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by briga 2y ago
Capital doesn't place too much emphasis on borders. When a person can double or triple their salary just by moving a few hours south it's easy for all the capital to get concentrated in one place (namely the US)
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by briga 2y ago
Definitely. The writing is on the wall for the current government. I wonder if there's anyone left that still believes their lies and platitudes
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by briga 2y ago
I think a lot of this was done with the hope that more immigrants would translate to higher economic productivity, but this simply hasn't been the case. Unemployment rate is 1-2% higher than in the US. GDP per capital is stagnating. Mo
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by briga 3y ago
Has the Warner Bros viral marketing team started advertising on Hacker News?
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by briga 3y ago
It's seems to leave a lot of room for interpretation. Is _any_ hate crime punishable by life imprisonment? I would hope no judges in this country would agree with such an interpretation, but you never know
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by briga 3y ago
As far as I can tell the life imprisonment is for people advocating genocide. It is not clear to me that this just allows any so-called hate crime to be punished with life in prison, which seems pretty authoritarian. But the thing is it&#x2
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by briga 3y ago
The problem with Canadian airlines (and Canadian companies in general), is that if you don't like the service there aren't really any meaningful alternatives. The two largest carriers have a near total stranglehold on the market (
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by briga 3y ago
Does reading have to be "productive" in order to be worthwhile? I would argue that reading is an enjoyable activity regardless of whether there are any tangible benefits. Similar to how it's enjoyable to go on a meandering wa
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by briga 3y ago
Anecdotally I've heard the people living downwind of the big oilsands developments suffer a wide range of health problems from the toxic air quality. It's no secret that these developments are not good for human or animal health,
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by briga 3y ago
I was in Austin a couple months ago. If that city is dead, there are few cities in the US that could be considered alive. Honestly this whole business of proclaiming cities "dead" is a bit absurd. Despite all the predictions of do
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by briga 3y ago
That is entirely up to your discretion, if 3.5 fits your use case just use that
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by briga 3y ago
One thing to note when making comparisons like this is that LLM output is not deterministic, in the sense that if you ask it the same question 10 times you will get 10 different answers. So the question to ask is not, “is GPT4 better on thi
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by briga 3y ago
More land mass in the northern hemisphere
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by briga 3y ago
Yucatan state is quite safe, it’s one of the few in Mexico without a US travel advisory. It’s also got to be the #1 attraction in the state and a major source of revenue judging by how much they charge to get in
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by briga 3y ago
You’re being pedantic, the original comment referred to Mayan cities, not Mayan cities in Campeche
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by briga 3y ago
I’m referring to the Mayan civilization at large, which extends through Guatemala and Honduras. Which is certainly not safe by any first world standards (but also not as dangerous as one might think)
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by briga 3y ago
If you go to see them in person it becomes clear why. The jungle foliage in this region is so thick that you could be standing 2 feet away from an ancient pyramid and not even realize that’s what you’re looking at. Besides that the area is
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by briga 3y ago
Personally I can think of nothing that would frustrate me more than having to navigate an automated phone system in an emergency. “Help, my friend got hit by a car!” “As an AI language model, I am not able to help with blunt force trauma…”
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by briga 3y ago
Find a Little Free Library and leave some good books you don’t plan on reading or rereading soon. Every city should have these. Benefit of this is that karma works and someone else will usually leave something nice.
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by briga 3y ago
Tiktok makes big money and is a direct competitor to YouTube, so YouTube is pushing the format to capture that audience back. It’s a far more engaging pattern that what existed before. Remember when YouTube forced autoplay on everyone? Doe
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by briga 3y ago
They're essentially the same book, I suspect the publishers pushed hard for it to be published in 2 volumes
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by briga 3y ago
Have you tried GPT-4? You might be surprised at how much better it is that the free version. It genuinely dies provide good answers to most things you can throw at it. More to the point language models seem to become knowledge models if the
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by briga 3y ago
Genuinely amazing piece of technology, this is so cool
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by briga 3y ago
Wow, The Passenger really was his last. He never compromised, he was true to his creative vision right up until the end. Truly one of the greats
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by briga 3y ago
Big difference between a 30 year old westerner who’s never been more than 500m from a paved highway and is afraid of spiders and a 13-year-old indigenous child who grew up in the jungle
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by briga 3y ago
I’m not putting forth any particular prediction. I don’t know how this will turn out (and neither does anyone else). I’m more just resigned to the fact that kids can and will have access to this technology. If their parents don’t let them t
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by briga 3y ago
My 5-year old nephew has access to a smart phone along with social media accounts on the major platforms. Is it healthy? Probably not. Neither was my generation binging on TV and video games. But it also gives them access to an absurd wealt
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by briga 3y ago
Are remote workers who don’t choose a digital nomad lifestyle somehow immune from being tired, lonely and hated by locals? As far as I can tell all of these issues are just as real for the average tech worker working in a big hub. The diffe
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by briga 3y ago
I feel like there’s a meaningful difference between owning a home outright, and ‘owning’ a home with a $10,000 down payment and a 30-year mortgage. What percentage of millennials actually own their homes?
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by briga 3y ago
My complete Penguin edition notes all the different changes between versions. It’s rather ungainly to read though. The changes between versions are rarely that extensive, usually just some different phrasing here and there

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