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by danans 1y ago
> Apparently we are all fish. Or fish don't exist Apparently if you go even further back and apply the same logic, we are all fungi. In fact, we both can synthesize vitamin D from sunlight, although I'm not sure if we do it the
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> exciting to see what old DNA turns up in archeological projects like these. While amazing advancements have taken place in ancient DNA analysis (esp. by David Reich at Harvard and his collaborators), I think all of these have been done
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> I know several Spaniards who emigrated to the US, As do I. They all seem to have moved to cosmopolitan places with advanced economies, not Mississippi. I also have friends and relatives that have migrated to Spain. Overall, there is
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by danans 1y ago
> The average European is poorer than the average person from Mississippi, the US’ poorest state Mississippi has a GDP per capita of $53k. 11% of Mississippi's population has no health insurance. Mississippi is one of the highest in
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> To reiterate - wow! the interviews are hard, every company is selecting for the top of a different metric, and there's really no shame in not passing one of these loops. Also, none of these companies will actually give you your pu
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> And actually you're also wrong about them lacking knowledge of all those things. Go try asking ChatGPT. It knows the map, not the territory. Until I see ChatGPT sinking it's teeth into a crunch wrap supreme, I will not belie
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by danans 1y ago
> A requisite of common sense is understanding, and LLMs do not possess any sort of understanding. Adding to this, the reason they lack understanding is because they lack experience . To them, the universe is limited to the very approx
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> At which exact point is language prohibited from evolving Never? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
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> I can’t think of a single job that modern AI could easily replace. It could replace many workers, perhaps sacrificing quality, but that's considered quite acceptable by those making these decisions because of the huge labor cost s
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> This doesn't paint a picture of powerful people being thwarted. It's a bunch of unserious people writing letters for a few weeks and then losing interest when things don't immediately go their way. They are powerful, but
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> 1. Somehow people moving into houses that went for $4 to $25 million didn't notice or bother to check that there's a landfill a mile from their houses Presumably, it's not a landfill that you can smell or see readily, ot
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> Why don’t they invest in other sectors though vs doubling down? Control and relevance. These things matter to them as much as profit. The barrier to entry to produce renewables is lower than fossil fuels - there is no natural oligopol
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> Is it just money that motivates these people? For fossil-fuel companies, it's about control and extending the world's dependency on their products as far into the future as possible. The others are on their dole to one degre
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Someone once explained to me that the "high end" farmed catfish you get in the US doesn't taste muddy because they feed them from the top of the water rather than having scavenge the bottom of the pond. I've definitely h
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> Which eventually will be a VM on top of WebAssembly, I'm not sure how that supports the argument that ChromeOS is only "the web". It's running a native VM for Linux today. What would be the advantage of porting it
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Nifty, but what I'm curious about is how you created the drain/fill effect on the cube.
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> WSL and other VMs are the Year of Desktop Linux finally coming true, nothing to do with Web. Just like the Linux VM on ChromeOS.
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> That is a VM... So is WSL on Windows. I wouldn't call Windows "just the web". There's also nothing stopping me from building and running local desktop GUI software on the VM. In fact, a VM is better in that I can ba
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> > ChromeOS is for all practical purposes, the web I'm very practically using Debian Linux on ChromeOS to develop test and debug enterprise software. I even compile and run some native code. It is very much more than just the
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> Nope. I'm in PG&E territory. Electricity is too expensive and natural gas is too cheap. Yes, the electricity rates in the IOU territories (PGE, SCE, SDGE) are horribly high. But in publicly owned LADWP or SMUD, the average rat
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> I suspect that GP meant "service upgrades" are expensive (e.g. 100A to 200A from the street). I understood that, but my point is that smart panel and smart circuit splitters upgrades can eliminate the need for a service drop
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> Not only are they more expensive to operate due to high electricity rates, Most electric appliances are much cheaper to operate, even in places with expensive electricity like MA and CA. This is especially true for appliances like hea
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Our brains reason in many domains depending on the situation. For domains built primarily on linguistic primitives (legal writing), we do often reason through language. In other domains (i.e spatial) we reason through vision or sound. We e
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I've been there, but just because you did things the "right" way and got rejected from one company doesn't mean you should throw away what worked. After all, they did interview you for a second role after the first one.
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Sapir-Whorf was named after, but not postulated as a single theory by Sapir or Whorf. It's just a colloquialism for Linguistic Relativity (vs Universality). In its weak form, there are many examples of Linguistic Relativity.
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Perception and interpretation can very much be influenced by language (Sapir-Wharf hypothesis), so to the extent that perception and interpretation influence intelligence, it's not clear that the relationship is only in one direction.
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I'd caution from reading too much into numbers like this. 400 applications is borderline spamming, putting quantity over quality, which employers would notice. It can be far fewer if you have a focus/specialty and specific industr
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> Argue for higher tax rates and more enforcement all you want, but the fact is that the current setup results in a situation where the bulk of actual taxes collected come from the rich. As they should, because the rich are paid multiple
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> When the top 5% makes 3x more than the bottom 50%? The top 5% makes 38% of the total, while the top 1% alone makes 22%, per the same sources you just quoted. Yes, the ones who make the most can afford to pay the most in taxes. And this
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And yet many less-rich countries have better infrastructure and health outcomes than the US. It seems clear that chasing GDP without also considering what is happening to wealth distribution has socially hollowed the otherwise-rich US.

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