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> And I realized, this is what people want, in the sense of this is what they will pay for, this is how they vote with their wallet. What I want is not this, but it is what society…

> somewhere along the lines of "my judgement," "my knack," "my embodied nature," or "my quality of decision making." Do your friends actually believe that AI can't automate these p…

If you are interested, Daniel Boorstin wrote about similar ideas much earlier in The Image.

Maybe it wouldn't change general hygienic practices, but it might have a impact on voting preferences to find out who was funding the research that led to the creation of the virus…

What do you mean by America's fault? Maybe I'm in a left wing bubble, but I was under the impression that it's generally accepted by left and right that the Vietnam war was not jus…

> I am not convinced. "You can no longer hold office" is a permanent punishment. Why should that not be allowed? Let's say that some new evidence comes out that exonerates the pers…

Who are you referring to? For clarification it was Rittenhouse who cleaned graffiti, not any of the victims, which seems to support the grandparents argument.

One can also let themselves be misled by the media for political reasons. If you actually watched the trial and reviewed the publicly available evidence, and still think the jury m…

> He traveled across state lines Why would you think this is even relevant? He lived close to the border, and stayed within the same metro area. > attend a protest with a gun he di…

I guess you don't believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty?

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Technical jargon like "gigantic" or "enormous"?

It seems like it would be simple to just create a fork and archive the old repo. Add a note to the old repo, update a couple of the most important docs and links, and then worry ab…

I think what he meant was that you can take a group of people and train them for a sport. Some of those people (genetically elite athletes) will improve very quickly with minimal t…

I think you are arguing against a strawman. I've never heard someone suggest that the machine operator shouldn't be paid. Same for the other example who would clearly be doing labo…

Yes, we can clearly say that capital gains is unearned. Unearned income can also be taxable.

> no, we can't say at all that capital gains are unearned. Yes, we can say this. The IRS classifies capital gains as unearned income.

The parent post is not talking about managers, they receive a salary and are taxed at regular income rates. It's taking about shareholders. Someone who makes money by owning a stoc…

Lack of healthcare, limited job opportunities, growing income inequality, are just a few reasons off the top of my head.

In general I agree with you, but it also makes me wonder how these people got to this point. I think most people would burn the Mona Lisa if it meant surviving through a cold night…

Yes, that was kind of my point. Either tobacco is uniquely bad or it can be grouped "along with other drugs". It can't be both.

> Tobacco, along with other drugs, is uniquely bad. How can it be "uniquely bad" if it's "along with other drugs"?

I don't think this is true, do you have a source for this? What does it even mean that he constantly marketed himself, is doing lots of shows considered "marketing yourself"?

> their Ukraine coverage is basically Russia-lite, and extremely anti-Ukrainian This is very surprising to me, I thought they were kind of pro Ukraine biased. I asked an AI and it …

Violence is not always counterproductive