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by arjie 3mo ago
I suppose we could pay everyone about $1.2k/mo and that would exhaust the entire current federal budget but that would eliminate the 60% or so of the federal budget dedicated to the aggregate of all social welfare programs. The tax inc
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It will be interesting to see how South Korea holds its borders 5 generations from now. That population will have shrunk substantially. Perhaps a robotic workforce and a drone military will finally deliver luxury capitalism to them. Or they
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Ah this is not a universal term. I see. I will edit. I meant “age of eligibility for elder age benefits and pensions”. E.g. social security eligibility age, state pension age, etc.
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Well personal space and personal time were not in abundant supply in our times of growth. It is true that urban areas have far fewer children than rural areas and that this is a worldwide property. It’s a pity since I like the ability for k
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I think it’s time to bite the bullet and raise the retirement^W elder benefits eligibility age and peg it to life expectancy at birth minus 15 years or some structure like that. It’s fine that my generation will have to eat the loss - havin
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It’s usually incidental. Costco’s receipts aren’t easy to get. You go to a particular page listing them all and then for each date you click view receipt and look for the thing you want. You can’t really search because the thing will be lab
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Haha. That’s funny. I tell my friends that perhaps instead of ruining my daughter’s name (Astra) as a GPT model name they could have picked ChatJupiter since it sounds like GPT. No one has laughed yet but maybe if I keep trying they will. T
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SF is always on the brink of death from one thing or another. Has to be the most melodramatic populace in America. I’ve lived here for 13 years, my wife for 20. It’s the same as always. We saw a Sees Candies : No AI needed billboard yesterd
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I suspect this view is actually the majority. Chat Control, the Great Firewall, Indian VoIP control, the Spanish Cloudflare ban and so on point to many societies finding that many things are just bad for society at large. We’re all just fig
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Almost every founder cares about this but he’s in a business where he genuinely thinks he’s walking the Secher Nbiw to paradise with extinction on either side. I can see how someone in that position would be concerned about this.
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The steelman argument is that it was the sudden process that people object to. But the steelman against that is that slow processes are used adversarially to prevent action from being taken. In the end, the only people who seem to get outco
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There's a children's book that I've been reading to my daughter called The Curious Garden about a boy gardening on abandoned tracks. It's a reference to the High Line, of course, but it's interesting there's
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Man, these guys always have insane puzzles. What the heck.
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It’s not on the quick select pills so it’s not obvious but yes you can https://youtube.com/shorts/SA72d9VfsPg?is=F6zKWQNOkokN31F3 As for your other question, it looks like the guy was responding to an implied “I can’t
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by arjie 3mo ago
The entire reason there is any conflict there is a lack of a monopoly on violence… The monopoly part is significant. It’s not just “doing a lot of”.
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$500k - Kimi K3 (maybe $250k? Haven’t done this one) $25k - DSv4 Flash $4k - Qwen 3.6 35A3B Q5 $1k - Qwen 3.6 27B Q4 Some people prefer the sense over the MoE YMMV.
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Definitely a critical but unintended inaccuracy on my part. I absolutely intended to mean the tradability etc. A Splendid Exchange has a good bit on this. I suppose I meant the public corporation or whatever. Thanks for the correction.
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It’s just the age of the civilization. The Dutch were the originators of much of modern trade capitalism - the joint stock corporation being instrumental to their ability to run long voyages and so on. This happens to everyone. They prosper
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Haha, the Latin (or pseudo-Latin, I suppose) I like for the fact that it’s sufficiently alien to not introduce terminology confusion like “strawberries aren’t berries and pineapple is a berry” or whatever that is a colloquial language confu
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by arjie 3mo ago
Haha, they aren’t what I’d call an IQ test. More like a personality quiz perhaps. Did you also do a more IQ-like test that tested cognitive ability rather than evaluated inclination?
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Haha, he seemed to do a pretty good job in the end. I stopped posting on Twitter the week Charlie Kirk got shot because I didn't want to watch a guy shot and Twitter is less controlled about this stuff. I've since gone back to rea
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by arjie 3mo ago
Sorry, I didn’t complete the thought well. Amended. I meant that the skill allows for some things and newcomers no longer require that investment to get the outcome.
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Yeah, progress is useful as an internal metric, but I'm going to measure against the present frontier unfortunately. Eager to see what they come up with in the future.
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Somewhat surprised that Meta with all their resources couldn’t make a model that matches Composer on any frontier. All the Sparks are dominated by some other model everywhere along the frontier. Nothing fancy here since Llama defined the op
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Is this novel? Every group that spent some large number of hours gaining some skill hates when that duration is not required for newcomers to accomplish what the skill allows. Not every individual of that group but the group as a whole. It’
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A classic in the genre of misunderstood agents. This is such a common thing these days I really wonder at it. "Why do we have to build Electric Vehicles? Why don't we just build more trains?" There's no 'we' he
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Haha, I have to agree. Their style is either intentionally similar for humorous reasons or they're the kind of writer who was copied. > The words are the crime scene, not the alibi. If the latter, it must suck haha. It reminds me
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True, nothing might be anything. But I'm an optimist :)
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I think you have it, especially with the first, but also I couldn't find very much coastline for Polisario-controlled territory here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara#/media/File:Wes... And of
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This is very cool. It might be a new scientific revolution to have computer-driven discovery. So often we find things that are "this could have been done 20 years ago" and with an indefatigable searcher perhaps we'll close al

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