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by carlmr 4y ago
It reminds me of one of my professors, actually also in economics. He would grade in a similar way. Basically he had some very extreme views, based on terribly simplified economic models, and would want you paraphrasing what he said, ideall
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by carlmr 4y ago
>After the introduction of the coffee, the equilibrium changes so that people are willing to wait in a longer line than 100 people I do agree with OP that this has to be stated as part of the question. Otherwise you can't expect any
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by carlmr 4y ago
>If your doctor tells you “this pill helps many people with your condition ”, they’ll be telling the truth. That's actually a really good wording.
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by carlmr 4y ago
>the only situation where the believability of a doctor suffers is when the patient doesn't heal at all If you investigate the medicine they prescribe you and find out it's a placebo, you might stop believing the doctor about t
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by carlmr 4y ago
Is there any evidence for this? Processed foods contain all kinds of stuff. But I would gather frying an unprocessed egg in a teflon pan already collects similar amount of PFAS as some processed food product. On the plastic packaging front
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by carlmr 4y ago
>most writing on websites sucks, most documentation sucks, most FAQs are lacking severely and use vague language in answers that add confusion rather than remove it. I'm not sure if LLMs will really lower the average quality there.
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by carlmr 4y ago
My question would also be what kind of insight McKinsey can provide here. What, if anything, do they know about AI that we don't know?
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by carlmr 4y ago
So true. With proper type driven design you basically don't need a debugger anymore. But I still find it helpful when you need to check what's wrong in other people's code, since they might not design with types like I do.
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by carlmr 4y ago
When i have a powerbank with me I usually don't need to charge my phone anywhere public.
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by carlmr 4y ago
Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant. If you only have one index, going from position 11 to 10 increases the value of the stock. But if you have a lot of indices, all these effects should average out to basically zero, since that s
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by carlmr 4y ago
True, but what if people buy a bunch of indices, where all these jump in and jump out effects average out. Only buying indexes is different from only buying one index.
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by carlmr 4y ago
>Did you know you don't have to use every feature? You can write perfectly valid and useful rust code without async or const fn or GATs or ? Do you use libraries from other people? Do you work on projects with others that like those
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by carlmr 4y ago
The fund should then be paid out with inflation adjustment at least.
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by carlmr 4y ago
Great recommendations altogether. Also fresh mint leaves. Indian Chai (contains caffeine and is more work to make but definitely worth it, especially if you like Kardamom).
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by carlmr 4y ago
>A simple call to a supervisor to confirm if the role player is who they are talking should have fixed this in less than 2min. Why would you call your supervisor if you believe the role player is role playing someone you should interroga
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by carlmr 4y ago
And it's still online?
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by carlmr 4y ago
Calling Rust purgatory on HN and getting away with it. What a time to be alive. Although i guess that makes C++ hell, which is appropriate.
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by carlmr 4y ago
That counts for crypto as well though. If your phone bill is in crypto, and society believes (!) in crypto, then you might have society enforcing it's beliefs with the full force of the law. I.e. imaginary. Your phone bill is just anot
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by carlmr 4y ago
>If the AI could be deleted, or stopped from operating, then it can die. Therefore, if the AI has agency, it would take steps to prevent itself from dying, by whatever means available to it. Why though? Agency and possibility of death do
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by carlmr 4y ago
Also pain and pleasure is an incentive system for human beings to do something. If you had an AGI without any incentive to do anything, it might be enslavable, but lack motivation to do anything. Why do we work? Because we want food, clothi
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by carlmr 4y ago
Reminds me of getting my peanut butter taken away, because butter is dairy. For all the fuss about whether oat milk should be called milk, there are people of room temperature IQ level intelligence that get confused by peanut butter.
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by carlmr 4y ago
>"We can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got mace or something.” 100ml of mace would be enough though, right? So why the limit? Also why is liquid a special category? That doesn't make sense either.
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by carlmr 4y ago
>I would much prefer to be given more than ibuprofen for surgery, thanks. If you didn't read my response why should I care? >This is an incredibly simplistic view of a very complex issue. It's backed by facts though. You can
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by carlmr 4y ago
>I see you have never been in any real pain, ever. What do you get for cancer in Germany? Still ibuprofen? I guess not. My point still stands though. Americans in Germany whine all the time about not getting "proper" pain medic
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by carlmr 4y ago
>The fact that you are in a society with 330M other people who all use the same "imaginary" currency makes it incredibly sticky. Exactly what I said. It's imaginary, just that it's a collective imagination.
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by carlmr 4y ago
It's collective imagination of the worth of the US dollar.
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by carlmr 4y ago
Actually yes, in Germany if you break your bones you get ibuprofen, if you get your wisdom teeth pulled, you get ibuprofen. We don't have an opioid crisis anymore. Pain is a fact of life. The problem in the US is that there's the
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by carlmr 4y ago
It's still imaginary. It's belief-based. Just living in the imaginary world of a lot more people than crypto.
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by carlmr 4y ago
>so people buy their imaginary currency. While I think you're correct regarding the crypto bros, every fiat currency is imaginary.
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by carlmr 4y ago
Germany here. The only time I listened to AM was when I built my first fuzz pedal and amplified radio instead of the guitar.

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