevant. No one is arguing priority. "Priority" impli…

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    Comment #41210341

    Maybe not what the commenter was saying, but there is a difference between great multi-hour essays and pointless rants stretching out their length to meet a minimum ad requirement.…