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John23832

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About John23832

I recognized the limits of my knowledge.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49242410

    It’s the lack of community. In prior eras, we had more community to help us deal with ourselves. Now, without community, we just ruminate. Or fall into toxic, one subject, online c…

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    Comment #49100606

    And then the "good guy" gets shot in the back and killed. https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/mother-of-good-samar...

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    Comment #49068765

    iPhones have unique identifiers. So do you, via your set of emails used. The email maps to the iCloud account, which then maps to the iPhone. It would be trivial to map a backup to…

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    Comment #49067575

    But if the data is backed up on iCloud, Apple will provide it with a warrant.

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    Comment #49010464

    You’re yelling at clouds.

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    Comment #49009749

    Yes. None of the supposed action of creatine was backed by any statistically significant study. Just drink water. Or don't. It's up to you.

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    Comment #49009632

    Knowledge of the potential is peripheral expectation. If you can say "Oh yea that makes sense" with the same set of knowledge you had both before and after some event happens, all …

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    Comment #49009151

    If you actually drank enough water daily, sans creatine, I'm sure you'd feel better.

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    Comment #49009016

    Most people taking creatine just need to drink water. They drink more water using creatine. In reality, the water/hydration is doing the heaviest lift, not the creatine.

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    Comment #48963049

    > Seems odd that they don't discuss a common reason to short a stock: you expect it to go down, without any real opinion on the business. The reverse is true for meme stocks as wel…

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    Comment #48949941

    > The algorithmic trading firms were already doing this via scraping. That doesn’t matter. That’s fundamentally different than the president selling access to himself.

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    Comment #48892887

    Then show us the example of Claude uploading a home directory to Anthropic because we have an example of Grok uploading a home directory to X.

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    Comment #48834805

    Because we learned more, gathered more public concern, and then acted? If there’s not a eureka moment of knowledge, should we do nothing?

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    Comment #48820087

    > Human change can be subject to the law of large numbers, but nothing necessitates any particular change being towards progress. The same can be said of the "Great Man Theory" (or…

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    Comment #48817172

    People can feel how they want to feel, campaigns are run on feelings and not facts. Just because Trump says Haitians are eating cats and dogs doesn't make it true. The Mormons of U…

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    Comment #48816881

    No, total immigration matters. Human progress is always subject to the law large numbers. Skilled polish engineers don't want to be the only polish person in the entire country. Th…

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    Comment #48816797

    In total, China has roughly the same amount of immigrants as Ireland. China is also objectively becoming more closed, not more open.

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    Comment #48755476

    Given that Meta has run 5ish layoffs at this point, and everyone is in survival mode, what did they expect? Everyone wants to juice whatever numbers possible to keep their jobs.

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    Comment #48741135

    4k for rent 3k for retirement 3k for everything else. I’m not going to sit and itemize, but I could very easily see 3k getting eaten (figuratively)

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    Comment #48418827

    I needed one. Couldn't find both together. Asked Claude.

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    Comment #48399695

    It's always AI until proven otherwise... even then I'm skeptical.

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    Comment #48278093

    I could point to SO much anxiety in right leaning people. Demographic, financial, political, etc.

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    Comment #48278059

    This is the actual answer. Very few teams internally actually got access to Claude Code to begin with. All teams still have access to the clause models. It’s a carve out to dogfood…