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Honestly, I'm starting to get burned out on the political hysteria around GPT. Yes, GPT is biased. We know, because they openly say that they're biasing GPT. Thing is, they don't t…

> The problem is that no automatic method we have now will catch context. I disagree. The problem is that nobody is willing to be realistic about the limitations of automated moder…

Ten years ago I moved from Canada to the US. I was 2 years out of college, and the tiny local software consultancy I worked for went out of business after our clients refused to pa…

Weird... their name is EPA not SPA

This author appears to be completely unaware that, in the US anyway, the progress of the pandemic has been completely and totally disconnected from all control measures. San Franci…

It's adorable to go read old Scott posts and remember when I was as naieve as he is

What does it do to the poor suckers who keep working only to have all their money given to people who sit on their asses all day doing nothing?

Talking about airborne transmission would make it too obvious that masks are pointless security theatre. Can't have that

Very, very poorly. I do not feel safe talking about it in this forum, as I am sure I will get yelled at by dozens of people for at least 4 different reasons.

Fox news is a laughably pathetic excuse for news. But, so are the rest of the major corporate news outlets. In the US, they're all garbage, and Fox isn't any worse than the others.…

The intermediates between the farms and the grocery stores were closed by law, for the most part

Yes. This is why weev went to prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach tldr: AT&T has an account status page that, for mobile devices, did not require any author…

> I find it interesting how over 20-30 years corporations have reprogrammed people to believe working from home (WFH) is a perk and not a burden. And, people are celebrating how pr…

This doesn't make any sense. What does a "60 day cut" even mean? As I understand it, H1Bs get processed now and then get issued in like October. It is more than 60 days from now un…

Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse" I don't expect the WHO to be infalliable, and I don't think this reflects malice or incompetence (t…

Now do all the protests from 3 years ago

I am prepared by keeping 20 grand cash on hand. I'm a foreigner on a work permit. I'll be fine _financially_ in a recession but if I get laid off suddenly my legal residency is thr…

It's really more the second amendment that makes it harder to do

Fun fact: a used PCR machine is only $2500. And if the prices on tests kits out of asia are accurate... You could literally test yourself in your own home for that price. And then …

According to this very report, 80% of cases are "mild or moderate". This can mean anything from getting the sniffles for a while, to full on pneumonia (but not enough pneumonia to …

I don't know how you can rationalize "this was so bad that China cut off half the supply chains in the world" with "its just a flu bruh"

What differences in behaviour would you have expected to see in the CDC if their budget wasn't cut? I'm not seeing it. This thing spreads too fast to meaningfully stop it, China, K…

While I agree with the general gist of what you're getting at, I think you're stating it much too strongly. In a sufficiently volatile and capital-starved environment, I think a st…

Discussions like this are frustrating to me because they always seem to skip over what feels like a crucial element: Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone? I get …

Couldn't you just graft the old water filter's RFID chip onto whatever new filter you wanted?