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by SamPatt 2y ago
Alcohol is also consumed in all cultures. It's still bad for you. I'm not a zero sugar person, but close - I'll eat fruit, or some foods with minimal sugar added (peanut butter). It's been way better for my health than m
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Who is "we"? I don't eat the junk. I'd rather other people didn't either, and you probably agree, but should we force our preferences on everyone else?
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Read (or listen to) Endurance by Alfred Lansing. It's truly a great story.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
I worked in northern Virginia at the time, fairly close to the epicenter. Our office building shook violently. A poor woman I worked with was quite panicked, dove under her desk... and admonished me afterward for staying calm?
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Interesting idea, but I don't always have much time to scroll HN and I use comment number as a proxy for being worth spending a few minutes reading people's takes. I mostly use it on my phone anyway. I wonder how many would consis
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: Nearby Technologies: Python (Django & Flask), Javascript, React, React Native, NodeJS, Local LLM tooling Résumé/CV: On my site: htt
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by SamPatt 3y ago
In this thread there's a bunch of "non-evil" responses, and your replies are all "I'm skeptical" or just dismissing them outright. It appears from the outside that you've decided this is Officially Bad tec
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by SamPatt 3y ago
The high bitcoin fees killed adoption more than the price drop. I worked on OpenBazaar, a decentralized marketplace using bitcoin, and no one wants to spend $5 just to buy something. Artificially reducing block sizes killed adoption.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Maybe those infant memories exist, but they aren't accessible to our adult minds because our understanding of sensory data at the time was so different from our more developed minds? The data is still there, but it's in a forgotte
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by SamPatt 3y ago
>That's a good example: our ancestors went throught PLENTY of really violent time. By your own logic, violence is not that bad. That's the opposite of what I claimed. You are keen to put words in my mouth. I point out that we c
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by SamPatt 3y ago
No one needs to have the exact same moral framework, all they need is one belief: don't use violence. The fact that defining violence isn't trivial is a case for more speech, not less. I don't think you can build arguments ag
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Yes, the call for violence is more deserving of censorship. It's not about trying to make a net utilitarian estimate of how much harm each claim might make. It's about the acceptability of the behaviors proposed. We may not like t
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Here's my fear when I read your comment. You're applying these labels to speakers (racist, transphobe, reactionary) and then claiming that if the label applies, engagement is pointless and they deserve to be shouted down. Let&#x27
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Saying they aren't constructive and muddy the water implies there's some clear shared goals / values and an understanding of acceptable paths towards those goals / values. Isn't part of the point of controversial sp
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Of the scores of deplatforming events noted in the article, how many of them are you proposing are similar in kind to Hilter proposing genocide? If it's a tiny minority, then why use this sensationalist example?
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by SamPatt 3y ago
What is the mindset of a college student who goes out of their way to shout down and prevent other people from speaking? This isn't rhetorical, I genuinely want to know why they think, in a place ostensibly dedicated to learning, it&#x
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Survivor bias? Maybe they made plenty of trash explainer videos, and those didn't survive. Though for economic reasons, that's clearly less true than today.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Be an adult and say "hey man, I know you're excited about Bitcoin but I'm tired of hearing about it. Please stop bringing it up." Then it's up to them to either respect that or not, and you to remain friends or not.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
It's good to be empathetic towards anyone suffering, but you must also consider how much suffering is avoided when technology advances. Yes, washing machines caused suffering for women who made a living manually washing clothes. But th
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by SamPatt 3y ago
>So… why do people want to fine tune LLMs at home? It seems very unlikely to provide value. Asking the first question is fine, but your follow-up comment sounds more dismissive than curious. That's probably why the snarky response.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Where are you finding this community?
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by SamPatt 3y ago
This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. We tend to view it as lacking intelligence, and intelligence we often define as something like IQ, but the author explicitly rejects that and makes it about destructive (t
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by SamPatt 3y ago
There's a lot of truth in this, but I struggle with the conclusion of "avoid stupid (destructive) people at all costs." While I don't doubt this is best for personal satisfaction and sanity, it feels lacking in compassio
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by SamPatt 3y ago
I don't need to see the end result to make the claim - the doomsayers miss the basic economic principle about incentives changing with prices. They extrapolate trend lines out without realizing that every time something starts to &quot
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by SamPatt 3y ago
I was assured that helium was running out and it was a national emergency. The resource doomsayers just move onto the next "crisis" when they're proven wrong. Again.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
The exercise versus diet debate for weight loss pops up occasionally, and the entire framing feels wrong to me. I lost nearly 100 lbs, and I've kept it off for five years now. Sample size of one, yes, but I've talked to a lot of o
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Broccoli and asparagus are my go-to veggies because they're extremely quick and easy to prepare and cook. Steamed broccoli is an excellent plate filler with almost zero effort.
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Agreed. The mistake I made when I was younger was thinking that good communication was about being able to clearly and concisely convey the information in your head into another head. I eventually learned that this was necessary but not suf
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by SamPatt 3y ago
Sure. Words speak louder than actions, right?
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by SamPatt 3y ago
A few billion in profit doesn't come close to canceling out the moral hazard involved. Privatizing profits but socializing losses creates perverse incentives, besides being deeply unfair.

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