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by animal_spirits 1y ago
True, these services are not and never were free, we pay for them with our data. I would say this is all fairly common knowledge, my parents who are not tech savvy understand this, and I genuinely don't believe people care enough. I kn
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by animal_spirits 1y ago
> A world without Google would not be a world with less disposable income for regular people, but it might be a world with less disposable junk. If the argument is "more ads = more junk" then the argument is essentially "m
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by animal_spirits 1y ago
Fair point. Maybe I'm too young and have bought into the narrative that Google was the first widely available and free email. Still I think though, the plethora of their other services widely available for free (maps, drive, sites, you
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by animal_spirits 1y ago
I strongly disagree. If Google was broken up 20 years ago, nearly ALL the services listed above would not have happened. They are all FREE too, mind you. Everyone would still be paying for email. The enormous amount of free education on You
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by animal_spirits 1y ago
Further, if a student can get a diploma without work, then the diploma does not have value anymore. If diplomas are no longer valuable, the signal they provide in the labor market will turn into noise. If employers no longer look for the di
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I think it’s awesome that more People are bringing their talents to satellite engineering.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I kind of understand this argument, but I kind of don't. Does this argument prefer that there is less food production in California? > It supplies one-third of U.S. vegetables and three-quarters of its fruit and nuts. California is
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Boston Metal shows industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel(technologyreview.com)
10 points by animal_spirits 2y ago|2 comments
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
No one asked for the wikipedia article. Adding hyperlinks to related content is what makes the web a _web_.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
This was recently an episode topic on the podcast 99% Invisible. It brought up a lot of interesting questions for me mostly about the systemic differences between public and private operations and pros&cons on both. Plainly shown TVA ha
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
The brain can mimic the _feeling_ of having had an incredible idea when in reality nothing actually incredible or mind opening has been understood. But some people do indeed have deep realizations, while others just deeply feel the feeling
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
If that's the case, what does this metal plate do that my phone can't? It is just a knob that sends a number to my phone? Why can't I just use my phone? This feels like the humane pin again.
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Cold War Military Slides(beautifulpublicdata.com)
3 points by animal_spirits 2y ago|0 comments
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
Wish John went with the name superdeduper :/ :P
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
And fish
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
The primary source for this is from The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-d...
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
Market forces do exist. I'm not sure why you think they do not. You are plain incorrect to claim that it is the exception for industries to compete on quality and price, at least in the U.S.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I think one problem is that most people confuse private ownership with "the market". Just because a utility company is owned and operated by a private entity does not mean it is influenced by market forces. Utilities fall under a
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
Might makes right is descriptive of the history of civilization, however I do not accept it is the - only- descriptor.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
From my basic understanding of Bell labs, the government granted AT&T a monopoly in communications with the condition that they spend a portion of their revenue on public research. The other labs I don’t know much about, but my guess is
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I found he wrote this on his letter to shareholders… > “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying org
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
Do you have sources to backup your claim that Karp is only envisioning white people as part of the west? Is he a known white supremicist? I could not find such a claim.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
There are already thousands of unelected government workers that already have control over these government systems. I understand it is different that one person now has access to them all now, but the unelected part of this story I think i
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
This is not a direct quote, the actual quote from the article is > But archivists who have been working on analyzing the deletions and archiving the data it held say that while some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrub
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I am not claiming deepseek is censored. But these are tests to determine _if_ a model is censored. This would be a valid test for OpenAI models as well.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
This post is entirely about getting information from censored models. I'm sorry you are tired of it, but it is a valid exercise for the Deepseek model.
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
Yes, the settings allow you to change the size of them!
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
> I built this to learn more about python/interpreter language syntax in general, but not interested in pursuing this further. Good job trying something new out! There is always room for experimentation, if any reason to try to lear
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
It's called the Medical Loss Ratio rule of the Affordable Care Act. From my understanding the law states that health insurers MUST spend 80% of revenue from premiums on health care and if they don't, they must provide rebates to t
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by animal_spirits 2y ago
I like that in the drawing of the men lifting the hotel, there's people in the hotel. I would be so pissed at them lol

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