ausbah

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by ausbah 4y ago
where does the ability to mold humans to fit a certain set of standards end? incentives, culture, norms, etc. I think can shape someone's default mode of thinking and actions on the margin, but eventually you reach some point like the
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by ausbah 4y ago
I never mentioned the dashboards, I'm on mobile so they weren't loading for me. Also yes, I think I can give a pretty good judgement on the quality of a piece based on simple heuristics like the quality of the hosting site, or the
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by ausbah 4y ago
I don't have the domain expertise nor the time to address everything you've posted - and maybe these aren't valid reasons to distrust what you've shared - but I'm skeptical of your conclusion bc many are unreviewed
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by ausbah 4y ago
what was orchestrated exactly? I am not a fan of big corps in general, but if they're offering an effective solution to sudden global crisis I will give credit where credit is due.
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by ausbah 4y ago
semi relevant user name ironically
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by ausbah 4y ago
"they're not authentic they're just performing" is also a trope. I assume someone is being genuine until proven otherwise
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by ausbah 4y ago
interesting technically and what I would call successful in at least the agent has learned something which can be hard for any RL project
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by ausbah 4y ago
yeah not seeing a lot of meat in this piece. spends a most of the start talking about how great Sptofy Wrapped is, then spends 1-2 paragraphs on why they're really leaving (getting notifications for stuff they don't use), which li
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by ausbah 4y ago
is there any specific reason to think this disease could come "roaring back" aside from general unknowns of a new treatment?
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by ausbah 4y ago
automation only scales to a certain point though? after a certain point of scale it makes sense to do something in house & save money at the margin right? automation seems great for small companies & solo founders, but kind of an op
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by ausbah 4y ago
for everyone in this thread who thinks "animal deaths are ok if it means a cure comes faster", the article makes it seem like "moving faster" in this space just results in botched experiments & needlessly dead animal
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by ausbah 4y ago
companies are successfully but he's had a few inquires by the likes of the SEC, NTSB, etc.
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by ausbah 4y ago
IIRC correctly college enrollment usually increases during economic downturn, so bloat will at worst just go up
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by ausbah 4y ago
cops more likely to use deadly force as officer lives are no longer on the line? reading the piece it sounds like the police would have to ability to be less willing to use alternative, non-lethal or harmful solutions when they can just jum
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by ausbah 4y ago
"when police feel threatened" is too often used as an excuse for police abuse
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by ausbah 4y ago
worst part of this whole thing is how musk's attitude of how work should be done contributes to toxic work culture. rhetoric like "mission driven work", "long hours are the only way to change the world and get ahead&quot
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by ausbah 4y ago
is that entropy not self inflicted by swes constantly reinventing the wheel with new languages, frameworks, and libraries? they may be better but constantly having new adoption means nothing ever really lasts long
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by ausbah 4y ago
so what's the alternative? invest in mutual funds that don't beat the market and take a hefty % of your compounding returns due to management fees? crypto? getting a house like the prior generations?
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by ausbah 4y ago
>The experiment that is Bitcoin shows that people do not need to rely on a monetary system where a cabal of rich and powerful individuals can arbitrarily modify the money supply without any regard to all the participants in that monetary
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by ausbah 4y ago
>If artists didn't want their art to be used (for a variety of purposes!) they shouldn't have made it freely available on the internet. that isn't how copyright works. I can pirate any book in the world but if I try to pas
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by ausbah 4y ago
>I enjoy making art, but I don't have the technical skill take the things I can visualize in my head commit them to a medium. AI art tools let me iterate using image transformation to get those things out. what do you mean by iterat
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by ausbah 4y ago
this is what "web3" and decentralization should be, not endless blockchain applications
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by ausbah 4y ago
productivity being the sole metric by which worker's lives are run is an idea that needs to meet the dustbin of history
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by ausbah 4y ago
why is it up to me to "learn the rea crypto"? the best things coming out the space should be enough to speak about the quality of the domain
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by ausbah 4y ago
balanced budget amendments cripple a government's ability to respond to economic crisis
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by ausbah 4y ago
one of the main touted draws of twitter is it's suppose to be the "public square of the internet". you not liking what someone posts shouldn't really curtail that (minus them being a private company and what not)
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by ausbah 4y ago
usually it's the other way around
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by ausbah 4y ago
As rational and high minded as folks on hacker news like to position themselves, everyone here is just as susceptible to being drawn in towards drama involving their own set of celebrities and companies.
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by ausbah 4y ago
100% agree that Twitter is only really important because it's where all the people with voices on other platforms (Youtube, journalists, traditional celebrities, politicians, etc.) spend their time. This gives the platform cultural rel
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think the only big take away is Musk said too much stuff and is now left holding a culturally relevant, but monetarily flailing company. My expectation is he will do whatever it takes to be successful; cut staff, add more ads and paid fea

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