@MetaReflexive @morallawwithin Always do it in online play, especially bullet.
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Concerned Citizen
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@morallawwithin i misunderstood, i thought you meant like the opponent decided to call it instead of letting the game play out
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the funniest part of chess is when you totally corner your opponent’s king and they’re like “lol let’s call it a draw.” Absolutely ridiculous cope. I don’t care what some book says, two more moves and I’d have your king.
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@AlexandreLGazur Wait you don't have a suitcase full of science where you're from?
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@DekmarTrades If you found Uber in 2026, you're a millionaire
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If you found bitcoin is 2012 you are a millionaire.
If you found Tesla in 2018 you are a millionaire
If you found Nvidia in 2022 you are a millionaire
If you found Palantir in 2023 you are a millionaire
If you found Sandisk in 2025 you are a millionaire
If you found …
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@sheewaass Read as 'got laid this morning' and did a double take
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@snipercze @CWood_sdf I think this is missing the point. PRDs tell the broader story of what a product should look like. Engineers have enough agency to fill in the gaps or raise concerns / questions. Why do we not think an AI agent cannot fill the same role?
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i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"
do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding
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@louiswharmby @davidpattersonx Average federal tax revenue per person is around 15k. If everyone gave 15k in taxes it'll be the equivalent to what we have today.
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@davidpattersonx in your example if it was shared equally, it would be much more that $30k each wouldn't it?
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If taxes were fair:
You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax.
Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax.
Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you.
If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.
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@UBGguy @DrDiGiorgio @DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi If we must all act in unison like that for your system to work there is no freedom. As soon as you meet someone you disagree with your illusion is broken.
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@grepping4u @DrDiGiorgio @DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi There does not need to be enforcement. We could all, individually, decide tomorrow that we won't kill one another, we won't let each other starve, etc. There is nothing stopping us from doing this. And yet we don't.
So you tell me, are we really even free?
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The honest answer is yes.
Imagine a wealthy individual who had a traumatic brain injury.
I’m talking super wealthy.
He and his family build a home gym, hire a score of physical, occupational, and speech therapists. He gets 24/7 home care from RNs. He has multiple neurosurgeons a phone call away. Every minor thing is scrutinized by multiple highly paid physicians and nurses. He has access to an exoskeleton robot to help him walk.
He does great.
A middle class or poor person in his situation would have a much worse outcome.
They might even die.
The same is true for cancer. The wealthy can fly to MD Anderson or MSK, pay out of pocket, hire advocates, get second and third opinions, and rearrange their entire lives around treatment.
We cannot expect everyone to have the level of access of the super wealthy.
Which means many will have suboptimal outcomes because they can’t afford the same access to care.
So, yes, some people will die because they can’t afford healthcare. Just like some will die because they can’t afford a personal trainer to get them to an ideal weight, or a dietician to ensure they eat healthy, or a low-stress job.
It’s not fair. It’s unfortunate. But pretending it can be otherwise is a fairy tale.
Morgan J. Freeman@mjfree
Should people die because they can’t afford healthcare? Yes or no. #HealthcareNotWarfare
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@DrDiGiorgio @DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi Ppl seem to confuse 'should' semantically.
Should as in, the ideal outcome. "People should want equality"
Should as in, expected to occur given priors. "My clothes should dry quickly because the sun is out"
U refer to latter and people r angry at u for thinking it's the former
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@DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi It happens and it’s regrettable.
But inequity should, unfortunately, happen in a just society.
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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@UBGguy @DrDiGiorgio @DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi But it's absurd with examination. The point that's missed is the enforcement of equality.
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@DrDiGiorgio @DrSarahAxelrath @aribindi The only freedom lost when we're all equal is the freedom to pursue inequality. This, without examination, seems acceptable.
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@Unsubstantive That number is probably around zero.
open.substack.com/pub/thedoctors…
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@AdamZivo Teachers are too lazy to review manually and don't have the time for oral examination. They rather something digital so they can have AI evaluate it.
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I find this discourse perplexing because the solution seems straigthforward: make university marks almost entirely dependent on lengthy in-person exams that combine handwritten essays with oral questioning.
Why is this even a conversation? Are there implementation barriers or something?
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).
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@killemall2024 @simonmaechling Usa 175k + benefits, France 95k. That's my silly wild ass guess
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@simonmaechling Care to guess what a PhD Chemist makes in the US vs. France?
Care to guess the income tax rate differences at that pay level?
Care to compare sales tax between the two countries?
We have everything you have and more money in our pocket... not the government's.
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I’m European. Apparently I’m poor.
Yet somehow I have:
Functional public transport.
Consumer protections.
Affordable healthcare.
Food standards.
Paid vacation.
And I don’t lose my bottle cap every time I take a sip of water.
Strange definition of poor.
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@GenericSnarky Green, orange, pink and blue are all infinite money. Blue, I'll bring up genie from Aladdin and get 3 wishes.
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Pink is infinite money
But you morons will pick blue so you can have your girlfriend be real
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@ItsWillHenry Can I skip the first time founder step to get here? You have a boon you can sell?
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Second-time Founders is my favourite gender :
1) no deck until someone asks three times
2) first hire is a lawyer
3) distribution for the product before the product exists
4) "we don't need a big round" and means it this time
5) replies to every customer email personally because they know what ignoring customers cost them last time
6) sleeps 8 hours and ships faster than everyone else
7) the only person in the room who isn't impressed by the term sheet
Second-time founders are the best breed of founders
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I don't get the mongodb hype
Replaceable with 12 lines of js
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@Skipxbeat @POTFES Furthermore it's the growth that's staggering. The trend is something to look at
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>Not per capita
>Not comparable countries
>No USA
>No Europe vs USA vs China
Unseriös grifters
Roko 🐉@RokoMijic
This single graph is completely devastating to Western environmentalism
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@_TheImpureKing_ Games are for the most part a waste of time. Very rarely do I spend a lot of time on a game and come out feeling better. Usually the opposite is true, and I wish for time back to play with kids or do something productive.
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To the male gamers out there - would you give up video games if a potential romantic partner wanted you to?
Saw a tweet going around from a woman who said ladies find it disgusting when men game and it’s a major turn off as a partner.
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@oskarth Don’t forget BLACKLIST 🤡
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Val Saven@valsaven
Oh, and I almost forgot the hilarious crusade against the words "whitelist" and "blacklist"🙃 I mean, engineers with PhDs weren’t fazed by the fact that terms like Black Death, Black Flag, Black Mass, Blackout, etc., have existed forever. But then some lunatics were like "Oh, the word 'black' *obviously* refers only to Black people, so we must purge it from everywhere it doesn’t mean a person or, God forbid, implies something negative." And thus began the mental gymnastics with "blocklist", "stoplist", "badlist"... 🤡
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