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UN team says rape, gang rape likely occurred during Hamas attack on Israel
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Ah yes the UN famous Western media outlet
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UN team says rape, gang rape likely occurred during Hamas attack on Israel
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Ah yes the UN famous Western media outlet
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Why self-diagnosis is valid, all the arguments in one video
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The only thing I can think of is if a significant portion of people self diagnose as autistic and they really aren't. Say they're convinced by some silly stereotypes they've heard
That won't impact that person. But it could mean other people starting to take it much less seriously in others which may be harmful to them I don't pretend to know if that would happen. But just a thought
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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death
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That might be the case right? Let's say there a percentage chance that would have succeeded call it 10%
Now your first attempt fails, maybe because of some miscalculation or lack of engineering precision
Even if the older way more expensive version had a 100% success rate you'd probably still rather the cheaper version right?
Also not sure how this is about capitalism, replace the above for material cost and it's the same thing
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Only if the price is actually increasing. Otherwise you'd just sell cheap petrol and put them out of business
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Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
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I believe the idea of a puberty blocker is to block puberty until 18 pretty much, or early 20s. Then as that person is an adult they can choose to transition, by going through hrt, which is more effective as they haven't experienced any puberty yet Or they can choose to stop taking the blockers and go through puberty as they would have before
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US asks Hamas to release women, elderly hostages for longer ceasefire
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I think it's just the lower likelihood that they will end up as combatants. If you're in a military conflict you're generally more likely to hand over hostages that are less likely to come back and fight you
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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death
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So material waste can be directly tied to cost. If you're trying to bring down cost then you're going to try to reduce waste correct? That's why there is so much work being done for reusable launch vehicles
For space debris and pollution I don't think we can squarely blame capitalism. Under a purely communist economy there's no guarentee that anyone would care any more about it than currently And you can attack that issue by a combination of penalising companies that create debris and rewarding those that remove it under a capitalist economy
As for it not being entirely comparable. Sure the government spent a lot of money on that early R&D. But do we think that if we banned companies from doing this kind of work that govt agencies like NASA would be necessarily more cost effective, cause less pollution, and less debris?
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'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate
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You don't need to pay dividends to shareholders if it isn't in the companies best interest. I don't see how simply being publicly traded means you can't hold a cash reserve
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People should direct their anger towards capitalism, rather than being upset with artificial intelligence
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LLMs don't "understand" anything. They're just very good at making it look like they sort of do
They also tend to have difficulty giving the answer "I don't know" and will confidently assert something completely incorrect
And this is not generation 0. The field of AI has been around for a long time. It's just now becoming widespread and used where the avg person can see it
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Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing
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Not really no. It's not often that a stock is short sold really hard when there isn't an underlying reason Otherwise large investors could regognise this and just take a long position. The short seller is then screwed if the price doesn't drop far enough and fast enough before their options expire
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US asks Hamas to release women, elderly hostages for longer ceasefire
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No I saw. I'm just under the impression that it's a lower likelihood that women in the IDF are serving in direct combat roles. I mean maybe they are, maybe all of Hamas' hostages are highly trained combatants, although I doubt it
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Biden Campaign Raises Over $53 Million In February: As Donald Trump struggles to raise cash, the sitting president has now amassed $155 million to spend
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As soon as you convince the republicans yeah. Seems like America is stuck because so many people genuinely don't want it Which must be the most annoying thing ever, seems insane
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
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Yes but you still need to implement that change. You have to change millions of people's houses to switch their type of heating And replace cars, etc It will require huge changes for individuals, you can't just turn off the big oil companies as nice as it would be to have a simple fix
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Do you think it is ethical to work for a company that builds drones, weaponry, or supplies parts to the military?
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Do you believe that a nation has no need for weapons?
Or rather is it immoral for a nation to keep and equip a defence force?
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Do you think it is ethical to work for a company that builds drones, weaponry, or supplies parts to the military?
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In what world are those imperialist projects? Can you qualify that in some way? Let's go with 1, say Pakistan
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Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
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I agree it's a very charged topic. And tricky to talk about in a lot of circles without being hand waved as a bigot
It's understandable though as there are genuinely some people that wouldn't change their opinion regardless of the research, on both sides mind you
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This should be the norm for the average family again
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How are imperialism and healthcare related lol
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People should direct their anger towards capitalism, rather than being upset with artificial intelligence
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If you can easily validate any of the answers. And you have to to know if they're actually correct wouldn't it make more sense to just skip the prompt and do the same thing you would to validate?
I think LLMs have a place. But I don't think it's as broad as people seem to think. It makes a lot of sense for boilerplate for example, as it just saves mindless typing. But you still need to have enough knowledge to validate it
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Do you think it is ethical to work for a company that builds drones, weaponry, or supplies parts to the military?
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I can't find any solid evidence for this Pakistan claim. I see that an anonymous source reached out to one outlet, but I haven't found anything to corroborate Seems a bit tenuous thus far. Do you have any evidence you've seen in particular?
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Only reason I can think of as to why she's still running
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I'm pretty sure there are lot of moderate conservatives that hate him Many of them wouldn't vote for him as he seems pretty fascist. But I'm not sure the rest of the republican party is quite so insane if you remove him from the equation