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by danlitt 1y ago
Statehood is not a cookie, it is not a reward for good behaviour, and it is certainly not a punishment for somebody else's bad behaviour.
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When I was there (maths, 2010s) it was 1 supervision per course per fortnight. You had 4 problem sets in an 8 week course (for long courses). 16 lectures meant 3 sets, 12 lectures meant 2. I never heard of a college doing more than 2 studen
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by danlitt 1y ago
The mean talent at Oxbridge and at the Ivy League is pretty similar. The talent level of Ivy League scholarship holders is significantly higher than either. Obtaining a scholarship is a significant hurdle that not all applicants clear - s
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by danlitt 1y ago
They said "leading innovative framework", and innovative is the key word. The biggest player is almost never innovating, they are usually performing some kind of undeserved market capture.
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You have to hope so.
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> Why? Because perhaps in 2030 Russia has taken over Dnipro and moved it from Europe/Kyiv to Europe/Moscow. I think in this case Europe/Kyiv would actually change its UTC offset to match Europe/Moscow, which I'm
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by danlitt 1y ago
Would you agree then that local time should never be used to represent an instant of time, such as the time of a physical event? If so then the use cases for local time seem very very narrow, in particular the top comment in this thread (ad
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by danlitt 1y ago
If local time is qualified with where "local" is then it is identical to using a time with a locale, like Europe/London or whatever. Unqualified local time is wrong/confusing the moment you have any requirement which cro
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by danlitt 1y ago
IMO the whole point is to get rid of the string as normal. The whole "/hello/:who" syntax is weird and arbitrary, it is a different way of declaring a variable which adds an unnecessary extra step to understanding the co
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by danlitt 1y ago
> Yet you participate in society. Curious!
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> Yes your healthcare rights can be reversed but better that, than never happening at all like in the US. Do you really think that the thing standing in the way of universal healthcare in the US is its codified constitution? When I look
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by danlitt 1y ago
Why do you think that the UK having an unwritten constitution means that revolution cannot happen? Of course putting aside the fact we did have a revolution in the 1600s, and the almost constant revolution happening in Ireland until the 193
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by danlitt 1y ago
Very common, many such cases. The reason Hollywood is on the west coast is because it was outside the effective reach of Edison's patents. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sl4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmUF...
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If bytes weren't 8 bits, why would IPv4 addresses contain 4 bytes? Shouldn't they contain 3, or 9?
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by danlitt 1y ago
"I don't think we have one", not "I don't think one can be invented"
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AGI is not even a well-defined goal, let alone one that can be reasonably expected from the current tranche of investment. By your logic, any investment makes sense - this is not investment at all, it is a gambling addiction.
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by danlitt 1y ago
Yes, obviously. Commuting between cities would be an example.
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Like other commenters here, when I try to use them to help with my work, they don't. It's that simple. I have tried AI coding assistants, and they just guess incorrectly. If I know the answer, they generally give me the same answe
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by danlitt 1y ago
> Though I realise you asked for sane policies. I can't comment on that. I don't think you are disagreeing with them.
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I don't think we have a way to reliably estimate the value of non-transactional goods, because by definition nobody gives them a price.
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Most humans place the desires of human beings over the desires of companies.
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You need more qualifiers for this to be true. archive.org routinely archives content that the site operators would prefer to be taken down.
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by danlitt 1y ago
"if that makes lives of humans better" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and remains to be explained. Computer programs don't take actions, people do. If I use a web browser, or scrape some site to make an LLM, that's me
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by danlitt 1y ago
Seconded. I got banned by Facebook back in 2015, for no reason. I say no reason because they never told me a reason, even after following up to ask. And when I immediately created the same account all over again, same name, same photo, it s
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by danlitt 1y ago
I think this is quite fair criticism of google. The idea of the account being locked and requiring MFA to verify is something they made up without consulting the user. If they're going to do this "suspicious account" locking,
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by danlitt 1y ago
It is often not piracy to find open copies of papers; the authors often publish them directly (on their personal pages or on arxiv). A commenter further down found a public link: https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Networ
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Subsidising food is quite different from subsidising farmers.
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It is not hard to understand. Does it prevent them from having to use government welfare in order to survive on their meager salary?
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> citing this wouldn't fit the article's narrative Did you do any research at all into whether this makes a material difference to starbucks employees?
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Why is that the more interesting question? It seems obvious that the salaries are likely to be worth it. Our entire society is optimized to do nothing other than increasing shareholder value. It seems surely more interesting to ask why the

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