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by dalbasal 3y ago
Why is this issue (API pricing) specifically important to reddit mods?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
That's what I mean. I'll take "deadlock" or "tyranny" as exaggerations for emphasis. "Tyranny" isn't more or less likely with multi-party. In recent times, a lot of democracies have move to incre
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Maybe but... There are lots of different voting mechanisms around the world. So e are "better" in the sense that people (including me) like them more... but... Games mature and you end up with some sort of antipattern party politi
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>Had a 4 hour call to fix a bug , 1 on 1, never got distracted, So here' what is missing from a lot of modern work. The stuff you're doing requires input from multiple people. The overhead for 6 hrs of actual work is 60 hours o
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by dalbasal 3y ago
” No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. ” - Slashdot's famous 2001 dismissal of ipod. Apple has a history of high prices, and a history of making it work by pioneering forms and user interface paradigms . The desktop GUI everyone
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I suppose at this point, a lot of HNers are too young to remember hacker optimism or idealism of earlier internet (and pre-internet eras). Those old enough probably partially discount it... naivety is hard to recall. FOSS, and openness bro
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Well... The logical (and operative) end of this thought process is "make them miserable and they'll leave." Some/many politicians do implement these kinds of policies, but you'll rarely hear the quite part out loud.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Agreed. And the resolution has been terrible. Politicians (and voters) pick a position. They act on it, or don't. But, nothing is ever planned executed at a scale where it is expected to solve or make a visible dent in the problem as a
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Generally speaking, this is an interesting application. Users will tell if it's useful, but regardless, I'm curious to apps that use LLMs in such ways... Returning lists.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
... ideally, during a carboniferous epoch, you have lots of bogs and places where plants can decompose into oil for future civilizations to enjoy... And re-release I to the atmosphere.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Even that is pretty significantly adapted.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The point I was reacting to was "tests = accredited proof of knowledge" and that any other use of testing is corrupt. MIT's accreditation is based on MIT's reputation, not tests. They can do tests however they want.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
If tests are to qualify class completion, why do people care about good grades, and why aren't they graded to pass/fail. Tests have different reasons, good and bad. Feedback for teachers, students and parents. Discipline. To force
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>Universities no longer have a monopoly on information/education so accreditation is really the main value they hold. Erode that and there’s not much vocational reason to go to college. Again, I think this is idealistic thinking...
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by dalbasal 3y ago
That's a thoughtful perspective. It's also useful for expecting similar in future industries. Ultimately, I think it doesn't even matter if the reason is regulatory complexity, industry rigidity, or technical debt. The questi
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by dalbasal 3y ago
> In the long term, regulation often kills competition, which inevitably kills innovation. So does non-regulation, often. A lot of this carp is "emergent" bureaucracy between insurers, other insurers, hospitals, etc. Regulation
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>The grade is assigned by the lecturer of a course, as a confirmation that the student knows a thing or two about certain fixed topics. That's an idea of what grades are and what they're for. It's not the idea. I would c
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Hitchikers Guide was a radio-drama, originally. The book was not just a written version of the original. It's a distinct work, like a film adaptation of a novel. As you said, audio productions if all kinds are nothing new. That said, a
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by dalbasal 3y ago
"FOSS Politics" might be a good idea. Being open and being authorative have a complex interplay and FOSS-like approaches can do things that regualtor-and firms complex cannot. Ultimately, FOSS and regulators are aligned in places
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Me too, more or less. Your sample size if one is probably right. Yet... audiobooks' are still pretty much just books. There is no theatre-2-film difference between the mediums. It's more like hardbacks and soft covers.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
It's surprising that "cognitive" aspects of human speech seem to be "ahead" of more mechanical aspects like text-2-audio. Computers are or will be better at writing the book than most humans. They'll still need
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Audiobooks' recent history surprises me. I expected that if they continued to grow, audiobooks' and written books would undergo speciation. Books are a medium. Audiobooks are a different medium. Film may have dabbled in being reco
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by dalbasal 3y ago
This is true. I suspect that they also had people stand on the walls at key points to deter wall jumping escapes. That said... given appropriate materials (eg flexible wooden rods for hurdles and fences)... Pens within the kite seems pretty
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Well... Look into it. A headline and a single photo aren't really enough to base a theory on. These have been studied a lot recently. Go see why researchers came to these conclusions.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
They were probably very skilled at this kind of thinking, more than and I. You have to emphasize with an animal to track it, for example. Even non human hunters have such intuitions. A wildcat knows when a squirrel is likely to head for the
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The original PowerPoint.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Idk. I think these are useful disillusionment mines to leave in place. The intuitive idea of inventors and originators is often wrong, and caused by narrow mindedness. Most inventuons are originated many times. I'm sure plenty of peopl
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The model of regulation-compliance is this. It's not really about the specifics. Consent, privacy, kyc... Those may be initial motives for regulation, but by the time these exist in the world, they are a set of standard, rigid "co
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by dalbasal 3y ago
In rural 1990s Ireland... Stones were used for weighing people. Kiligrams for livestock, feed and such. Pounds, pints and such for food and groceries. Iirc, mph was used for speed limits. KMs for distance.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
What is the revenue/profitability situation for Google's consumer electronics? When Google originally got into the biz... with Android and earlier versions of this pixel range, the goal was to compliment search and such. That did

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