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FarMcKon

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About FarMcKon

Builder of Hardware, Software, and Community.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48374196

    A lot of them have rules forcing them to have some amount of exposure to indexes of a market, or all entries in a market. There are MAJOR rule changes made to allow them to do this…

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    Comment #48103920

    Archive.is has some kind of phone tracking CAPTCHA. So now what, a phone is proof of humanity? How is that not defeated by botfarms in an hour, alongside tracking you, as well as a…

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    Comment #45985003

    How about measuring the political bias in base reality? > We want Claude to be seen as fair and > trustworthy by people across the political > spectrum, and to be unbiased and even…

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    Comment #45790535

    Wow. This would be 'meh' if it was some weird individual. This is a 'whitehouse.gov' domain. This our our the Trump Administration folks. Acting like immature 13 year old, and maki…

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    Comment #45439874

    This is a false dichotomy presented to people. By framing this as 'Giant government, or giant business?" you are going to get crap answers. None of these are one size fits all solu…

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    Comment #45413518

    Great, please apply this to yourself, and livestream all of the time, leave the rest of us out of this. People don't have one standard of behavior. I won't tell my kid jokes, I tel…

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    Comment #45413460

    This is the fascist dream. Who defines 'Best Behavior?' Whoever owns the cameras, and the cops. Criticize the president? Not best behavior. Kiss someone of your sex/gender? Not bes…

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    Comment #45328059

    Folks; use some common sense. Results that are too good to be true! The probably are. If this study was reproducible (it is not) someone would have started using it, bragging about…

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    Comment #45052702

    "This article is like saying an apartment complex isn’t “losing money” because the monthly rents cover operating costs but ignoring the cost of the building. Most real estate devel…

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    Comment #44755839

    I read all the articles. I didn't see any mentioning red tape, or regulations.* All that talk of 'regulations' and 'red tape' is a guess. This stink of a "Low priority project use …

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    Comment #44755711

    Folks; Yeah this is a run of the mill dead low-priority project. It happens in private industry, capitalism, communism, the roman empire, etc. Only because government is out in the…

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    Comment #44721799

    God. This isn't AI. None of this is AI. This is dumb sketchy LLM, and the fact that they are destroying the term 'AI' bu building things well short of it, and lying about it, makes…

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    Comment #44268515

    These comments are such an amazing show of very knowledgable and wise people, and complete moppets that have no clue, and can't stop playing expert on things they have no clue on. …

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    Comment #43649609

    """ A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future """ WTF? Somebody needs to touch some !@#@%^ grass. Like roll…

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    Comment #43649601

    wrong post :facepalm:

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    Comment #43345893

    I love how everything is just "AI" now. Machine Learning? AI Random Forest models: AI Some basic curve fitting? AI People in India Mechanical Turk-ing responses ? AI. A guy in a va…

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    Comment #42239100

    Folks, those buildings can be empty, either as a mind!@#% or just crazy future capacity forecasts that may not be real. Watching a bunch of arm-chair experts guess that this buildi…

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    Comment #41136178

    Geeze, Karen take a breath. That is sad news, and it really sucks to lose data At the same time it is a shoestring budget nonprofit, doing tons of good for the world, thanklessly. …

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    Comment #40680807

    "It Could Be Worse" is the absolute worst apologist argument, for anything. Please never excuse something bad, because you can imagine, or see somewhere else something even worse.

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    Comment #40574133

    Yeah, I (as a biker) also hate dangerous bikers. Especially those weaving onto / off of the sidewalks. The up-side is that the most dangerous bike is 1/100th as damaging as a perfe…

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    Comment #40574041

    This is actually the opposite. at 10X the size, we have 30x the commuters (it scales faster than population) and 30x the demand. All of these 'car' cities used to have great street…

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    Comment #39703373

    Oh! Glad to see you are so well educated and experienced in mental health treatment, that you can speak for what every single person that medical condition would ever conceivably d…

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    Comment #39028711

    We had 14 regional / internal to the US airlines in the 80's. We had 10 airlines in the '00's. We have basically 4 or 6 national / regional airlines now. "JetBlue's biggest problem…

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    Comment #38862430

    You can just say 'I don't like this' instead of making up a bunch of 'just so stories' about why. Fine if you don't like density, but the whole pseudo-science `Dense urbanization i…