Yizahi

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by Yizahi 9mo ago
There is nothing democratic about China. This is just a fact. Admittedly western countries are also not democratic per definition, but at least they have an elected oligarchy, which is miles closer to democracy than Chinese despotic regime.
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
The dissonance between this comment and the one above is striking really :) . One user asks for non-China countries to intervene in China or the occupied territories, and another user is outraged that the same has actually happened in Venez
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Malicious "enabler" already in the circular vouch system would then vouch for new malicious accounts and then unvouch after those are accepted, hiding the connection. So then someone would need to manually monitor the logs for eve
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
And another practical observation is that not many people have Lobsters account or even heard about it due to that (way less than people who heard about HN). Their "solution" is to make newcomers beg for invites in some chat. Gues
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Problem 1 - assuming this Vouch tool gains wide adoption without major fuckups, I predict that a lot of people would "outsource" their own vetting to it, and it would become a circular system where newcomer would not be able to ge
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
As an anecdote example, I've never ever accessed said Factbook, but I've heard about it enough times to remember that such thing exists and that USA govt. is collecting a relatively objective fact list. So yeah, it was a tiny bit
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
This is logically consistent if we take a second and think from an immigrant PoV. What a citizen risks if he steals phone for example or runs red? A big fine, possibly a suspended sentence for first timers. What does an immigrant risk? His
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
It will be skewed due to all the jargon, slang and grammar errors.
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Just a nitpick - to make anything CO2 neutral, including planes, we need to remove the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere as had been emitted during construction and usage of that thing (a plane or anything else). This is not happening
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Eastern Europe is ready :) . Most of the small to medium crashes are solved in some way. I was baffled when 5 years ago I was repainting a wing on my ICE car and guys showed me how they are reconstructing aluminum Tesla wings (supposedly th
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I agree about wealth cap. I suspect that ultra-rich would rather pay higher taxes than have a hard cap. Or cap will be defined in such way as to become meaningless. This is why I advocate for high tax brackets, as being more realistic in pr
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
The thing is that Europe doesn't have much redistribute policies. Everyone at around lower rank manager or middle developer are landing in the highest tax bracket in most of the countries, and pay as much tax as rich people. And almost
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I can't say how much such a person should pay in taxes, but it is kinda funny that I'm paying the same amount 39.5-40% with my five digit salary and no property. I don't know who should pay what amount, but I'm pretty su
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I wasn't talking about your system, I was talking about many systems everywhere. Just as an example, one of them may be powering your home internet and fast and reliable systemd boot is one of the reasons why multiple minutes had been
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Systems were simpler then and demands were lower. So what if the system boots sequentially and takes two days to boot up. But try to make it parallel and faster, and the whole house of scripts falls down or becomes illegible, undiscoverable
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
My single's tax is approximately two monthly netto salaries per year.
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Shorting OIA, or really any big company, is like trying to stop a train which is on fire by standing in front of it. Yes, it is on fire and won't last long, but it will still crush any small player trying to overpower whole corrupt sys
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Thing is, China has the same problems as OAI. Just looks at these two startups, they are one of the first LLM corpos where we have some actual numbers from accounting and not BS from marketing department or Sam's xitter. The situation
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
> This might seem far-fetched but the counterfactual is Kafkaesque. > As the proprietors of an, er, AI code review tool suddenly beset by an avalanche of competition, we're asking ourselves: what makes us different? > Human en
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Well, they did had a choice. And all of them are directly complicit in this situation by not reforming electoral college and first part the post election system. All current and past congressmen are guilty in that, since they have preserved
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
An anecdote - it is maybe lesser known fact in the west, but Putin deems himself a very law abiding person, and he proudly repeats this many times over his 26 year reign. The only tiny problem is that he himself first changes those laws as
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
You are forgetting about legislative branch too. Congress fist voluntarily "gifted" their right to the executive branch, in the form of the eCaNoMic ImErGenCy. And then Congress passed a measure which blocked every single member o
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Yes it is, partly because it was never democratic, and more like a an elective oligarchy. While people's and oligarchy intentions roughly aligned, we thought that "yay, democracy is working!". But as soon as the intentions di
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
"Right now, he is imagining that he is just fine. And that a ton of burning leather and metal is fully functioning car." https://youtu.be/M0S3a32RzEo?t=278
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I wager the scammer industry looking for active bots and exploiting them would thrive. Automate creation of fake listings using throwaway accounts using popular keywords and arbitraging price lower and lower, and until automatic buyers star
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I genuinely wonder, would you do that, really? Sure 600$ is not the end of the world for certain countries, but neither it is a sum I'm willing to just lose on random. What if the electronic parrot buys from an obvious counterfeit vend
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
That is commonly repeated idea, but it doesn't take into account countless token farms which are smaller than a datacenter. Basically anything from a single MB with 8 cards to a small shed with rigs, all of which tend to disregard comm
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
You are deeply mistaken as to roots of this culture difference. There many highly religious cultures which absolutely lack the "social agreement" framework. The real reason why "social agreement" countries exist is feuda
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by Yizahi 9mo ago
Consider the following - Trump has tried again and again to make a business deal with dictators, regardless of the previous outcomes. And since he is in a steep mental decline he is not likely to change his ways fundamentally. He also repea

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