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> Normaly if you build a computer, there will not be any OS on a random SSD you buy for it. That's why so many people go with pre-built and don't even care about wiping and reinstalling the OS to get rid of the bloat. They want
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Capitalism is great as long as it works just for you. When others learn to play the game and even outrun you, it’s time to put the finger on the scales. Essence of the free market.
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> Isn't that what most people in democracies think though? They do think that, yes. But they're not shaping anything as they see fit, at best they're shaping as millions of other together see fit. They're giving som
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Why do you need to be in his head? Something that applies to many powerful billionaires is that they believe their money and power make the superior human beings, entitled to shape the world as they see fit. Without that, they're nothi
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I'm not very familiar with how they work. Don't prediction markets give the individual gambler a boolean choice and this results in a picture of the split over the population ? There's no granular option for the individual t
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> How could anyone thing a single letter is good choice for an company/service name In this case, Musk is stuck being his 12 year old self and carrying a 30 year old obsession to use this very cool naming for his "everything co
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I'm not saying they're useless, they're an educated guess, a valuable means of communicating an expert opinion. It can be replaced with "I have high confidence of success". The assessment is subjective, includes per
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Probabilities might be more intuitive, statistics are intuitive only for the most straight forward topics. That's why it's so easy to present entirely correct but very misleading statistics.
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A probability that isn't computed (or reasonably computable) is just a personal feeling. Your 40% or 70% aren't probabilities if you didn't compute the probability of at least the key events involved to arrive at the number
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Modern technology is great, don't get me wrong. But it does increase complexity and fragility, and pushes things closer to the limits. I didn't say the technology was better but that it was simpler . Simpler components, simpler
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That Athlon die did stick out in terms of assembly "danger level". But for me the rest of the assembly was so much easier back then. 25 years ago I never had to wonder if my GPU or CPU cooler will fit the case, clear the RAM, or t
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This is why I talked about their speech doing a disservice to all Israelis, not their ability to act with authority. If you need an LLM to interpret 2 short sentences, here is what it thinks: > No. That sentence does not suggest the pe
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The scan and destroy method is what a judge allowed to do in order to have a copy of the book in the training dataset. With the physical copy destroyed there's still only 1 copy in circulation. Once "inside" an LLM I don&#x27
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Good point but the scale and success rate of the way China does it compared to any other democracy, or any country, in the past puts them in a different league entirely. They are on their 15th 5 year plan and look at the results. A successf
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> Or you get That "or" is described one paragraph down. It's the most common type of autocracy actually because it's the easiest to pull off. Incompetent and corrupt leader, access to an army, biggest temptation is fo
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GP isn't "badmouthing" China, that description applies to every non-democratic country, one leader with the power, not the people. Autocracies are great in the hands of a competent leader who plans the economy long term, and
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> it just needs to get lucky enough to To not compete with something from a country which sees its interests threatened and has the power to squeeze you dry. The US intervention to apply pressure handed a weapon to an internal player, Ma
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I am mildly disappointed that a Dutch model experiences 0 hallucinations, as per their invented numbers.
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> Israel must be like a mad dog > We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. > We have the ca
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A strategy old as time. Implement a weak "foot in the door" measure that pushes people towards incompliance, use the incompliance to justify implementing the strong "break the door and your nose along with it" measure. C
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With large downloads ideally they'd provide all the info upfront. Even some unique code in the name that you can look up in a readme on the site.
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I remember taking forever to finish the 1993 version of The Punisher on an arcade machine, and never managed at all for the 1991 NES version, only to finish them in probably 1h in an emulator with about a bazillion coins/retries :).
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> "When games were new, they wanted a lot from you; daunting you, taunting you, resetting and delaying you. Players played stoically. Now everyone’s turned off by that." Most old games had a very short gameplay, single digit ho
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> just in a relative sense compared to the alternatives of the era This is common sense. Nobody thinks the original iPhone is revolutionary today , but they do think it was revolutionary for the time .
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> switched from communism to free markets Free markets are a component of capitalism just as they are a component of market socialism. China is a planned economy which stands in contrast to a market economy. But China has taken bits and
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> it's a bummer and no one has anything to say about it. I think a lot of people could have something to say about this but they're afraid of being branded bad parent or bad people. > it's not actionable - there is no g
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Employees are (or should be) given more rights/protections than the employers because they have less individual bargaining power. The rights are there to counterbalance. For example it shouldn't be as easy to get fired as it is to
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> Agreed. I'm well travelled. Have had a very fun and satisfying dating life. A great career. Accomplished many life goals. Nothing comes close to fatherhood. I completely agree with you. But I can't say around me, people, movi
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> Socialism's track record is pretty bad. There aren't many pure socialist countries like there aren't many (any?) pure capitalist countries. Most of Europe operates in mixed mode, half socialist. Some countries are very b
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Isn't this how socialized healthcare works in every country? Whether they realize it or not the principle is generally the same, an amount (usually bundled under "social contributions") goes from people's gross salary to

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