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by danans 1y ago
> People solve those problems largely through intuition, with a sprinkling of procedures that they remember. Without making the claim that LLMs have intuition (and certainly not inspiration), what you describe sounds analogous to an LLM
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> I get that old people like it because they're always cold, but why anybody young lives anywhere in Florida, besides maybe Miami, is completely beyond my comprehension. To get jobs tending to those (often well-off) old people. It
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by danans 1y ago
> Where can I sell my legacy for $6 million/year? I know you meant your comment as sarcasm, but to do it, you need to have a legacy worth those kind of numbers to begin with, instead of selling your labor as most of us here do. It&
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by danans 1y ago
But is it a computational problem then?
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> Support groups, fostering community through more local activities and places of belonging, funding social workers. I'm sure there's more. In a post-labor-centric economy (if that's where we are heading with AI/autom
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by danans 1y ago
> There are many ways to solve problems, but when you constrain yourself to solving them mechanistically, that is what makes computer science computer science. How would one solve a computational problem non-mechanistically? Even if exe
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by danans 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the Italian word "ingegno" (like English "ingenious") comes from the same Latin root as "engine": ingenium , meaning "mind or intellect", with "engine" changing its pr
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> The same is true for Tariffs. In the 2010s it was not unpopular for leftist types to say how globalization was a disaster for the American middle class, and how it only enriches capitalists. Now you're saying that tariffs were act
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by danans 1y ago
> If my real wealth doubles and Elon's real wealth doubles, inequality went up, yet everyone is tremendously better off. What's this universe that only contains you and Elon? Or do you think that everyone's real wealth ha
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by danans 1y ago
> Plenty of big unions out there, and plenty of places where growing base actually strengthens the union, since they can afford to do more for members in the event of a strike. Union membership is strictly bound by the number of jobs. Un
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> Unless workers unionize and demand higher wages. This is at odds with > Perhaps we'd even see, with the influx of people ... because that influx of people will increase labor supply, lowering unions' bargaining ability. U
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> Is the implication that the software engineer lost his job because of the tariffs? Indirectly, it's quite possible for a software engineer to lose their job due to tariffs if they lead to reduced profits to their company due to hi
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by danans 1y ago
> If more goods are made locally then it seems rather that unions would have more leverage. Unions represent only 9.9% of US labor [1], primarily in the public sector and the skilled trades. White collar workers and low skill workers te
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by danans 1y ago
If your metric is "more/better jobs", then yes tariffs are a failure. But in a roundabout sense ... yes they are working. At least if the goal is to discipline and squeeze labor, and return leverage to employers. Part of the
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by danans 1y ago
> The labor cost difference is something like 5% in the China vs 8% in the US. Those percentages don't make sense to me. 5% and 8% of what? Final assembly? Labor costs are also built into all material costs in the supply chain.
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by danans 1y ago
Didn't realize HP was still up to those tricks. I've used Brother for a while and no issues with 3p ink/toner.
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by danans 1y ago
I routinely buy printer toner and ink from companies that are not my printer's manufacturer. Where did you get the idea that it isn't possible to do so?
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by danans 1y ago
Came here to say this, too - creepy. Especially when there is no person in the loop, just an LLM agent responding on someone's behalf in their voice.
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by danans 1y ago
The primary factor that correlates with reverse cameras reducing backup accidents is age - people over 70 have higher backup accidents rates without cameras/sensors. FTA: > When averaged between the 2 automakers, effects were signi
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by danans 1y ago
> But which is the bigger risk? A billionaire's $100,000,000? Or your home, your health, and your retirement savings were you to lose your job in a bad market? This parallels the diminishing marginal utility of wealth, which states
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by danans 1y ago
> My wife is a native Russian speaker, and despite making numerous grammatical errors is far better understood than I am. There's an explanation for this https://youtu.be/Pik2R46xobA?si=T2NpUGe-32HY42oh
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by danans 1y ago
> At some point there needs to be a recognition of "you can't have it both ways", no? Yes, at some point that true. My point is that there is space for transit systems and mixed use zoning to make life easier in suburbs i
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by danans 1y ago
> If you look at my other comments in this thread, you'll see I predict they will fail. Yep, we agree on that. > off-grid datacenters could be cost competitive in some regions, but the upfront costs don't make them worthwhil
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by danans 1y ago
https://www.wesa.fm/environment-energy/2024-02-19/weirton-fo... > Optimistically assuming 12 hours of sunlight per day, a 40MW datacenter would need 480MWh of batteries to cover the dark period, costing $50 mil
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> Whether or not their business is viable depends on the future cost of launches and the future cost of batteries. If batteries get really cheap, it will be economically feasible to have an off-the-grid datacenter on the ground. There&#x
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by danans 1y ago
But then why bother with the added expense of launching into space? It's definitely not for environmental reasons.
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> The only inconvenience is the package takes about 10 days of delivery, no other differences. My company located in Texas is letting go the final employees at the end of this month, some 45 emps. That's sad for those employees in T
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> But then you're right back to it being regular city — exactly what the people in the suburbs (supposedly) want to avoid when they choose to live in the suburbs. They don't have to have the density of Manhattan or SF to be be
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by danans 1y ago
> Should these people be eligible to vote? Absolutely. Being a victim of repeated scams isn't a crime. These people need help and ideally to be given tools to use to protect themselves. They don't deserve disenfranchisement.
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by danans 1y ago
Based on what I see in the photo in the article, PV array codes in Puerto Rico must be quite different from those in California, because the arrays seem to cover almost the entirety of the roofs. In California fire access codes [1] prevent

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