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by amalcon 4y ago
Honestly, this kind of statement makes me more likely to consider them. I was on post-paid T-Mobile many years ago, but I left because it was entirely unusable outside of cities. Signal would cut out entirely 4-5 times on a 2 hour drive.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's pretty common for hospitals to have long maximum close times but short minimums: the former as an accommodation, and the later because occasionally patients need to be transported as quickly as possible. The door close button ver
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's neither a loophole nor a charade: it's diversification to reduce exposure to risk. Bank failures are somewhat coordinated, sure. Still, it's much more likely that one bank fails than N>1 banks. Since you are expos
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by amalcon 4y ago
So... they seem to have taken a trust or a co-op or something like that, and grafted a bunch of cryptocurrency stuff onto it. This gets you the disadvantages of both, and the advantages of neither. If you call it a "DAO", though
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by amalcon 4y ago
There are a lot of metals in your diet. Iron and sodium are most famous, but others are present too. You need a little of most of them, but too much can be toxic. Probably there's a lot in this thing; it's not clear from the ar
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by amalcon 4y ago
A firearm is a silly tool for this. A hammer (optionally combined with good nails) can do substantially the same thing to all relevant materials (aluminum, glass, ceramic, silicon, plastic), but cheaper and more safely.
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by amalcon 4y ago
If you plan to ask stores to close, they just won't. If you plan to require it, then the law won't pass.
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by amalcon 4y ago
> if voting day were a national holiday I see this suggestion a lot, but I struggle to understand what problem it's expected to solve. It certainly wouldn't help voter turn-out. Most service sector jobs (the kind where it&#
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's more likely that the snapshot was incomplete in that it was based on incomplete precursors, rather than that the message itself was truncated. The details of something like that aren't always appropriate for this kind of rep
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by amalcon 4y ago
Not a lawyer, but AFAIK if one has a valid rx for e.g. adderall, it's still illegal to make it (or even to buy it from a friend who got it via their own valid rx). I'd expect the situation to be similar.
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by amalcon 4y ago
I mean, sure, it's going to expose more weird behaviors with a wider audience looking at it. The core problem is that it's so easy to get ChatGPT to start exhibiting weird behaviors that it would be surprising if the testers just
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by amalcon 4y ago
That assumption does seem pretty unlikely a priori. After all, the OpenAI folks added RLHF to GPT-3, presumably did some testing, and then opened it to the public. If the testing noticed more antisocial behavior after adding RLHF, pre
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by amalcon 4y ago
The only ones I can think of with literally none[0] of those problems use a shared-nothing concurrency model. Usually , that's fine -- downright pleasant, even. Occasionally, it's a real problem to accomplish something in a sha
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by amalcon 4y ago
I never understood why the stickers are usually plastic rather than paper. I'm sure there's a reason that I just don't know. It just always seemed to me that if paper is good enough for a price gun, it should be good enough
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by amalcon 4y ago
An easier way to do this would be to limit the hardware resources available to Stockfish. You can get the 24x time ratio just by giving Stockfish 1/24th of the compute cycles. That said, 24x is not even close to enough advantage there
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by amalcon 4y ago
Best example I can come up with is Colin Kaepernick. This isn't even a great example, he's doing pretty well in the scheme of things. It also isn't satisfying to most people, since it cuts against the political undertone of
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by amalcon 4y ago
Second Amica. They've been great for me. I've never filed an auto claim with them, but I did have a pretty serious homeowner's insurance claim (leaky pipe from another condo in my building which illegally didn't have i
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by amalcon 4y ago
> That requires the attacker top also have access to the salt Which you must presume they do. If any part of your security relies on the salt being secret, that's a much bigger vulnerability than this. That said, I do think there&#
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by amalcon 4y ago
There are pretty serious costs involved in hiring globally, especially due to managing the tax implications but that's not the only reason. Usually you can get around this by hiring foreign contractors instead of employees, but not
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by amalcon 4y ago
> MS Word in the 90s and 00s would regularly crash and take your file with you, It's an old joke at this point that you can tell when a person first became a serious computer user based on how frequently they save their work. My
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by amalcon 4y ago
That's not a fundamental feature of open source, or a fundamental restriction of free software. E.g the GPL is approved by OSI, and the MIT license is approved by the FSF. The distinction is really much more about philosophical object
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by amalcon 4y ago
"Educate" means to transfer skills and information, not to increase the likelihood that people behave in a certain way. The value-neutral term for the latter is "influence". I'm a bit glib here, but the distinction
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by amalcon 4y ago
Not a ton, but I've done it. The basic approach: wool, wool, thinsulate if you're fancy, more wool, in layers. Something that effectively blocks the wind on top. No cotton. Good boots and gloves. Make sure you've got no
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by amalcon 4y ago
Indeed! This is another one of the fascinating paths to which this idea may lead.
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by amalcon 4y ago
This kind of idea tends to lead to debates on what the self even is: what is "my" consciousness? How would even a hypothetical omniscient determine that my consciousness had been "born" somewhere (and/or somewhen)
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by amalcon 4y ago
The reason EA seems like it's a form of utilitarianism is of course the association with the so-called rationalist community. As you note, it's very appealing to that type of person. This is partly because the math used to rigor
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by amalcon 4y ago
My high school in a town-that-refused-to-admit-it-was-a-small-city had no course called "basic math". Compound interest was taught in exactly two classes: calculus and economics. Economics was a de facto personal finance class,
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by amalcon 4y ago
Visa and MasterCard make most of their money that way, but they don't by and large underwrite the debt -- various banks do[0]. That's why you don't get credit card offers directly from Visa or MasterCard, you get them direct
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by amalcon 4y ago
There's potentially some merit there, since the expense of the catalyst (and its decontamination process) is a significant barrier to the use of hydrogen fuel cells. That said, I'd expect it to be dramatically less efficient than
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by amalcon 4y ago
It shouldn't , but it will . What happens when you report the bare facts as you see them, you are accused of lying, a jury is convinced, and you go to jail? That's a foreseeable outcome, and an effective deterrent. (Whether it

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