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by CalChris 10mo ago
> The book has enough problems without also confusing who the author meant when she said “Atlas”. It wasn’t corporations, it was individuals. So you’re saying Rand wouldn’t have been happy with Citizens United . You may want to inform h
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by CalChris 11mo ago
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison It was discussed a month or so back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529587
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by CalChris 11mo ago
> intelligent and knowledgeable. people willingly engage with social media and fall into treating what they see as truth, and then are shocked when they learn it's not truth. I also see this with AI answers relying on crap internet
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by CalChris 11mo ago
That’s enough of an excuse for me to reread it. Along with Room With A View, two books I laughed on every page.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
> voters being chosen rather than being the ones to choose With the Missouri Compromise, when territories were admitted, their voters were being chosen for political reasons. Territories were admitted two by two, slave holding and free t
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by CalChris 11mo ago
> States aren't gerrymandering because the people decide for themselves where to live. The people can also decide for themselves where they want to live with respect to gerrymandered Congressional and other districts. So by your log
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by CalChris 11mo ago
The States are a gerrymandering. Five states have populations less than a million and three wouldn't even qualify for Member of Congress by census. Yet they get two Senators, a Member and three Electoral College votes. You've go
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by CalChris 11mo ago
That was during the Biden Administration. The Roberts Court now says the Executive can do anything. Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB, Seila Law, the end of Chevron deference, and of course, immunity. Anything.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
Both Senators in California, my state, voted for the ban. Neither has explained why.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
The Roman Senate was a unicameral form of government. Bicameralism principally comes from Britain, the country which we were formerly a colony of and which gave us our dominant language, legal code, …. That said, again, WHY is the Senate ab
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by CalChris 11mo ago
WHY is the Senate absolutely one of the best features of government? In Britain, its name more honestly reflected the class it represents, House of Lords.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
For 2020 it was 761,169 and Wyoming, Vermont and Alaska have less population than that. They still get a Member and then they get two Senators. And they get three electoral votes. Yeah, it's pretty messed up.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
It's a zism. Some speculate 6*7=42.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
A 700 MHz Crusoe TM5400 delivered roughly the same performance as a 500 MHz Pentium III on SPEC benchmarks. Transmeta as a startup (the pitch to early investors) went after high performance and maybe that could be construed as DC could be
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by CalChris 11mo ago
I was really hoping that FreeBSD would support Apple Silicon, particularly the Mini. Hector Martin and friends did the hard and under appreciated work of the m1n1 bootstrap. Indeed, OpenBSD uses m1n1. However, the FreeBSD effort seems to ha
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by CalChris 11mo ago
I love TACC. I occasionally use AutoSteer. But I tried FSD and it was much more stressful than driving.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
> While statins have some significant side effects in many patients It's more accurate to say that certain statins have significant side effects in certain patients. Atorvastatin made me dizzy. But I switched to Pravachol and that w
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by CalChris 11mo ago
A regular lipid panel won't test for Lp(a) which is genetic. So you need to test specifically for Lp(a) once in your lifetime because you need to know your risk factors. The test was $35.20 when I had it done by LabCorp last year. 20-3
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by CalChris 11mo ago
No paywall article. https://www.heraldnet.com/news/judge-denies-request-to-exemp...
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by CalChris 11mo ago
I remember Steve.
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by CalChris 11mo ago
Mojo?
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by CalChris 1y ago
Kramnick.
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by CalChris 1y ago
Different Satoshi.
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by CalChris 1y ago
Quantum tunneling has been productized for decades . https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Fairview-Microwave/FMMT...
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by CalChris 1y ago
https://archive.is/AKFIv
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by CalChris 1y ago
This is not the same Gordon Bell as the early DEC programmer and later VP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell
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by CalChris 1y ago
In fact, a child can get fired. They can get kicked off of sports teams, …. But yes, it is a difficult problem. I liked a lot of what I read in the article. First, they identified the problem students. Second, they tried something.
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by CalChris 1y ago
The article does cover the bullies: Mr. Carinci summoned the students and told them that the bullying had to end. The superintendent told them that they could be suspended or expelled.
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by CalChris 1y ago
Along a similar vein, I was working at a company. I was pretty much the gang leader for lunch. One day a guy shows up at a desk. I dropped by and invited him to lunch, but thinking he’d say no. There was a considerable difference in our age
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by CalChris 1y ago
Not a business decision. His contract was renewed in 2022 and he had 1.77 million total viewers per night. https://www.statista.com/chart/35165/us-late-night-show-rati...

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