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Comment · 4 years ago
Judging by the current state of DALL-E, the generated software will look good at first impression, but have lots of weird bugs when examined closely. So yeah, not much different to current software dev.
Comment · 4 years ago
They should give the Covid variants relatable human names too
Comment · 4 years ago
The bias of this mathematician and the rest of the Royal Society working group regarding vaccination is irrelevant to the subject of these papers, which analyse how and why misinformation is spread, and how correct information can retain credibility.

Reflexively trying to discredit them while being too lazy to read beyond the headline is a great way of making your own position look highly dubious though.

Comment · 4 years ago
Feudalism is about the localisation of military and legal aspects of government. Libertarianism is about trying to restrict the power of government. Slavery requires a strong central government to be enforcible. Feudalism and Libertarianism are both anti slavery.
Comment · 5 years ago
According to the article, the video in question "featured clips of Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers.", so the primates label could just as well apply to the white civilians or police.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is anti-Marxist, in that Marxism requires that the whole proletarian class of a society unite, whereas wokism pretty much guarantees that society will be shattered into thousands of mutually suspicious parts.
Comment · 5 years ago
They are a believer in defaults
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.
Comment · 6 years ago
406, mate
Comment · 6 years ago
Capitalism's basic meaning is that the means of production are owned by private parties.

Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything, unless you are very sure that the government will follow your ideological beliefs, not be corrupted by its newfound direct power over peoples lives, and not get taken over by populists.

Comment · 6 years ago
This would presumably include any pointer dereferences where the compiler cannot prove that the pointer is always non null.
Comment · 6 years ago
Rogan was interviewing Michael Osterholm, who seems to be of good reputation.

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