SpicyLemonZest

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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
Altogether, no. But I do think a combination of Amazon Locker, autonomous vehicles and perhaps drones are likely to radically change how last-mile delivery looks, and I don't think it's a coincidence that so much of that network c
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
Again, I'm working off of the only actual information I'm aware of, A/I's self-description of how the process works. If someone has more information they should provide it rather than relying on maybes! The existence of
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
How do you know what the A/I vetting consisted of or what standards they held? They don't seem to have published any detailed description of the process, and by their own account they destroyed all records of the vetting after app
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
And everyone involved in hiring and pardoning them should go to prison. I can't speak for everyone, but many of us really do have a principled opposition to political violence.
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
You're just not confronting reality, man. The President of the United States personally called for Gavin Newsom to be arrested in June 2025. In September of that year, in response to Newsom's post calling Gestapo chief Stephen Mil
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
Their public position, before the sanctions at least ( https://archive.is/5TWWu ), was that their services were manually vetted and provided "exclusively to individuals or groups we feel we have an affinity with".
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
The problem is that, as A/I themselves explained ( https://www.inventati.org/who/collective ), they worked hard to ensure that they do not possess any evidence of or data about who is using their infrastructure.
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
It's not a binary. If you expect to receive 90 meritorious complaints and 10 bad ones, a review procedure with no false negatives and 10% false positives will give you the wrong outcome 1% of the time. You might be OK with that dependi
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by SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
But what does it matter whether we can "trust its verification of the 13 million lines of code"? We already knew that Fermat's Last Theorem is true, we don't need Lean to tell us that. The value of a formalization would
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
That's what the letter V was historically understood to mean. As the article says, venture capital used to be a small segment of the capital markets for the uncommon set of companies who can't prove their idea is any good until th
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Again, it depends entirely on what you mean by "substandard". It's entirely reasonable to demand specific standards - "children should have healthy food", "children should have health insurance coverage",
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I don't think the famously young-skewed tech industry is at any risk of slamming into a wall. If Google finds in 2035 it's running out of good seniors in their 30s because they haven't been mentoring college grads well enough
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Yes, it’s true. The H-1B program was redesigned that way in the Immigration Act of 1990 that introduced the O visa category; before that, the H-1B criteria formally required that recipients have “distinguished merit and ability” and perform
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
It does, but how often do you see people argue that California and Texas are paradises where healthcare is affordable because the profit-seekers have been driven out?
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
In most states, the answer is fixed by law at either zero or one depending on whether you count insurance, because medical practices must be wholly owned by doctors.
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I'm responding to a comment that was quite explicitly about everyone being above average. The commenter listed out a number of average costs to illustrate that they're not affordable to employed households pulling in less than the
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
It's unavoidably true that 50% of Americans are going to be below the median. I understand why someone might feel frustrated or say they're struggling if they look at their home, car, groceries, etc. and see that 50% of Americans
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
State level minimum wages were much less common in 1995, so it was easier for workers to be below their poverty threshold. Even though the federal wage got stuck, in many states today, the minimum wage is high enough that it's not poss
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
This definition sounds like U-6 unemployment ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE ) with an additional term for people making below a living wage. That's better constructed than most of these "real stats
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I didn't say I hate it. I've never seen any reason to doubt that Ed Zitron is a great guy who's working hard to tell the truth as he understands it. My point is that any discussion of how a large, complex company is doing req
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
"July revenue alone exceeded all of Q2" would be a very normal thing to say, but you're skipping over some of the words. Unless revenue is sharply dropping, annualized recurring revenue in any month will exceed the revenue in
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The problem is that some numbers genuinely require a critical eye. If a source tells you that the OpenAI CFO told employees July ARR exceeded the Q2 total, there are a number of serious questions to be raised on how these numbers were calcu
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I understand why some people get annoyed, but my jeans no longer get a phone bulge pattern worn into them and my headphone cords don't try to strangle me at the gym. For me these were both great innovations.
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I would point out that the Apple Watch and AirPods are both great rather than dull products, but I strongly suspect the author here was not making a good faith attempt to analyze Tim Cook's product legacy.
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Agreed! It's a complicated argument that would have required detailed discussion. But Google found it more politically convenient to bow to Trump and make it a fait accompli. Thus Trump makes an incremental step further towards his dre
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
In particular, their claim that they do this for all bodies of water with disputed names is a lie. They do it for some , but the Heilong River is called simply the "Amur River" on my map with no notice whatsoever of the longstand
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Perhaps they should not have reacted so quickly? The only US state which borders Lake Ontario rejects the name change, and US states are sovereign, so it’s not so obvious to me that the name change is official. But now it’s too late. Moving
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
No. I also think it's a big deal, but attacking military assets is bad for completely different reasons than breaking windows in my neighborhood.
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The bill doesn't exempt Linux-based systems by name, if that's what you're thinking. It exempts any operating system that allows users to "copy, redistribute, and modify the software". It's a bit arbitrary in t
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by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The regulatory environment for housing construction has changed a lot in the past 5 years, and in SF in particular the new "Family Zoning Plan" is a big deal. If OpenAI has been attempting to build housing in SF and got shot down

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