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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

politico.com
52 points·by f38zf5vdt·3 maanden geleden·57 comments

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f38zf5vdt
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
Many successful and failed revolutions happened without an economic crisis. For example, the American Revolution was led by an oligarchical class upset about taxation. The American Civil War is another example where a portion of states felt economically threatened and initiated conflict. The Glorious Revolution was almost completely ideological in nature, revolving around royalty and religion. It simply requires some powerful fraction of the country to believe they'd be better off under another ruling party, no one needs to starve for it to happen.

People who are experiencing unrest and idleness are easy to recruit -- and if you hang out with people ages of 18-30, you'll see there's no shortage of them.
f38zf5vdt
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Certainly checkbook journalism has had a past in the USA, but I don't recall anyone ever being charged with a serious crime over it.
f38zf5vdt
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
It's baffling to me. I was already making API calls and embedding context and various instructions precisely using backticks with "md". Is this really all this is? What am I missing? I don't even understand how this "feature" merits a press release from Anthropic, let alone a blog post extolling it.
f38zf5vdt
·vorig jaar·discuss
I didn't mention Nazism, I said _fascist salute_. The fascist movement that was popular earlier in the 20th century and led to Nazism, but is not exclusively limited to it. The adoption of the "Roman" salute was from Italian fascism, which the Germans borrowed.
f38zf5vdt
·vorig jaar·discuss
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f38zf5vdt
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Technically we also trust Signal not to push a signed update to their software that exfiltrates our keys. Whether or not Meta is doing E2EE should be clear from snooping their protocol or reverse engineering the software.
f38zf5vdt
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Lost to follow up is not necessarily discontinuation of treatment is the issue. The person may have moved out of state or out of country, or simply have moved to be treated by a different physician. Consider also the perspective of the detransitioning person: in trying to reconcile their experience, they project that there must be more people out there like themselves and point to a known unknown to justify it.
f38zf5vdt
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
The number of individuals failing to follow up on a study or even treatment for any disease at the same medical office is high, for example it's approximately 50% for _cancer_. [1] You're welcome to extrapolate to your own taste, but it's still simply an unknown -- unlike the people you _do_ have data for.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29028642/
f38zf5vdt
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I don't see anything to support this in the literature. The overwhelming majority (94-98%) of youth who transition maintain their gender identity many years later as adults. [1][2] It's hard to imagine they would continue treatment if it was making them miserable.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/transgender-kids-tend-to...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
These are the steps I take to repair my phone when it doesn't boot.

1. Remove phone case. 2. Desolder eMMC chip after looking it up which one it is online. 3. Put eMMC in old coffee grinder, grind away. 4. Buy new phone.
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
https://gpl-violations.org/
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
We all don't have Google resources. What if someone comes after us individually because some model-generated code is near identical to code in a GPL codebase? Where is the liability here?

edit: from https://copilot.github.com/

> What is my responsibility when I accept GitHub Copilot suggestions?

> You are responsible for the content you create with the assistance of GitHub Copilot. We recommend that you carefully test, review, and vet the code, as you would with any code you write yourself.

Well, that solves that question.
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
It will absolutely transform undergraduate education in computer science, or rather, the breadth of the workload. <:)
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
This could be the kind of thing easy to train and run locally on a GPU.

- You only need code relevant to your language.

- The amount of unique code in your language is going to be relatively small in compared to say, the entire history of internet comment.

- Training a model also shouldn't take long.

I personally would never use an online version feeding all my code back to a home server somewhere, and leaving breadcrumbs that might suggest I'm violating the GPL.
f38zf5vdt
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
There will almost certainly be cases where it copies exact lines. When working with GPT2 I got whole chunks of news articles.