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by chii 7mo ago
> wouldn't it be better if the major newspaper offer a big pile of money to insiders that leak the data? so why would a newspaper pay money for information they cannot recover or monetize? Where would this money come from in the fir
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by chii 7mo ago
> bafflingly, it works pretty well, except in those cases where it doesn't so as a human, you would make the judgement that the cases where it works well enough is more than make up for the mistakes. Comfort is a mental state, and c
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by chii 7mo ago
> If someone is making the kind of mistakes that cause oncall issues to increase the problem is that identifying the root cause can take a lot of time, and often the "mistakes" aren't clearly sourced down to an individual.
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by chii 7mo ago
and that's why sector specific indexes are not "good" - only broad market (heck, even global) indexes are worth passive investing for. A nasdaq index is no different from any other thematic index (like an oil index, or a robo
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by chii 7mo ago
> Then what is our use? You will have to find new economic utility. That's the reality of technological progress - it's just that the tech and white collar industries didn't think it can come for them! A skill that becomes
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by chii 7mo ago
> Dominating 63 other players and ruining their day isn’t a right. it is, if you're not cheating and is in fact just that good. That's called competitive sports, which participants voluntarily engage in.
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by chii 7mo ago
if you cheated with wallhacks, post-game analysis can detect it. And it is possible to silently put you into a cheating game match maker, so that you only ever match with other cheaters. This, to me, is prob. the better outcome than outrigh
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by chii 7mo ago
That's quite an interesting observation. I suspect that the reason those "newer" companies were able to have the majority of their gains reaped pre-IPO was that during that time period, it was easy to acquire capital from inv
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by chii 7mo ago
with an LLM, you can have an ill formed idea, and let the LLM mold it into a shape to your liking, without having the investment required to learn how to do molding first.
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by chii 7mo ago
while it might feel like a discount, buying airline tickets upfront is not a "true" discount in the traditional sense, because the money is prepaid, and is worth it to the airline to receive guaranteed income from a seat early. A
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by chii 7mo ago
Oh absolutely. Price discrimination is hated by all customers. The trick airlines use is to make the price discrimination transparent in a way that a customer feels is "acceptable" - time variance, seat variance and addons etc. It
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by chii 7mo ago
> how much detail do i need to go into to satisfy the manager reviewing this? it would've been fun to troll by writing the instructions on exactly which muscle to contract and extend for X seconds, and moving in an arc of Y minutes.
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by chii 7mo ago
It's why as a retail investor, never buy things that would otherwise have not been available to you (but was to those "elite"/institutional investors previously). Think pre-IPO buy-in. Investors in the know and other wel
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by chii 7mo ago
> observes how it looks from the outside (UI) and inside (with debug tools), creates a spec sheet of how the app functions, and then sends those specs to the "clean room" AI. and tbh, i cannot see any issues if this is how it i
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by chii 7mo ago
> successful platform be bought out by one of the big ones. everything has a price.
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by chii 7mo ago
> it's code that solves the problem in a way no human would choose but is it better than than the way a human would choose? And does it matter? A compiler may write assembly in a way that no humans would choose either. And in the ea
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by chii 7mo ago
but now the definition of europe becomes europe but not UK, since it's convenient to maintain the argument rather than discuss the real underlying issue!
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by chii 7mo ago
yep. You are not wrong. Those who trade freedom for security will obtain neither.
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by chii 8mo ago
only if you equate following a set of rules to being in jail. Do you follow road rules? Why don't you apply that jail analogy to that?
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by chii 8mo ago
Monogames is closer to something like SDL, or Raylib, than Godot (which is more like unity/unreal engine, but thinner and lighter weight). They exist at different abstraction layers, so not really directly comparable.
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by chii 8mo ago
What is the current method that exists which stops CEO/executives from short selling their own company's stock, then driving that company's value down (which is easy to accomplish)? Why can't that same method be used to
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by chii 8mo ago
> self incriminate well, if they weren't doing something that would've otherwise been deemed illegal, then why would they consider it self-incriminating to have to follow KYC/AML rules?
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by chii 8mo ago
now somebody just needs to make a PiPy for the raspberry pi
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by chii 8mo ago
Wouldn't that international english be the same simple english (e.g., https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page )?
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by chii 8mo ago
> The people getting pushed out are the intermediates and seniors who aren't high performers. i argue that's a good outcome. Seniors who aren't high performers should not command high salaries. I think the anomaly that is
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by chii 8mo ago
> then no one will continue R&D i would like to see a system of publicly funded R&D.
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by chii 8mo ago
Doesn't make sense to stop hiring juniors. If AI increases productivity, and juniors are cheaper to hire, but is just as able to hand off tasks to ai as a senior, then it makes more sense to hire more juniors to get them working with a
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by chii 8mo ago
cash cannot buy more fabs. ASML machines are the constraint, plus TSMC's capacity is a constraint. Not to mention that nvidia's cash pile isn't magic - they should not overpay for capacity; they're better off returning c
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by chii 8mo ago
if you turned on the autocorrects and spell checks etc, would automatically capitalize your sentences. Even when you don't want them to!
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by chii 8mo ago
> Most people would pick up both. if you're within reach of both, then it's not a choice, and there's no opportunity cost in picking just one - you'd be taking both. If not within reach of both but just one, and you p

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