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811.
by cma 2y ago
Thiel was part of ycombinator for a time, current head of yc worked for Palantir and has been working on DOGE-related Curtis Yarvin type stuff, so it is likely to come up here a lot.
812.
by cma 2y ago
He said his Tesla comp package was 100% to get to Mars for mankind then immediately bought Twitter when it hit the perf targets and he first got the package.
813.
by cma 2y ago
Many people want control over whether they back up conversations with others, and think it would be crazy for sender to control the retention policy instead of receiver. I think sender should just be able to send a recommended preference hi
814.
by cma 2y ago
YCombinator is probably involved in this stuff to some degree; Peter Thiel was part of of yc for a while and Garry Tan has been pushing stuff closer to Thiel/Moldbug's ideology in SF and worked for Palantir.
815.
by cma 2y ago
The real reason isn't bandwidth cost, it's visibility in the algorithm. You want a game trailer on your site: you can host it at a better bit rate for a great experience or use a competitor to. But if you do that, you get less v
816.
by cma 2y ago
Newton and Kepler attributed lots to god. Kary Mullis to LSD supposedly.
817.
by cma 2y ago
Because an astronaut hurt his ego contradicting him.
818.
by cma 2y ago
Having 50K of them isn't the same thing as 50K in one high bandwidth cluster, right? x.AI has all theirs so far in one connected cluster, and all of homogenous H100s right?
819.
by cma 2y ago
Aren't there already insurance rebates in the US or something for tobacco-free attestation?
820.
by cma 2y ago
Nicotine itself isn't very dangerous, it's the carcinogens in tobacco that are and the combustion products in the smoke.
821.
by cma 2y ago
Not all nuggets are ground, chick fil a nuggets I think are just a chunk of tenderloin or something. But I wouldn't call a fried complete tenderloin a nugget.
822.
by cma 2y ago
> If shooting and defense got better simultaneously, then all other things equal, overall shooting % should have stayed about the same, not gone down. Why? Getting better simultaneously doesn't imply getting better in a way to perfe
823.
by cma 2y ago
Or could be they knew the surgeon and send them business
824.
by cma 2y ago
> Now Palestinians want to conquer Israel ... and ... well. Sorry. Not allowed Look at a political map of the area over time dude.
825.
by cma 2y ago
It is going to be decided soon if courts have any practical enforcement ability at all against them. Could get very ugly.
826.
by cma 2y ago
ergodicity and Boltzmann brain parodoxes
827.
by cma 2y ago
I dont know if what he said is true, but passing on full first/middle name lineage was more common in the upper classes and that might have affected it.
828.
by cma 2y ago
Can't it be that defense got better too? Free throw percentage is up since '95 so they aren't just less accurate in general at that distance.
829.
by cma 2y ago
Nonmilitary federal employee payroll only makes up ~5% of the budget. This isn't about money.
830.
by cma 2y ago
Go through congress. If you don't want the Senate filibuster then lobby the senate majority to to get the rule changed. Vice president gets one vote in the Senate only, not unilateral control of the budget.
831.
by cma 2y ago
The deepseek advancements will allow more frequent retraining incorporating updates, it used to likewise take months for the Google index to update: you could tell because they listed how many sites were indexed on the homepage.
832.
by cma 2y ago
To watch a mini NBA game on your coffee table you aren't splayed on the couch leaning back.
833.
by cma 2y ago
I feel like table top stuff isn't a good fit with the heavy weight of the apple headset when you have to tilt your head down, party from the fairly low vertical field of view.
834.
by cma 2y ago
Wouldn't you just be able to adjust for it like reading music that's keyed in B flat concert pitch for clarinets?
835.
by cma 2y ago
Because Zuckerberg runs his own app stores with a 30% cut and similar arbitraty and capricious rules. Virtual Desktop's PCVR streaming feature was blocked for a year until Meta released their own clone.
836.
by cma 2y ago
And the federal workforce outside of the military is only like 4.5% of the federal budget
837.
by cma 2y ago
SSR - server side rendering
838.
by cma 2y ago
Growth in monthly actives across Facebook seems to have slowed but is still increasing--not bleeding users--from data I found through Q4 2023. With 3 billion monthly actives and China being excluded, it's hard to expect a ton of growth
839.
by cma 2y ago
Have they bled users?
840.
by cma 2y ago
Sibling comment above says funnel hashing is greedy, elastic hashing was the non-greedy method that did even better.

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