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The wonderful world of “no ownership” means that if the store owner suspects anything is afoot they can pester you for evidence of residence and ban your account. Instead of saving 20% you risk losing 80% (don’t know the real price differen
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I wanted to say that lathes have been around for over 2000 years and for most of that time a single well trained man could build one. In fact I’d wager that most lathes and indeed maybe even every part of that lathe up until the industrial
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The rotation is because they stock the product for which they can negotiate the best discount. But as you say the 20k SKUs premium stores stock aren’t a necessity. They drive up the costs for the store and the price for the buyer all so the
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Wikipedia’s strategy is to offload the risk of wrong information to sources which can absorb the hit rather than have it reflected back. It’s “safer” for Wikipedia even to knowingly publish inaccuracies or misinformation from a reputable so
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Taking apart modern day “advanced” objects is way less fulfilling than those from the past. Miniaturization/integration and the increased complexity puts things beyond what even an adult can easily and visually grasp, let alone a kid.
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It’s an unrealistic number to justify the argument. Unless you consume for the sake of consuming, there’s no way anyone needs an offer that rich for routine usage. Aldi and Lidl carry ~2-3k SKUs. A regular grocery will carry maybe 20k. In p
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What are you forfeiting for the good of humanity? Would you give up a big chunk of your income? What happens when this batch of “innovators” don’t deliver AGI and only enrich themselves? What happens if they do deliver AGI and (hypothetical
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> TLDR: Consequently many freshwater mussel species are now extinct The problem with the DR part of TLDR is that you miss a lot of detail. There are more factors than just the button industry. > To survive past the larvae stage, they
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I think the "last RSU" was more a figure of speech. At some point a person passes above an earnings level where they feel comfortable deactivating the "money making mode" and let their conscience speak.
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If I understand your point correct it could work as easily as communism: theoretically sound but undermined by human psychology. Natural evolution is slow and gives the species time to adapt to anything. Artificial evolution by comparison i
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I thought LLMs are better than random weak sauce replies. Micro indeed.
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Handwriting is still “new information” by the time you are in university? How do you feel about reading when text to speech and LLM summarization are so advanced now? No wonder some people are so easy to replace with an LLM.
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GP is talking about every test being done on a computer presumably to avoid handwriting. Handwriting isn’t the usual “get with the times, grandpa” situation. It’s been proven again and again that writing by hand develops the brain and helps
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I’m not sure what the “revelation” is? How is this related to what I said? Putting that aside, your philosophy sounds shallow. Death is certain, but how long you have to live and the quality of that life are not predefined. An incompetent p
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A passenger crashing the plane while trying to avoid a certain crash doesn’t make things any worse. An incompetent doctor trying to save you from certain death can make things so much worse. It’s all about weighing the best/worst outco
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Would we even know if a screen is “camera-incapable”? One day the “think of the children” routine will come for your screen.
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Love the technological aspect, hate the practical implications. Any part of any screen can be a camera. Good luck covering that with a post-it.
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Anthropic is successfully burning bridges behind them and making the path to profitability impossible for anyone coming from behind. If your model is “allowed by US administration” it’s an implicit admission that it’s either underperforming
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> when adding AI ... or when some savings are promised Because savings are promised. And who could say no to AI? (/s) There's always some risk mitigation possible but it's costly or inconvenient. Companies pretend the risk
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Moving to another solution involves some expense and operational risk (changing procedures, increased human error rates, locking yourself out). Even though the risk of staying with the existing solution goes from "unlikely" to &qu
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> Suppose also that I have a million year life span But that's what makes the usual analogies with humans fail from the start. The laws were made with the assumption that they apply to humans which are a known quantity. This breaks
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A home with smaller windows is harder to sell so almost nobody builds homes with smaller windows just because they put in a skylight. Small windows make rooms feel smaller and claustrophobic. A skylight gives light but not a view, and large
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The modularity is there with classic manufacturers too, just not "exposed" to the buyer. Cars use a common platform and you can still buy the classic or fastback, different styling packages, but you won't be able to self serv
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Why did you stop just short of proving that Europeans reject ACs because of "reflexive anti-Americanism"? Because that's the only thing GP objected to.
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It's very Americentrist to assume anyone ever thinks of "Americans" when deciding their home improvements and expenses. Most of Europe only sees occasional heatwaves (for now) so it's a compromise to suffer some heat bri
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The article is all over the place. I thought the point will be about using your home as a "battery" to store what your panels produce during the day in the form of cool air. But I think the punchline is already in the first paragr
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As a general observation, because I can't vouch for who used AI or not, claiming LLM is also a quick way to dismiss things. LLMs learned from human output so it should be obvious to anyone that enough humans write or express ideas in t
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> Only if you ignore the practical differences. You'd think that it would be easier to just name a few but here we are discussing burying a bitcoin seed under a grave in Timbuktu.
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> You can be essentially 100% assured it will never be taken. If we take the creative approach, then according to the equivalence of inertial reference frames in the principle of relativity, taking you away from the money is exactly the
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> Why is that a step too far? e.g. the PS5 price has increased like 25% and it's a 6 year old product now Precisely because it's a 6 year old product. The $499 the PS5 cost at launch in 2020 is equivalent to ~$650 in 2026 acc

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