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by bko 11mo ago
I am not making a moral judgement that wealth is success or should be pursued. I am simply saying some people pursue wealth, like others pursue raising a family, excelling in a sport, starting a YouTube channel, whatever. If they're su
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by bko 11mo ago
Sure, that could be what results in billionaires. But I guess you would have to identify what opportunities you would have to take to become a billionaire that you don't take because it would be too mean. What's the model here? I
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by bko 11mo ago
Because great wealth is accumulated through a series of bets. Moderate wealth (6 zeros) could be single or few transactions. For instance, you could have bought $1,000 worth of Bitcoin in 2010 much like people bet $1,000 on a sports game. Y
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by bko 11mo ago
> accumulation of wealth with genius Where did I say genius? They did something impressive so a useful model is to say "they know something about this world" or "there is something unique about them". Not sure what yo
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by bko 11mo ago
> Think of being a billionaire as a rare disease, though far less rare than it was a few decades ago—except that it’s a disease that’s self-inflicted, deserves no sympathy, and is easily cured by dispersal of the huge bolus of money chok
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by bko 11mo ago
Two things: BBC is government funded and running misinformation and fraudulent editing to affect a foreign regime There is no pretense that fox news is somehow objective. At best people say it balances out the bias of nearly every other mai
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by bko 11mo ago
Yes you should watch for yourself. But you forgot to include a link to the edited video, rather you appeal to authority and link how some other org says that theyre not biased. The offense is pretty egregious and serious. This was a huge i
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by bko 11mo ago
I thought the number of tokens per second doesn't matter until I used Grok Code Fast. I realized that it makes a huge difference. If it take more than 30s to run, I lose focus, and look at something else. I end up being a lot less prod
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by bko 1y ago
> so you reject the claim that systemic racism had any effect that can be meaningfully attributed I claimed that it's not the sole contributor. I don't think we have laws anymore that target one group over another. There are so
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think that's what woke means. Woke to me in the simplest sense if a form of extreme egalitarianism, collectivism with some blank-slatism. Let's take your example: poor and Black people don't live on LI with equal
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by bko 1y ago
What is garbage engagement? I think its entirely reasonable that an algorithm shows you things that you engaged with. It would be weird if it didn't promoted stuff I didn't engage w/.
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by bko 1y ago
Obviously both parties will have access to the tech, but I don't see giant brands just using something like this to hack an ad campaign. Either way it doesn't really matter. It just levels the playing field
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by bko 1y ago
I don't know, I feel like it will help smaller businesses without a budget for a designer or even design taste compete with larger companies. Maybe that's good and maybe not. But big brands always had this splashy advertising, s
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by bko 1y ago
I think you might be seeing guys who do that well so it's a bit survivorship bias. For most, if you just record yourself talking for 1m and watch it back as a video it's incredibly painful and awkward. The filler words, tangents,
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by bko 1y ago
If you really worked in this space you would know that AI models don't scan 200M people because... why would they? Seems kind of weird.
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by bko 1y ago
The horror! Someone using an LLM for basic information gathering like "is AI facial recognition accurate compared to humans?" rather than going off vibes or one off sensationalized articles.
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by bko 1y ago
Please don't spread unscientific misinformation. You can say ICE bad, or you don't believe in borders, but saying computer facial recognition is inaccurate compared to humans is just factually incorrect. https://pages.n
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by bko 1y ago
You think the person at the TSA that gets paid 40k a year is better at facial recognition than a computer?
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by bko 1y ago
It's better that the alternative which is humans. Unless you think enforcing laws or ever having the need to establish identity should never take place
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by bko 1y ago
US person here. I have insurance through my employer as do most Americans. And most are happy with their insurance. I can go to the doctor often same day, I can see a specialist and pay just a co-pay of between $25-50. I had some bills but
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by bko 1y ago
You think websites like having this crap? You think they haven't considered alternatives? What greedy corporate executive is thinking "yes, let's make our product considerably worse just to prove a point" They obviously
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think you need to "justify layoffs". If a company feels an employee is not being productive, they should be allowed to let them go. Same way if an employee feels he is getting underpaid or wants to work somewhere else
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by bko 1y ago
> the pilot cost €72 million to date but generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy I don't like how these reports speak with such certainty. How do you measure "total benefits"? For one, it includ
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by bko 1y ago
A bit off topic perhaps but what's difficult about making this a product? Please forgive my ignorance. Its just a microphone, speaker, could be a Bluetooth controller and a battery, and have it go through your phone. Maybe a small loca
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by bko 1y ago
Where does it say that "your access might be revoked because you asked questions"? They're journalists, that's what they do. There's nowhere that says that a government has to give access to the grounds of a buildin
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by bko 1y ago
> However, if they allow access to one organization but not another seems there could be an argument that they're policing speech? I think they would be allowing access to organizations that accept the procedures. Maybe you don&#x27
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by bko 1y ago
This may be unpopular opinion, but I'm more or less okay with things like search records and Uber receipts being included as evidence when there's probable cause. It's no different than the contents of your home. Obviously we
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by bko 1y ago
I built a free calculator for iOS because I found the free calculators (for iPad) were super spammy and ugly. There was (and still is?) literally video ads that play between calculations. And since Apple didn't (doesn't?) offer a
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by bko 1y ago
That revenue model makes no sense. How would paying an artist on the relative user plays make any sense? So basically there is no direct relationship with number of plays and revenue? You need to abstract that part out. Artists should be pa
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by bko 1y ago
Call me naive, but can't an artist just refuse to be listed on Spotify? No meetings, groups, boycotts necessary. If an artist feels like the payout isn't high enough, they can just exclude their catalog from the app. And if they d

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