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by Affric 3y ago
This is true to an extent but we have never really seen an information economy with a global labour scarcity. If we look at "advanced" economies with physical labour scarcities we see infrastructure deficits and inflation in asset
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by Affric 3y ago
Your edits have certainly improved both comments. Population decline doesn’t guarantee human liberty. Factory farms reflect the hierarchies we see in society. Not the other way around. I can see unfree (in a non-trivial sense) human labour
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by Affric 3y ago
You’ve got that there are a lot of unintended pregnancies. You’ve got that there is an impact on the environment by humanity. That does not an argument make as much as the points in TFA.
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> More geniuses I am going to hazard a guess that we aren’t missing the underlying number of geniuses. We are probably wasting a lot of potential geniuses. > More progress Unless the limiting factor isn’t those factors. > More opti
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by Affric 3y ago
The truly profane thing is the practice.
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by Affric 3y ago
With all due respect your opinion was better when it was viewable as pure hyperbole. Mao kicked off the cultural Revolution in May 1966. By August the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. That’s 4 months. The cultural Revolution was sud
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by Affric 3y ago
Perhaps they practiced near perfect opsec. VPN, their own IP, stealing access, TOR, hacking the routers and APs and cleaning up…
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by Affric 3y ago
Great piece. I mean I think the google woke issue is another thing but not so much to the culture war but more that we need to be careful with the instructions we give AI and why we give them. Should we be preoccupied with whether or not pe
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by Affric 3y ago
Similarly: it’s only worth playing against a bluff if you can beat the bluff.
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I mean now you d to train AI to recognise the bias in the training data.
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by Affric 3y ago
This is my account of Argentine immigrants in Australia. A country with, for most of my life, few immigrants from Argentina. Quite far from South America. I still see more Colombians here than Venezuelans.
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by Affric 3y ago
I have never seen this many people flee a country that isn’t engaged in some kind of war. They’re largely educated. They’re sending goods home. The stories you hear are awful.
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by Affric 3y ago
And then people demanding free text fields be removed from various forms/b2b/market systems on the basis that they are rarely used… those easily contain all of the most valuable information in the system. The world is highly curse
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by Affric 3y ago
I would love to see an example of this working. I know that if it did work it would change the opportunity cost of forgiving debt in these cases dramatically
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by Affric 3y ago
The British monarchy is a live institution and should be viewed as such. Republicans using the fact it’s been around for over a thousand years (with a few hiccoughs) are not making the argument they think they are making.
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by Affric 3y ago
You didn’t like his lukewarm delivery of the King’s Speech or his Greek tie? Not entirely sure what he is meant to do. I am a committed republican but as far as Kings in a constitutional monarchy can go he’s been pretty demonstrative agains
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by Affric 3y ago
You mean these highly anthropomorphised programs? It’s important that technical people don’t anthropomorphise them? I agree but the creators of all the main LLMs have already crossed the line by a long way. E.g. It’s deeply troubling that i
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by Affric 3y ago
Maybe closer to the truth than many would like to think.
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by Affric 3y ago
I have left another comment. A trillion times this. Floats anywhere give two outcomes: customer accuses you of salami slicing from them or you give away millions.
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by Affric 3y ago
lol… If you’d ever had to bill millions of customers for precise amounts of electricity and gas at precise prices… you would hate floats and you’d hate that any idiot will act as though excel is gospel truth.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s obviously the key to reaching anyone but the phrasing is genius. Our prejudice and contempt can prevent us from even getting through.
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You don’t do it all in a guy fawkes mask?
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by Affric 3y ago
From your comment I think you are viewing this as a cultural problem. It’s an optimisation problem of our political system. It’s not that we are not wanting to inconvenience people. It’s that people have rights relating to property and our
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by Affric 3y ago
Really depends on the company. Generally, for high quality on shore call centres, you do not use customer satisfaction as a metric for individual agents. You’d use first contact resolution, average handle time, and their ability to stick to
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> the land cost, density, and regulatory environment Cheap land, low density, lax environmental regulation?
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Interestingly, for the suburbs here in Melbourne they offered two options for grade separation: 1. Elevated rail 2. Trenches with no cover A series of campaigners in areas with higher property values wanted the trenches for “privacy” reason
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To me this sounds like TBM to would still be better. You’re pissing off one set of residents immensely rather than every resident in the area sequentially. The marginal harm you do to yourself by pissing off residents is diminishing. Better
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Weirdly I that always happened to me and I thought I was the only one.
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Do you have a recommendation for a good place to source wallpapers? With the photography it’s one of the things Apple get so right about UX.
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> As f-strings were introduced I switched everything except the simplest things to it. Never really understood why not all strings were f-strings in python.

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