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by czl 3y ago
Did you try using prepared statement so the compilation is done once and compiled results are reused each time that query is run?
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by czl 3y ago
> Any 5+ year holding has been ridiculously profitable. The more remarkable a short history the more likely it is not sustainable: Beanie babies, tulips, etc. In a zero sum investment for every win there is a loss. Bitcoin however is hig
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> Yes, it's counterintuitive to many people that "the optimal amount of $BAD_THING is non-zero" for a rather large set of possible values for BAD_THING. How much "earth is sterilized" risk is reasonable per year?
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> it's more economically viable to run a plane building company whose planes accidentally falls out of the sky? Business school may say if your product never fails perhaps you are overspending on it and some known small failure rate
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I hope you are correct yet Xerox and Kodak paid for plenty of breakthroughs, did they not? Google faces a similar "innovator's dilemma" challenge: successful companies often struggle to embrace new technologies or business m
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> Also why look at dumb things per day when what matters (to me) is the enormity of dumb actions? Elephant does what elephant does and ants complain. What do you expect? > He bought Twitter for way more than it was worth because he ha
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by czl 3y ago
Who is on stage in this clip and what they are saying? https://youtu.be/xHZ-Dvv2cN4?si=VdmfLrcEq6AFm-7W
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My post above requires some explanation so here is GP4 explain it. ------ The reply you've presented suggests a debate about the intentions behind Elon Musk's public statements, specifically regarding whether he's misleading
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That is not correct. My words above require intelligence to understand and my ability to explain them in simpler terms is limited. This explanation from GPT4 is good. Hope it helps. ------ The reply you've presented suggests a debate a
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Compared to a same aged person does Musk do more dumb things each day? Perhaps his few dumb things get amplified by his haters? Any normal person that manages to earn themself what Musk has earned might that affect their personality? Maybe
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I suspect you did not understand what I said and your bias affected your judgement. Please explain what you think I meant.
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Intelligent people have faults and make mistakes like the rest of us. What sets them apart is they are often better at seeing this and fixing things. Did Musk not make amends for that tweet? Do you think advertising should control social m
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Hater or fanboy does it matter? Do you not understand the concept of reflexivity? Intelligence can show truth. Intelligence can support some existing bias and hide truth. How does your intelligence serve you?
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> The lying is clearly aimed at gaining investment money and preorders, though, not at some bizarre attempt at motivating engineers. It would be dumb to be caught "lying" over and over and Musk is not know to be dumb. Consider
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unfortunately the masses are much dumber > the real contributors to our society, but because their votes count the same as anyone else, the choices of the masses win elections and make bad choices Their "political votes" appear
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The solution to congested towers is to add more towers and reduce the power levels making the coverage of each smaller. In a crowded room you can increase the number of simultaneous conversations by having people stand closer to each other
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> they make it much more difficult to claim that Getty images were not ingested and used for training Was that claim put forth? Why then does making this difficult matter? > they make it much more difficult to claim that these source
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by czl 3y ago
Say someone takes your written work (say your online comments, any articles, blogs etc) and claims it as their own. You still have a copy of your work but now your audience the authorship is in doubt. Would you be against this happening to
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by czl 3y ago
> warped versions of the Getty logo have shown up in a number of SD-generated images. If you create art that has a Pepsi logo on a depicted vending machine etc Pepsi has no copyright claim on your art does it? All it shows is the art was
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> by the 1990s we had civilians manufacturing and releasing sarin gas in subways and detonating trucks full of fertilizer. How does actual and potential harm from these incidents compare to harm from common traffic accidents / commo
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> Does it outlaw the Intel and AMD's amd64 branch predictors? Does better branch prediction enable better / faster weapons development? Perhaps we need laws restricting general purpose computing? Imagine what "terrorists&q
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> Lack of regulation doesn’t ensure competition nor low prices. High barriers to entry however does prevent prevent competition and that does raise prices. > The game is already highly centralized in ultra-well capitalized compan
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> superhuman persuasion is likely to be next Some people already seem to have superhuman persuasion. AI can level the playing field for those that lack it and give all the ability to see through such persuasion.
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> Also a billion or trillion or infinite ants can’t outsmart a single human. Cells are simpler than ants so can trillion or infinite cells outsmart a single human? Why not? How many cells is a single human?
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> Self-preservation? Do you expect them to roll over and die? Above I said “A society that leaves members behind will be out competed and replaced by societies that are smarter about this. Ditto for a society that imposes costs on others
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If your job was X by hand and now a machine does X better what gives you the right to deny others who want to use such a machine? > The Luddites were free people who knew a trade that machines were threatening to make obsolete. Did Luddi
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> How were the Luddites harming others by preserving their way of life? Me and my pals have some skill that you can now buy a machine and replace so me my pals put on masks and come visit you to smash those machines. Me and my pals want
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> they were acting out of desperation to preserve their way of life Should I have the right to preserve my way of life when it imposes costs on others?
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> Arguably you don't own land, ... Keeping X requires constant resources to defend X that scale with the value of X due to competition for X. Governments (among other things) are for collective security and efficient defence of your
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by czl 4y ago
When people panic about small banks they flee to big ones and Buffet would benefit from _some_ panic: > Berkshire's equity portfolio includes several banks, including a $34.2 billion year-end stake in Bank of America Corp

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