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by bko 6mo ago
You say financial success as though it is completely independent of pretty much everything. "How could I be wrong, look how handsome I am" To create great wealth in a vibrant capitalist society you have to have some model about th
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by bko 6mo ago
It's not just war. Take infant deaths. Absolutely devastating today, but a large percent of people went through that in the past. They even re-used the names of their dead children.
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by bko 6mo ago
You're correcting him by commenting on a popular article arguing he's wrong. So it appears he has been "corrected" rather broadly and vocally He's free to choose what to believe. He's not "insulated from h
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by bko 7mo ago
I agree that we shouldn't have iPads and similar electronics in the classroom. But I would advise into reading too much into the societal beliefs of inventors and how their tech will play out. Consider Lee de Forest, one of the early p
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by bko 7mo ago
I assure you committed capital is very much common parlance in finance
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by bko 7mo ago
What are you talking about? It has nearly a billion users. It's the fastest growing consumer app in history. What about it is hype? What does hype even mean? You might not like the discussion around the tech, but to say the tech is hyp
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by bko 7mo ago
> The narrative they "investigated" was so obviously false, bodycam evidence directly contradicted multiple key facts. Officials are interested only seeking to prove the case. Thankfully the jury came to the right verdict. I do
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by bko 7mo ago
Where did I say it wasn't gambling. I said prediction markets are preferable to sports books like DraftKings. I don't like either personally but its an important distinction
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by bko 7mo ago
The most insane thing which I wouldn't believe if I hadn't experienced it myself, but Samsung will periodically just install random apps and games on your phone. You delete them, then a month later, new apps show up. It's one
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by bko 7mo ago
I prefer prediction markets to gambling because the platform isn't the bookmaker. This reduces the adverse selection of players. For instance, if you actually win regularly on these platforms they'll actually ban you, much like a
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Base experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter(home.cern)
2 points by bko 7mo ago|0 comments
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by bko 7mo ago
Serious question, but when companies like OpenAI and Google roll out something like this they likely get millions of users overnight. I get why it's a distraction, money sink and they don't want to work on it. But presumably it&#x
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by bko 7mo ago
So where there budget cuts or not? That was the claim. I have yet to find anything that suggests there were budget cuts, just vague mentions of "brutal federal government personnel cuts". I'm just looking for: budget was X in
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by bko 7mo ago
> this seems to be exacerbated by government cuts What government cuts? 2025 FAA air traffic budget was up around 7% from 2025 https://enotrans.org/article/senate-bill-oks-27-billion-faa-...
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by bko 7mo ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you have to be above average intelligence to start a business and become a billionaire from it
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by bko 7mo ago
> Build one of most valuable companies in history and grow to be one of youngest billionaires > tinfoilcondom (account created 5 min ago): dude has no talent or original ideas I love this platform
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by bko 7mo ago
Catalog is impartial? Then why are ~40% of every search I do on Amazon a sponsored product? There is no pure "catalog" especially with cheap crap coming out every day from no-name Chinese labels. Am I the only one that think Amazo
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by bko 7mo ago
That's a cynical way to look at it. Most likely the LLM will take a cut of sales and they'd be more or less indifferent who cuts the check. There's a market for this sort of thing. People will go to the best LLM for shopping.
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by bko 7mo ago
Why is this good? I want an impartial consistent system for shopping. If I can find it at a different site for a lower price, I should be able to do so. I should also be able to have it give me non-bot reviews and ask relevant questions abo
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by bko 7mo ago
> First, roughly 90 percent of politically relevant social science articles leaned left 1960–2024, and the mean political stance of every social science discipline was left-of-center every year during the period. > Second, all discipl
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The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024(link.springer.com)
13 points by bko 7mo ago|2 comments
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by bko 7mo ago
Goes against pretty much all of history. I guarantee you the Chinese officials dont think this way and if your head is in the sand and its up for grabs they will grab it. They exert influence on geopolitics heavily and think in centuries ra
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by bko 7mo ago
What does post-USA world mean? Who is the leader in culture, business, technology? The only other contender I can think of is China. And this is better?
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by bko 7mo ago
Which is more important: (A) Government programs that redistribute resources to workers displaced by AI, potentially reducing efficiency and slowing innovation, or (B) Policies that enable American tech companies to rapidly innovate and ens
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by bko 7mo ago
> Multiple generations of programmers have now been raised to believe that brutally inefficient, bloated, and slow software is just fine. There is no limit to the amount of boilerplate and indirection a computer can be forced to execute.
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by bko 7mo ago
Auto start is pretty much universally hated especially since it's ubiquitous and can usually only be turned off for a single ride. But cool, I'm glad you like it. Cameras and electronics make the car much more expensive to repair.
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by bko 7mo ago
Maybe that's because software that we use every day (websites, saas, etc) generally get better over time and it's still relatively cheap. Meanwhile cars still rely on things like an archaic check engine light rather than just tell
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by bko 7mo ago
Or they're unprofitable and highly competitive. Ford: It recorded a loss of $1.2 billion in EBIT in the third quarter on its EVs, bringing its losses on the segment for the first three quarters of 2024 to $3.7 billion Honda: Honda to W
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by bko 7mo ago
I dont know, I've seen some truly simple things check out as ok in mypy Example def foo(bar: bool) -> bool: if bar: m = True return m No error that m is defined conditionally? What's going on?
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by bko 7mo ago
Agree that 15b in revenue is not a lot. Finance has always been about future growth with majority of companies value well out into the future. And this company is growing at around 50% and has insane margins. They dominate their space with

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