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policipal

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    Comment #34863354

    GPT consistently withholds information that its training has categorized as potentially derogatory or offensive to some groups, even if such information is factually correct. It is…

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    Comment #32216288

    Start an open source project. Look for a problem and create a solution for it that is better than alternative solutions. Work with contributors, to build something that is useful t…

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    Comment #30821844

    Lions, Chickens, Hamsters, and polar bears are all known to eat their own offspring. You might say that qualifies. A wide variety of animals to long to list are quite rough with th…

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    Comment #30553808

    Your entrepreneurial drive is admirable but it sounds like you may be missing "the business" and "market analysis" parts that are necessary for viability. You might consider teamin…

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    Comment #29636348

    They already exist. Algorithmia being just one. So the answer has been yes for several years.

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    Comment #29520151

    About 45% of the country is just plain deluded. 10% doesn't care. The other 45% are presumably enlightened. Politicians are fighting to keep it that way.

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    Comment #29414891

    In the not so distant past most people didn't go to college. This notion that working remotely for a time is resulting in mental health issues is symptomatic of a society that is r…

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    Comment #29305098

    Build an inferior product (fueling takes 25x longer than a gas powered car) then charge you more to make it less inferior. I think electric vehicles are cool but when you push asid…

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    Comment #29197238

    and what happens after 100k years? do billions simply suffocate and die? Seems like a kick the can down the road sort of plan. lol.

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    Comment #29155317

    Why aren't governments subsidizing artificial breasts, I mean artificial carrots? Because the real thing is better.

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    Comment #29149688

    To the "doing what question"... almost unanimously they all said that they wished they "said this or that".. Not so much did this or that... People tend to look back on their lives…

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    Comment #29148304

    The east coast has been hit by floods as far back as both written, oral, and geological history tells us. In fact the army corp of engineers and predecessors have been building, dy…

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    Comment #29138685

    Is Lisp object oriented? CLOS is excellent and highly object oriented. Is Smalltalk a functional Language? ST has functional features like the ability to pass a closure but is not …

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    Comment #29117585

    Being a bit older than yourself I would suspect...And sitting next to several dozen people of all ages on their death beds, I can say not one said they wished they watched more mov…

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    Comment #29116984

    Java and C# simply have a lot of ceremony and features and that's not a bad thing. However, it's easy to miss the forest through the trees. Java is not bad at all nor is C# but the…

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    Comment #29116976

    That's a research topic and a few months of study. There is no freebie paragraph that will give you quick cheap answer. You'll need to do your homework to get anything short of a s…

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    Comment #29116950

    Yup I do think he's a sniveling liar and a coward. He fled to a country where person privacy isn't even a right to hide prosecution for all intents and purposes being a spy himself…

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    Comment #29116866

    You hate to say it but how many people look back at a youth waisted playing years worth of first person shooter video games and say "time well spent"? Only children and people who …

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    Comment #29102293

    Where Rent-a-centers and Check cashing services open Gun homicides Increase. Correlation is not causation. Perhaps people are buying guns because of the increasing Homicide rates. …

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    Comment #29056436

    Snowden is not an honorable person. He chose to work for US intelligence agencies as a low level unix admin, agreed to keep information private, attesting to that in employment agr…

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    Comment #29056387

    Assange is a criminal. He's not a freedom fighter. He's not a member of any formal press agency. He's not even a seeker of truth. He's a distributor of stolen information. He now h…

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    Comment #29035585

    nature finds a way... there you go.

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    Comment #29029585

    I would offer that Smalltalk has the most straight forward model of OO. If you want to compare OO models I might compare ST to C# instead.

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    Comment #29029554

    The simplest (easiest) OO model I would argue is Smalltalk.