Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Already done: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/10/03/metas-r...
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Google tells me 2,700 in Northern Ireland have authorization to carry firearms privately. By comparison in my county in Washington state, there are 114,000 active concealed firearm permit holders out of a population of 2.3 million. And this
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Is it legal to carry firearms concealed in Northern Ireland? It's not the presence of guns in a guns safe that makes policing more dangerous, it's the fact the a sizeable chunk of the American public is actively carrying firearms.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
This isn't sealioning, this is a directly relevant point: The grandparent comment says that giving Palantir access to data is a risk. But the parent comment points out that software companies often don't see all the data that thei
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
In your example with Musk, you actually gave a concrete reference: doing a Nazi salute. You've yet to do even that with Thiel and Karp. > 5 minutes of using Google or something would bring up various reports of Karp's recent c
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
How am I supposed to prove a negative here? Post a transcript of every statement Thiel and Karp have ever made? You're the one making an assertion about Palantir. Apparently whatever you're referring to is well reported, but not
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
It's about threading the needle between a well funded grid, and an over engineered grid. There's a point where diminishing returns makes investment greater than that threshold wasteful relative to opportunity cost of spending that
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
This is the same problem with cost-plus contracts in the military. In theory, capping profit is meant to reduce profiteering. But in practice, if your profit is fixed at 6% of the cost to built a jet fighter then you're incentivized to
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> But can you short a stock if you are a director at that company? You can, if you cover your tracks well enough. Or donate to a President willing to keep the SEC off your back. I get that people in power can place bets on their own acti
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
It'd help make your point to actually share the ominous quotes you're referring to.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
People have been threatened with murder (and I wouldn't be surprised if some people have actually been murdered) over shorting stocks. Yet no one is talking about "stock market apologists". I don't think Polymarket is a
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
I don't think that's how it works. An anti radiation missile from the 90s had a pretty high degree of autonomy. I know the British ones could deploy a parachute when the radar stopped emitting and reacquire the target when it reac
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Not necessarily, many online assessments I've encountered had a technical discussion session where you describe your problem solving process and design decisions. The ranking is more subjective for this component. Not to mention plenty
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
For a first-round interview, it was not uncommon to have a leet-code style automated assignment as early as the mid 2010s. I recall more than a few highly regarded employers that did this in 2014. Is an AI interview meaningfully different t
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
Sure, but that level is a lot higher than what a lot of commenters seem to think.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
To the contrary, there have been many cases of very similar novels with largely identical plot points and settings that survive copyright allegations, even if the author was exposed to the original work. For a rather entertaining example (t
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
As other pointed out, the notion of "clean room" rewrites is to make a particularly strong case of non-infringement. It doesn't mean that anything other than a clean room implementation is an infringement.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
The reality is that most people are tolerant of, if not supportive of surveiling car traffic. If tracking vehicle movements on public roads is such a bad thing, there'd be overwhelming support for removing license plates from vehicles
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
> There's a second bus factor: What happens when that 8xH100 starts to get flakey? You can't move the jobs to another server because you only have one. You can still use cloud for excess capacity when needed. E.g. use on-prem f
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
There's a growing set of ARM windows laptops that might bite into the Chromebook market. The surface laptop 7 is pretty nice and comes in both large(ish) 15 inch and small 13.8 inch form factors.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
The fact they listed wattage and actual peak wattage is different doesn't change the fact that an e-bike's power, not whether the throttle is connected to the handle bars or the pedal, is what actually creates fast and dangerous b
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
Japan has bicycles with license plates. It's clearly possible.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
> recognizing the psychology between "big push with foot makes go fast" and "pressing button makes go fast". And what is the psychological difference? As far as I'm concerned when I'm using torque-sensing
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
There are plenty of ebikes with throttles that have less power than ebikes without throttles. E.g. a lectric xpress 500 has 500 watts, there are some pedal assist only bikes with 750 or more watts. It's power and speed that matters, as
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
License plates absolutely prevent dangerous and illegal behavior in cars, just not 100% of it.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
Disagree, the wattage of the motor is what's relevant. A 750 watt ebike with pedal assist has more potential to cause harm than a 250 watt "emoto" with a throttle. The whole throttle vs pedal assist distinction makes way less
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
They're less safe on as demonstrated by the casualties they've sustained in repeated wars, inter-state and civil wars. Iraq and Iran are both in the region, if not directly sharing borders with Israel. So to answer the question I
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
And what about Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon? And, in this latest case, Iran?
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
Historically, Israelis have been much safer than most of their neighbors Oct. 7th notwithstanding.
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by Manuel_D 8mo ago
Nearly zero of the freight rail network in north America is electrified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_electrification_in_th...

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