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postflopclarity

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    Comment #49088303

    claude's grammar has gotten significantly worse with latest versions. it no longer writes perfectly at all

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    Comment #49023409

    there's always something. technology has come a long way. AI is disruptive, but so were railways, electricity, the transistor, etc...

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    Comment #49022541

    > The SP500 gives 10-12% the historical average is closer to 7%. sustained 12% would be excellent growth for any mature firm

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    Comment #48979526

    there are already reasons given in another comment thread. the main reason is that this IR is itself written in Julia, and using multiple languages is cumbersome and annoying.

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    Comment #48909625

    it's easily resolvable. the first statement is a lie: MANY students pay the full, published cost of attendance.

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    Comment #48849644

    anybody saying they're identical clearly doesn't use both...

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    Comment #48849632

    you have a very strange experience

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    Comment #48836533

    https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/musks-grok-chatbot-faces-...

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    Comment #48835190

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    Comment #48810693

    I don't know if I'd call this an "unfortunate" result or not. it's neither good nor bad, just a thing. Arpino & Mogi are different authors that wrote a different paper that I didn'…

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    Comment #48796533

    seems like an odd choice to so emphatically phrase this as a quality of "the left" when there are so clearly many plausible confounding factors (education, wealth, employment statu…

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    Comment #48732754

    not sure what nuance you're looking for in between "abuses" and "children"

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    Comment #48724314

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    Comment #48723556

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    Comment #48659765

    or I could just do something better with my time :/ so much effort all to fix what should be a clear and objective inaccuracy

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    Comment #48652491

    you have described my experience very accurately

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    Comment #48650829

    "only" a 7% increase in deaths

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    Comment #48645775

    I think one of the last straws for me before I quit trying to help is when I "lost" some disputed edit (and the page was subsequently locked) because the original author provided a…

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    Comment #48645680

    it was in the computational social choice sphere which attracts a lot of amateurs interested in electoral reform and "voting theory" (which of course is not the typical term used f…

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    Comment #48645526

    I am confident that my edits were high quality and improved the mathematical accuracy and clarity of the page. unfortunately I was editing under my real name and I'd rather not dox…

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    Comment #48645497

    indeed. the field I was trying to improve tend to attract a lot of cranks and trisectors. the topics are not "contentious" in the typical political sense but the pages are closely …

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    Comment #48644078

    trying to contribute to wikipedia was the most miserable experience in a "collaborative" process I've ever had in my life. Like arguing with cranks at a town hall meeting, ignorant…

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    Comment #48633939

    > In that particular sense I think NYC is the clear best city in the country, yes. if you don't like cities, you won't like NYC. but as far as "city" goes, NYC is the clear best an…