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You're misusing that fallacy here, but I don't fault you, because my point is subtle. My claim isn't that their point is invalid because they're hypocritical about native american history, my claim is that their gauge of evil is miscalibrated, because only a certain perspective of history is amplified to this degree, minus the historical context that puts it on par with the times.

>No one really wiped out entire species.

Overkill Hypothesis[1]

1. https://people.wou.edu/~vanstem/391.W12/Overkill%20Hypoth.pd...

What happened 2,000+ years ago?

That's the power of only seeing one story, minus context of what the rest of the world was like. Would you also call the history of what native american tribes did to each other evil? Or was it on par with the brutality of the times?

Be intellectually honest. Show me a single front page post "vilifying America's natives." You won't find it, but you'll find plenty in the other direction, because a large portion of HN's user base has a shameless anti-American slant.

>SFMTA's train control system relies every morning on 5 inch floppy disks.

That's not the 3.5" floppy disk in the video. This is the old floppy disks[1]

1. https://www.digitaltreasures.ca/img/level2_floppy_525.jpg

It doesn't appear that they separated those who believe it would work from those who didn't, to see if there was a placebo effect. That would have been useful.

It's used to antagonize racial tension and is a litmus test for what team you're on. Team blue isn't bothered by intentionally black-preferential language, and from my experience, they get a kick out of people who are antagonized by it. If it bothers you, they'll claim you care too much, which implies you're not an anti-racist like them.

I big part missing from this conversation is what happens when you lose a device, want to leave an auth platform, or are deplatformed.

I don't want my credentials to be locked into any vendor, be it Apple, Google, or Proton. I currently use email + passwords + yubikeys. My credentials aren't dependent on some passkey auth server working correctly, or device that I don't control or have copies of. If Google or Apple wanted to ban me without recourse, in theory it wouldn't affect my ability to use other services. This doesn't appear to be the case with passkeys.

Related, my vehicle insurer keeps jacking up the rates. I've never been in an accident or had a ticket, and I drive 2000 miles per year. But every year up up up. Then they offer I install a tracking device on my car to get my rates back down to a reasonable amount. There seems to be a pattern of insurers wanting to know everything about everyone, and using irrationally higher rates to coerce consent. And I have to pay it or consent to tracking because insurance is mandated by law.

Survivorship bias

"...and latency" Higher throughput = lower latency*

*Under certain conditions

Number of tokens is still a useful metric, as their endpoints have Tokens Per Minute quotas. Decreasing number of tokens used means increasing throughput, up until the Request Per Minute quota.

We don't know the names of all the people on which the style and content of your comment is modelled either.

Are we at the "real legalization has never been tried" stage already?

Worik's argument appears to be, if people had an unlimited supply of drugs, things would be better than a limited supply. It sounds a lot like the perspective of someone who has never listened to a recovering addict.

Just because a drug doesn't kill you physically, doesn't mean it doesn't harm you in other deeply profound ways. Related: Nuggets[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUngLgGRJpo

>it's highly unlikely to lead to productive discussion.

I guess all you have to do, if you want to suppress information about something, is to ensure that its comments always devolve into unproductive discussions. Funny, I once read about this as a tactic for controlling information flow in online communities...

They're great because the accountability for fuckups goes on the system, not on the people using the system. "Oops, the system had a bug" doesn't kill careers like "Oops, I made a bad call."

The alternative is either know that person for a long time previously or "just trust me bro." Checking what they've been up to is a middle ground.

If you were in your 30s when the modern internet was born, then you're in your 70s now. The early pioneers and contributors are old now.

Most public school teachers I've interacted with are apathetic powerless bureaucrats. My experience in private school is different. We had corporal punishment and other severe punishments there, and teachers actually had control of their classrooms and could teach effectively.

My point isn't that teachers are to blame. I understand that the issue is systemic and requires support of the school, parents, and teachers. I just disagree that controlling the classroom is "yet another thing" for a teacher to worry about, when it is literally priority #1.

It's not "yet another thing" to get your classroom under control. That's step 1, before any other things can be accomplished.

They address this in the article. He can serve as little as 12.5 years without any form of parole.

The history of discipline in public education shows that the engagement of parents of teachers has changed drastically over time. Some kids doing bad things sometimes throughout history doesn't indicate otherwise.

>Tried, and failed.

This may be an unpopular opinion in today's world, but if you can't effectively apply and enforce reasonable guardrails for the safety of the generation of kids you are helping to raise, then you are the problem. Who are the adults here, the corporations?

"I'll help you with my resources, for a stake in the company" should be illegal? Please explain?

Of course realizing that a resource is a commodity means something. It means you can form better predictions of where the market is heading, as it evolves and settles. For example, people are starting to realize that these LLMs are converging on fungible. That can be communicated by the "commodity" classification.

LLMs are a commodity

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commodity.asp

You appear to have a different definition of "embarrass the government" than I do. Embarrassing a government is an action that they are willing to kill people over (like reporters). There's a big difference between leaking state secrets that materially harms the government and poking fun at them. One will get you disappeared and tortured-not-tortured, the other is a useful distraction.