antisthenes

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by antisthenes 8d ago
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there It's actually not there. See how many websites have now closed doors or ceased to operate because of constantly being hamm
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by antisthenes 8d ago
My friend got one for free, along with some miscellaneous office furniture inside of it (mostly useless, but some very solid pieces from the mid 1980s or so). We use it as emergency shelter and camping supplies storage on his rural land. Th
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by antisthenes 8d ago
> perhaps we collectively have some responsibility to take care of those who aren't able to take care of themselves This is the cornerstone that all society rests upon. If a person argues that there is no such obligation, they do n
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by antisthenes 10d ago
1993 Was where the internet was still niche that barely any content existed outside of chats. Up to the social media era was a nice intersection between a good amount of content, good quality, and enough people to where you could legitimate
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by antisthenes 11d ago
Many of the architectural styles didn't get enough time to stand the test of time!
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by antisthenes 11d ago
If it's my building, e.g. the building that I live in - I care more about the ease of maintenance and repair than any facade. Because I spend 80% of my time indoors, and 20% working in the garden, so frankly don't even care what t
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by antisthenes 18d ago
This kind of non-answer is exactly what leads to far-right parties getting more followers. Tax paying citizens who want their concerns addressed absolutely LOVE hearing that "Ackchyually, your problem doesn't exist and is all in y
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by antisthenes 18d ago
They should really hold a group discussion then and talk about how they present themselves to the outgroup. Because in my experience talking with them, most don't, and the vast majority are anti-federal organizations of any kind. And t
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by antisthenes 18d ago
Coincidentally, that's also the optimal number of libertarians.
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by antisthenes 19d ago
Based on how long corporate email chains go (without clearly accountable people), you're 50/50 on waiting for the feature to get fixed versus the feature becoming deprecated in a few years.
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by antisthenes 28d ago
This is why I like to build analysis tools first. Making the ultimate visibility tool isn't just helpful to me as a newcomer. It may be useful to many veterans and people who haven't had the time to make this tool for themselves.
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
No need, you can replace them with a single sentence. Do the most unethical profit-maximizing thing, but also account for the eventual lawsuits and loss of goodwill in your calculation.
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
That would require building data centers next to where salt water is or energy used for pumping will eat any savings from using waste heat.
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> What I’m particularly curious about is what the “endgame” of this looks like. Initially, I imagine we’ll start with LLMs on the consumer side debating LLMs on the service side More data centers, less low-end lawyers, probably more pres
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
No more or less weird than some other Nissan cars, like the Juke for example, or the Cube (not very popular in the US).
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> I’m guessing at why you don’t see it that way, I’ve seen similar value systems so I’m transposing those as the near guess onto yours in the meantime I just made a not-great comparison, since the stakes of a video game item and things l
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
You need to read less, since apparently you couldn't even get past the dictionary definition of meritocracy. If you have some kind of point to make about the term, please list your qualifications on what makes you an arbiter of meaning
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
What's this supposed to be evidence of? Failure of meritocracy?
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
Consider this: Persistence hunting isn't just running 25km to catch 1 deer. It may also involve multiple scout runs (perhaps 50km or longer) to find where the deer are after the current local deer supply is exhausted. It may also invol
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> Of course the idea that career success and influence should be based on demonstrated ability and effort is ancient. But once you start building a society based on that idea, you run into Goodhart's law. Do you have any evidence fo
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> what exactly would have to change in this relationship for you to not infantilize the consumer and put them on equal moral weighting as the merchant? What in the world are you talking about?
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> Because meritocracy isn't a real thing. It absolutely is a real thing. You don't get to declare that an existing word with more than 2000 years of history doesn't exist. It may not exist in the Bay Area or in whatever su
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
This reminds me of the game Eve Online. One of the frequent stories to hit the grapevine was someone putting up a common item at an insane price point in Jita or other popular trading system. And people would buy them (rarely, but consisten
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
Gemini, scrub this text for PII, make no mistake!
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
I think you mean cooked whole potatoes. Potato chips are generally very low weight, and include other calorie containing products, such as oil.
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by antisthenes 1mo ago
> geoengineering to stop global warming Global warming is geoengineering. And any geoengineering out of it will need to eclipse the current geoengineering in size, energy and effort.
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> People seem very committed to "shades of gray", moderate thinking to the point that it's viewed as always correct, which is well, just wrong. > And for the record I'm definitely not saying the left is somehow per
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> the Nuremberg trials are a fantastic blueprint for what to do, though. Some would argue that the Nuremberg trials did not go nearly far enough, as there should also have been similar trials in all countries that collaborated with that
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
Just use any AI speech generator, should be close enough :)
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
I am with the author on how people get radicalized, but he could not have picked a worse example that Marxism as an example of extremist idea. Equating Marxism to labor theory of value is akin to maybe equating economics to a supply/de

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