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Comment · 1 month ago
What you're saying might be plausible if Dario and Sam didn't take every other opportunity to call for regulation. And that's a massive understatement with Anthropic.

They're facilitating a doomerism cult that is lobbying and clearly making headway in Congress.

You have to put your head in the sand to think open weight models aren't a threat/large revenue loss to their business.

Comment · 4 months ago
No, it's not morally equivalent, as one of these is very obviously unintentional and a result of simply living one's normal life, and the other is neither of those things.

It's also somewhat irrelevant since the vaccines do not prevent transmission. At best they lower the chance to some degree and now you're in the weeds of trying to measure something that's too multivariate to measure.

Comment · 4 months ago
Cars and gun ownership were not mandated by the government.
Comment · 4 months ago
Perhaps "vaccine skeptics" say this because the Covid vaccines are not covered under VICP. They're covered under CICP, which is more stringent and has paid out one person $6 million, and a few hundred grand spread out between some dozen others.

My friend who was diagnosed, by multiple doctors in two hospitals with Myocarditis caused by the vaccine has yet to receive any money. It ruined his career.

"Tyranny of the minority" doesn't remotely apply here. No one has the authority to sacrifice one group of citizens to save another group of citizens.

Comment · 7 months ago
It's often part of the life if you're lifting competitively.
Comment · 7 months ago
No idea what you're basing these thoughts on, but I don't think you understand the military or what makes it effective.

The reasons grooming standards are enforced are the same reasons anything is enforced.

Comment · 7 months ago
Underreporting has been looked at in both military and the general population. Data is difficult to source and there are obvious methodological challenges on both sides.

Conviction for sexual assault in the military is an automatic dishonorable discharge and loss of all benefits as a minimum sentence. However, while the military generally has a slightly higher conviction rate than civilian courts, you don't have to be convicted to have career altering or even ending consequences.

The bar to convict is also lower. It doesn't require a unanimous vote, there's no statute of limitations, and you're generally going to face immediate consequences once accused.

Comment · 7 months ago
You're just frankly uninformed.

Shaving waivers have been so abused it's a running joke in the army.

It's still trivially easy to have a doctor get you a waiver.

Comment · 7 months ago
Facial hair doesn't matter, you're just required to shave.

Tattoos don't matter unless they're in a particular set of extremes.

Marijuana also really doesn't matter, it's easily waiverable if you didn't have a chronic problem recently.

Harassment is so heavily punished in the military I don't think you're informed on this topic beyond a few wild headlines.

It's extremely common knowledge that harassing women will ruin your military career very quickly.

Comment · 7 months ago
This is based on nothing.

The raising of the recruitment age has nothing to with "desperation" (recruitment has been at a high) and everything to do with people living longer/healthier lives and the military has been handing out age waivers for years.

The max enlistment age has been de facto 42ish for a while, they're just getting rid of pointless paper work and obstacles that don't make sense.

Comment · 8 months ago
This is exactly right.

The goal is delivering a useful product to someone, which just requires secure enough, optimized enough, efficient enough code.

Some see the security, optimization, or efficiency of the code itself as the goal. They'll be replaced.

Comment · 10 months ago
The reality of what exists today shows that the opposite is true.

Pulling out a few games with less than 5000 players globally isn't remotely comparable to having hundreds of thousands of players daily.

It's amplified even more for games that have a global ranking system and a professional competitive scene.

Comment · 11 months ago
Yeah saw that after posting. Pretty tragic.
Comment · 11 months ago
Don't forget that WB also managed to burn Christopher Nolan after over a decade and lost one of the best (and most profitable) directors to have ever lived.

Personally I just hope Netflix takes interest in the UCI mountain bike racing and does a better job with it.

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