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by chii 8mo ago
> the sense that someone needs to lose money yep, and that's fine because they did so voluntarily. If there were no stakes on the line, the information in the odds will also not have any real meaning.
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by chii 8mo ago
> will continue to distort the market. they can only do so as long as they have enough capital to lose. Because every time they try to move the betting markets against the truth, they will simply lose that money when the event happens (a
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by chii 8mo ago
you dont need to pay to access the odds - it's public info. There are people who pay to make bets on it (if they think the odds are wrong). But you don't have to be a betting participant to access the betting odds. You simply use
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by chii 8mo ago
> Similar story for lower levels of confidence therefore, the polymarket betting odds will reflect the truth - even if that info is a secret that nobody else but the insider knows. And if this is the case, then even an outsider could ma
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by chii 8mo ago
Unless there's only one seller, why won't one of them just lower their price slightly to gain a market share edge and increase their total profit (even if margins slightly drop)?
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by chii 8mo ago
This is the macroscopic outcome that also play out in a company microcosm - people who _prevent_ disasters and fix problems _before_ they occur get no credit, and on the balance sheet it looks like they're just a waste of resources. On
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by chii 8mo ago
> You can execute perfectly (in terms of making a great product) and not get a single eyeball. that's a tautological statement - if not a single eyeball is on the product, then you obviously didnt make a great product. after all, wh
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by chii 8mo ago
> I think it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when an entire generation of software developers who’ve only ever known “just ask the LLM to do it” are unleashed on the world. we only have to look today at how different softwa
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by chii 8mo ago
That value is there, but google has decided to give it away as public knowledge (ala, their transformer paper). And i would also argue that the researchers doing this are built on shoulders of other public knowledge - things funded by publi
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by chii 8mo ago
And that is how it should be - the knowledge that the LLM trained on should be free, and cannot (and should never be) gatekept behind money. It's merely the hardware that should be charged for - which ought to drop in price if/whe
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by chii 8mo ago
> I began leaving BT turned off on all of my devices unless I needed it i've been doing that since the inception of BT being available on my devices. I'm just surprised at so many people's cavalier attitude to security and
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by chii 8mo ago
> How do we build a resilient system that doesn’t rely on single platforms? by making sure that compatibility is enshrined into law, so that competition occurs, rather than walled gardens. It has to start at the top - gov't has to m
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by chii 8mo ago
> Once you abandon that tenet, what's left? Profit of course!
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by chii 8mo ago
probably 2%, not 20%.
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if i recall, in singapore, the transit card costs are refundable. I think that's the only place i've seen it refundable.
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by chii 8mo ago
> resist tyranny it always takes sacrifice to resist tyranny. It's just that there's been less tyranny in the past half century, that the new generation raised have not had to make sacrifices, and thus don't feel they nee
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by chii 8mo ago
A piece of paper doesn't make any difference if what's written is not observed, nor the rules it laid out followed. The fact that the president can commit crimes - like declaring war without the approval of congress - and have no
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by chii 8mo ago
> without completely rewriting our constitution. there is no need to rewrite it, because it's fine. What's not fine is people not observing it, and defending it with their lives, and making sure that violations are actioned wit
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by chii 8mo ago
> It's just weird that I have a better experience if I don't pay than if I do. not if you look from the POV of an advertiser. If you don't pay, chances are you would not have money to spend on goods being advertised. But i
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by chii 8mo ago
the hammer of the gov't works slowly, but such bypasses will eventually be worked around - it doesn't matter if twitch/discord/etc actually care or not, because their care is irrelevant. > the presence of clunky worka
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by chii 8mo ago
> it will come from the national governments (see Hungary), not the EU. what's the difference? The EU relies on national gov't to enforce rules. Until the EU becomes a sovereign entity with standalone enforcement mechanisms, it
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by chii 8mo ago
> are they in fact making money overall on youtube? if they weren't, won't it make sense to drop it? So by empirical observation of the outcome, it seems like youtube produces enough value to google that it is worth the invest
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by chii 8mo ago
> which is effectively its cost of content. only if that video generated sufficient revenue to pay out - which is quite a high bar. But the long tail of content is what draws people onto youtube as a platform - so youtube derive a benefi
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by chii 8mo ago
Youtube's content pipeline is free (for them - people willingly give the content to youtube!) Netflix's content pipeline is hella expensive, due to their being boycotted by major content owners (like disney). So i would imagine th
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by chii 8mo ago
The theory of computation hasn't changed a whole lot since those times - and feynman explains it very well to a laymen audience (which is what makes it great, as it's not filled with jargon).
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by chii 8mo ago
So do you believe violent video games induce more violent crimes then?
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by chii 9mo ago
Watch, or read "altered carbon" for a taste of that future.
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by chii 9mo ago
Whether it's interesting or not is irrelevant to whether it produces usable output that could be economically valuable.
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by chii 9mo ago
Customs could just ask you for a declaration, where if you lied and they found out later, you'd suffer a heavier penalty. I dont know if they do that right now (not familiar with it).

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