darth_avocado

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by darth_avocado 5d ago
Yes please, add vets to the bill. The problem you’re describing gets exacerbated when PEs buy practices. They undercut the very few other surviving practices and remove any ability for new practices to open up. In the last 3 years, we went
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by darth_avocado 8d ago
> The need for actual lawyers will persist I think from my own experience This doesn’t replace lawyers, but paralegals surely will be affected. A good enough model could shrink the number of paralegals needed in a firm.
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by darth_avocado 9d ago
> Fed hikes interest rates → bonds sell off → yields rise This part isn’t true. It can happen, but not always, especially right now.
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by darth_avocado 9d ago
That wouldn’t be a great way to measure it. I’m only talking about the fed rates, how it impacts the bond market and therefore the mortgage rates. If someone decides to nuke the oil infrastructure of the world tomorrow, this rate hike doesn
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by darth_avocado 9d ago
You have to look at the current context. Bond yields have been spiking, mostly because of the inflation expectations from oil prices and tariffs (mostly oil prices). Mortgages mostly track 10 year yields, which is why when fed dropped the r
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by darth_avocado 10d ago
Re: mortgage rates https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/09/16/heres-wha...
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by darth_avocado 10d ago
Mortgage rates are not decided by the fed rate as much as they are by the bond yields. There’s a reason why the mortgage rates were above 7% yesterday even when the fed rate has been stable for a while. This rate hike is aimed to stabilize
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by darth_avocado 10d ago
This is the right move. Inflationary pressures due to high oil prices and tariffs are not going away anytime soon. All the economic numbers point to a need for a rate hike. Not doing so has a much larger effect on the financial system than
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by darth_avocado 10d ago
The debt is owed by the treasury, fed prints the money. What you’re describing is not how the monetary system works.
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by darth_avocado 12d ago
What you’re describing is a sunroof that’s useful for a small set of use cases. Panoramic roofs that don’t open are different.
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by darth_avocado 13d ago
I think it’s more than money and slowing progress. Public perception on AI is in the gutter. That is a much bigger threat to these companies. They’re trying to turn it around.
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by darth_avocado 13d ago
I would argue they should have to. They scraped data off others, a lot of whom did not want that data to be used for AI training, and still had to share it with the frontier labs. It’s only fair they should have to hand it back. The only wa
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by darth_avocado 20d ago
But is that true though? This seems bit of a romanticism. Having lived in rural villages in Asia, I can tell you people are about as happy as anywhere else. They worry about not being able to afford or have access to basic healthcare. They
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by darth_avocado 21d ago
And yet, here we are just pouring glyphosate on public lands by the tons… Nothing changes even if we know about these chemicals
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by darth_avocado 21d ago
Identifying as independents means nothing. 67% of independents in 2018 viewed one party more favorable and were unfavorable to other. In other words, the independents have a partisan lean towards one party and are more likely to vote that w
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by darth_avocado 21d ago
It’s much more expensive. You as a consumer can buy a movie for $5 with a DVD on sale. But tos generally don’t include commercial activities. If you reach out to the film studio to get their permission, they can charge you anywhere from $10
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by darth_avocado 24d ago
I don’t know if Claude performs similarly from a percentage standpoint, but if you’re using it for search (online or personal docs or wikis), it often also just makes things up. When you point it out, it’ll do the “ohh you’re absolutely rig
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by darth_avocado 28d ago
You’re talking about a product that’s quite literally “pick it up and sell it”. Adding a single step to the process will be economically more expensive. Mining, logging, fishing etc. are all similar examples.
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by darth_avocado 29d ago
In a few million years
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by darth_avocado 29d ago
The social network is more dead than when he bought it. Wouldn’t need the an acquisition first by an ai company and then a space company to hide its worth.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Why not use your actual account instead of creating a throwaway one if you feel so comfortable saying this?
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
I read the article after commenting. What opinion do I need to change? Seems like I was correct?
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Didn’t read, but let me guess. We’re gaining more trees in countries like China where large scale project to prevent desertification exist or in places like Russia or Canada where warming climate is opening more space where trees can grow.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Right, no one is debating the implications of the ruling and whether they are right or wrong. The parent comment was made within a specific context. We’d be here all day if we were to discuss citizens united.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
If you’re referring to citizens united then that does not grant full personhood to corporations. It just protects free speech from corporations because it views the speech as coming from the individual persons that form up the corporation.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
The opposite can also be true. Just because a position was marked as “hired” doesn’t mean anyone was actually hired.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
> Let’s not pretend X is bad because of Musk alone. HN can be just as terrible too. I am yet to see racial slurs, hateful speech, scams, porn (consensual and non consensual) or any of the endless things that are okay on X but not on HN.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
The irony of not being able to use LLMs for an LLM degree
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Im not smart (maybe average), but a lot of my unhappiness starts from just having access to information. And then more I process the information, the more unhappy I become. Smarter people than me probably have more information and are able
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Who would’ve thought that growing water intensive crops in the middle of the desert and growing cities like Phoenix with suburbs with lush green lawns at a much higher rate than rest of the country was going to be without consequences.

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