BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 3y ago
I mostly agree with this sentiment, but I think it ignores some of the wealth feedback loops that exist, and the leverage they afford businesses over employees. Our society is filled with information assymetry, and therefore power assymetry
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Author's argument also rests on developers being the bottleneck. I think a lot of things that could be digitized, aren't for reasons that have little to do with software.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Source?
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Why assume there won't be? Seems like the risk there is greater.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
That's not really a relevant comment. We aren't talking about Earth being in equilibrium, we are talking about ocean temperatures ending their rise. Parent used equilibrium to describe the end of warming, not to suggest that we&#x
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Were they apprehended via corporate spying? I wasn't aware of that.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Maybe it's rose colored glasses, but 2013 Bay Area was so much nicer than 2023 Bay Area, and the cost of living, while high, wasn't nonsensical like now. I was glad to move in, and glad to move out.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> I, like anyone with any knowledge of nutrition, am saying "it's obviously protein and fat, the stuff that helps you grow" Every major study comparing keto and other more balanced diets disagrees with you. Carbs aren&#x27
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
It was a 2 week study, and diet was only changed for a week. The time period was probably long enough for existing microbes to decline due to environmental changes, but not long enough for new microbes that favor the new conditions to move
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Fats are not universally healthy. Saturated fats (above a threshold) and Trans fats are bad for you, the latter being very unhealthy and basically the worst thing you can eat. Conversely, the right carbohydrates can be very healthy when con
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Hard disagree. The main reason Google was so successful with advertising is that users weren't wholly aware they were feeding Google private information upon the which to base suggestions. They were out of sight and out of mind. Users
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
I think they meant the job doing transcription is dead, not that corporations don't provide the service anymore. In keeping with the topic, AI taking jobs, corporations are mostly using digital tooling rather than people to do transcri
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Assume magic cow.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
If you apply your own advice to the original comment in this thread, they were saying it was one of the easiest things we can do, not that it was sufficient by itself. If I apply that interpretation of the original comment, and look at your
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Totally agree. I was just taking issue with the blame on money specifically. Money is working as intended. The rules in which money is operating are fundamentally broken though, no doubt.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Sounds like a good motivator if even the rule-masters are chasing it.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Money is a fantastic motivator, as evidence by how quickly flaws in systems are gamed in order to attain it. It's not money that's failing, it's the rule-masters. Agents can't work well in systems with bad rules.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
If your old job is gone, your opportunity cost is not your old salary, it's your potential new salary. Likely a lot less.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
"If I can't run a marathon then why leave the couch?"
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Cluster density, cluster location, eagerness to connect, distribution of cell types, etc. are all coded in DNA and contribute to creating "initial weights". Neuron "weights" need not be stored completely uncompressed. O
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Private gun owners don't need to consume a number on par with NATO to help keep capacity up. They just need to consume enough that maintaining said capacity is profitable. That being said, I'd honestly be surprised if private cons
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Isn't that why vending machines have glass displays?
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
The only reason there is a human and the store isn't one big vending machine is the large upfront capital cost of doing it that way. Once AI+Robotics is good enough, those costs will come down significantly. Hard to imagine those human
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> "It's usually cached" is not an excuse for excessive traffic, It does redefine what "excessive" means though. If 10 independent requests makes the code easier to maintain, an the performance hit is a few Ms on
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Yes, and that is, specifically, the part that is not apparent. What makes it not the same other than one being light/faster and the other sound/slower?
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> To get to Mars faster than light, you have to be able to travel backwards in time (you could watch yourself start the trip). I think the issue is that seeing something from the past is not the same as time travel. If I yell, then trave
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> there's no future. That's a problem of perception much more than fact, a perception that's created by people pushing it baselessly. Wealth inequality is real and a problem, but the "there is no future" garbage
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
So SF is dangerous because it's so rich? Or because the US is poor? I don't really follow the logic here. The wealth disparity in SF is huge and definitely part of the issue, but it's mostly created by very local problems, li
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
I think the difference here is that code is effectively a description, so there is an extremely tight coupling between describing the task and the task itself. You could tell me, in the most painstaking detail, what you want me to paint, an
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
This is why it's have to be a separate lyer from the page itself. Otherwise it would become yet more add real estate.

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