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811.
by Retric 11mo ago
I found that specific clarification useful while everything else was easy to follow. It’s not that I was unaware that’s how Unix worked here, just that I rarely think of sockets in that context.
812.
by Retric 11mo ago
I mean if your benchmark was “at the time of the accident” then you’re off by more than a factor of a million. The often quoted 80 to 100 grays per hour was eight months after formation and it had gotten way less radioactive by then. Decay
813.
by Retric 11mo ago
Self improvement doesn’t mean self improvement in any possible direction without any tradeoffs. Genetic algorithms can do everything an LLM can given enough computational resources and training, but being wildly inefficient humanity can’t a
814.
by Retric 11mo ago
> That leads to 0.05 J of extra energy per gram of microbial bio material Over what timeframe? If that’s 0.05 J per hour and “the researchers found that fungi that faced the galactic cosmic radiation for 26 days grew an average 1.21 time
815.
by Retric 11mo ago
> Here's what I got: the radiation level just 1 meter away from the "elephant foot" (the solidified molten core), at the time of the accident was about 1000 times lower than the solar irradiation. At 100 meters it was 10 m
816.
by Retric 11mo ago
The basic premise of the economy is people do stuff for money. Any rights holder debating with their punishing house or whatever just means they don’t get paid. Some trivial number of people would opt out, but most authors or their estat
817.
by Retric 11mo ago
> only foreseeable outcome to copyright maximalism Nahh, AI companies had plenty of money to pay for access they simply chose not to.
818.
by Retric 11mo ago
The vast majority of work done in space is already done by machines. Humanoid robots are potentially useful when operating in human environments, but that doesn’t really apply if we’re never sending humans to these locations.
819.
by Retric 11mo ago
The average was significantly higher than 14 even in hunter gatherer societies. Women in studied hunter gather societies had their first kid around 19 with a mix of teens and early 20’s being common.
820.
by Retric 11mo ago
Scaling for lifespan they are having kids at ~14 which humans can do, but the average first time mother in the US is 27.5.
821.
by Retric 11mo ago
How does it make sense to suggest your taxes are going to support something when it’s profitable? I doubt many people would say they want to raise their taxes to cancel program X because it also helps people they don’t like. You could be
822.
by Retric 11mo ago
Google “OpenAI” then click the “news” tab and it’s currently the top story despite multiple newer articles. So they aren’t meaningfully punishing them.
823.
by Retric 11mo ago
The basic premise was it’s no longer obvious if a system is still doing anything useful. If the system had easy to locate documentation saying everything that used it then there wouldn’t be an issue, but that’s very difficult to maintain.
824.
by Retric 11mo ago
In an ideal world sure, but knowledge gets lost every time someone randomly quits, dies, retires etc. Stuff that’s been working fine for years is easy for a team to forget about, especially when it’s a hidden dependency in some script that’
825.
by Retric 11mo ago
“It said the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million“ So 95% of that wasn’t from the cost of the website redesign. “$79.
826.
by Retric 11mo ago
Old people do lose mental capacity just as they lose strength etc, dementia is a more extreme thing.
827.
by Retric 11mo ago
> a removal attempt is the most effective and cost efficient way to find out whether the ting can be removed Cost efficient for your team’s budget sure, but a 1% chance of a 10+ million dollar issue is worth significant effort. That’s t
828.
by Retric 11mo ago
People survived with quite severe dementia hundreds of years ago. It doesn’t necessarily imply the rest of the body is unhealthy just their brain in a very specific way.
829.
by Retric 11mo ago
I think you misunderstood his viewpoint. Marx’s writing predates the US civil war. When you “own” someone and then “own” their labor the fruits of that labor aren’t yours any more than the person. By that reasoning, if you then use the fru
830.
by Retric 11mo ago
It doesn’t matter if New Mexico’s state government recuperates its revenue it matters if New Mexico’s citizens are better off. As such federal, state, and local levels are worth considering not just state taxes, including changes in ot
831.
by Retric 11mo ago
What I am describing is you literally saving money. If a government can convert a 1k outlay into 1.1k of tax revenue that same month you aren’t actually paying for those benefits you are getting a little revenue instead of zero revenue.
832.
by Retric 11mo ago
Without any transactions or user tracking it’s difficult to separate ‘legitimate’ content farms from those using bot farms to boost their page views. Print media was also trying to guarantee their audience was an actual person by charging n
833.
by Retric 11mo ago
Now compare that to a car which would have been 25 years old, 30 years ago.
834.
by Retric 11mo ago
If you yourself alongside everyone else in your country benefits why should you care if you happen to dislike some of those people?
835.
by Retric 11mo ago
Trust is irrelevant, families gain the after tax income of working mothers but society gains not just the pretax value but the actual value of work generated. Thus subsidizing childcare and moving the needle to align society’s benefits and
836.
by Retric 11mo ago
The windshield test is somewhat deceptive as improved aerodynamics plays a role, but the difference is still quite noticeable when driving around in a classic car.
837.
by Retric 11mo ago
Not everyone needs extra space and for those who do the hourly rate for being in mild discomfort on an airline is huge. It’s less that most people don’t care instead it’s often a completely reasonable tradeoff.
838.
by Retric 11mo ago
This is part of how free markets self correct, misallocate resources and you run out of resources. You can blame irrational exuberance, bubbles, or whatnot markets are ultimately individual choices times economic power. Ai, Crypto, housing
839.
by Retric 11mo ago
Depression is likely to have many possible underlying causes. It’s a description of a persistent set of symptoms not necessarily any specific biological process.
840.
by Retric 11mo ago
In practice HOA’s are just another level of government in that they hold elections, get policing power, provide services, and collect taxes.

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