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theparadox

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  • epic win

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  • Personally, I think "pretty" things kept artificially scarce and heavily marketed to the point that there is a social obligation to purchase them for certain occasions are worthless. I have no idea why you are trying to pick a fight about this stupid shit.

    Under capitalism, the economic system in which this "heist" took place, things are worth what you can sell them for. That's the capitalist definition of value. If you mark them up 1000% and people will still buy them then you can say they are worth 1000%.

  • ‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

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  • The Insurrection Act would fast track and legitimize (in their eyes) the process. They do want that. The key for the rest of us is to be as peaceful as possible until it becomes socially untenable to let it continue - allow it to achieve critical mass. After that, something will happen and the situation will change, through whatever means it takes.

  • ‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

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  • It's more like the GOP hires bloodthirsty, racist thugs who are beating the shit out of anyone they can with total immunity. Then the GOP is shrieking from the rooftops that they are fighting a brutal, dangerous civil war and that it most definitely qualifies as insurrection so the other side keeps encouraging peaceful resistance. Then the completely disconnected, useless fuckwits pretending to represent the rest of America pass a funding bill to fund the hiring and paying of the bloodthirsty, racist thugs while politely wagging their finger and saying, for the umpteenth time, "if they don't calm down, we'll actually do something next time!"

  • epic win

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  • I think it was said the fraud is actually in the other direction. Jewelry is regularly undervalued to reduce the cost of insuring it.

    Brandy Swanson, the director of the San Mateo jewelry show, previously said the jewelers robbed of their gems had lost more than $100 million in the theft. Vendors claimed the figure was as high as $150 million.

    Swanson noted it was her experience that jewelry owners tend to underestimate their pricey inventory when it comes to insurance, to keep costs low.

    “That’s where the discrepancy comes in,” she said.

    https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/brinks-doubts-gems-were-150m-in-jewel-heist-lawsuit/

    Regardless, I think jewelry and precious gems are a racket. Also, fuck the rich.

  • Woman dragged from car by ICE identified as U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman

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  • if they think they are oh so clever while doing some of the dumbest shit one could imagine.

    Yes, shitbird, they do think that don't they.

    Be quiet 🤫

    Never.

  • Gov. Newsom denied entry in USA House due to pressure from White House

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  • with funny tweets

    Those are from a team of social media savvy folks. He's demonstrated that he doesn't always understand his own tweets.

  • so entitled haha

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  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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    1. raising children was historically a communal responsibility and you are doing what was historically done by the extended community anyway

    US perspective here. The problems I see:

    • In many cases, the parents don't have time to give their child the attention that they need and the "extended community" has shrunk to maybe some extended family like grandparents or aunts/uncles. This is particularly bad for those in poverty and working multiple jobs.
    • Existential dread and financial uncertainty for the parents, the child, and the teachers.
    • Reduced educational funding - downward pressure on teacher compensation, teachers paying for classroom supplies the school and parents can't provide.
    • Increasingly corporate structure in school districts - a focus on efficiency, metrics, test performance, etc. instead of the much harder to measure intellectual and social growth of the students. See NCLB.
    • Massive, rapid-paced social and technological change.

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • They use a different kind of RAM.

    It's the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.

  • Norway Stunned After Machado Gifts Nobel Peace Prize Medal to Trump

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  • The Nobel prizes are silly to begin with. This just makes that more plain to see.

  • Woman dragged from car by ICE identified as U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman

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  • Hey shitbird. ♥️

    Encouraging those people to rise up and act:

    ✅ Helpful!

    Shaming and mocking people for choosing their conscience instead of understanding game theory, well over a year ago:

    ❌ Being a shitbird

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  • What a great idea

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  • Going early and going late often helps a lot with avoiding people who meander around blocking movement through the store.

    Unfortunately, where I live is pretty heavily populated so the shelves are also a lot more empty if I go late or go too early.

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • Bots that scrape for training do not usually respect typical methods of asking them kindly to not look at their data.

    If we could start from scratch and force these bots to check for some kind of opt in data before scraping, I'd be a hell of a lot more comfortable with Gen AI scraping.

    At this point, most models are trained on content taken without consent. In most cases, much of that content would, if a human were to consume it, be considered stolen/pirated. The courts just decided that these AI companies are above those laws for reasons. That reason is money.

  • How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond

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  • Not an expert but... typical computers do what they do by transmitting (primarily) electrical signals between components. Is there electricity or isn't there. It's the "bit" with two states - on or off, 1 or 0. Electricity is the flow of electrons between atoms. Basically, we take atoms that aren't very attached to some of their electrons and manipulate them so that they pass the electrons along when we want them to. I don't know if there is a way to conduct and process electrical signals without using an atom's relationship with its electrons.

    Quantum computing is the suspected new way to get to "better" computing. I don't know much about the technical side of that, beyond that they use quantum physics to expand the bit to something like a qubit, which exploits superposition (quantum particles existing in multiple states simultaneously until measured, like the Schrodinger's cat metaphor) and entanglement (if two quantum particles' states are related to or dependent on each other, determining the state of one particle also determines the state of the other) to transmit/process more than just a simple 1 or 0 per qubit. A lot more information can be transmitted and processed simultaneously with a more complex bit. As I understand it, quantum computing has been very slow going.

    That's my shitty explanation. I'm sure someone will come along and correct my inaccurate simplification of how it all works and list all that I missed, like fiberoptic transmission of signals.

  • How should the American people structure the government to prevent another Trump-like president (or worse) from ever getting elected as president in the future?

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  • I was just checking. I have progressive family members who insist that ranked choice is actually an inferior method. I asked them to explain why and they just tell me that there are ways to game it that are too complicated to explain...

    They are quite politically involved but still, for some reason, trust the Democratic Party "old guard". Likely because they are their own generation and had a great life during their time in power.

  • How should the American people structure the government to prevent another Trump-like president (or worse) from ever getting elected as president in the future?

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    • first past the post for all national elections.

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  • ‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections

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  • Are you aware of how many conservative members of the Supreme Court are supporters of Unitary Executive Theory, at least if it applies to conservative presidents?

  • “I can’t believe this is America”: U.S. Veteran who voted for Trump says ICE arrest of his wife shattered everything he believed

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  • It is a running theme. Just like their representatives, GOP voters don't give a flying fuck who gets hurt by their policies - maybe even celebrate when it hurts the right people - until it affects them personally.

    I have my own problems with corporate Democrats, but at least they make a show of trying to help their constituents and maybe even pass something helpful so long as it doesn't rankle their billionaire donors.