Ferret7446

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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
It was quite clear covid was potentially a danger months before the "full outbreak". There were short news articles "in the margins" about a disease in Wuhan, with conspiracy theorists talking it up. It would plausibly
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Prediction markets are a superior method for determining public sentiment, and understanding public sentiment is useful for many reasons. It can guide economic decisions, picking policy, etc. Basically, prediction markets are for public se
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The solution for the problem caused by regulation is more regulation. Sure, we didn't anticipate the negative consequences the first dozen times, but this time there will absolutely not be any unanticipated consequences.
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The community is allergic to breaking backwards compatibility, which is a lesson that is sorely wanted. Emacs didn't accrue decades of extensions and user customizations by breaking things every couple months like most other software.
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The main advantage of Rust is that you can rewrite GPL software and replace the license with MIT.
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On the contrary? Selective enforcement is tyranny. I'm sure the projects that they disagree with politically are far more likely to be "AI generated" than the projects that they agree with politically.
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The problem with politically radical communities is that sooner or later you'll find yourself on the other side. "I didn't speak out because I wasn't X" and all that. I never liked codeberg because I saw the writi
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The centralization and PoS makes Ethereum unsafe. What's the point of moving from a currency that a government can unilaterally control to a currency that the Ethereum board/stakers can unilaterally control? The point of PoW is t
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
That's more the fact that lightning is a bit of a pain to use. It has a chicken and egg network growth problem, which is doubled on top of the chicken and egg problem of its host crypto
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Or without a monopoly/mafia taking its protection fee cut
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Fundamentally, is the same cause as "the left can't meme". At least for the foreseeable future, GenAI is a power amplifier; it still needs a competent user to drive it. The US left are effectively a hollow shell of identity
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It's the middle class who gets screwed. The super wealthy and corps don't have their assets stored in banks.
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No one wants a free model. (Yes there are exceptions). The big game changer is GenAI. The cost to start vtubing now with a unique model is very low.
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That's like saying you can't have a high trust society if you have locks on the doors. In other words it's preposterously wrong. You can both have a high trust society and have public cameras for when something happens. The
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Do you really equate a one time request to cite something if you use it in an academic paper with begging? I know they say that users of open source software are entitled, but this seems rather extreme.
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Are you using the wrong parallel? Moreutils unfortunately ships a (IMO much worse) parallel
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That's a bit too cynical and missing the point. "Content" is what people want. You create what people want. > You should be writing essays, recording tutorials, training, music, conversations, etc. the kind of things you
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It's the age old topic of whether people would rather pay for a product or get ads. Everyone says they'll pay, but like an addict that says they'll quit, they all opt for the ads
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As far as I remember Tokyo stations are all easy to navigate if you use Google maps. You get a letter for the exit, and you just follow the signs
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From what I understand, it's a tooling problem and not a technical issue with Git. By default Git only supports text diffs but that is not a fundamental constraint of the architecture. Actually Git deals with binary blobs and the dif
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I'd like to know where you're getting these decisions. All of my hard decisions are due to not knowing what technical obstacles we'll run into later.
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Part of it has to do with having children. If you have kids, you have a stake in the future. The birth rate has been falling, so naturally civic duty has also fallen.
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The demand sets the market. There simply isn't enough demand at that price. Even though the concept of doing what you love has only really existed for a few decades, a lot of people take it for granted. That's just how fast huma
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The obvious answer is that the agent uses the money to pay for its own compute. The ones that run out, well...
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Quite a few are homeless by choice. There are shelters available but they choose not to go because the shelters ban drugs. So they choose drugs over shelter.
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It's just an incentive problem. If the people in the government would get fired or lose their personal income if they did not deliver results, then they would be effective like you wouldn't believe. As it is, they're spendin
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There has to be a signal to detect it. Take this sentence: Bob went to the store to buy milk. Was that AI generated or not? There simply isn't a signal there. The problem isn't noise, the problem is, is there even a signal to be
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This still applies to "non durable" goods. Food is worth more today than it is next year, not least of which because if you starve, you won't get a chance to eat it next year. All goods are worth more sooner than later (rela
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Well, that's why clean, well documented code is (was?) so important, because even if it's your code, you will forget and have to read it later.
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This was always the holy grail, we just were never able to achieve this practically. For example see the early Zork style games, or declarative style languages like SQL. It turns out that it's very tricky to get computers to "und

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