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by danans 3y ago
Competition and regulation
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by danans 3y ago
Read my post, I said the US in the post-WWII period, and really reaching back to the New Deal. Also, most Western European societies.
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by danans 3y ago
Call me a capitalist, but I trust several of them competing with each other under the enforcement of laws that impose consequences on them if they produce and distribute content that violates said laws.
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by danans 3y ago
He's being shamed for being a loud hypocrite about OpenAI, not for his accomplishments pushing the mass adoption of EVs. Two different things.
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by danans 3y ago
What has failed are completely "collectivist" or "individualist" societies. Societies that balance the two (like the post WWII US) are the ones that have advanced their standard of living the most.
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by danans 3y ago
> I think there is far more societal harm in trying to codify unresolvable sets of ethics Codification of an unresolvable set of ethics - however imperfect - is the only reason we have societies, however imperfect. It's been so sin
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by danans 3y ago
Technically it's not developer mode , it's just a regular feature of the OS. "Developer Mode" on ChromeOS is when you remove boot verification for ChromeOS itself.
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by danans 3y ago
> I live in a place where it ranges from 50-85 F throughout the year, rarely below 60 though. Combined with what you said about it being wet, I'm guessing you live in the subtropics. Building in a climate/ecology conscious way
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by danans 3y ago
> You can use traditional materials with a modern understanding and make a much better house, it just takes longer to build Agreed that you can, but as you imply, at a very high cost, especially when you don't use modern sheet goods
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by danans 3y ago
> I open the windows every day, and in the summer most of the night. Then you shouldn't have an issue since you are basically living outdoors most of the time. As long as there is enough air movement, it should dry things out. The p
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by danans 3y ago
> those rain screens have a million staple holes in them right? Rain screens are mostly holes (empty space). That's how they allow drying of the exterior wall assembly. > Unless you seal every fastener hole with some sealant tha
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by danans 3y ago
If you do't have old growth wood windows to preserve, but are looking for a long lasting alternative, consider fiberglass framed windows. Fiberglass can be made to look like almost anything, and unlike some other modern materials (i.e
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by danans 3y ago
> new utilities designed (heat/cooling/light/power/access) and rebuilt. The biggest ones (from a $ perspective) are window access in the interior of the building, and water (clean and waste). To add windows to one bu
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New Chevy Bolt with affordable LFP batteries(electrek.co)
1 points by danans 3y ago|0 comments
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by danans 3y ago
> Yes. The question is: Why in this case is the ACLU more concerned with the first amendment rights of billion-dollar corporations more than those of individual Americans? Because only the First Amendment rights of the billion-dollar cor
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by danans 3y ago
Private social media are not public utilities (they have no government sanction or territory). The ACLU is saying (it's right there in the article) that restricting their ability to choose what to host on their platform is an infringe
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The Supreme Court Will Set an Important Precedent for Free Speech Online(aclu.org)
5 points by danans 3y ago|9 comments
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by danans 3y ago
You are leaving out some very important things: - Price stability itself has a value for electricity consumers. Insulating consumers from the price variations that come from the inherent variability in supply and demand is a major "f
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by danans 3y ago
There's also a decrease in abusive and propaganda output. I understand that is an issue for a user whose objective for LLMs is abuse and propaganda. But if that's what someone wants, they can find an LLM vendor who provides that
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by danans 3y ago
Everything LLMs produce is a fabrication, because it is all based on a linguistic simulation of reality, experience and meaning. In many cases the output corresponds to a benign factual reality. In other other significant cases it correspo
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by danans 3y ago
> Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered Unrestrained, this is exactly what LLMs d
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by danans 3y ago
> Worse? People in power actively want to do that in the name of "harm reduction" or "reducing bias" or whatever. "Whatever" is doing a lot of work here. There is a good chance that the initial wide scale i
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by danans 3y ago
> I realize some people just had a perfect storm of a large monthly bill, but seems like that could be solved by more regulation on the pricing cap side while still leaving the production to be a more open system. Adding price cap regula
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by danans 3y ago
The wholesale electrical energy markets in California are deregulated. As a consumer, you might buy retail electrical energy, transmission and distribution from an investor owned utility like PG&E, which is regulated by the Californ
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by danans 3y ago
It handles Sanskrit just fine. I asked regular Gemini: Translate this Sanskrit phrase to English: "Gajah vrkSam khaadati" The response was: Sure. Here is the translation of the Sanskrit phrase "Gajah vrkSam khaadati" t
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by danans 3y ago
> Its funny, when you censor a model its performance goes down. > You are introducing illogical data into the model, which degrades its ability to perform in the real world There is no "logic" in anything an LLM says. What
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by danans 3y ago
FTA: > These are some educational applets I wrote to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering. They were originally written in Java, but they've mostly been converted to Javascript, so you should be able to
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by danans 3y ago
FWIW The Monkey's Paw is originally a 1902 story published in Harper's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw The Simpsons borrowed from that.
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by danans 3y ago
> Or wherever this map is coming from: > https://cdn.openai.com/tmp/s/a-woman-wearing-purple-overalls ... Notice also that that a roughly 6 seconds there is a third hand putting the map away.
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by danans 3y ago
Tangentially, I find wallpaper to be fascinating as it's one of the few aspects of desktop UX that is basically still 100% open to self-expression. For functional reasons, every other desktop UI surface has converged with only a few mi

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