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by awongh 2y ago
To put on my techno-optimist hat, some specific searches I make already thinking please, please sell me something and google's results are horribly corrupted by SEO. If an LLM could help solve this problem it would be great. I think
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by awongh 2y ago
My takeaway of the cool dynamic at work here is that universally (but particularly in Japan) no one wants to be seen promoting themselves. Especially for older people they've done so many cool things, and are currently doing cool thing
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Actually that is what you do to the houses next to the house on fire. So it doesn't spread to other buildings.
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Japanese society is famously sexist.... also the game was created by a woman.
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The difference is that in the USA people are willing to add languages just based on the languages the people there already speak. Edit to add: In Germany this might mean you could interact with the government if not in english, then also ar
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by awongh 2y ago
> For example in the USA, they will refuse to speak German with you. So what? In the USA many official government forms are made in several different languages. This may not always be the federal government (probably less likely these da
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by awongh 2y ago
The ol' "I know it when I see that it thinks like me" argument.
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by awongh 2y ago
Can you name a few? In the context of this model I assume you mean some kind of composition plugin that will plot notes for you?
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by awongh 2y ago
The number of miles driven seems large, but Gemini says there are thousands of crashes per day in the US- so 78 or 13 crashes is a really small sample size....
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by awongh 2y ago
Except that this is California, where real estate prices are crazy. And not just recently, prices have continually been getting less and less affordable for 40 years. There could be macroeconomic forces that affect that estimate, but in Ber
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by awongh 2y ago
Given all the facts it's crazy that non-urban areas of the US are so backwards and terrible. I feel that there isn't enough of a focus on class issues in the US because that's what this is- a lot of the people involved are no
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by awongh 2y ago
Yea, one of the problems of USA zoning laws is that very small scale retail/food service businesses are not allowed in the middle of a block. In other more walkable/urban density places businesses will pop up where you can get a c
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by awongh 2y ago
Maybe you're not familiar with the Chaebol system in Korea, but the leadership of Samsung is like some kind of modern-day monarchy-(not necessarily the CEO but the founding Lee family are royalty in the inheritance sense)- Samsung the
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by awongh 2y ago
Isn't there at least a little bit of social responsibility where the chances that the real utility is very small? If the feature was really about parties/large orders, how about enabling it for orders over $100? I don't think
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by awongh 2y ago
In those cases it could be that a country needs to be small enough that it just makes sense to go into the USA market first than anywhere else. If the country were any bigger the domestic market becomes the defacto, limiting growth....
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by awongh 2y ago
In the sibling thread I made the argument that culture might be the biggest reason why it's true. Elitism / classism might be part the reason why social democracy is possible- if you believe that there are simply a group of people
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by awongh 2y ago
But these societal norms and conservatism are the reasons why it's politically possible to implement social democracy, right? I agree that it's not as simple as "regulation" and "taxes"- it's more fundamen
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by awongh 2y ago
When I read this, as an American it really strikes me what a trade-off the implementation of social democracy is. It does seem like they are correlated. I wish that the USA did better on taking care of people, (because it sucks right now) b
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by awongh 2y ago
It's pretty crazy if you look at how much the US is/was spending on NATO in pure dollar amounts. Since that's going to be cut back Germany and to a lesser degree France are the only countries left to take up the slack. I don&
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by awongh 2y ago
There are simple location-based reasons why jobs wouldn't be offshored- longshoremen, electricians and plumbers, flight attendants (for USA based airlines), and also the NYT tech staff are unlikely to be offshored. I'm still not s
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by awongh 2y ago
They're referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200 You can scroll down to see the companies founded by alumni. The Meta CISO is ex-8200.
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by awongh 2y ago
I guess I never considered that these kinds of protest organizations can be held responsible for lost revenue. It seems like there's a thread connecting the Citizens United case / super PACs to organizations like Greenpeace- if a
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by awongh 2y ago
What's the best img2mesh model out there right now, regardless of processing requirements? Are any of them better or worse with mesh cleanliness? Thinking in terms of 3d printing....
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by awongh 2y ago
I thought I got a pretty good response- not o1: https://chatgpt.com/share/67db7ea5-f770-800e-bd6f-67945f5842... Maybe you meant that it immediately went to USA specific, but you can always change your question to clari
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by awongh 2y ago
> The econmomic data used by Marx is primary Literally picking through tables of all economic data for the last century... shocked pikachu meme not sure what that would gain you....
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by awongh 2y ago
> In my thinking, the definition of research is to find truth > the primary sources; that's where the truth is I mentioned this elsewhere on the thread, but I also feel like the most influential primary sources are less importa
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by awongh 2y ago
I commented on the article so I suppose I'm engaging with the ideas. To be clear, I also think it's a shame that people don't read as many books these days, I don't read a huge amount but I feel like I'm at the high
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by awongh 2y ago
Yea, it's the classic conflation of the format of the media with other factors- it's not the fact that you're reading from a screen instead of a paper page that's making you intellectually incurious. But the disingenuous
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There’s also the meta element of understanding how each medium affects the way you engage with the topic, which I think can be helpful in understanding when you might want to switch and why. That is, assuming you probably want to have more
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by awongh 2y ago
It feels like a healthy variety of media types and engagement types is the best way to engage with a subject. Internet, audio/podcasts, video, and also active writing on the topic. Balance them all out depending on your preferences. bt

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