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  • The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer

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  • Iirc, you can with Pro, but not with home.

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  • ChatGPT and other LLMs allow the manipulation to exist in an unprecedented volume. When you have actual people making posts, there are limits on how fast a person can make them and high costs to hire more people which limit resources. LLMs let you make a script and crank out thousand of posts in minutes, each unique and able to bypass spam filters more easily.

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  • It's entirely about your safety:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve

    In short, all else being equal, the safest speed to drive is as close to the median speed as you can estimate. The probably of an accident increases with the number of cars that you pass and the number of cars that pass you.

    If course it's not completely cut-and-dry like that, and is more applicable to higher traffic situations, but it's a good general rule.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • I mean, sure, but there was never anything stopping them from doing this in the first place except public pressure. Large companies changing tracks due to public demand is a good thing, and definitely a win.

    I think its better to simply realize that a win doesn't mean the fight is over. It's okay to be happy about a success. Just don't let up on the pressure.

  • I'm fine with being stupid

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  • Wouldn't that make the face on the right non-planar?

  • This elderly gal sprints like a kitten chasing ghosts when she sense a new warm laundry throne

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  • The old girl may find your house to be cold. Does she have a heated bed?

  • How it feels

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  • I would argue that people didn't know what it meant, or were in a position where they could not refuse the loan.

    Kids grow up being taught that they had to have a college education to have a good job, and that a good job is necessary to have a good life. Parents and counselors reinforce this, so they have no reasonable means believe otherwise.

    Employers DO require college education more and more. Not all, true, but the competition for those jobs is higher, so expect lower pay and greater difficulties in getting hired. Often that pay is not even enough to make rent. For the rest, the number of people who have a degree is in increasing, so the competition for those jobs is increasing as well, with the same decrease in pay.

    So out of the gate, children are put in a situation where, from everything they can see and are told, they need a degree. But most can't afford one. Therefore, they are placed in a position where they must take a loan with no guarantee that the degree will get them a job that pays well enough for them to pay back loan.

    So it's a bit more than "you took a loan, you pay for it." It better described as "you were cooreced into taking this loan on false pretences presented to you by all of society." Society should take responsibility for that.

  • How it feels

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  • While I agree in theory, I'm not really sure there's much that can be done in practice. The genie is out of the bottle here: jobs want the paper, so people get the paper, leading to jobs expecting people to have the paper. An employer is unlikely to deliberately "lower their standards" (in their view) if the pool of potential employees with a degree is large enough for their needs already. Since you can't legislate that employers are not allowed to require a degree, and you can't expect people to not get a degree and sacrifice their own potential future to break that cycle, we're kind of at an impasse.

    That's why the only way forward that anyone's figured out so far is government funded higher education.

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  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • Oh, well, carry on, then. Carry on.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • The ambiguity was by design. It let the test proctor decide who did or did not pass with near impunity. This was used to legally deny voting rights to minorities.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • It's good to know that we have advanced as a society. We're talking about now, not 80 years ago.

    You also seem to be under the impression that making a "correct" choice would be without consequences. It would be nice if the moral or legal choice always had positive consequences for the chooser, but that's not always the case. That doesn't chance the morality or legality of the choice. Yes, soldiers have been persecuted for disobeying an illegal order; either legally or socially; but that doesn't change their duty.

    (Also, David McBride was arrested for releasing confidential documents, something that is very much illegal. We can debate the morality, but that's not relevant here because it's not remotely related to a soldier refusing to follow illegal orders.)

    A soldier following an illegal order may lead to people dying unnecessarily, so they are duty bound to not follow illegal orders. A doctor choosing to not treat patients because they don't like something about them may lead to people dying unnecessarily, so they are duty bound to treat all patients.

    A doctor's agency does not supersede another's right to live. A doctor doesn't get to choose who lives or dies; and yes, even requiring that the doctor refer the patient to a different doctor would result in people dying.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • A soldier's job includes disobeying illegal orders. That's the law. Try again.

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  • Unless they wear a whig.

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  • You speak to them of how they aren't an island. You speak to them of how even a recession-proof job is still subject to the rising costs felt by everyone. You speak to them of how these rising costs have over time reduced the actual value of what they've been paid, even with regular cost of living increases. You speak to them of how they have to work harder now for the same results. You speak to them of how much less stress having a good safety net provides, since a recession is not the only way one can fall on hard times. You speak to them of how a small decrease in take-home pay results in a much larger decrease in living expenses, resulting in a net gain.

    You speak to them of how they need not be the sacrificial lamb, that they deserve to travel and learn and have a good life as well; and that their family should not have to give that up either to protect their health and well being.

    You speak to them of how helping everyone is good for everyone, including themselves. The goal is to raise the standard of living across the board.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • That does come with the unavoidable side effect that the majority of the people will simply not participate. It then follows that sites like Reddit will continue to be the place where the majority of the people will go.

    If your goal is to participate in small communities and you are okay with the slow pace of those communities, then that's fine. If your goal is to move people away from corporate-sponsored media for whatever reason, then this won't work.

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  • Well, how does it feel to wnt?

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  • And can be properly gutted and de-veined.

  • When does it happen?

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  • My response would be that if you cannot explain your position, then you cannot defend it, and therefore you do not understand it yourself. This implies that you are simply feeling you way into your position using gut instincts, which are easily created and manipulated without a reasonably sound argument. An ad on TV, a op-ed piece only half heard, a slew of biased headlines, and more all contribute to these gut feelings without providing a rational base.

    In short, I reject your claim that complicated positions cannot be explained. Yes, many can't be easily explained, but you should still be able to explain and defend them.

    So when the position is challenged and you can't defend it because you have only these gut feelings at the core, you fall back on the belief that anyone would have the same feelings eventually. This is, of course, not true.