TimorousBestie

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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
I agree, I also believe the overall startup cost and low ROI is more relevant than the occasional tree-hugger’s limited political influence.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> Congratulations, you really torched that straw man. Who are we to begrudge a man his decade-long windmills-tilting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> If a Fukushima style meltdown happens, the taxpayer is always on the hook for 95%+ of the cleanup costs. An apt reference. In both India and China it was the Fukushima disaster that spurred protests and stalled nuclear power growth. Or
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Housing prices in the Midwest have also inflated greatly.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Oh, that’s very exciting! That probably improves the path from Typst to EPUB considerably!
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
This is “my job depends on never admitting how inequitable labor relations are” energy.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
At 5% APR compounded daily and zero inflation, a person would need to invest $300,000 weekly to attain 1 billion dollars after 80 years. Fiddle with the numbers as you like. Do enlighten us as to what actual labor creates $300,000 in real v
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Tao doesn’t seem to have been all that corrupted by the AI money. He’s signatory to the Leiden Declaration after all.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
If you ignore the essentialist phrasing, he’s largely correct—there is a “snowball effect” where the first crime and its punishment cause further physical, mental, and social damage to the criminal that can then lead to subsequent crimes.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Your own link above collates some studies showing that certain kinds of therapy reduce recidivism.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Speedrunners are perfectly capable of defining categories better than that.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Page 18 and ff. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.293... > I don’t know if the president’s lawyers argued a dumb point and lost They argued several dumb points, you’ll have to narrow it down.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> Do they? Honest question. Is there a law that says fees must be in some sense justified? Read the opinion, it isn’t very long. This facet in particular is discussed in detail there. > They gave a definition of fee vs tax that is bas
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Adams had many disagreements with Franklin over matters of state, culture, and once famously over whether the window should be left open at night, but I can find no evidence of Adams saying that Franklin’s well-known whoring disqualified hi
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> Why does the handle need floating point? I don’t know if Yon does this (the documentation is gibberish) but it’s possible to use f64 NaNs to hold convenient metadata. I had a professor who wrote a bespoke teaching language (roughly bas
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Regrettably, the beatings are going to continue until morale improves.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
A career in mathematics is very unlikely to deliver fortune, fame, or even respect. Attribution is in many cases the only way we know that someone else thought our work was valuable. The bar for being cited has never been lower in the histo
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
HN-style startups couldn’t afford to unionize, right? To a founder it would look like eating your seed corn for no realizable benefit.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Actual laughter was produced, thanks.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
I’ve called my father’s insulin pump customer support number once before and the medical advice they gave us would have endangered his life if I had carried it out (according to his GP, whom we called after to confirm).
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> [blah, blah, progressives are the real racists, blah] I never argued that you don’t believe this. I guess you’re disputing the word “insinuating”? Fine, you’re explicitly saying the administrative state is racist. > Last I checked y
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Insinuating that the administrative state is racist by genetic fallacy while longing for a return to the era of Jim Crow is hypocritical enough for me to disregard his opinion.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Russian-style competition math has something of a sad history, see for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 (This is not an argument that whatever “Russian-style” math program espoused here is “bad,” it’s additional
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> How far removed are we from the federal government revoking the passports of everyone who attended a No Kings rally, anywhere in the country? Many trans people have already had their passports revoked, for some there is no path to obta
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> The person I was replying to quoted the article saying "conditions should not interfere", my point was that they do interfere, and will continue to interfere, in spite of all the efforts and hands on the scale and discriminat
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> Sure, but the reality is that such conditions do interfere with the potential of academic success, as much as proponents of equity like to argue otherwise. This is a bizarre claim in the second clause. Proponents of equity do recognize
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> I feel like at this point, both the prophets of AI utopia like Ray Kurzweil, and of AI doom like Eliezer Yudkowsky, could be forgiven for asking: dude, will you listen to us YET? What did Kurzweil or Yudkowsky predict that actually cam
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
The academic market in the US is very bad and in the EU only marginally better. China seems to prefer domestic talent now. Outside of academia there are only a few niche industries still hiring. Mag7 is drying up. The semi-private research
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
> HOA drama sucks for sure, but just outside of my HOA controlled neighborhood, I see also the houses with junk cars in their yards and grass gone to seed. You don’t need a potentially abusive and/or rent-seeking HOA for this. My lo
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Very good visualization repair. I particularly appreciate the TL;DR at the end. In a world of mostly bad popular medical advice this seems competent and at least facially correct.

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