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by atmavatar 4mo ago
This article reads like a rather flippant dismissal of the original concern that "earning" a billion dollars cannot be done without some moral compromise. Sure, if you start off with $2 million and double it 9 times, you end up wi
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Disney?
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> Gaza residents voted Hamas into power, despite Hamas’s vile charter pledging erasure of Israel and Jews and so on. Reminder: * The last parlimentary election held in Palestine was 2006 [1]. * The median age in Palestine as of 2023 was
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Many users may not care which bridges they drive over, but I personally would like to avoid driving over the original Tacoma Narrows bridge[1] or any others of similarly flimsy engineering. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by atmavatar 4mo ago
The specific problems mentioned were all reasonably severe. The original post itself described a show-stopping bug: So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental
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> These people would just leave the state or leave the country. It’s been happening in Norway with just a small wealth tax. Would they really , though? A lot of people say this, but I think one very important thing is being overlooked:
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A much better tax change would be to automatically realize gains on stock used as collateral in loans. That would cover loans the ultra-wealthy use for their day-to-day living as well as loans used for leveraged buyouts of other blocks of s
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Maybe if we start pushing coal again, we'll get some new Silent Hill games. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire See: http
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HFT is nothing short of skimming off the top at scale.
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Who cares about Starbuck's gender swap when you have Number Six? I suppose if you make O'Neill a woman, you could bring in Vala earlier in the series as a similar distraction
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Instead, the LLMs create entirely new foot guns like citing non-existent cases. You can't go more than a week without encountering another news report of a lawyer submitting an AI-generated legal brief rife with bogus case citations,
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> The students who cannot read a 20-page article today Looking at the other half of this complaint: cannot or will not? In an age where there's a million things demanding your attention, a 20-page article is asking for a lot of some
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by atmavatar 4mo ago
I get a chuckle out of that quote like the rest of us, but what I don't like about the metaphor is that the lawnmower has no agency and thus bears no responsibility for the damage it causes, whereas Larry Ellison does.
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Alas, several states still lack minimum ages, so your 30-on-12-year-old scenario is still quite possible in the US. Particularly disturbing is how much pushback there was to the recent Oklahoma bill to finally end child marriage two weeks a
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by atmavatar 5mo ago
> There's nothing inehrently bad about food in the US Except that sugar (or more often, corn syrup) is added to everything . Just as a small example: most regular people don't have the time to bake their own bread or make thei
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That's almost entirely due to how our private insurance industry works. Any given health provider has to deal with thousands of different insurers, and it's not uncommon for individual patients to have primary, secondary, tertia
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> what are climate change discussions, if not a discussion about externalities? Climate change has been discussed for well over a half century, yet one of the main priorities of the current administration has been to hamstring renewable
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No desire to vibe drive?
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It's not merely looked down upon: it's illegal. From Article II, Section 1: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period fo
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> Does anyone else find it surprising that rockets are a century old[1] and yet still seem to fail spectacularly with amazing regularity, often due to some small flaw? Not really. Rocketry is hard . You deal with extremes in temperatur
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by atmavatar 5mo ago
On top of that, increased levels of incompetence are to be expected after a loyalty purge.
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I wouldn't hold my breath. This is more than simply having demand high enough that RAM flies off shelves faster than it can be produced, where a future lull in demand and/or increase in production resolves or even over-corrects fo
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It depends on what kind of reference book you get. A reference book on a particular language is going to have a pretty short useful lifetime, since any language of significant popularity will evolve relatively quickly. In contrast, a refere
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> "after his term we'll at least return to normalcy and fix things" We'll only return to normalcy after Trump upon implementing our own Nuremburg-style trials for members of his administration and enacting a number of
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In my mind, LLMs have strong parallels with self-driving vehicles. Both are impressive tech innovations with amazing future potential, and both have no shortage of evangelists that have claimed that the future is already here. Both have a
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SCOTUS literally just de-fanged the Voting Rights Act, specifically the part protecting minority representative districts. That's why we recently saw every red state pass new congressional district maps which split up minority represen
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> It's a big democracy red flag when a majority wants to take a lot from a tiny minority; the moral hazard of the unfairness is that it's unclear where this ends. (Saying "one-time" and "1%" are trying to li
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It's more than that. Unlimited PTO in practice also results in people taking less time off. Some people have to be reminded to take time off for themselves (like me in my early years), and without a predefined amount of PTO and an exp
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I doubt it's close to everything they saved. $1.5B is roughly the wage theft recovered between 2021-2023. It's estimated that more than $15B in wage theft occurs annually just from minimum wage shortfalls . See: https:/&
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That's true, but gas consumption by weight is more of a linear function, while road wear follows the fourth power law by axle weight. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law As an example: A 2026 Honda

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