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by danaris 6mo ago
I mean, part of the systemic problem here is that "results were so bad they couldn't publish." That shouldn't ever be a thing. As long as your methods are sound, it should never matter whether your results are just com
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by danaris 6mo ago
While I agree with your basic premise, that 3.5% "rule" is much more of an observed effect than an actual rule. There needs to be an actual mechanism for the protests to bring about the fall of the authoritarian regime. Unfortun
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by danaris 6mo ago
Your first critique has a massive hole in it, because it assumes that every person whose job is replaced by "AI" is actually going to be done as well by the "AI" as it was by the human. To the extent that it's eve
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by danaris 6mo ago
I used Word—mainly on Mac, version 4.01—all through middle and high school for my homework, and never had any particular problems with it. Frankly, I think it was much more stable then than it is now.
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by danaris 6mo ago
I don't know what computers you were using. I had occasional crashes, sure, but unless you had some very dodgy computers, it seems like you're overcorrecting for those supposed rose-colored glasses. I never knew anyone in the
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by danaris 6mo ago
> To begin to understand this, you have to examine the actions of the heroes as critically as the villains as defined in this piece. I disagree. To properly understand this, you need to focus not on the specific people who happen to have
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by danaris 6mo ago
And that's not baked into the Constitution—it was set by law in the early 1900s, and could be changed by law. If we were to uncap the size of the House of Representatives, and instead change so that each district contains 50k people
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by danaris 6mo ago
They don't even need to nuke TSMC to wipe everyone else out. They just need to blockade Taiwan.
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by danaris 6mo ago
It's definitely looking like we've passed the peak of the S-curve here. But there is one difference between now and the dot-bomb that could make the shape of what's next different (note, only "could"; it might ver
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by danaris 6mo ago
The problem is, as is so often the case with our modern companies, the things that got broken were other people's things. The things that were gained were made theirs . In other words, privatized profits and socialized costs. Again.
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by danaris 6mo ago
What you say is absolutely true, and is a serious problem—but the way our system operates does not allow us to correct for it. Anyone trying to spin up a competitor to TSMC would have to first overcome a significant financial hurdle: the ca
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by danaris 6mo ago
The same thing everyone who's paying attention to the real world (and not the financial fantasy world) does: that OpenAI's purchase commitments are wildly unrealistic and unsustainable.
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by danaris 6mo ago
Describing it as "overproduction of academics" is kind of begging the question, though: is it not at least as much "deprioritization of basic research and education"? It's not like the current demand for scientists
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by danaris 6mo ago
The problem is that the Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch, and due to the burgeoning of the Imperial Presidency over the past several decades, that means that as soon as a new President is voted in, he can order the DoJ
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by danaris 6mo ago
> There’s a Civilization-game style “tech tree” for cultural and social development. ...I'ma stop you there. There really isn't. And you'll get a lot farther in life if you stop thinking of real people and their developmen
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by danaris 6mo ago
So..."Pakistan's problem is a Pakistan thing", unrelated to markets.... ...but Bangladesh's success is purely attributable to markets? It's not "a Bangladesh thing"? You might want to check your prejudices
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by danaris 6mo ago
No*, but the nuclear waste problem is a problem for 50, 100, 1000 years from now. Climate change is a problem for 50 years ago . And now. Very, very much now. Having to, in the worst case, designate some small areas that we choose as uni
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by danaris 6mo ago
But Apple doesn't just try to do everything. They do the things they think they can do very well. Why would they try to build electric batteries, wireless modems, electric cars, solar cells, or quantum computers, if their R&D had
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by danaris 6mo ago
Right—in Ireland (to which I have just moved). In Upstate New York (from which I have just moved), February is the depths of winter. The temperature there can plunge to -10°F (for the highs ) for a week straight. It's not until earl
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by danaris 6mo ago
But it's more than just the temperature, or the day length. There's a big difference between 40-50°F in November, when the trees are brown and barren, and you're looking ahead to winter, and you swear there's a hint of f
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by danaris 6mo ago
...No, it's not at all "like every software". This seems like another instance of a problem I see so, so often in regard to LLMs: people observe the fact that LLMs are fundamentally nondeterministic, in ways that are not po
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by danaris 6mo ago
Yes; I get a lot of requests for a mostly a small set of paths on my site that look like they're attempts at finding exploitable surfaces. Things like /auth/bind-session, /auth/check?jwt=, etc. (And those are just t
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by danaris 6mo ago
Tell that to the idiots doing the scraping. Small site operators like us know very well that the utility they can get by scraping us is marginal at best. Based on their patterns of behavior, though, my best guess is that they've simply
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by danaris 6mo ago
That is very possible . But it is not necessary to see the results that are being described. If sites like my tiny little browser game, with roughly 120 weekly unique users, are getting absolutely hammered by the scraper-bots (it was,
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by danaris 6mo ago
> Is there no rule of law anymore? Have you not been paying attention to the news for the past few years? No, there isn't. If there were, Trump would be in prison, not the Oval Office. And he and the Republican Party have deliberat
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by danaris 7mo ago
> the idea that it's close to collapse is no better than any other online propaganda opinion Not just that: how do you even define "the collapse of American society"? What, exactly, do people think that would look like?
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by danaris 7mo ago
If property rights are regulation, then so is anything that allows you to ignore them. Once you get down to the level of property rights, the only alternative left is total might-makes-right anarchy. Property rights are some of the earlies
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by danaris 7mo ago
I guess my question is: What's wrong with an ultimatum over things that are actually egregious enough to need a hard boundary? It seems like you're stuck on the word "ultimatum", as if there's nothing that could
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by danaris 7mo ago
> a boundary is an ultimatum you're setting on someone else's behavior No, it's not. A boundary is something you're saying about your behavior. "If you use racist language at me, I will have to end this convers
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by danaris 7mo ago
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm boycotting "the ad-free model". I'm boycotting them . After all, every cent that goes their way supports surveillance advertising (among other unsavory things). I have o

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