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by cameldrv 3y ago
Nice catch. GPT-3 at least was trained on “Books2” which is very widely suspected of containing all of Libgen and Zlibrary. If the questions are in Libgen, this whole paper is invalid.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
$75B is a lot of money. The problem is that due to concerns about escalation, The U.S. has fairly consistently provided just enough to maintain the status quo. Just as an example, The U.S. finally provided ATACMS in October of last year, a
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The punchline is this: "It's 2021. The research participants are in their late-30s now, which means they've had plenty of time to shape their own destinies. But we can clearly see that the experiences of their childhood had a
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by cameldrv 3y ago
All of the code/safety/landlord issues notwithstanding, the price is pretty incredible. If I plug my address into the PVWatts calculator, given the insane price increases from PG&E over the past few years, the payback period
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There is something of a cost death spiral in CA. Workers need housing, and so do all of the workers for all the services construction workers consume. This means construction labor is very expensive, so it’s hard to build housing that wou
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I used some SGIs in the mid-late nineties, and they did have cool 3D graphics capabilities. I found 4dwm to be kind of cool but mostly gimmicky and it was really slow on the Indy and O2. Windows 95/NT were much snappier on contempora
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by cameldrv 3y ago
People have honestly forgotten that our economic system simply fails to deliver progress without competition. The system is based on transmuting the desire for money into better and better products, but in the absence of choice, this can’t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The problem is that responsibility comes from reason, and drugs like Fentanyl are a direct attack on your faculties of reason. A lot of Enlightenment ideals fall down when faced with hyper addictive things IMO, and we just keep inventing n
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I used to work on software for simulating mixing tanks in factories. Doing high quality mixing of powders is a major engineering challenge even for large companies.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes on paper this looks like a great and very practical vehicle for many people, but boy am I hesitant to buy a Chrysler product with this amount of drivetrain complexity. You've got everything that can fail in a fairly high tech ICE
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The thing is, I'd say Rivian is considerably more fashionable at this point. The only problem with them is potentially going out of business.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I think cycles of forgetting run faster these days. A whole bunch of cows in Texas have H5N1 flu now, and they're not stopping them from selling the cows, so they're now infecting herds in other states. Just yesterday a dairy w
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by cameldrv 3y ago
My question then is, what was the achievable goal? What is the end state for the country, do any U.S. troops need to be there permanently, and how does the society work such that the U.S. goals are achieved?
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I’ll check it out. We generally supported the independence claims of each breakaway state in turn. Some of that may have sort of been a default for the time given that the USSR had just broken up without too much violence, and shortly the
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It's hard to say exactly what would have happened in Afghanistan without the distraction of Iraq, but my feeling is that making Afghanistan into a functional western style democracy with western style human rights is more like a 50-100
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes. We did not try to radically transform Japanese society down to the level of the family. Same in Germany. Both of those countries also had a fairly cohesive sense of nationhood without massive ethnic divisions. We just had to deprog
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by cameldrv 3y ago
That's a great point, and I think that Yugoslavia was one of the very few successful post WWII major military interventions. There's a common pattern where you have a multiethnic state that's held together by a brutal dictat
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by cameldrv 3y ago
To be fair, the lack of strategic vision has also plagued the U.S. since WWII or Korea. We just keep losing wars because no one ever sets out clear achievable goals. The notable exception was the Powell Doctrine in Desert Storm. For that
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I have no idea how Silicon Valley could be held responsible for an Israeli intelligence failure. Israel is not a part of the U.S. The author exhibits essentially zero knowledge of the advances in military intelligence in the past 10-20 yea
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Most ICE cars these days have very little routine maintanence. Oil changes every 10,000 miles, everything else lasts longer too. I’m not sure there is a vehicle on the road that costs 3x a Tesla S to maintain and repair. Maybe a Mercedes
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Ever look at the repair costs of a Tesla? You can only get it serviced at their facilities. Misaligned incentives abound.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The ACLU became a completely different organization when Romero took over from Glasser.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
In the finance industry this is required by regulation for many types of phone/video calls.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
One thing is that getting a PhD is a good way to get into the U.S. As a foreigner, many visa and job opportunities open up to you with the PhD. For an American, it's less of a good deal. Once you have the PhD, you make somewhat more
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I remember reading about how in the Soviet Union, there were places they were irrigating with brackish water and how they were now infertile. The obvious conclusion was that the Soviet economic system was busted to permanently destroy land
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There were a bunch of lawsuits against Cessna for worn out seat rails. You adjust the seat forward and back and a spring loaded pin goes into one of the holes in a track to keep it from moving. The holes would get worn out until one day o
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I'm a bit more positive on SDCs. First, there's traffic, and there's parking. The claim you're making is that the lack of need for parking in dense areas creates traffic while the SDCs go to park. That may be true, but
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by cameldrv 3y ago
> The presence of a particular pathogen (or for that matter, any phenomena) coincident with death is not a meaningful metric. This is where Covid is listed on the death certificate as the primary cause of death. Everyone that dies of ca
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by cameldrv 3y ago
That is a point of view. In terms of gatekeeping public events, requiring a negative test certainly is going to reduce the number of people who show up with covid, but with only antigen tests, you're reducing the risk maybe 50-60% or
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes, you don't want empty AVs roaming around the streets. There probably needs to be some sort of government intervention to discourage this behavior. Here's what's possible though: 1. Shared ride AVs can deliver multiple p

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