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by alex43578 2mo ago
Does he need to write his own HTML in notepad? Using any kind of template is a shortcut and avoiding work.
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by alex43578 2mo ago
It's definitely quackery. There's way more "natural" magnetic variation between two different cities than between a ground floor apartment and a 30th floor apartment (see magnetic declination maps), and that's even
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I guess for things like clothes or generic homegoods, I've seen this deluge of random China goods. But shopping for other things, like electronics, it does a really good job of surfacing what I'm actually looking for, whether that
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by alex43578 2mo ago
The connotation of grit to me feels different. Grit is pushing through adversity, rather than just tedium.
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by alex43578 2mo ago
Choices a doctor makes keep you alive: surgery, medicine, that diagnostic scan. The choices you make over 50+ years keep you healthy: reasonable exercise, sleep, and diet; avoiding chronic stress, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, obesity.
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by alex43578 2mo ago
I’m thinking specifically of the US, but I don’t see why the same argument wouldn’t apply to most countries. There’s going to be differences when you get to weird economies like North Korea, but still. Not taxing the citizens now gives you
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by alex43578 2mo ago
If it’s properly vented, no it wouldn’t. Huge difference between just running an open flame in the middle of your kitchen and HVAC applications.
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Go to the library and use their computer: consider it a parallel to walking into a business with a resume and a firm handshake.
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Most of those measures, just less significantly compared to the grandfather.
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If the hundreds of millions of dollars attached to the outcome doesn’t already create that pressure, tens of thousands connected to the prediction market won’t matter.
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Slowing the growth of the country’s debt. Some would argue this gives flexibility to expand that debt during crises like wars, economic events, or pandemics; by “keeping powder dry” in terms of debt to GDP.
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by alex43578 2mo ago
Because unless you really just want to prop up only Manhattan’s statistics at the expense of NJ’s, it’s irrelevant to a discussion about US labor statistics.
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What's the alternative? Being deliberately "quirky" or difficult, just to buck societal norms? Society is a set of expectations about behaviors and mannerisms that functions as reinforcement learning.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
The ACA is about a 10 to 20 minute process, once a year, on a website. The average american of working age, employed, watches 120 minutes of TV a day. If one day they only watch 100 minutes of TV, they could have health insurance. Again, ho
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I wonder if that'll be a mistake as LLMs are used for internal LLM R&D. Either Google will not take this approach, use a 3rd party model (weird, data leak risk?), or use a non-public internal model (big sunk dev cost with no recoup
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Please tell me you're not so delusional to think that slavery or colonialism is a uniquely "western" trait. Empires, nation-states, and groups all sought to expand; some, for various reasons, did much better than others.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Is anything you do on your own? You wrote this response in English, but didn't invent your own language. How dilute of a contribution can someone/something have made and still merit credit?
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by alex43578 3mo ago
"The system" isn't setup to make self-destructive, clearly bad decisions. People just choose to make them, and at some point the system can't help them by carrot or stick. Here's the easiest example: with ACA subsid
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by alex43578 3mo ago
An average American makes $60K per person in 40 out of 50 states, so no: they clearly don't have to live in CA/NY/NJ. Furthermore, the German comment is from someone in the top 10% of income, so it gets even better for Amer
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I’m assuming you mean you’re in the top 8 percent of income distribution? Ie about 90,000 euros? If so, by my rough math, you’re paying about 25% more in taxes than an equivalent American couple based on PPP. That American couple would have
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by alex43578 3mo ago
>Your error here, or the missing piece if we're generous, is what people are spending money on. Health care is astronomically more expensive here. Schooling isn't free after high school. Day care isn't free. Hell, even pro
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Because the average person also makes a litany of poor financial decisions. $100K student loan balances for an state school arts degree, forgoing health insurance but expecting to receive $200K in care for free, or buying that $80K F150 on
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I’d imagine partly a belief, right or wrong, that protectionism and regulatory capture will reduce China’s models impacts on the US market. Just like automobiles: the big 3 should be terrified of the likes of BYD, but aren’t.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
You're missing the point: those small "good enough" models aren't monetizable and haven't been for months already. All of the value in LLMs is going to come from frontier models at a high cost to businesses/gov
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This reads like a rant by the self-proclaimed best carriage driver around the invention of the automobile.
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With OpenAI having released 20 and 120B models a while back, I think they recognized that tiny models were never going to be a defensible income stream. Any value will come from the largest models, and those largest models are unlikely to e
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by alex43578 3mo ago
I agree with all those issues. Just for discussion though: Economics don’t necessarily dominate these markets when providers aren’t informed - Uber drivers w/ depreciation for example. If your GPU is a sunk cost, and your electricity i
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by alex43578 3mo ago
It’s like how most people on here would want a loaded MacBook Pro or RTX 5090, but chromebooks and iGPUs do volume. There’s absolutely a place for a lifestyle subscription to a sonnet model that you could just use everywhere all the time.
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by alex43578 3mo ago
Except aren’t these Chinese models having to go big too? While they might not be Mythos/Fable sized, a trillion plus parameters is hardly a local server or even desktop to mainframe style jump
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I think the gamble comes down to how many tokens need to be served on your best model, versus how many can be served in the cheapest/fastest way. Imagine if Anthropic could give effectively unlimited access to Sonnet, for $20. Wouldn’t

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