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Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense(paulkrugman.substack.com)
512 points by Qem 5mo ago|335 comments
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by Qem 5mo ago
Wait until Shrinkflation meets AIflation, where most services once mediated by humans are taken over by dumb, error-prone, allucinating AI, with no possibility of recourse.
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by Qem 5mo ago
Given electric cars are quieter, curious about how likely is a reversal of this trend.
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by Qem 5mo ago
Are they avoiding people using LLMs as poor man Dungeon Masters?
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by Qem 5mo ago
> I don't recall if that was the phrasing but the gist was that our level of intelligence can only exist by skirting the fringes of sanity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342.
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by Qem 5mo ago
There's some controversy about what would be better, universal basic income (UBI), or universal basic jobs[1]. But either one surely would be better than the status quo. [1] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts&#x
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by Qem 5mo ago
> Still, the move is a major win for Zhou, and is seen as a soft sign that the Chinese judiciary, and therefore national lawmakers could be gearing up to protect workers from the threat of AI automation and austerity — while laborers rem
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by Qem 5mo ago
Perhaps they were very smart, but also they were all autistic[1], so they had poor social skills and had a hard time coordinating large groups against encroaching H. Sapiens Sapiens tribes. [1] https://communities.springernature.
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by Qem 5mo ago
> Was it better medicine and food that stopped both your height and your brain from being stunted? The ban on leaded petrol probably also helped.
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by Qem 5mo ago
Next Microsoft will sue you to get a share of revenues and ownership as co-author, if your product ever makes success.
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Zugzwang(en.wikipedia.org)
112 points by Qem 5mo ago|76 comments
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by Qem 5mo ago
That makes me wonder if studying may be more effective right before bed time, despite tiredness from the day, or if it's more effective early in the day, while we're less fatigued.
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Thomas Edison.
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by Qem 6mo ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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by Qem 6mo ago
> why dont they send a probe to scoop up some venus air and bring it back? Better, why don't they do some sort of "ocean fertilization" experiment on Venus cloud decks. Putative life high on Venus atmosphere must be limite
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by Qem 6mo ago
From Ubuntu MATE I went to Mint MATE, then LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
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by Qem 6mo ago
Both are great. I'm currently using the Debian Editon, that at least for me works out of the box. The transition from the Ubuntu-based traditional edition was seamless. I used Mint MATE before.
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by Qem 6mo ago
LMDE: https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
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by Qem 6mo ago
Unfortunately my favourite flavor, Ubuntu MATE, will sit out this release cycle: https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=showheadli...
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by Qem 6mo ago
I'm sure detailed mouse and keystroke data can actually leak health data from subjects. What are the odds one can detect early parkinson disease from mouse wiggle data? If such data leaks away health status, I think capture should be f
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by Qem 6mo ago
Because they don't want to displace and dispossess the indigenous people. They don't steal houses from the local population like Israel does to the palestinians.
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by Qem 6mo ago
They are greening fast, and enabling greening of others through cost competitive supplies.
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by Qem 6mo ago
I wonder if this explains in part the purported health benefits from cofee. One thing people claim makes hard to quit cofee habit it's that they can't take a shit in the morning anymore.
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by Qem 6mo ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/the-suit
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by Qem 6mo ago
> it gives a baby a chance at normal, healthy development. And a chance of not being killed in utero. Abortion for Down is sad, because despite cognitive impairment and health complications, their lifespans are long, and emotional develo
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by Qem 6mo ago
> Show me a way to physically compute exp or ln that is less gates than add. IIRC a resistor in series to a capacitor does the trick, for exp.
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by Qem 6mo ago
I wonder how much of this is due to the likes of Instagram, where everybody presents a throughout curated, filtered version of themselves, setting unrealistic expectations as a baseline everywhere.
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by Qem 6mo ago
You're mistaking it for Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School[1], double tapped with tomahawks in the opening salvo of the war. That was another school, hit later. There was multiple schools attacked. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by Qem 6mo ago
Specially AI Hallucination bombs, that hit a park named "Police Park", because it thinks it's killing policemen[1], or a children school with Shahed in the name[2], because it thinks It has something to do with drones. [1] h
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by Qem 6mo ago
> With that in mind, it seems Red Hat, owned by IBM, is desperately trying to scrub a certain white paper from the internet. Titled “Compress the kill cycle with Red Hat Device Edge”, the 2024 white paper details how Red Hat’s products a

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