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by bluecalm 21d ago
I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can
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by bluecalm 21d ago
It's fashionable to hate on Elon but he is right in principle - the game is in fact way smaller than often portrayed. Explanation why: https://x.com/TCzajka/status/2095927509389136163?s=20 Realistically we wo
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by bluecalm 22d ago
Very impressive! I was a child when that proof came out. I've read a book about it a few years later and used it on my final high school exam. I remember some friends trying to understand parts of it at univ. It was all like black magi
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by bluecalm 22d ago
Yeah, it makes sense to advocate for that if you are a sophisticated trader who hope to fleece the naive retail. For 99%+ of people though near instant price discovery and efficient price is a big net benefit. Imagine news broke that makes
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by bluecalm 22d ago
Inefficient market means someone is getting a bad price. That someone is going to be a retail/naive investor - Bill and Nancy who want to invest in Apple with part of their salary. Sophisticated investors would never be on the other si
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by bluecalm 22d ago
Sometimes, especially at long blitz/rapid but they usually lose. I am master level player (FM) and it took me almost 300 games of slow blitz to beat it with N odds and about 150 games to beat it with rook odds. I was beating it at Q od
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by bluecalm 23d ago
KataGo isn't very good at exploiting weaker opponents. In chess people were convinced a grandmaster can never be beaten with a knight odds. It's just too easy to simplify the position and win. It was very easy (for a grandmaster)
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by bluecalm 23d ago
It's a lazy argument imo. As corrupt as they might be there is way more money to make in the stock market or bond market if you have insider info. There is little reason for them to go after peanuts in the prediction markets.
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by bluecalm 23d ago
You want short term trading because you want the prices to be as close to efficient as possible. You may never trade short term but at some point you are going to buy and at some point you are going to sell. Market being far from efficient
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by bluecalm 23d ago
When did you try it? Grok before 4.5 was way worse in my experience.
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by bluecalm 23d ago
It's my favorite chat box for general use. I used to cross post my questions to Opus/Fable and GPT Sol via Open Router but these days I just use Grok. I prefer its style, it's very good at searching and referencing sources. D
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by bluecalm 23d ago
It's interesting that ChatGPT is down as well. SpaceX rents to Anthropic but not to OpenAI. Just a coincidence or something more to it?
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by bluecalm 23d ago
This is also really smart business wise imo. For hobby projects, toys, quick scripts you don't really mind if they train on it. It's a win-win. Once you get used to the tools and you want to do more serious business you are more l
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by bluecalm 25d ago
It means it builds internal representation of the world it understands (can do physics on/predict/modify) and then renders it.
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by bluecalm 27d ago
To have a high trust society you need to know who you are dealing with. That's why we don't cover our faces when interacting with others or walking around. Same with driving. If anything there is too much privacy - we should know
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by bluecalm 27d ago
It's almost never $2k and then they go to live a normal life. You don't shoot them there they steal yet again and maybe harm someone in the process. I was a victim a theft a few times and violent assault 2 times. Although I manage
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by bluecalm 27d ago
It's easy to say that. Not so easy to take responsibility for those views and compensate the victim which is often forced to work several months to cover the damage, may lose their job or their life is otherwise negatively affected. &q
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
Mac is actually cheaper I think. I am looking for laptops with 64GB of RAM. X1 Carbon with not even top Intel CPU costs the same as Macbook pro with 18 core M5 PRO and 64GB of RAM. Mac has much better GPU (not even close), much faster CPU (
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
I am in the same boat. I would buy a Mac if I could run Linux on it. As it is I will pay more for X1 Carbon with a worse CPU just to run free OS on it.
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
X makes a platform available. People choose to post on it knowing full well how it works. X makes money by running ads, charging for subscriptions and tracking users. To me it sounds reasonable that you can't just take that content and
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
A lot of interesting people who do interesting things post on X. You can follow them and have interesting feed. You don't get it on FB/Insta or Tiktok. >>Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
You can lower taxes on labor or structure land/property value tax in a way that it offsets your income tax. This way people who live and work in the area pay once. Someone who pays their other taxes somewhere else but buys property pay
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
You specialize in things that are more difficult to make in poorer countries - you use your advantages they use theirs. Afterall this is what happened to a lot of Polish industry after we got our EU membership - it died under pressure of al
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
It wouldn't be a problem if the tax burden was on property owners. If someone purchasing 500k EUR apartment had to pay even 2% of real value of it every year to local community they would be welcome with open arms. Unfortunately right
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
>>But the true scam is the complete debasement of the US dollar and people will slowly realize why the dollar will always be worth less than it was 40 years ago as it continues to be printed to zero and number go up with stocks and cr
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
I have spent quite a bit of time in Andalusia and other poor Spanish regions. A lot of those towns are empty and have mainly older people left. Young ones do anything they can do go to a bigger city looking for opportunities. Some of them s
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
>>The reality is, most kinds of tourism only lead to the development of extractive economic institutions at the expense of human capital development and higher value economic sectors that would benefit from that. Those are dying towns
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
As someone who was selling Windows desktop app for 10 years and made nice money out of it I have mixed feelings. On one hand it was always a losing fight against determined hackers on the other the tools weren't widely available so the
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
>>Same can be said about paying 100x more on prescription drugs and counting that as GDP. This is actually valuable for drug exporters (and yet another reason Trump can bully countries around - US market is the most lucrative market t
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by bluecalm 1mo ago
PPP metric might be somewhat useful to estimate purchasing power of given country citizens in their everyday life but it is useless when talking about economy size. In the context of this thread for example the reason US has so bargaining p

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