bparsons

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by bparsons 10mo ago
For this brief moment in time, crime is legal.
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by bparsons 10mo ago
The Christian right has been pushing for this forever. They finally acquired enough political and cultural purchase to get this measure pushed over the line.
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'End-to-end encrypted' smart toilet camera is not end-to-end encrypted(techcrunch.com)
16 points by bparsons 10mo ago|4 comments
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by bparsons 11mo ago
There was a very large CME ten days ago. The NOAA scale had predicted a high likelihood of disruptions, and had specifically suggested that spacecraft and high altitude aircraft could be impacted. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/n
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by bparsons 11mo ago
Volume has been on a steady downward trend since 2018. https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/5y?c=e&r=week&t=b
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by bparsons 11mo ago
There is a growing body of evidence that this is the most significant class of drugs since the introduction of statins. Whatever it is doing, it is delivering tens of millions of quality adjusted life years.
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by bparsons 11mo ago
I think the question is whether people are willing to pay for an LLM when there are equivalent or good-enough free competitors available. One could argue that LLMs will change the world, but that doesn't guarantee that LLM companies wi
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by bparsons 11mo ago
It truly is the sewer of the internet.
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by bparsons 11mo ago
This is the big reason other countries have free or cheap childcare. People who have kids want to continue earning money, and people who earn money want to have kids. It can be easily justified using only an economic productivity argument.
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by bparsons 11mo ago
Browser fingerprinting has been a thing since at least 2008. Kissmetrics was the first company I heard of that was doing this.
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by bparsons 11mo ago
Incredible things happening in America these days.
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by bparsons 11mo ago
This video answers a lot of the questions around why shipbuilding is concentrated in east Asia now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gk61ginOqo&t The TLDR is: - Unique, state backed financial instruments that remove a l
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by bparsons 11mo ago
Good news. The US can implement universal public healthcare and free university without fear of being socialist.
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by bparsons 1y ago
All economies are mixed, save for North Korea, which is command economy communism. On the sliding scale of welfare state socialism, Finland and Norway have the greatest degree of public investment. Angola would be on the other side of that
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by bparsons 1y ago
There are a lot of functioning socialist states. You don't have to imagine them. They are happier, healthier and have better infrastructure than the United States.
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by bparsons 1y ago
His argument of GDP gains being distributed somewhat equitably relies on the assumption that healthy democracies continue to exist, and that those democracies are structured in such a way that would allow for the distribution of those GDP g
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by bparsons 1y ago
Which law are you referring to? If you are referring to Presidential statements, they have to be followed by an actual regulation or else they are just a press release.
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by bparsons 1y ago
One thing that makes me pessimistic about the short term utility of LLMs has been their inability to produce basic media monitoring documents. This is an intern type entry level task that it simply cannot complete with any reliability or co
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by bparsons 1y ago
Is this just chromium with an LLM snooping on everything I do?
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by bparsons 1y ago
Higher enforcement demands probably lead to more stuff slipping through.
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by bparsons 1y ago
The UK law is stupid, but they have every right to regulate content in their own country. Just because a business operates in another country does not release it from obligations in other countries where they operate. 4chan, like any compan
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by bparsons 1y ago
It would be cool to see this project re-done with modern tools and a new generation of engineering talent. As others have pointed out, the idea is really cool, but the implementation was never there.
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by bparsons 1y ago
This Bill has been withdrawn and is being reintroduced without the controversial provisions.
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by bparsons 1y ago
You didn't have to pay duty on them?
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by bparsons 1y ago
They knew you could sell stuff on the internet. The payment processors were just clunky. It was fairly obvious at the time how it would all work. I think the surprise was the degree to which ad revenue would eat the world. Maybe it will be
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by bparsons 1y ago
Has anyone articulated a theory for what the profit model might actually look like for the big LLMs? In the .com era, the valuations were crazy, but people generally understood how you could eventually make money on all of this stuff. If mo
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by bparsons 1y ago
I am always confounded when I get off a flight at a vacation destination and see people dragging these 80L roller bags around. What are you putting in there? Pack the absolute minimum. If you really need something, you can almost always buy
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by bparsons 1y ago
This is a problem that is not unique to software engineering, and predates LLMs. Large organizations are increasingly made up of technical specialists who are very good at their little corner of the operation. In the past, you had employees
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by bparsons 1y ago
EAs customer base has been pretty negative on the state of the product for the last several years. I can't imagine this move will do anything but accelerate the trends driving brand dissatisfaction. Customers feel like they are being t
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by bparsons 1y ago
The thing with medical services is that there is never enough. If you are rich and care about your health (especially as move past age 40), you probably have use for a physiotherapist, a nutritionist, therapist, regular blood analysis, comp

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