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“ In Germany, for instance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is financing the Sovereign Tech Fund, a program of the Sovereign Tech Agency investing in “projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosyst
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In SaaS we’re really saying “A used as/for B”, not “A represented as B”. IaC fits your definition. I suppose that descriptive linguistics says that all of these contradictory uses are valid and their meaning is picked up through contex
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Thanks!
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One in every ten thousand or so human males either kills other human beings for pleasure or would if they could. This may be specific to humans, but I wouldn’t be too surprised to find that there are serial killers in other species. Or rath
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“In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein and Claude Shannon laid out the three pillars of the physical world: matter, information, and energy.” I’ve yet to see a convincing argument that information has independent existence. The notion
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This gets close to the heart of why many seemingly reasonable people support Trump. He gives specifics. The specifics may be of a hare-brained scheme that can’t possibly work, but no other politician even goes that far.
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The direction is inherent to the relationship between energy and other goods. While it’s true that energy has inputs, it’s an input for virtually everything.
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Citation? I have no dog in the fight—I am not emotionally invested in some particular version of the history of the Weimar Republic—but I thought it was the opposite.
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This is peak “tone-deaf coastal elite”.
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You explained it better than I could have.
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What annoys me about the left is exactly things like this. Someone points out that an ideologically-motivated claim is baseless, and the talking heads on the left just repeat, over and over, in various ways, that bad-faith actors on the rig
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Tactics, tactics, tactics. Once you get bored of that, throw in one session of studying master games for every nine sessions studying tactics. Later: 10% pawn structures, 10% master games, 80% tactics. Later: 10% pawn structures, 10% openin
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This is code to diagram, not diagram as code. I was hoping to see a tool that takes diagram sketches and outputs, e.g., Terraform. That would treat a diagram as code .
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It’s one thing to have a goal, and another thing to take concrete action in line with that goal…?
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Property rights themselves are backed by the state’s monopoly on violence. So no, the free market doesn’t exclude violence, it requires it. (I’m not saying that capitalism uniquely requires violence in order to function, but libertarians
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Again, if you--and, in general, your demographic--don't have any money, your data is useless for advertising and marketing purposes.
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This may come to pass for many low-status men, but many more will continue to try to improve their status. Our brains know the difference between true social/sexual validation and substitutes. I think a large portion of low-status men
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This is hilarious and awesome.
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Engines have reached the point where the best human in the world would be lucky to score one draw and 99 losses in a hundred-game match, but the game isn’t solved (and very likely never will be). I think that if it had been solved, it wou
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Fairly confident that that was sarcasm.
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Advertising and data? Really? So people can’t pay for anything, but companies somehow see value in trying to sell things to them?
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Manna is such a cool story. It’s too bad the author copped out at the end instead of fully exploring a world with AGI but no robots.
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If you have 10M in stocks you should be able to figure this out on your own, assuming you’re self-made.
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Who are "they" and why do "they" care if we eat meat? And what evidence do you have, anyway?
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Joke != formal logic
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This. It’s taken the universe (at least locally) several billion years to achieve human-level intelligence through trial and error. Somehow switching over to silicon is going to get us to superhuman intelligence and beyond within a decade?