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by bitcurious 2y ago
> To some extent this has helped with health insurance. Each year I get a check back from my insurer saying they didn't spend enough on my care vs my premiums. This has baffled me ever since Obamacare was first passed - it seems tha
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by bitcurious 2y ago
There might be some regionality built in; viewed from the US the range is $265K - $463K/yr.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> The main benefit of LLMs was already abundantly clear In my industry the main benefit (so far) is taking all of our human-legible unstructured data and translating it into computer-legible structured data. Loving it.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
The Canon shots are also more zoomed in, shot with a longer focal length on the lens. The obvious effect of focal length is zoom, but it’s the change in foreground-background distortion that makes the photos look weird or good. Flat, wide l
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Yandex is following the same trajectory. Yandex reverse image search used to find websites with an image, a la old Google. Now it’s the same “similar image” crap.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
I guess it depends on what qualifies as a factory. Azovstal in Mariupol is around 11 km^2 and certainly isn’t the largest in the world.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Until a few years ago, if my physician was educated in the United States and were Asian American they had to have a measurably better academic track record to overcome anti-Asian bias in university admissions. Does that mean they are a bett
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> He also pushed raw milk when prior to pasteurization, milk was the cause of 25% of all communicable diseases (it’s a great medium for bacteria, it has avian flu viruses, parasites, etc). We invented pasteurization for a reason. Raw mil
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> This is extremely simple. Israel openly and proudly kills Iranian scientists, at least 5 were killed in last decades, precisely for the reason of their scientific work. Engineers, for their engineering work.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> We had this. It worked well, in my opinion at least, and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be" was just… insanely frustrating. Can you give examples? Are we
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Interesting premise. Infill is pretty common in cities where real estate is expensive. I’m not sure what the “tipping point” is but large chunks of the city of Boston are built on what was water. The neighborhood “Back Bay” is named quite l
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by bitcurious 2y ago
American media coalesced on it being a Ukrainian intelligence operation. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...
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by bitcurious 2y ago
You actually can, by working the incentives. For the first three years of Biden’s administration one could show up, be apprehended, and be relatively certain that they would be released into the country, where you might be housed and fed. U
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/329256/alien-apprehensio... Trump’s first term and Obama’s second term were fairly steady, then you see a massive bump under Biden.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> how has Donald Trump served the interests of "working people without a college education" during the four years of his presidency? Uneducated working class folks compete with illegal immigrants for jobs and cheap housing. Dur
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by bitcurious 2y ago
“Why” is a weird question. We don’t know why. We do know that people don’t just eat less. Haven’t in decades. No plan that relies on changing that is practical.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
You are under the misapprehension that the US government is held back from tyranny by shitty technology. This is false - you could build a totalitarian dictatorship with near-absolute control with 1940s technology. Other states did. >Mil
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by bitcurious 2y ago
It’s incredibly frustrating that at a certain size non-profits seemingly loose the ability to focus on the issues that built them. The EFF no business chiming in on immigration policies - sick to tech and information freedom.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Where in settings?
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> His choice to set sail for the New World on August 2, 1492, the exact date ordained for the expulsion of Jews from Spain does suggest he may have not converted yet. This is one of the least compelling pieces of evidence: one doesn’t se
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Columbus was famously a devout catholic; his DNA suggests that he was of Sephardic Jewish descent, most likely from a family that underwent a forced conversion.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Can psilocybin restore the mojo, or are you just commenting on the downside of SSRIs?
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Hm. If I say best as in long lasting, “Master and Margarita” uniquely has the power to make me feel a kind of romance when I remember it, not just while reading. The short story “Fumes the Memorious” changed in a literal sense how I perceiv
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by bitcurious 2y ago
This is excellent; surveillance pricing means the death of a competitive free market. Imagine if your airline knew precisely how badly you needed to be at your destination and knew your $ net worth. Flying to your father’s funeral? That’ll
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> He tweeted imposing 25% tax on billionaires, which ultimately became his undoing. Unless you’re suggesting the billionaires made him senile that wasn’t his undoing. He was a decent president, and accomplished some nice things, but his
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by bitcurious 2y ago
That comp $ is very reasonable in the abstract, what's not reasonable is comp:revenue. You can't be paying 15% of your revenue to a single individual, because almost by definition they aren't performing well enough to justify
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by bitcurious 2y ago
>>None of the apartments had running water. People emptied their chamber pots out the window so the streets and walls were literally covered in shit. There were no elevators despite many buildings going up 14 floors. I was wondering a
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Have there been any efforts to document the space station using modern technologies? I think a fully rendered VR experience augmented by real footage would be cool.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Returned in within the first month. Couldn’t use it for work because of the shared Apple ID requirements. Hand tracking was too laggy for games. That left movies/tv as the only winning feature, and I prefer to watch socially. Was prett
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Fun video. An interesting follow up would to do this would be to ‘disambiguate’ every move, such that a move was a single piece’s movement and reflected less of the state of the game.

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