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Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
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instead of wasting hours reading "Lolita" my AI assistant summarised the key points in my morning briefing:
-Humbert Humbert is played by Gary Busey
-Domnqu Swaine empancipaton
-It has reported me to the FBI child sex crimes division
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I think the vertical axis is probability coming from a logit model, hence the data looks like a logistic curve.
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I greatly greatly object to the amalgamation of "neither" with "unsure". I am really very very sure on my point of view.
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It is a real "money where your mouth is" situation and the fact that there are so many natalists among the silicon valley crowd definitely damages their credibility with me for this reason.
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I just want to say invent a robot or do some technology or something if you love technology so much. Even "we will add this to the problems we are leaving to be solved by the super-AGI" is a better response than warmed over christian fundamentalism
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Also the young men should be steered away from the video games, which they currently prefer to sexual intercourse
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Bloodvessel!
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garbage in energy in garbage out
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They do, but that's not the way to bet
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the best thing about this method is that nothing could possibly go wrong
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Grain salt was mainly used for drawing blood out of meat to make it kosher - it was mainly salt to Jewish communities for this purpose and so that's the name on the packages. It just means rock salt or sea salt but not powdered Saxa or something
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I kind of feel like if you're citing Schumpeter on creative destruction you ought to at least mention that he thought large firms were the natural location for innovation?
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Yes a lot of people who only remember that quote don't seem to understand that the reason soldiers walk In step is so they don't bump into each other or tread on each other's heels
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Why do some artists, who could very easily have taken the mantle given extraordinary ability with pop hooks and serious lyrical themes across a variety of genres, instead choose to market themselves as everyman ordinary blokes?
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But excellent parking
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oh god no, the "housing crisis" guys who hate social housing because it doesn't produce more market rate housing to push the prices down?
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The point is that the USA is not able (or willing, or both) to provide a venue for talks to go forward in the absence of hostilities.
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Basically not understanding that people went to where the accommodation was cheap in order to do their startups, rather than being some magic about Shoreditch specifically. The policy failure is that the idea of them going to Birmingham or Sheffield to do tech just does not compute.
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To be honest I'm not going to excuse it because that is a clearly biased writeup of an equally semi attached academic passport
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Limited space for military bases in the Bronx?
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I think the simple fact that she is an obviously more effective legislator would tend to count in her favor.
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It wasn't but it's a good point; quite possible that all the individuals want a different outcome but the structure is set up to produce gerontocracy
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boring
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For what it's worth, the very same model of male pampering was the basis of the fortune of Geo. F Trumper of Mayfair, descended from a German refugee family (a fortune which was sadly diminished by the time one of its grandsons married into a Welsh family)
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btw I would not rely on that asterisk to protect you if he reads that tweet
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Rory Sutherland uses them as an example of product innovation, saying that absolutely nobody in the 1990s was saying "I kind of like my barber, but I wish he would flick some burning methylated spirits in my ears"
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as a money laundering industry guy, people often talk about them to me and I just find myself saying have you walked past one? It is just not true in the majority of cases that they are anything other than surprisingly busy.
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Absolutely enraging that a political movement managed to combine a slogan that nobody could misinterpret except in bad faith (BLM) with one that was incredibly difficult to interpret in a non idiotic manner (DTP)
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umm you do understand that the podcast is his job
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It's just sensible aeronautic industry practice! With exceptions we are all aware of, people don't throw away all safety precautions just because they have developed powered flight
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"hahaha but in fact that proposition is demonstrably true". Seriously, unless you know me and have built up credibility from other interactions you are very definitely going to get blocked for that one
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... then you really did only get it right by chance. And I have a cross check against this assessment because this analysis seems to lead lots of people to believe the demonstrably false proposition that there is no difference between the democrat and republican party.