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But what do you do when the most vocal proponents of an armed populace support the tyrant?

Tell him what? Why don't you start?

"Make something VCs wished people want"

I thought his loyalists were expressly against protecting foreigners from oppression, e.g. Ukraine? America first etc.

I think what was meant was moderate ideologically and religiously. Still extreme in their disregard for human life and their determination to maintain power.

I simply don't believe your university program had a 99% failure rate. Such a university should be shut down and sold for parts.

No honour among thieves, I guess.

Maybe the very core of what it is to be human is to destroy ourselves.

What does "forced" mean in this context?

If you and I put the same input into GCC, we will get the same output (counting flags and config as input). The same is not true for an LLM.

> Nobody was ever talking about AI. If you want to participate in the discussions actually taking place, not just the one you imagined in your head

Wow. No, I actually don't want to participate in a discussion where the default is random hostility and immediate personal attack. Sheesh.

I understand what you're getting at, but compilers are deterministic. AI isn't just another tool, or just a higher level of program specification.

I do not think it was or is true.

> The quality of posts and comments has definitely decreased, in line with the quality of content on blog posts decreasing.

I fondly remember the first time I read this comment. I think it was August of 2008.

Christians don't drink or use contraceptives? I think you have to have a pretty extreme "no true Scotsman" attitude to make such a claim. Even the drugs claim is pretty specious.

I'm not sure where your numbers come from. In my region job prospects are not much better for a liberal arts grad than a high school graduate, and much, much worse than someone with a trades education.

Outsourcing is the American Way.

This is solved with humans. Mens Rea is usually required for successful prosecution. A taxi driver who takes a fare to a bank, who then robs the bank, is not prosecuted. A getaway driver is.

To avoid nitpicking, op probably should have said knowingly facilitates, but this is conversation not legislation and 99% of readers probably understood that.

Nobody who seriously read and understood the literature in a given field would issue a blanket dismissal of all the experts in that field. My experience is that reading papers and research leads one to understand WHY the professionals get it wrong - because you start to understand the nuances.

I'm not saying you issued such a dismissal, but the comment that started this thread did so.

> People can read papers, understand research etc.

Then he should cite the papers, point out the research, etc. Rather than dismissing the entire discipline and all its practitioners with a wave of the "common-sense mental illness isn't real" wand.

Did you stop reading before he described the extensive consultations with the pediatric psychologist?

People who have never experienced a particular challenge are quick to assume credit for its absence and assign moral failings to others who experience it. It's insufferable but common.

Imagine a millionaire who had millionaire parents lecturing his children on how they're not allowed to be poor. Lo! They're not! The lectures worked.

Your midbrow dismissal only makes sense if there is nobody who denies that regulation is nuanced. In fact, the entire political landscape is set up around a "regulation is GOOD" vs "regulation is BAD" worldview.

If you had actually been impoverished, you'd have worked 60 hour weeks, and still be working 60 hour weeks with nothing to show for it. If you think "didn't take a vacation that wasn't a long weekend" is poverty, you're delusional.

The "prosperity bible" turn that America has taken is truly saddening.

One half-hour later the post is unflagged and not greyed at all.

There are many unflagged, un-downvoted posts on this forum that criticize Trump, my own included.

You can start with his recent Russian apologia where he blames the U.S. and Ukraine for forcing Russia to invade Ukraine. That might provide some context when you read one of his books.

I think they were talking about physical computers ending up in landfills.

Edit: nvmd, I see this account was created 20 minutes ago and has only low-effort comments attacking BSD. I've never understood how people can develop such negative feelings about technologies.

I think your map might be upside down... It's not Europe invading Russia.

I am not American, and I am having tremendous difficulty understanding what you are talking about. Nobody in this thread has denied this is propaganda or that it is nationalistic.

There is certainly at least one prominent politician who thinks its amusing to physically mock disabled people to get cheap laughs.