Are you American by any chance? I ask because in the UK we primarily used yards before metricification which are almost the same length as metres and there wasn’t any sort of long rumbling “ohhh yards are an awkward length” they were just used. I think you feeling that feet are more suitable is probably just familiarity.

Absolutely, I haven’t seen anyone in this thread say anything suggesting otherwise, everyone deserves that. But that means not throwing people out of a university without evidence.

I don’t know about this case, if that is true then its terrible and he should have been arrested, convicted and thrown out of the university. But the larger point stands, denying some people of due process because others are harmed in other ways is not something to strive for.

So two wrongs make a right? This person had their life horribly disrupted for reason A so an unrelated person should have their life horribly disrupted for reason B?

People should not be subject to arbitrary harm from others and we should be against all forms of it, whether that’s sexual assault, economic coercion or lack of due process.

The “sharks” are actually Russian submarines.

Well sure, but a pre buyout hugging face would have too, you dont get to say no to the US government if it decides to throw its weight around and you want to do business in the west.

I guess. Bit odd to describe just a regular vote of picking one of the two available options as tactical voting though. The polling definitely takes people voting into account.

However, in 2024, Central Japan Railway Co-President Shunsuke Niwa said that due to construction delays a 2027 opening was now impossible and it is not expected to open until at least 2034.

kinda demonstrates the point.

if you’re willing to lie why even bother with that, just make up the results wholesale. Polling companies don’t because their entire business relies on their reputation.

1000 people is enough to get a good estimate of opinion providing it is sampled well. Its one of the counter intuitive results of statistics that a few thousand opinions is enough to get a small percent margin of the average opinions of the sampled population no matter its size. The trouble with polling is that “average opinion of people who answer polls when asked” is not “average opinion of the group that you want to represent”, the whole art of polling is in finding the mapping between those two groups. But that isn’t helped by polling 10 or 100 thousand people instead of 1000.

There is no tactical voting in the second round of a presidential election, there are only 2 candidates. It would be a straight up choice of do the French people prefer a centrist/leftist or a fascist.

Last attempt. California can levy a tax on billionaires when they spend money, leverage assets or anything else they want, but said billionaires can just leave the state (and have been doing), they are inherently incredibly mobile. A single state cant do anything about that, especially when there are conservative states that will bend over backwards to accommodate the billionaires. Taxing land means the asset cant be moved under any circumstance and so it is a far more attractive option to tax.

Sure, I don’t disagree that companies should be taxed more (and better), but the article is still about personal taxes on billionaires and how that’s far harder to implement well than a land value tax which also would tax the super wealthy.

If you want to claim no left wing states exist or have ever existed then fair enough, but generally things are compared to others. The USSR (especially the early years) was more egalitarian than the USA and so was more left wing, despite being authoritarian.

If you hear big scary sounding place uses a 1.5 million of something a day that sounds big and scary. If you contextualise if by saying something banal like a golf course uses 8 million a day it seems less so.

I agree with everything you’ve said. But the whole setup of social media (including fedi) is designed around approval seeking, so people will seek approval and couch their opinions in ways that make them less likely to get digitally tarred and feathered.

Yet the USSR existed for a long time and PRC still does.

Currently the polls have Le Pen winning in the second round against Melonchon or a centrist if she gets to through the second round (whihc seems almost certain).

Well done you, so am I as it happens, but that doesnt change that the vast majority of LLMs are running on Nvidia cards so they still would be suppressing demand for their own product. talking about subscription fees is just nonsensical here, hugging face is a mirror to host other people’s weights, if they started charging people to just download (as opposed to running models, which they already seem to have a decent business for) people would like choose to host their weights elsewhere.

Those go against pro-corporate values (at least the ones that they outwardly want to show). Currently your only choice are let the corporations pick what is acceptable for you, or have an anything goes model and take responsibility for yourself.