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by cortesoft 2mo ago
The problem is we have no way to pass a global carbon tax, and the way the global economy works now any attempts at a national level will only succeed in moving the carbon generation to other countries.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I keep using Claude and Codex simply because the subscription rates are SO MUCH cheaper than per-token rates, even with the cheaper models
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
While I don't think inaccuracy is the ONLY reason to be against a surveillance state, it is certainly a big part of why omnipresent surveillance is always going to lead to more problems than it will solve, and can be a good way to conv
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
So you should just oppose everything any politician proposes?
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
If they are only good at pretending to TALK like a pilot, then of course that is bad. However, if it is so good at pretending to BE a pilot that it can actually fly the plain really well, then that is good enough.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Shouldn't it be whatever the user wants? If they want the ship's computer, it should be that, if they want Data, it should be that.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
It has the exact same appeal and pitfalls as utilitarianism
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> Ask anyone who has had a system installed. Your system can be totally compliant with national and state electrical code, installed by a competent installer using staff who are licensed electricians, get a stamp of approval from your ow
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I have been using this tool for the past few months that was posted on here: https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe It generates tutorials for you, and serves a webpage that lets you complete them. It does a remarkable j
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
This is basically a bet on if you think longbets is going to be around.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
If you only care about the learning, then you could just take the incomplete. You don’t somehow lose the knowledge you gained. The only cost of an incomplete is it doesn’t help towards a degree, but a degree is just a signaling mechanism. I
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Sure, at the individual level lots of people/companies will make irrational decisions. At the macro level, though, the effect is still there.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
People seem to be thinking of "affording" as merely a property of having more cash. It is more than that, it is about the potential RETURN on the investment. The businesses that can 'afford' to pay more are the ones who
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
You aren't just filtering by who is willing to pay more, because willing to pay more is also indicative of how valuable that inventory is to the people buying it. All demand is not equal. Some companies have very valuable business they
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
The alternative is to have shortages. If there is demand for N chips at $X price, but you only have N/2 chips, then half the people aren't going to be able to buy them. The people who really need the chips, and would be willing to
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Software is about all the things
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? As someone who has spent many years working in high load environments, this is not an uncommon pattern. You design a system and it works great. It can handle failures,
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
It’s crazy how different the credit cost and subscription cost are. With the $200 subscription, I can have Fable on ultracode working for hours and not dent the usage limits.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
There are a few things that are assumed to be true when talking about the Pareto frontier here, but aren’t always true. One, that more of something is always better, e.g. it is always better to have more speed. Maybe, but what if having too
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
This is why I order the envelopes online and then go for a walk.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Just checked where I am (which, admittedly, is late at night), but for a random ride to a restaurant 2 miles away, Waymo was $9.34 and Uber was $8.91. This does match my earlier observations, where the prices were pretty damn close.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
People buying shares at a given price does not necessarily mean they believe the company is worth that much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
It’s all parts of the grass, and most trees, plus myriad other things. My legs always itch if I walk outside in nature wearing shorts. When I did the test where they poke you with a box of allergens on the back, my entire back was basically
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
So how does it not bother some people?
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
While we hold humans financially responsible for all accidents, we don’t hold them personally responsible in every case. Most accidents end with no arrests or even tickets. If your hand slips on the steering wheel, you don’t go to jail. Rob
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
While I agree with you, not everyone does. You and I are thinking with a purely logical thought process, but most people don’t reason that way. A lot of people want to be able to hold someone accountable, and that is more important than the
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> Yes, it takes longer. But if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right, even if it takes twice as long, no? This is debatable, but either way it is the opposite of the purpose of this article, which is about 'efficiency&#
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I would agree with you if I wasn't so allergic to grass.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I live very close to LAX, and we have hundreds of Waymos in our area. At first i was a little weary, and kinda weirded out by all of them. They have become completely normal, and cause WAY fewer traffic incidents than human drivers. They ar
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
They have been fully open here in Los Angeles for almost two years now.

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