Jonathan Fernandez

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@bourscheid A trillion dollars spent all at once would solve zero world problems. Look what several trillion did in the US for a covid year … really ultimately nothing

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@PTrubey Yes really as dumb as anything I have read. The post presumes that Musk&Co are so stupid they haven’t worked it out / solved… as if they would put them in space and say “oops” … FFS

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@greendragonhq @ZeekArkham Legal ballot harvesting, her constituency is very good at going out and harvesting batches of ballots all collected for one cultural type candidate

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@elonmusk “Legal” ballot harvesting from her motivated constituency

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@bradpomerance @MoparRn This is some version of “legal” ballot harvesting. It won’t be prosecutable fraud, but it also is not what we intend when we have a one vote per person private ballot.

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You are assuming that divine intervention must suspend physical systems - laws, mathematics, logic, “science” - in order to achieve a goal, rather than the divine using the world. We do innumerable things today that were “magic” 30 years ago. What would satisfy you that the divine had taken place? That you couldn’t explain it now? That nobody could explain it now? That scientists say it can never be explained? That scientists say it contravenes “known” laws? All those bars have been exceeded countless times. I don’t believe that anything could happen that you would accept as divine. You would invariably fall back on the event being currently unexplained but future certainly explainable.

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@jackcoder0 @HelmanDaniel Prices will fall dramatically and it will take very little work per human to reap tremendous material benefits per human. We will need less and less input via taxation from governance. We won’t need massive borrowing and infusions to handle future expenses.

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@nukedaddy777 @paulogia0 With the sort of challenge the poster is making, it’s, my opinion, important to reject their premise that if x did not know y directly then x cannot report accurately about y.

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@beffjezos If you will define a test that satisfies you that some thing is conscious, don’t move the goal posts, and you will discover that some computer like electronic / wave “devices” will be conscious over the next decade or so.

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@davepl1968 Very few people do anything that requires their Apple, and almost all of the people using an Apple product would be smarter if they were inconvenienced into using something more annoying like a Raspberry Pi, they’d learn so much!

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@yonann Unpopular take here: most people do not use any functionality on their Apple that requires the extra expense. Most people use the internet, watch movies, listen to music, social media, light word processing, tiny amount of photo editing. That’s it. A Raspberry Pi will do.

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@mattbencole It’s not a problem that Marx is taught as an historical and influential thinker. The problem is how he is taught, especially that his suggested solutions to problems are validated by the importance of the critique.

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@ListerBianco @Queen_primis That is a LOT of kids! It’s also a lot of work operating a furnace.

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“They just don’t want to pay” “overpriced” “choose to live in cars” … you’re describing the people who would rather be homeless here than working hard and supporting themselves “there” wherever “there” is. There are very few people, % wise, in that category, who are able bodied and want to grift rather than relocate and work.

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@TobiasCooper1 @kevinnbass There are surely cases where you are trying to provide the reader with, for example, a list of all known copies of a manuscript. Or, all the editions of a poem or novel. I have certainly done some super doubtfully formatted footnotes and non MLA biblio

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I wasn’t trying to touch on “fully understand”, I have used many papers some of which work is beyond my ken or scope. In legal citations you make sure the court says what you claim: that the context and intent are there. It’s not journalism. Citing a monograph doesn’t mean agreement with the entire monograph. It’s not social media.

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@mattbencole @JimDMiller @zdeborova @giffmana

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@alz_zyd_ If your work is not claiming support from the citation, then you do not need to cite it at all