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Comment #49211765
> You don't see the irony here with what you're doing? Sorry, is OP the POTUS, speaking with Presidential authority and threatening federal employees with termination of employment…
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Comment #49211719
> over the past year so many [federal employees] have been pushed out and so many more have been under pressure to produce only politically-approved output This is the most obvious…
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Comment #49201019
No, that's just making a second problem.
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Comment #49198666
Parent didn't say "all are wife beaters" but that they are statistically more likely to be. The rephrasing in the sibling comment to mine is similarly accurate, even if you don't l…
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Comment #49198066
Well, I'll bite. How often would it need to happen for you to find it outrageous?
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Comment #49197366
> It’s part of a larger effect where people measurably bias their voting against policies that sound like they will benefit rich people. Blaming this on voters gives up the propaga…
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Comment #49184751
To bring it full circle, it can also be true that it wouldn't have happened to a more competent pilot under the same circumstances. Per the parent commenter's point, it doesn't hur…
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Comment #49170724
I read 5 as reselling the singular copy one owns similar to how a disc or cartridge can be resold.
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Comment #49168203
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Anyway, more seriously, I hope it's obvious by now that I don't particularly care that my means of communication is so offensive t…
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Comment #49164402
Right. The rule of thumb is that the overhead size of the model that's not the weights is so vastly outweighed by the actual number of weights that it can be disregarded. My shorth…
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Comment #49162723
Well, yeah, the straight multiplication, er, well, "follows" from the rule of thumb. Hope that helps!
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Comment #49151582
Yeah, a good rule of thumb is that the weights take up ~100% of the size of the model, so 100B bytes (8-bit quant) would be, well, 100GB and a 4-bit quant would be half that.
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Comment #49149491
> I have never seen them randomly arresting someone for no reason. The fact you have not personally witnessed something does not mean it never happens. It's like saying "I've never…
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Comment #49149362
> I don't know, I see protestors pretty regularly and they're a huge disturbance to 99% of people that are just trying to get on w their lives. Somehow I get the feeling that your …
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Comment #49149098
To be fair to Nielsen, she is a worthwhile person regardless of her academic successes or failures; this point only does her a disservice to suggest that her words would be better …
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Comment #49146216
From a strict "anti-money laundering" standpoint (how the bank thinks), money laundering is taking money that is suspected as being proceeds of criminal activity ("dirty" money) an…
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Comment #49146005
> Believe it or not, not everyone who disagrees with you is some paid shill. Whether it's true or not, making dubious arguments from a relatively new online account is actually ind…
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Comment #49145958
> I'm not sure what this whole thing is even about The choice to voluntarily recognize the union would remove an obstacle for its creation. Deciding not to, in that context, can be…
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Comment #49122208
They didn't say OP's proposal wasn't privacy-preserving, but that preservation of personal privacy is contrary to the actual reason that age checks are being pushed by politicians.…
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Comment #49087276
> they might be a good idea I know everyone's situation is different, but it is regardless good to keep in mind one is writing a code on their device which will wipe said device, w…
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Comment #49087204
Bonus points if they ask if it unlocks the device and you say, "No it erases the data," with a straight face.
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Comment #49058214
What is the distinction between government and state? As for your question, Russia is nominally a democracy but I wouldn't trust the veracity of their state media reports.
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Comment #49047641
> How did we end up with the word with the long-o having one o, and the word with the short-o having two? Neither is pronounced with a long "O" sound or a short "O" sound, and they…