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by brainwad 2y ago
The split is roughly 25% AI, 25% typed, 50% pasted.
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by brainwad 2y ago
The LLM codegen at Google isn't unsupervised. It's integrated into the IDE as both autocomplete and prompt-based assistant, so you get a lot of feedback from a) what suggestions the human accepts and b) how they fix the suggestion
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by brainwad 2y ago
You could look at Norway for an idea, (non-autonomous) electric cars have captured the market for new cars and for long enough that the older fleet is ageing out. They are at 26% of registered cars: https://elbil.no/elbilsta
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by brainwad 2y ago
Unironically the former. It's weird that we have at the same time reduced the legal age of adulthood, while simultaneously extended the actual period of adolescence and dependence for the average young person. It used to be a century a
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by brainwad 2y ago
If you run a company in a foreign country, then the laws of that country apply of course. Why should it be different just because they have scraped internet data containing images of Euroepeans? If that's legal in the home country of t
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by brainwad 2y ago
What standard of housing, food, etc? The linked MIT project uses a bunch of median- or near-median costs; it's obviously not reasonable to call 40th-percentile housing costs the basic standard of living, when 40% of the population in f
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by brainwad 2y ago
You have the power to change things for yourself, by moving somewhere where things suit you. Especially true for a young person.
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by brainwad 2y ago
Deutsche Bahn is wholly owned by the federal government ( https://www.deutschebahn.com/en/group/ataglance/aufsichtsrat... ). This is exactly the same relationship as SBB has to the Swiss government. I don'
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by brainwad 2y ago
So is all the advertising run during morning cartoons, and that targets an even younger demo than 13-17 year olds.
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by brainwad 2y ago
That's like staffing a single-manager team on a bad project for a year. Which I assure you happens all the time in big companies, and yet they survive.
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by brainwad 2y ago
It's not a straw man, it's literally the scenario the guy I was replying to was talking about ("if your accounts are frozen"). If you had a bank account like a normal person, and then you are surprised by your account be
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by brainwad 2y ago
> People went from spending the cash in their pocket to cash in their bank account No they didn't. In the olden days, you would get your paycheque, cash the whole thing, and then spend that money until next paycheque. That's no
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by brainwad 2y ago
Here in Switzerland, they would probably just mail you a bill to pay via e-banking.
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by brainwad 2y ago
Reading a number on my phone screen is a much easier way to measure how much money I have than staring into my wallet and counting up the notes and coins. It's literally a finger tap away. You are also eliding all the positive features
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by brainwad 2y ago
Nope, in Australia this is now the law and it hasn't stopped the CC duopoly at all. In fact it seemed to benefit it, as small merchants who used to not accept cards for small payments now just don't care since they pass the fees o
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by brainwad 2y ago
So the alternative is, what, you can spend whatever is left in your wallet, but the rest of your money is still frozen? The difference from maintaing physical cash seems very marginal. Or are you suggesting we all pull all our money out of
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by brainwad 2y ago
Empirical evidence suggests otherwise, at least in liberal democracies.
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by brainwad 2y ago
TBH I don't see why the market sellers should have to pay for that. Like I said, the solution is to offer a privacy/freedom/etc-preserving electronic payment system that is a real successor to cash, but still has the low cost
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by brainwad 2y ago
How will cash help against capital controls, exactly? Unless you are poor, you never have more than a tiny fraction of your wealth in cash anyway. So when capital controls are declared, you will still be screwed.
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by brainwad 2y ago
You Americans get a lot of it back via card reward programs (or, if your credit is bad, via lower interest rates). In Europe the CC fees are limited to 0.3%, but there is also basically no cashback.
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by brainwad 2y ago
Interestingly, in Australia there is a problem because the demand for cash has dropped so much that the remaining cash-transport monopoly is insolvent. The major banks and retailers just bailed it out: https://www.theaustralian.c
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by brainwad 2y ago
Right, but now there are more efficient systems (the aforementioned Square dongle). We usually welcome technological progress that reduces costs, why opppose it in this case? The colourful pieces of paper and specially squished lumps of met
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by brainwad 2y ago
There's also in the same clause freedom of the press. So yes, it's explicit that you can band together with others to freely publish your joint speech.
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by brainwad 2y ago
So there's no need to ban super PACs, just a need to enforce the existing rules? Sounds more workable than a state constitutional initiative that directly contradicts a SCOTUS ruling...
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by brainwad 2y ago
This argument has little chance. To avoid the quid-pro-quo problem, [edit: super]PACs already avoid coordinating with politicians' campaigns. They create and distribute their own copy, that expresses their donors' own political vi
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by brainwad 2y ago
According to the authors it's also faster on files full of 'x' or ' ', so there must be more than just better unicode support.
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by brainwad 2y ago
The AI suggestions they added to our editor and review tool are pretty uninvasive. The review suggestions are right 60% of the time, but the reviewer can just turn off the bad suggestions. The autocomplete is 90% good, but it isn't ver
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by brainwad 2y ago
No, never. I only use GPSLogger to generate more frequent GPS points than Google Location Service would do by itself - it opportunistically uses all GPS requests made by apps on the system. You can also see this effect when using GPS naviga
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by brainwad 2y ago
I actually set up my phone to turn GPS tracking on whenever not on Wi-Fi (using Tasker + GPSLogger [1]), specifically to get better precision in Location History, and it uses surprisingly little battery if you're sampling at moderate f
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by brainwad 2y ago
It's to protect users from geofence warrants ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/12/14/google-... ).

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