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by beloch 2y ago
"I think I'll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the President would like me to do so and as long as it would be useful," he added. ----------------- It's not the hours Musk (cla
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by beloch 2y ago
"Under this administration, you don’t go to Congress to debate legislation. If you want to change something, like closing down a major agency, you petition the king. So, we’re already in an authoritarian phase. That’s just on an instit
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by beloch 2y ago
It's debatable where the line should be drawn, and the best approach is not to draw it at all. Sure, update flicks with CG fixes, but the original theatrical version should always be made available too. That was Lucas' mistake
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by beloch 2y ago
Legal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S. citizens, and illegal immigrants at an even lower rate than legal immigrants[1]. This should not be surprising. Those who are in a country illegally know they will likely be deporte
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by beloch 2y ago
His beef against physicists is likely rooted in confirmation bias. Musk has a BA in physics that some debate if he even completed, but one bad egg does not prove the rule. It would be just as easy to point out engineers who have gone on t
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by beloch 2y ago
Treating trade as a zero-sum game will limit what humans are capable of building. Consider products that are high-end, niche, and low-volume. These are the prestige products that so many point to as examples of what they wished we could
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by beloch 2y ago
The U.S. is currently disappearing people to foreign prisons, openly and in flagrant defiance of the courts. Trump has signalled he intends to expand this practice to include U.S. citizens (Just the worst convicted criminals currently in p
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by beloch 2y ago
It's a false choice fortunately. The EU doesn't have to choose between a totalitarian state and a crumbling democracy that is currently threatening to invade and seize the territory of a EU member nation. They can, and should, c
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by beloch 2y ago
There's something of a parallel history for Radioshack up here in Canada. Radioshack's were everywhere once upon a time. As things became less repairable and less repaired, the components racks gradually shrank and the stores piv
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by beloch 2y ago
>One idea behind the OpenAI social prototype, we’ve heard, is to have AI help people share better content. “The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially how people create
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by beloch 2y ago
Universities and colleges are hotbeds of political protest. Take young people with poor impulse control, expose them to education and political literature, and let them freely associate (e.g. form student groups). They're going to qu
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by beloch 2y ago
The section on "Student Discipline Reform and Accountability" is explicitly fascist. Harvard police must prevent/crush serious protests that cause disruption. Student groups must be vetted so that they don't violate or
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by beloch 2y ago
Roman elites were more like mafia bosses from "The Godfather" than princes. They typically started their day by hearing the petitions of those who were dependent on them. Roman elites were expected to compete with one another t
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by beloch 2y ago
The flip-flops are now coming so fast that the markets haven't even been open since things have changed completely multiple times. Is chaos the true goal?
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by beloch 2y ago
Moderation has become a real weak-point for reddit. They expect anonymous and unpaid volunteers to do the hard and thankless job of keeping large numbers of passionate strangers, malicious bots, trolls, etc. under control while being impar
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by beloch 2y ago
A better comparison would be the AMC Gremlin. The DeLorean was not a particularly good car, but it featured prominently in a movie series that remains a cultural touchstone. The AMC Gremlin was just endearingly ugly. Today, it has a bit of
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by beloch 2y ago
Factories, tooling, machinery, etc. must be amortized over a market and production run. If you're making toilet paper, the cost is relatively low and the market is huge. The TP you make today will still be good TP in a decade. No on
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by beloch 2y ago
I suspect this is less about creating utility for users and more about leveraging existing user bases to train AI. e.g. Most users don't want Copilot, but it's being installed by default. Unless you dig into privacy preferences a
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by beloch 2y ago
Also, never dry fire your bow. (i.e. Never pull and release it if you're not shooting an arrow.) When you pull a bow, you're putting a significant amount of potential energy into it. Your back and arms do work that becomes tensi
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by beloch 2y ago
To simplify: 1. Innovate. 2. Exploit. You start by innovating a "fast horse". This gains you early adopters who pull in a larger audience. A horse can only be so fast, so continued innovation might lead to something more like a
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by beloch 2y ago
You also wouldn't go out of your way to piss off America's two biggest export markets: Canada and Mexico. As it stands, not only are there significant counter-tariffs that would make U.S. manufacturers even less competitive in C
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by beloch 2y ago
What we used to think of as "AI" at one point in time becomes a mere "algorithm" or "automation" by another point in time. A lot of what Asimov predicted has come to pass, very much in the way he saw it. We j
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by beloch 2y ago
Let the machines do the hard mixing and lifting. Let the humans do the parts that are fun or may require a bit of artistry. It certainly sounds smarter than building AI to do our writing and art so that we can flip burgers for a living.
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by beloch 2y ago
If you're upset with what Meta does in the U.S., consider that Meta's engagement algorithms played a key roll in driving the Rohingya massacre in Myanmar[1]. "Internal studies dating back to 2012 indicated that Meta knew its
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by beloch 2y ago
It's interesting that ILM went with a smoke chamber to shoot the underwater scenes in this film. It was probably a lot easier than shooting underwater and less likely to screw up the models. Some of the time this method looks fanta
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by beloch 2y ago
The U.S. ambassador to Canada has since informed the government that this is not the case, and the tariff's currently in place will remain unchanged for now[1]. However, with this administration, who really knows? Perhaps Trump is stay
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by beloch 2y ago
>Don’t just take a wiped phone: If you are especially worried about your data, you may think about wiping your phone or computer entirely before a trip and restoring from a backup later. However, a nearly blank device can create its own
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by beloch 2y ago
There was a good blog post on bicycles and tariff's earlier this week[1]. A key point was that volume really matters in what you can onshore. Whether you go for full automation or not, dies, tooling, machinery etc. all need to be am
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by beloch 2y ago
For the record, I am to the left of U.S. democrats in most respects. To say that what I expressed above is a far-right dog-whistle or that the left does not have problems with disagreeing in a civil manner is just plain wrong. Case in poin
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by beloch 2y ago
In recent years, I've come to appreciate "Talking Head" panel discussions when it comes to topics of great partiality, such as politics. Specifically, those that gather heads with differing opinions. e.g. CBC Canada'

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