> While I would like to see us return to having federal senators elected by the state legislatures I certainly wouldn't. There are multiple states with legislatures having D/R party ratios in excess of 20 points…
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain
I limited the first point to specifically deal with learning the subject matter, but I added the second point to account for any negative externalities which may fall outside that. A small (contrived) example: a child…
For the state itself? None. For state employees (i.e. representatives, judges, etc.)? Some get kickbacks. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal See:…
> I have nothing good to say about the USDA or FDA. At least in the context of the article, the requirements for labeling ice cream as such forces some brands to change to "frozen dessert" when they skimp too much on…
Your reaction is based on 3 unproven assertions: * An AI tutor is a net positive in learning for the subject matter it covers. * An AI tutor does not cause other harms. * An AI tutor is going to be cheap enough that…
We're also not even attempting to be smart about our water usage, particularly when it comes to agriculture. Growing crops in a desert that require significant amounts of water to grow is already pretty bad, then…
> (copyright, that expire) For all practical purposes, copyrights no longer expire. Any creative work made in your lifetime is unlikely to enter the public domain within your lifetime unless it was made during your…
> E.g. prototypes, internal tools, low scale CRUD apps, personal projects, etc. My experience has been that small-ish projects like these are the most likely to contain code with bond-villain level of complexity (and…
With consumer brands (e.g., Crucial) being shuttered in the wake of AI companies buying up all available RAM production capacity, it's difficult to imagine consumer RAM production even returning to normal anytime soon.…
In a large enough organization with many layers to it, it very well may be that executives were neither involved nor aware of criminal wrongdoing, and even when they are, you'll never find sufficient evidence to charge…
To start with, the war on drugs was initiated by Nixon as a way to target political enemies (hippies and non-whites).
Those cities encompass both urban and suburban areas, and they represent something like 80% of the country's population. While I'm sympathetic to the notion rural areas should not go unrepresented, I find an electoral…
It seems a relatively simple first step should be to declare that algorithmic feeds which cater content to individuals render the platform a publisher and thus no longer subject to section 230 protections.
It is guaranteed we'll quickly find ourselves back here or worse if we do anything short of imprisoning virtually all involved in the current administration, voting out most members of the House and Senate, impeaching…
> It would also be a bad idea to abolish the EC because then candidates would only ever campaign in cities. As opposed to campaigning exclusively in the half-dozen swing states that matter?
When talking about the health impacts of smoking, most people (the article included) focus on the lung cancer aspect but gloss over the general heart and lung impacts. Upon banning smoking in public areas, my city and…
I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. While I'm aware many (most? all?) polling locations allow for early voting, the reality is that many people wait…
The problem you're describing isn't so much that private companies are allowed to choose who they do business with, but rather that the US has allowed far too much consolidation of markets to occur. Regarding your…
There's a very important distinction to be made. Nazi rhetoric earning bans on private platforms happens because a large number of people organize in protest against such rhetoric. Advertisers see this and don't want to…
I would expect such a grant to be handled by local/city government, which should have the local knowledge you speak of.
If they're right: * Use AI to eliminate all white collar jobs. * Combine AI with robotics to eliminate all blue collar jobs. * Combine AI with military hardware to kill any rabble who may become threats to the ruling…
This article reads like a rather flippant dismissal of the original concern that "earning" a billion dollars cannot be done without some moral compromise. Sure, if you start off with $2 million and double it 9 times,…
Disney?
> Gaza residents voted Hamas into power, despite Hamas’s vile charter pledging erasure of Israel and Jews and so on. Reminder: * The last parlimentary election held in Palestine was 2006 [1]. * The median age in…
> While I would like to see us return to having federal senators elected by the state legislatures I certainly wouldn't. There are multiple states with legislatures having D/R party ratios in excess of 20 points…
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain
I limited the first point to specifically deal with learning the subject matter, but I added the second point to account for any negative externalities which may fall outside that. A small (contrived) example: a child…
For the state itself? None. For state employees (i.e. representatives, judges, etc.)? Some get kickbacks. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal See:…
> I have nothing good to say about the USDA or FDA. At least in the context of the article, the requirements for labeling ice cream as such forces some brands to change to "frozen dessert" when they skimp too much on…
Your reaction is based on 3 unproven assertions: * An AI tutor is a net positive in learning for the subject matter it covers. * An AI tutor does not cause other harms. * An AI tutor is going to be cheap enough that…
We're also not even attempting to be smart about our water usage, particularly when it comes to agriculture. Growing crops in a desert that require significant amounts of water to grow is already pretty bad, then…
> (copyright, that expire) For all practical purposes, copyrights no longer expire. Any creative work made in your lifetime is unlikely to enter the public domain within your lifetime unless it was made during your…
> E.g. prototypes, internal tools, low scale CRUD apps, personal projects, etc. My experience has been that small-ish projects like these are the most likely to contain code with bond-villain level of complexity (and…
With consumer brands (e.g., Crucial) being shuttered in the wake of AI companies buying up all available RAM production capacity, it's difficult to imagine consumer RAM production even returning to normal anytime soon.…
In a large enough organization with many layers to it, it very well may be that executives were neither involved nor aware of criminal wrongdoing, and even when they are, you'll never find sufficient evidence to charge…
To start with, the war on drugs was initiated by Nixon as a way to target political enemies (hippies and non-whites).
Those cities encompass both urban and suburban areas, and they represent something like 80% of the country's population. While I'm sympathetic to the notion rural areas should not go unrepresented, I find an electoral…
It seems a relatively simple first step should be to declare that algorithmic feeds which cater content to individuals render the platform a publisher and thus no longer subject to section 230 protections.
It is guaranteed we'll quickly find ourselves back here or worse if we do anything short of imprisoning virtually all involved in the current administration, voting out most members of the House and Senate, impeaching…
> It would also be a bad idea to abolish the EC because then candidates would only ever campaign in cities. As opposed to campaigning exclusively in the half-dozen swing states that matter?
When talking about the health impacts of smoking, most people (the article included) focus on the lung cancer aspect but gloss over the general heart and lung impacts. Upon banning smoking in public areas, my city and…
I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. While I'm aware many (most? all?) polling locations allow for early voting, the reality is that many people wait…
The problem you're describing isn't so much that private companies are allowed to choose who they do business with, but rather that the US has allowed far too much consolidation of markets to occur. Regarding your…
There's a very important distinction to be made. Nazi rhetoric earning bans on private platforms happens because a large number of people organize in protest against such rhetoric. Advertisers see this and don't want to…
I would expect such a grant to be handled by local/city government, which should have the local knowledge you speak of.
If they're right: * Use AI to eliminate all white collar jobs. * Combine AI with robotics to eliminate all blue collar jobs. * Combine AI with military hardware to kill any rabble who may become threats to the ruling…
This article reads like a rather flippant dismissal of the original concern that "earning" a billion dollars cannot be done without some moral compromise. Sure, if you start off with $2 million and double it 9 times,…
Disney?
> Gaza residents voted Hamas into power, despite Hamas’s vile charter pledging erasure of Israel and Jews and so on. Reminder: * The last parlimentary election held in Palestine was 2006 [1]. * The median age in…