alex_sf

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by alex_sf 4y ago
If I can pay your company $5 to get a customer with an LTV of $10, that's a deal I will take all day. I am not being exploited.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Ok, everyone gets permanent housing. You've now just fired 2 million people, just in the immediate vicinity of the real estate and mortgage markets. The US homeless population is only a quarter of that, but, let's not actually t
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I like bitcoin. I use it. It's cryptobro nonsense to claim anything to do with it is in the 'top 100 non-literary' documents ever produced by humanity.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That's the norm for an RFC. It rarely defines something new; it's a formalization of what's starting to occur to ensure interoperability. And really, the RFC comment is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The idea that the bitcoin wh
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by alex_sf 4y ago
791, 793, 4271, 8446, 2246, 821, and more, I'm sure.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Wow, that's a great point. I hadn't even thought to approach it like that.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Sure. Whitepaper was released in 2008. Genesis block was in 2009. In 2007 we had Combating Double-Spending Using Cooperative P2P Systems [0]. Prior to both the whitepaper and the genesis block, we had Distributed Double Spending Preven
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by alex_sf 4y ago
We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper. Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Yeah, but, it's really not going to be. Like, there is absolutely no chance of that, ever. Even in the very-unlikely world where some sort of decentralized cryptocurrency is used for anything other than scams and drugs, it's not
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Really though? I’m confident there are 100 RFCs alone that were more impactful.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> How much of that "real value" correlates with currently held value? It might lag a bit, but almost exactly. That's the whole idea. Real household incomes in the US from 1950 to 2000 very nearly doubled, and purchasing
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Your evaluation of yourself and your position in the world is apparently solely informed by what Twitter tells you to think and the availability of gadgets around you. And clearly not informed by ever actually having visited China or India
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You are literally reading and posting on an ad for Y Combinator. Everything that you use every day that you don't pay for is a direct result of ads. Yes, they definitely have made your life better.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Again, this is your bubble talking. Look around you, and compare your life to any human 50 years ago, or anyone outside a first world country today . You are outrageously privileged entirely because of that very real value generated.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Well, it can . The definition of public vs. private cloud depends entirely on who is selling it to you. It's not even a binary at many of the large providers: you can have dedicated servers ("my own server") in a public clo
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by alex_sf 4y ago
"What if we took money from the people that have provably used it to create more value and instead gave it to drug addicts who shit on the sidewalk? I know SF already spends 100k/yr per homeless resident, but we really need to pu
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I agree, but that's colo/on-prem. Not a private cloud, which is typically just some allocation of dedicated resources from a public cloud.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I still haven't heard a reason I'm supposed to be wrong that isn't based on the (incorrect) color of my skin.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
'private' cloud.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I'm a member of a systemically oppressed group. Try again.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The inability to self-regulate your emotions in response to what other people say is a behavior that you're supposed to outgrow sometime in middle school.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Again, the idea that you should rely on any single source for information is the issue. Nothing changes with ChatGPT other than the apparent expectation that it is infallible.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You're not exactly communicating in good faith here, given that I addressed exactly this: > The fine tune process represents additional training, and to reliably and consistent reproduce a consistent style generally requires overfi
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Presumably the same way you make decisions on any piece of information. You should not be blindly trusting a single source.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Regardless of the lawsuit, this seems like a quite spurious, self-serving argument in and of itself. If the “coordinates” of the image were not equivalent to the image ... It's simply not. Stable Diffusion 1.5 was trained on ov
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by alex_sf 4y ago
How often are people?
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by alex_sf 4y ago
There is no government that isn't hopeless inept at regulating technology.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I don't think so. I was a Python dev for years, and plenty of other languages don't have the issues Python does. It was a great learning language when I started, but I think most folks that have only used Python just don't
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I do, absolutely. But it seems like an exceptionally rare practice for most Python code, at least in the ML space, which puts me back at the start.

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