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by Arainach 1y ago
>The whole financial world would be better written using blockchain/smart contracts, same goes for voting/governance, etc. Citation needed. Governance and finance absolutely need human judgment recovery edge cases such as &quot
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by Arainach 1y ago
Is there evidence of a single significant Christian library from the first century?
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by Arainach 1y ago
When a scientist in India publishes a study, we don't call it a "pagan" study. The word "pagan" adds nothing to the original post. "An entire library from the first century" conveys just as much informati
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by Arainach 1y ago
We do know what's going on because they wrote all of this down including their motives and end goals well before the elections.
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by Arainach 1y ago
At a societal level, immortal wealth is incredibly bad. At a personal level, because wealth sitting still, having 4% pay for the overhead of maintaining the 96% and then using the pennies left doesn't accomplish much of significance.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Any initial calibration or speaker setup is done via a single-use phone app. Please no. No more phone apps that are unmaintained, barely work in the first place, and don't work at all within 2 years or when the vendor goes bankrup
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by Arainach 2y ago
Big data is different, has different threat models, and needs to be treated differently. Technically, in 1960, you could pay a huge number of people to listen to a huge number of telephones or watch a huge number of cameras, but it was so i
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by Arainach 2y ago
This thread is about "service fees" at restaraunts.
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by Arainach 2y ago
These generally aren't taxes. These are conservative business owners complaining about having to pay a living wage rather than a poverty wage. When the rent goes up, the prices change. When insurance goes up, prices change. When labor
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by Arainach 2y ago
If we're going to call LLMs intelligent, they should be performant at these tasks as well.
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by Arainach 2y ago
Bias disclaimer: I've worked at multiple FAANGs and Meta isn't one of them, but as with anyone in the industry I've had friends at all of them. Meta feels very different - both at the top, with Zuckerberg's immunity from
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by Arainach 2y ago
There is a huge difference between not wanting to lose and getting angry when someone doesn't let you win.
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by Arainach 2y ago
Debug builds are worthless for catching issues. How many people actually run them? Perhaps developers run debug builds of individual binaries they're working on when they're trying to repro a bug, but my experience at every compa
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by Arainach 2y ago
I disagree. If you were to take a snapshot of someone's knowledge and memory such that you could restore to it over and over, that person would give the same answer to the question. The same is not true for an LLM. Heck, I can't e
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by Arainach 2y ago
I think determinism is an important element. You can ask the same LLM the same question repeatedly and get different answers - and not just different ways of stating the same answer, very different answers. If you ask an intelligent being t
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by Arainach 2y ago
No. Liking coffee is only one aspect of a person. Once you're talking you can learn more, make connections, and potentially have a friend who you keep talking to even after you return home. To give a more HN-specific example: If you wo
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by Arainach 2y ago
OP does not literally mean the same people but the same type of people. Having a familiar group with something in common is a great conversation starter and way to make new friends. This is similar to how you can visit a new area and stop
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by Arainach 2y ago
>2) Operating Direct File cost taxpayers $814/filing in 2024. This is a lot more expensive than commercial offerings - it would be cheaper to just give everyone TurboTax It did nothing of the sort. This is counting the costs to bui
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by Arainach 2y ago
>I think the disillusionment will slowly sow the field for competency and compassion. What do you mean by this, and why do you consider it plausible? The mass media and way too many people continue to say "surely the Trump administr
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by Arainach 2y ago
The united states during its periods of greatest growth as well as the other environments you called out had strong regulatory environments to keep "the market" in check
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by Arainach 2y ago
>The historical reality is the more free a free market is, the better it performs. Citation VERY MUCH needed. A free market leads to monopoly and abuse. It does not lead to competition, it does not lead to better long-term results, it l
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by Arainach 2y ago
It's a significantly incomplete list - and absolutely not a list of "quotes" as none of the items in your list appear in the article: >Lack of external static storage class, the pinnacle of C programming. >Lack of oh so
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by Arainach 2y ago
>Netflix has their content as their moat. Only Netflix-produced shows apply here. Before Netflix started producing content they had *no moat*. That's the big problem with media streaming - the content owners have all the leverage
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by Arainach 2y ago
The disagreement is over the highlighted line: >People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed My experience is that "self taught" people are passionate about solving the parts they consider fun but d
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by Arainach 2y ago
Nothing in this blog post about songs required an illustration.
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by Arainach 2y ago
"Deputy Byrne said was no intention to pass the levy on to Irish customers, but it was to be absorbed by the streamers" How do people keep saying things like this? Is there a single historical example where a business just ate th
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by Arainach 2y ago
Which is why we can compensate other humans (or cooperate with them in some way) to achieve things.
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by Arainach 2y ago
Empathy is for people who did something for understandable reasons. Trump hurt the poor the last time he was in office. Republicans literally WROTE DOWN ALL THEIR PLANS to hurt the poor and destroy the country well before the elections. A
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by Arainach 2y ago
Votes are not moderation. Ignoring manipulation tactics, majority consensus does not mean that something is right, acceptable, or in line with site guidelines.
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by Arainach 2y ago
I disagree - it's not properly addressed, but it's nice to see it at least brought up. Layoffs are always awful, but seeing companies talk about "changing economic realities" amongst continuing revenue and profit growth

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