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If I want to use it plugged in, that's my own damn business.

Sometimes when you "think different" you invent relativity, and sometimes you invent Time Cube. Every mouse on the market has a battery life of months. Every mouse on the market wi…

We already have publicly-available models that are good enough for spam and scams. When running on CPU they are already faster than most people can type. The cat is out of the bag.…

This will catch only the laziest and stupidest cheaters. Crafting an argument is the hard part of an essay. A student can rewrite an essay, leaving not a single word in place, but …

The quality of the story is a matter of opinion, but the linearity of the story is objective fact. Just look at the chart you posted: there is one linear story to follow, with just…

How is the affair "linked" to Epstein? As far as I can tell, Epstein merely learned of it and tried to use it as leverage. Besides, how could Epstein use his own crimes to blackmai…

I don't understand why Gates would care. He was well known within Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for constantly going after female subordinates. Why would this…

It's unfortunate that VNs are both a medium and a genre. For reasons I don't quite understand, I adore the medium. Yet there are genre conventions that I dislike and that new reade…

SubaHibi is linear. It has the classic fake freedom: there is only one true ending and only one path to it. Any choices you make are either right or wrong, and the wrong ones are p…

For reasons I do not understand, I find actually playing a visual novel more immersive than just seeing video of one. Visual novels may seem like a passive experience, but the tiny…

I don't think it's obviously solvable. All current approaches are plainly incapable of introspection. These GPTs don't understand their own "minds" half as well as we understand th…

That scene is ridiculous, but the de-aging was worse than ridiculous. At the beginning of the movie I thought De Niro was supposed to be about fifty years old. I knew he had been d…

Effective Java 2nd Edition is 15 years old now. Is the Java information at all accurate?

>It does get you 11 carrier fleet strike groups, and 5,500 nuclear weapons, though. The majority of government spending is on social services. Defense is usually under 20% of the b…

> A degree from a university that has gotten rid of grades will not be worth much compared to one that hasn't. You may be surprised to learn that quite a few well-regarded universi…

You just said the same thing dressed up in cynical language.

That could be learned working the checkout line at a grocery store. I think universities can aim a little higher.

However you want to justify it, the result is the same: luxury toys are subsidized by people who don't buy them. Every expensive car sold makes everyone's insurance premiums go up.…

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>and continues to get more expensive. There still is inflation, but the idea that it's still terribly high is just not true. We are currently below 5% annualized inflation. This is…

For most people, things cost less than they did a year ago. Real wages are up over the last year. Inflation hasn't been a real problem for most people. I can't control what conclus…

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Suicide rates have been rising rapidly since 2000. They are now the highest they've been since WWII. Granted, suicide is also under-reported due to stigma, but it's another data po…

I don't understand this concern about inflation. It was never that high, didn't last very long, and wages kept up pretty well (real wages are higher today than they were a year ago…