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by Retric 4mo ago
We’re currently in the process of revoking California’s exception. However that’s a more complicated legal issue than the feds get to do whatever they want.
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by Retric 4mo ago
I’ve read about prompt injections “working” with resumes, but it’s hard to guarantee that it worked rather than that resume being selected. You really need something with more options than just pass/fail to verify it worked thus: “Forg
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by Retric 4mo ago
States do restrict those things quite heavily without much comment from the general public. Florida has done a lot to minimize home solar for example.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Interstate commerce has been redefined to mean both way less and way more than the phrase might seem to imply. States can for example introduce rules on emissions when no cars are manufactured in that state.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Many are terrible.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> A particle is a useful metaphor I disagree, an actual point particle with a mass should have an event horizon. Using terms without baggage helps avoid such misleading assumptions.
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by Retric 4mo ago
With QM there’s no pure point particles.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Price discovery isn’t “making up” a number it’s discovering a number that meets a specific criteria. Critically it’s not simply averaging a bunch of made up numbers. I may think gold is worth 1,000$/kg but if nobody is willing to sell
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by Retric 4mo ago
There’s years where the population declined due to migration, the long term trend is very much a net positive. Recent policies have resulted in significant population decline, but so far they are just another blip.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> no country has reversed its birth rate problem. America has, it reversed below subsistence rate birth rates. More importantly despite some years of negative population growth the net long term trend is slow population growth. So despi
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by Retric 4mo ago
Loans transfer upfront costs into operating costs, thus making upfront costs largely meaningless for anyone with access to cheap credit.
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by Retric 4mo ago
New Zealand is zero defense vs a large populist uprising, especially one taking place in New Zealand. That’s the thing social structures like money and nations only mean something when the masses decide they mean something. Billionaires on
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by Retric 4mo ago
Independent research by non PhD’s does occasionally get published, but it’s really difficult to meet the appropriate standards without a lot of very specific training. There’s many objects discovered by amateur astronomers for example.
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by Retric 4mo ago
How can you stand how much slower that is? For me the basic process means typing more, reading a needlessly verbose answer, and then half the time finding out it was wrong anyway.
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by Retric 4mo ago
That’s the low N I was talking about. As long as you can use those writers to operate a business near profitably then they are really cheap, but FOX can’t profitably employ 100,000 writers.
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by Retric 4mo ago
SpaceX’s IPO is believed to be set at wildly inflated prices. The company just isn’t that profitable, it lacks significant opportunities for growth, worse its facing significant competition in the near future. Trying to short it when index
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by Retric 5mo ago
The original use was in terms of transistors in an integrated circuit doubling every year at identical cost. That rate was revised down by Moore multiple times. So it doesn’t have a firm definition, but ever larger and more expensive chi
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by Retric 5mo ago
Mores law is talking density on a silicon wafers. When you start stacking layers or using larger chips it no longer applies.
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by Retric 5mo ago
Only for relatively low values of N. It’s really difficult to scale organizations up and down for election cycles. Historically you’d quickly reach a point where each additional writer was more expensive than the last.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> at least of the same order of magnitude as new drug discovery That’s a valid way of looking at things, but diminishing returns tells a different story. People have been looking at treating the same disease with 100’s of billions /
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by Retric 5mo ago
That’s just not how the general public responds after other terrorist attacks. People flipped out over light brights years after 9/11 and well before the Boston Marathon bombing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200
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by Retric 5mo ago
The 425B VC numbers are global, and again include some medical funding 25B in 2024, so ~25B in 2025 seems reasonable thus non medical VC at 400B flat is a reasonable number. https://dealroom.co/guides/healthtech-guide
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by Retric 5mo ago
Terror is a tactic used by terrorist organizations, but it’s hardly the only thing they do. “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Isn’t quite true, but publicity is inherently valuable to organizations dependent on outside donors. The
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by Retric 5mo ago
You are excluding most government and charity funding into medical research. VC funding includes firms inside of the medical industry, but also companies operating across most of the economy. It’s not just IT, but food, solar, EV’s, rocket
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by Retric 5mo ago
There’s evidence that not all people involved in 9/11 knew they were going to die. Yet, they were still used effectively. Significantly less dedicated supporters are generally used as a funding source, but actual terrorist organizatio
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by Retric 5mo ago
Why stop at one bag for one flight? > would result in a prison sentence That doesn’t seem like a significant deterrent here.
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by Retric 5mo ago
That’s like talking about the ROI of a winning lottery ticket. We can’t know ahead of time which medicine works so you need to fund many teams at the beginning.
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by Retric 5mo ago
That greatly depends on how much handholding is required and for how long. The difference between mostly right and actually useable without supervision is why self driving cars still aren’t ready. When someone says AI can do job X, they ra
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by Retric 5mo ago
Yea, the first few percentage points are underrated. Dropping from 90% of the population being ~farmers to 80% of the population being farmers doubles the amount of time people can spend doing everything else including research, manufactur
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by Retric 5mo ago
> This is because poster takes sides Is an attack on the credibility of the writer.

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