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by danans 1y ago
> Ok? That doesn’t diminish in any way his technological and industrial accomplishments. Why are those the criteria for being on a coin? Neither Henry Ford nor John D Rockefeller are on coins. Jobs was dismissive of concerns about US te
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> Shall we forget that Steve Jobs conspired with other companies to pay developers less? Forgetting bad actions is an essential part of the process of deification, and since ancient times, rulers who sought to be equated with gods would
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The deaths with the highest coverage (apart from suicide) are committed by people upon other people. Because they have an actor and an object, both with identities, they inherently have stories , which are the product that the news media u
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> I remember how everyone raved about cheap EV charging a decade ago, how it would save costs etc. And today a commercial fast DC changing is more expensive (per km of range) than an ICE car of the same class and size. The raving was ov
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> The cost of things where AI can produce value will trend downward and human labor will move to other things, like entertainment, services. IMO there will always be demand for things like human-given massages, human chefs, human teacher
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> scarcity isn't real anymore, it is enforced politically for the benefit of the owning class Whatever the reason, it nonetheless seems like higher electricity prices are inbound.
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> The states have lots of cheap reliable power (not perfectly reliable, but close enough). Industrial electricity rates are pretty much the same in China and the US, from 8-9c/kWh. In both countries, however, electricity is going t
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Even in the unlikely event AI somehow delivers on its valuations and thereby doesn't disappoint, the implied negative externalities on the population (mass worker redundancy, inequality that makes even our current scenario look rosy,
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> Per Wikipedia it has five nasals, each with its own glyph: m (ಮ) n (ನ) ɳ (ಣ) ɲ (ಞ) ŋ (ಙ) There are 5 nasal glyphs, but like in other Indian languages, 2 (velar and palatal) are allophones of the others, leaving only 3 actual phonemes.
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I misread that. Thanks for the clarification.
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> Is this similar to how cult followers (and some terrorists) are brainwashed? Not exactly. People who fall in to cults usually have strong personal reasons - often rooted in fear, insecurity, desperation, trauma, or loneliness - to beli
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> At the end of the year the account sends you a statement of what you used and you can use it to get the tax paid on the money back when you file the taxes. If you underestimate the amount you spend by more than the rollover limit, you
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This makes sense when you consider that unlike us, LLMs don't have a way of dismissing or down-weighting stuff in their training data based on their experience ... because they lack actual experience. Or put another way, they lack comm
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> Stock buyback is effectively just a dividend with a different tax implication Not just different, it specifically a lower tax rate assuming that the stockholder has held long enough to use the long term capital gains tax rate (which
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So we agree that it is more complex than: colonized => successful not_colonized => unsuccessful
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> firing people to replace them by AI" are in reality just firing people because the economy isn't great More concretely, they can use this situation to squeeze more productivity out of those who remain employed. With the cons
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> A lot of good ideas only look bad in hindsight. It costs time and money to determine goodness, and that deserves funding. Governments can also do that funding. The most pivotal technologies in recent history have been a result of gove
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> Places that luckily avoided colonialism haven’t improved a zilch Thailand and China would like a word.
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> but I do remember seeing at least one in which all four of these were distinct. None of the major Indian languages I'm familiar with have 4 nasal phones, from either the Indo-Aryan or Dravidian language families. In the Indo-Aryan
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> My mind boggles at the notion of [n] [ɳ] [ɲ] [ŋ] all being distinct. They are phonetically distinct, but not phonemically distinct, which is to say that in most places they occur, they aren't used to distinguish words or meanings
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> How does that play out for languages that use characters that are pictorial. Chinese' pictorial writing completely obfuscates the historical state of the spoken language, to the extent that in order to reconstruct older phases of
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> Many Indian languages are written in scripts that mirror what is spoken. Silent letters don't exist and pronunciations that don't match the spelling are very rare. I don't think that's true. From the northern India
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> English spelling has a reputation. And it’s not a good one." - never have i ever agreed with anything more Quick reminder that writing != language. Even the highest fidelity writing systems are lossy encoding systems. In fact, t
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> How to hire the right junior engineers... The advice given doesn't just apply to junior software engineers, but also senior. It's pretty much how all the senior engineers at my company (including me) were hired. While I foun
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The guiding principle for most of the tech industry is to produce the cheapest thing you can get away with. There is little intrinsic motivation toward quality left in the culture. When velocity and quantity are massively incentivized over
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When speed and quantity are incentivized over understanding and quality, this is what we get. Enshittification of not only the product, but our own professional minds.
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Here is a good background: https://jewishcurrents.org/antisemitic-zionists-arent-a-cont...
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> Why are you demanding absolute, unimpeachable rigour when vendors give specific figures, but are comfortable with hand waving when it comes to complaining about energy use? Because the evidence that AI data centers are using a lot of e
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> A ChatGPT prompt uses 0.3 Wh, which is approximately how much energy a Google search took in 2009. That's the number their CEO put out, but AFAIK it is completely unverified (they did not provide any background as to how it was ca
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> Looking the other side of the market, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is bringing in around $3 billion a year in sales revenue, and has spent around $7 billion developing its model. Even if every penny of that was spent on electricity, t

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