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by anon7725 2y ago
> I'd love to have some idea of what they could actually have that he'd be ashamed of, but he's so shameless it's hard for me to imagine. “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of
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by anon7725 2y ago
> when it shut down Bernie Bernie lost the popular vote in both the 2016 and 2020 primaries.
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by anon7725 2y ago
Education sits upstream of nearly everything, imo
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by anon7725 2y ago
> We need more cooperation for collective benefit instead of cooperation for the sake of profit And you think that will happen with China and Russia as allies? Jesus. This thread is brigaded to hell by trolls.
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by anon7725 2y ago
It pays a fair bit in direct costs, it gets multiples back in return by being at the center of many systems.
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by anon7725 2y ago
To avoid getting flagged, you have to encode DOGE submissions as 1) flavor-of-the-month JavaScript framework 2) breathless AI boosterism or 3) CEO / founder hagiography
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by anon7725 2y ago
> at this point the only thing that can stop in the shortish term is the democrats winning the next three special elections The two Florida congressional districts holding a special election in April are Trump +34 and Trump +37 from the
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by anon7725 2y ago
In 2018 the Democrats retook the house, which threw a spanner in the works of the second half of Trump’s first term. I’m guessing that’s about as much as we can hope for in the current term.
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by anon7725 2y ago
I hate to break it to you, but 2 million people engaged in an endless list of activities that encompasses repairing tanks, making grants, building bridges, supporting citizens abroad, distributing pension checks, performing surgery, making
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by anon7725 2y ago
There is a middle ground where you’re not at risk of missing next month’s mortgage payment, but downshifting or changing careers might mean you take a lot longer to reach retirement (or “financial independence” if you don’t like the word re
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by anon7725 2y ago
By slack do you mean high margin or high revenue per employee or something similar? Or a large war chest/lots of runway?
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by anon7725 2y ago
Citizens have the right to vote, not to be a Costco member. Costco is not the sole source for anything. You can live a happy and fulfilled life never having set foot in a Costco warehouse. I often think of that just before I do, in fact. &g
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by anon7725 2y ago
I would think that the ways that people generate consistent alpha would include scale advantages, information asymmetry, execution advantages, geographical advantages and a strategic edge. Usually some combination of those factors. Someone
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by anon7725 2y ago
Any large issuer of gift cards has an income stream from gift card breakage to the tune of a few percentage points of their outstanding gift card obligations each year. Imagine a business where people give you cash and don’t ask for 5% or s
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by anon7725 2y ago
“It’s impossible for me to beat the market consistently” does not imply “nobody can beat the market consistently” or “nobody can beat the market consistently for a long enough time to become filthy rich”.
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by anon7725 2y ago
> We can be smug about our pure HTML5 static sites now but who knows what the browser landscape will be like in 2050. Pure HTML probably has the best chance of surviving.
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by anon7725 2y ago
You can also buy a rubber or silicone finger tip such as this: https://a.co/d/iy5zNDe
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by anon7725 2y ago
> There are much better introductions than this as well Do you have any recommendations?
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by anon7725 2y ago
This is a very approachable introduction to Perceptrons and Multi-Layer Perceptrons with some minimal-dependency code used to illustrate the main ideas.
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by anon7725 2y ago
That’s one of the saddest bits of AI enshittification yet.
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by anon7725 2y ago
Yep - I’m firmly in the “first half of the story” camp.
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by anon7725 2y ago
You’re certainly able to sus out everything about my worldview, knowledge level and intentions from my one-sentence comment. The only thing that LLMs are at risk of subverting is the livelihood of millions of people. AI is a capital intensi
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by anon7725 2y ago
> If that AI is worth more than a dime, it will recognise how incredibly efficient humans are in physical labor, and employ them instead of ”doing away“ with it (whatever that’s even supposed to mean.) AI employing all humans does not so
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by anon7725 2y ago
There is a difference between “being useful” and living up to galactic-scale hype.
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by anon7725 2y ago
> Tiny models are unpersuasive, as expected. But once a model is large enough to generate coherent sentences, persuasiveness kinda...stops. People are persuaded to change their opinions based on social proof, so this isn’t surprising.
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by anon7725 2y ago
> it's hugely beneficial to our species. Perhaps the biggest “needs citation” statement of our time.
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by anon7725 2y ago
I drew a comparison between “iterate and fail fast” vs “lots of upfront design” as a personal process, rather than a company’s modus operandi. For instance someone might do 2 or 3 prototypes when tasked with delivering a certain feature in
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by anon7725 2y ago
Of course it’s a non issue for big tech. Is it curtailing the total employment across the industry by affecting smaller firms that may be on more of a defacto cash basis in their planning? Big tech are the beneficiaries of legislation that
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by anon7725 2y ago
Not to mention the IRS section 174 changes to the deductibility of software engineer salaries. It was a gift to huge tech employers in that it provided head winds against hiring in SME tech companies.
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This union last initiated a strike in 2008 just as the financial crisis hit. They were in a weak position and didn’t get a good deal. In 2009 Boeing decided to build the 787 in a non-union factory in SC instead of in Washington. A few years

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