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re: "my priest/therapist/lover/friend in the computer", early data (from OAI themselves iirc, I think it was a paper with MIT but cannot find it back) looks like it is starting to have power-law characteristics, not unlike, well,,,
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So glad this seems to be a hit too. As covered ad nauseam, we'll take anything to get the studios to grow a spine.
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I normally loathe medical analogies for markets, but bear with me: it's cool that the heart restarts with the defibrillator every time, but the ischemia and the scarring are still happening underneath
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cheap, easy reconciliation take that I nonetheless believe in: it's mostly that grafting it on top of our pre-existing society structures, it will produce the result of being quite life-enhancing for a narrow set, with pockets of deep alienation (some of them in unexpected areas) in the wider world
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quite poetic that the rise of the ultimate Television Guy to the most powerful seat in the world is nicely driving the point home
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chaser
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in the 'ASMR sports on terrestrial' category, Garmish-Partenkirchen ski jump on Jan 1st, with a slight headache from the bubbles, is really hard to beat
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you should try to incept 'anchor currency' instead of 'key', if only to set up a decade of Bancor puns from Karthik
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old heads will recognize the unmistakable classic cuts and samples from DJ Carnot on the decks
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yea miles traveled up by a ton would be my first guess, but I have no idea
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a favourite one, because of the obvious age-adjusted implications of which deaths exactly are prevented
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everyone knows that when grabbing power, the first thing you do is to leave the most intensely committed operators of the ancien régime in charge of the radio towers
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I always say I caught early anti-Osborne radicalisation because having primary school aged kids gave you a close look into the future-ruining, but present-rational shitty decisions some fellow parents were forced into by austerity, so cool cool cool to see the other guys are doing, exactly the same?
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one other way you can see the problem is how both ways of life (kings or electeds) normally have very, very strong guards against coups, ie you better succeed or else. And there too, the failure was absolutely spectacular bsky.app/profile/zata...
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recently bumped into someone carrying their "Palantir" backpack, and I don't know, girl, maybe it's just me, but I would downplay it
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"to insulate them from political pressure and preserve the institutions independence, cardinals are appointed serve staggered, 14-year ter-..."
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right but 1) highly aspirational and 2) see follow up, the lower classes didn't see their kids much either
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Neither the downstairs nor the upstairs parts of the Julian Fellowes Cinematic Universe saw their children much, Nigel. This is one of the most astonishingly fake RETVRN bits, you just want your lady to depend on you for income, that's it.
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'outsourcing child rearing is a new thing' is also completely ahistorical. It's probably been the overwhelming majority mode of existence since the year dot, this is complete greek statue fantasy
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*clicks on the bio* ah, yes, I see
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Green Zone. And famously, American Sniper
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it's one of the few things to be quite positive about, right? Sorting mechanisms mean there are a lot of people on the losing end of whatever <waves at the scene> this is, who are going to be super hungry to fix it, even at deep discount to what their true cost is in the private sector
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bringing back memories of the peak of this genre of discourse, when ostensibly well meaning people insisted that it was fine and proper to put little African flags next to the names of the French players on the World Cup winning team to make a point about,,, idk, colonialism?
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yea people are doing the exact same thing to each other on this one, in ways that would be plainly transparent to the participants themselves if not for how conversations are structured online
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very weird all of this, because the initial response I read as reflexive, somewhat legitimate, annoyance about 'southern food looks gross, innit' which in US context is more loaded, and since then it's been full context collapse and everyone talking past each other and furiously doubling down
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“The easiest thing is for Powell to resign. If you really want to protect the integrity of the Fed and its independence, chair Powell would resign”
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Do you know how to manufacture a mimosa?
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the group that almost unanimously thought none of this trade malarkey would actually happen being, as far as I can tell, uninterested in, (to name just one example) "trade wars lead to hot wars" is very striking
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generally I am fascinated that the much higher policy variance (both stated, and realised thus far) has not really led to a lot of expansion of expectation bounds in analysis and public commentary
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my most uncharitable read is that in fact, the true target is "single wage household and please make it manly", and the babies are just the advert
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I think it does have some interest in pushing public policy towards these goals, it's just that the policy is "single wage household, and you have one guess to who is the wage earner"
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but enough about Hugh Hendry
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goalkeepers in general, especially the very top, are also just so, so much better than they used to be imo
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maybe managers should drill "if you're not also ready to headbutt the opposing CB in the closing minutes of the second most important game of your life, maybe you're not Panenka material either" into their stars