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by beloch 1y ago
Previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001212
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by beloch 1y ago
People frequently misunderstand what motivates physicists. They aren't tiptoeing around orthodox theory like it's a precious house of cards that they're desperately afraid will fall apart. At every opportunity, they take sl
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by beloch 1y ago
Soldiers are not trained to do police work, yet that's what many are asked to do. An informant provides a tip that someone is manufacturing IED's, so soldiers are sent to investigate. They're not trained for that. Worse ye
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by beloch 1y ago
>* "AI decision making also needs to be more transparent. Whether it’s automated hiring, healthcare or financial services, AI should be understandable, accountable and open to scrutiny." You can't simply look at a LLM&#x27
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by beloch 1y ago
Labour laws were a big problem. e.g. In the early stages of the revolution in England, it was illegal to leave your job and take another one. It was a choice between poor pay/unsafe working conditions and jail. Even once workers won
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by beloch 1y ago
Comparing it to the industrial revolution is pretty direct. The industrial revolution resulted in a huge leap forward in the quality of the average human life... eventually . It took a while to distribute the gains equally. Initially, i
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by beloch 1y ago
Museums are sort of like farms in that you can lose money every year for entire lifetimes and still have a tremendously valuable farm. Like land, the past is an appreciating asset. That's big, traditional museums. I suppose it should
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by beloch 1y ago
Embracer group has been around for a while but, in recent years, they acquired far more companies than they could realistically do anything with because they thought they could flip them for a profit. They failed and had to take a hatchet
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by beloch 1y ago
Perhaps I should have put "civilized" in quotes. We're talking about populations becoming accustomed to living in an large, organized state, paying taxes, and relying on the state for security and redress of grievances rather
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by beloch 1y ago
Try "Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization" by Richard Miles. It is not in dispute that Carthage had a long presence in Spain. If you are arguing that this had no impact on local culture, you&#
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by beloch 1y ago
Ever wonder why Spain was a civilized province while Gaul and Germany remained hostile frontiers for the Roman republic? Just take a look at the map in this article. Spain originally belonged to Carthage. Large parts of Rome's empire
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by beloch 1y ago
The one problem Gates doesn't seem willing to tackle in earnest is the billionaire problem. i.e. Somebody close to the control of money funnels a disproportionate (based on expertise, intelligence, effort, contribution, etc.) amount to
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by beloch 1y ago
This is sensible, but how many people do it?
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by beloch 1y ago
Banks are fortified and guarded for a reason. If you have money in bitcoin, it's only as secure as your person and whatever you use to access your crypto assets. If you had a million in gold, would you leave it on your desk? Walk aro
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by beloch 1y ago
>"How to do this? If you shoot two bricks at each other, they’ll likely just bounce. You need to shape the pieces so that they will mesh together. You decide to form one hollow cylinder and one plug that fits perfectly inside the cy
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by beloch 1y ago
Motorcycle fatality rates have been trending upwards, not downwards[1]. Brake lights on helmets may illuminate one of the culprits: An ever increasing number of American trucks with poor visibility. Sitting on a bike, you're even sho
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by beloch 1y ago
>"Plans for the operation call for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to flatten any buildings that remain standing and displace virtually the entire population of 2 million people to a single "humanitarian area." It's a
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by beloch 1y ago
I'm firmly convinced that some people can only be happy while making others miserable. Choosing to be happy when they're determined to ruin your day will drive them nuts.
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by beloch 1y ago
The other members of the five eyes had better be careful about what they share with the U.S. while this is going on. Public key encryption, like Signal uses, offers good security for most purposes. e.g. It's fantastic for credit card t
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by beloch 1y ago
Given that Tesla was trying to set Musk's compensation at over 100 billion as of December[1], declaring their new CEO to be a rock and then not paying said rock would appear to be a solid interim strategy. [1] https://www.i
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by beloch 1y ago
It's not about pity so much as self-protection. Trump's second term has given the world a wake-up call. Although Trump will likely be gone in four years, the MAGA movement could be long-lived and always four years or less away fr
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by beloch 1y ago
> “They’re not using gallons and miles in North Korea. They’re using the metric system—so are Iran and China. I can’t imagine why we’d want any of that in our country,” The funny thing is that U.S. customary units have been defined in te
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by beloch 1y ago
I've long expected Reddit would eventually meet its demise after its users switch to some other platform. Instead, it appears that AI noise is simply going to drown out all the actual humans on reddit. Banning accounts for this sort
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by beloch 1y ago
> "Secondly, there is an insane amount of money tied up in AI." Money attracts attention, both passively and actively. People see OpenAI, etc. spending billions on training and figure there must be something to it. OpenAI and
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by beloch 1y ago
It's apparently a partisan issue. Take a look at the White House's response. > * White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had discussed the Punchbowl News report with Trump, and his message about it was: "Thi
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by beloch 1y ago
One of the cool things about how Canada conducts its elections is that it's still hand-counted paper ballots. Other levels of government sometimes use machines to lower costs, but federal elections remain old-school. Votes are physic
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by beloch 1y ago
Let's do a time warp. It's 2018. Children are being separated from their parents and kept in cages[1]. It's really important to notice that the pictures in this article are not from reporters, leaks or anything of the sort.
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by beloch 2y ago
It's less like a ship and more like a house made of wood that's been lit on fire. The parts that have already burned will take considerable time to repair, but that's no reason to let the fire continue burning. Yes, the U.S.
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by beloch 2y ago
Ever gotten a bad case of gastroenteritis from a restaurant that made you swear never to go back and even turned you off an entire style of cuisine for, at least, a little while? A few brushes with bad water might have given folk a strong
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by beloch 2y ago
Consider the international market. Many Americans may not think much about the Trump administration's threats to annex Greenland or Canada. I assure you that residents of the EU and Canada do . Musk is seen as being in lockstep wit

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