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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> The way it's often rhetorically used Survivorship bias is another issue. Rich past fields of disagreement and mistakes can be hidden behind the currently accepted outcome. For example, imagine someone said: "Science™ has expl
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That's unfair to Hamilton: There's huge difference between "kinda wanted a kingly system" versus "would have approved of that becoming king while breaking the rules of a different system."
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> principles like limited government, federalism, property rights, free markets, and individual liberty. A laundry-list of principles the current federal Republican regime has been destroying or violating the last two years, and surely e
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
To reuse part of a 15-month old comment on LLM excitement: > How might future generations visualize [our grand declarations]? I'm imagining some ancient Greeks, who have invented an inefficient reciprocating pump, which they declare
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Seeing the artistry involved in old "paperwork" also helps drive home how years of computing (and printing) technology has dramatically reduced the "price per diagram." Even if they aren't always as nice, a kid can
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
"Look at the crimes the economy made me do" doesn't really work after a certain level of affluence though.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Wish granted: You are no longer a citizen because you never "proved you were beneficial". Please remit $100,000 to the Citizenship Payment Service immediately to avoid being downgraded to serfdom. /s Framing it that way is ba
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I would wager a much-bigger feedback loop involves the other things that would like to live in those caves, and the odds you might get into conflict with their jaws/claws/stingers.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
AFAIK the IRS has historically been more, er, disinterestedly nitpicky as opposed to disproportionately vindictive . More "you say X we say Y here's your options you are Z days over with a W% rate", rather than " Ah hah
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> suffocation (blood acidity induced by excess CO2) Which, being the budget option, has a failure scenario: When low oxygen occurs without high CO2, people feel fine... until it's too late and they fall over, unconscious. This can o
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
My not-too-strategic thinking is that maybe we don't have to solve the tricky problem of loans, if we merely close the enormous final tax dodge that they're all aiming for. https://taxproject.org/buy-borrow-die&#
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I was thinking more purely in terms of frequency. For a dollar a pop, you can be "rich" for worldwide events that are actually very rare things.
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Hold up, I think we have some sort of math denominator problem here. You'd be rich if you got a dollar for every worldwide murder too, but that doesn't make murder a common workplace occurrence.
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There is no data leakage from the application where the front-fell-off, because we towed the data outside the environment. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> The idea is that taking a secured loan out using an asset as collateral would be a taxable event for that asset. Doesn't that puts valuations in the hands of people who could conspire to manipulate them, creating false data points
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Right, the overall tax burden is closer to flat. https://itep.org/fairness-matters-chart-book-on-who-pays-sta...
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Ask yourself why General Motors is taking the many billions of dollars in cash that they generate from their business operations and literally sending it directly to Wall Street bankers through the form of stock buybacks rather than in
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A fictional public service announcement from the classic game Deus Ex (2000), also involving photographs... > [Be Safe: Be Suspicious] How can you tell who might be a terrorist? Look for the following characteristics: > * A stranger o
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
To cynically summarize a disturbing portion of LLM business-models: 1. Find companies which require or reward employees for generating bullshit, fluff, or unreliable signals for actual work that isn't measured well. 2. Offer those empl
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> If we extended public policy from Similarly and tangentially, when the US Constitution was made in an era of horseback/carriages, it explicitly authorized the creation of a public national postal service (USPS). If we extended th
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Next, the recipient of the wall-of-text throws it into another LLM to "summarize" it to bullet-points, adding another hop of the game of telephone as it mutates what was already a fake artifact of thinking that was never done. *
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Someone else made it similar comment, so I clarified the phrasing of my original post. The main backup of allll my decades of digital junk is independent and happens elsewhere. Even if I had a USB-stick of magical capacity and reliability
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I realize the wording in my comment was a little ambiguous, but don't worry, that's in addition to my files in general. (Restic, Backblaze B2, memorized passwords/keys, regular integrity checks of remote data.) After all,
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I agree that between humans the example given is laziness and disrespect. That said, I want to make it clear that if people are going to regurgitate LLM results either way, I'd rather get the longer slop than trust a concise "Use
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
So I have an admission here: I keep seeing HN stuff about these networked password managers and I don't quite understand the appeal. Is it because everybody else is swapping between several different computers, and you need the synchro
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I support copyright reform, but that history has a large portion of "get lucky while sucking-up to the local rich dudes for a patron", which... isn't ideal either.
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To relate it to a more-general economic article that has stuck with me for a while: > If you simulate this economy, a variant of the yard sale model, you will get a remarkable result: after a large number of transactions, one agent ends
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> LLM's know when they get information from certain places Nah, while the companies running scrapers may log what their regular programs scraped for training data, the LLM, the document-get-bigger algorithm, isn't that type of
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
My point is that it's quite possible add the pension mechanism and make things even worse, if it isn't done carefully in conjunction with other policies.
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https://xkcd.com/2383/

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