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Comment #47004215
Yes, it is an excellent reason to discard it as a slop.
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Comment #46749420
There is difference in taking pride of not knowing things and considering it as regrettable necessity.
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Comment #46450295
> Properly budgeting and analyzing costs takes a lot of time For family? Not really
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Comment #46336652
This post seems misplaced.
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Comment #46014838
Giving access to the same info to more people is reducing privacy. I prefer to not give to even more people. In the same way as my doctor knowns some private health info but to kee…
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Comment #46014830
Giving access to the same info to more people is reducing privacy. I prefer to not give to even more people.
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Comment #46014816
Some banks at least are selling customer data.
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Comment #46012461
I am still waiting for something that would support your claim rather than mention something sort - of - related.
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Comment #46012456
Links to materials that would support your claim. And at least mention terms you used.
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Comment #46012454
No, ones that would support your claim. And at least mention terms you used.
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Comment #46008898
Can you link any evidence supporting this claim? This term sounds like a standard-issue woo.
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Comment #46008889
Can you link any evidence supporting this claim?
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Comment #46008880
Your first linked page has no word "depression" on it
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Comment #46007586
Note that I am not saying that "throw away regulation, always less regulation is better". That would be asking to drop all regulations. I am saying that regulations have cost so yo…
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Comment #46007547
Sadly, sometimes people are wrong. This applies also to enacting monstrously stupid regulations. Or even ones that were introduced entirely as revenge or to create opportunity for …
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Comment #46004017
2026?
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Comment #46004011
> this is a greed problem. Also that. But overregulation makes too hard for others to compete and offer cheaper insulin.
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Comment #46003761
What is the point of car that on Mondays changes colour to blue and on each first Friday of the year explodes? If neither you not anyone else can fix it, without more cost than mak…
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Comment #46003507
> It's not that we never need less regulation this would be going against > 'we need less regulation' is never the right answer
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Comment #46003478
I am not going to collect old clothes (used as rags and ready to be thrown out) for months. For start, my flat is not large enough for that. I just throw them away with rubbish and…
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Comment #46003462
Less regulation is a good target. Just not sole one. Harm reduction (a good reason for regulation) also needs to be balanced with it. But piles of regulation have costs - both in r…
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Comment #46002845
> 'we need less regulation' is never the right answer Sometimes it is. For example some countries had or have regulation that only nobles can work in specific professions or wear s…
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Comment #46002815
> LLM is a lookup table which tells you "if the last N tokens were s_1, s_2, ..., s_N, then the following token will be t_1 with probability p_1, t_2 with probability p_2, etc...".…
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Comment #46002421
> The last 30 years have been dominated by deregulation Maybe in USA, and not everywhere. From what I heard deregulation had not happened in USA healthcare. And describing last 30 …
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Comment #46002403
This one is about housing crisis, not "western homeless crisis". At least in Europe it is not (yet?) causing very large scale of homelessness problem.