HardCodedBias

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by HardCodedBias 4mo ago
The following dates for the start of the statue of limitations were the most plausible: 1. 2019 capped-profit restructuring + 1B MSFT investment 2. 2023 Microsoft expansion / reported 75%-then-49% economics 3. 2024/2025 PBC restru
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by HardCodedBias 4mo ago
I think that your first statement is correct. I do not think that your second was correct.
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
I agree with the fact that your company has quota and allocates some to you. Gemini will conduct seconds to minutes of work before requesting aid. And it will commonly fall over. Claude/Codex will commonly do minutes to hours of work.
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
He was entirely correct. He made a follow up after the pushback by GDM. Google’s businesses are very broad and durable. But Google being the only company in the world without access (except for GDM+labs) to a competent coding agent will tak
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
This one is different? What about unitree? What about their demo at the Spring Festival Gala? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykiuz1ZdGBc That sure felt "different". No doubt hands are important, but I think you&#
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
I use ChatGPT all of the time, but the model backing the voice model (or it's settings) is intensely stupid. If Grok is actually good here, they will have a customer!
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
You are entirely incorrect. Here is the LLM's summary of the current legal issue at hand: Attempting to determine the identity of an unknown individual co-located with a victim at a specific time requires a reverse-location query. Beca
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
Most people don't understand how powerless police are to find criminals. That they catch them at all is often amazing. I have firsthand knowledge of this from a tragic loss in my family. The investigation was severely hindered because
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
Everyone at Meta should know the score. Meta pays top dollar. They also pay enormous sums for what management identifies as performance. Conversely, Meta is ruthless about cutting those management identifies as low performers. This is the d
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
This is an amazing technological achievement. Kudos. This is so much better than the competition. I suspect that this will have an impact in business and education, at a minimum.
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by HardCodedBias 5mo ago
Impressive Tenue, IMO. Apple Watch, AirPods, M1 Silicon, services. A few flops, like Apple Vision Pro and their confusion with AI. But that's ok given the wins. Overall, as a non-founder he's near the tops in CEOs over the last co
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
"As of two years ago they were still liquidating out of it" I get that people are scared of investing in China. But if I still made single stock investments, I would seriously consider BABA, it seems well positioned.
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
I think its clear that a lot of companies over hired during the pandemic, and it seems like we are getting more out of our entire staff with AI tools. Given that it makes sense to cut if the company doesn't have new product ideas to sp
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
In general: Cynicism makes you sound smart. Optimism makes you successful. The cynicism around this technology is everywhere, even though it clearly has real power to solve problems. It is a technology which enables so many use cases that w
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
The power draw is going to be crazy (today). Practical LLMs on mobile devices are at least a few years away.
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
Why? How? Why would anyone give him money? Really. I'm blown away.
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by HardCodedBias 6mo ago
Heretical opinion: I think that Rob Pike was far more of a wordcel than a shape rotator for a famous computer scientist (which historically were very much on the shape rotator side).
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
I'm going to assume that you mean progressive INCOME taxation is the most efficient and fair... Classically the ranking is : Least distortionary Land value taxes / recurrent tax on pure land rents Broad recurrent property
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
Legally this is quite fascinating. The state constitution is quite strange wrt. taxes: https://law.justia.com/constitution/washington/constitution-... There is a school of thought that the powers should be enumera
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
AI says: TX: Average Effective Rate: Approximately 1.36% to 1.6% (some estimates range up to 1.8%) of a property's assessed fair market value. The typical homeowner in Texas pays a median annual property tax of $4,108 WA: Effective Rat
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I'm sure it is reasonably good. It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence. I don't mean that in a rah-rah way, it just see
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
We'll have to wait a day or two, maybe a week or two, to determine if this is more capable in coding than 5.3, which seems to be the economically valuable capability at this time. In terms of writing and research even Gemini, with a go
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
The actual question is if Eaton overstepped his authority in this ruling. Instead of ruling narrowly that named plaintiffs would get a refund Eaton expressly said: "all importers of record" which is all who were subject to the IEE
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
"This is the end of software engineering." Likely. The models have to improve, but the trend has been strong. I have the misfortune to be required to use Gemini at Google, so I am not seeing it as clearly as others, but indeed the
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
AFAIK it has clearly been a ban of Gemini and not of all people's Google accounts. However many stories appeared where people tried to claim that their whole Google account was banned to gain traction. Unless it is clear that a full Go
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
So much insanity. Anthropic wanted a veto on use of force by USG. That is intolerable, no private party can have a veto over the sovereign. It is that simple. Anthropic should have just walked away (and taken the settlement lumps) when they
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
It absolutely is a PR stunt. And the media is cheering. It's absurd. It's simple: If you do not like working with the military, cancel your contract with the military and pay the penalties. They are explicitly not doing that.
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
Wait it gets worse for the "article" ITEP gets the number by dividing Meta’s current federal tax expense ($2.82B) by its domestic pretax income ($79.64B), which is about 3.5–3.6%. But Meta’s total 2025 GAAP effective tax rate was
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
IIUC Meta is spending more on capital (due to AI buildout) than they are receiving in profits. Given Depreciation this is expected. And ... the intent of the law, to prompt capital investment. What's the scandal, exactly?
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by HardCodedBias 7mo ago
You sure it is about labor prices? These are highly capital intensive businesses. You may want to ask your LLM to do very detailed research.

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