absolutelastone

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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I thought those smart people were the ones saying our military supply chain is dependent on China.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
This outcome is probably the end result for either scenario. The degree to which China is dependent on the US has been steadily decreasing. There's no law of nature that says the US will keep winning and have its advantages forever.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I don't know that the prior situation was sustainable and would have lasted much longer anyway. Using China for manufacturing is like using Amazon for sales. You are required to give them everything they need to take your business away
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Last time I visited a Chinese factory (which was before covid) it was heavily automated without much staff. They also did have a few foreign laborers who didn't speak the local language, ironically. I visited a US factory more recently
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
The income from the book is scaling by its number of customers, versus roughly one person at a time who can enjoy the chair. It incentivizes finding ways to entertain more people with your effort.
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
I'd argue we evolved to think rationally in order to specifically advance our instinctive drives, rather than the "Triume brain" view of the neocortex and lizard brain fighting for dominance. Immediate and extreme danger enfo
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
"Any evidence" is a low bar. Obviously there's evidence of many kinds. The point here regarding common sense is the evidence of human nature when it comes to lopsided risks versus rewards, and widespread knowledge of this imb
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Funny how you don't often hear this kind of argument made for estimating the prevalence of tax fraud. And there the risk vs reward calculation is much worse. I would trust more common sense arguments. People who respond to economic inc
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Indeed fraud certainly is lying. And sure they might also be rejected for other reasons like being a convicted criminal. In the US we also have "willful misrepresentation", which I will count with fraud informally. But my comment,
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
#3 can be true and yet not be enough to make your case. Many failed technologies achieved impressive engineering milestones. Even the harshest critic could probably brainstorm some niche applications for a hallucination machine or whatever.
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Taking words out of context generally never forms the basis of a good argument. For example here you cropped out the commission of immigration fraud, which leads me to doubt you accurately answered my question. In the US at least, such beha
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Is an asylum seeker really legal if their claim is a stretch and they are in fact just an economic migrant? Seems like an arguable category that should be treated separately. Though I agree there appear to be plenty of people in Europe who
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
This is fine-tuning to make a well-behaved chatbot or something. To make a LLM you just need to predict the next token, or any masked token. Conceptually if you had a vast enough high-quality dataset and large-enough model, you wouldn'
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Well there are some people who think they know. I personally agree with the above poster that such people are probably wrong.
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
"four out of five" has the same number of syllables as "80%". "Three out of four" has even fewer syllables than 75%, for that matter. So I can see why those stuck around. Meanwhile "one out of two" is
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Seems to me salaried workers would be a category that is more conscientious by self-selection. They are comfortable working within the rules of a system and less willing to take risks such as by violating those rules.
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Well that red flag versus the immediately-preceding passage listing a Doctor of Medicine degree at Stanford Medical School. I looked into one of the links and apparently she pushes fairly mainstream preventive medicine stuff, diet, exercise
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
I suspect the lucrative patent system has helped create rather exorbitant costs and restrictions for performing trials, which hinders non-patentable research, ironically. But both the federal and state govts do fund tons of such research. S
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
This article is all the supporting evidence without any of the setbacks and failures at reproducing the correlations. There have been attempts at showing benefits with antivirals before. Just not a full-on double-blind study apparently. I r
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
It happens every day. The job description of an engineer is basically to apply their knowledge of fundamentals to design and improve products, not simply copy the existing products. Products in every field must incrementally and monotonical
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
The useful distinction is between speculators and homeowners. The distinction between private equity and individual speculators is not so useful. The latter also collude and vote in their investment interest. Personally I think what has bee
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Perhaps this time will be special, given so much government protection (i.e., market manipulation to maintain house prices). But investors at the current scale includes vast numbers of individuals' personal wealth and retirement accoun
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Observability means it can in principle be measured, not whether it is practical. And we can observe all the way down to the individual level where effects happen (prices), individuals set interest rates, etc. Aggregation is also in the int
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
No by "common sense based on logic" I mean common ground between both. To exclude gut feelings or emotion or whatever. And I'm sure logical thinking ability is also hardwired by evolution. Realms where our senses do not opera
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
I think people tend to just not understand what autoregressive methods are capable of doing generally (i.e., basically anything an alternative method can do), and worse they sort of mentally view it as equivalent to a context length of 1.
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
I said common sense "based on logic" specifically to sidestep this popular argument about the evils of common sense. Such common sense includes statements like "if something can't go on forever it won't". I gue
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
It also depends on the weather where you live. Unless you don't mind clothes that smell funny. In Japan they don't commonly use dryers and mostly hang dry everything (except maybe Okinawa where I guess it's too tropical). But
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
How about "commonsense" instead? Everything in macroeconomics is a belief, because it is clearly far from a hard science. Common sense always applies to some degree when it is based on logic. Also my belief is that a system where
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
I meant "cheap" because it is easy to make from scratch. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+I++make+tofu+from+scr... As for "other fermented foods" your final sentence admits it works as used in my p
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by absolutelastone 2y ago
Text is a fairly imprecise form of communication. It's pretty common for multiple people to get triggered by misreading a post the same way if such a misread is possible. In other cases downvoted posts are often the most interesting pr

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