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by dash2 2y ago
The article isn't a generic rant against capitalism. It is about monopolists' misuse of academic experts to protect themselves against antitrust legislation - which is designed to protect free markets, not replace them.
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by dash2 2y ago
This Kanter speech is more in-depth and thoughtful than the Doctorow article (which cites it): https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-genera...
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by dash2 2y ago
A lot of people have money to invest, and are eager to understand the world of finance. That doesn't necessarily apply to other fields.
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Several arrested after woman dies in "suicide pod"(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by dash2 2y ago|0 comments
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by dash2 2y ago
Boo to associating Britain with heroic failure. We do this too much to ourselves! Actually, British game development industry is a notable success and has turned Leamington Spa from a byword for chintziness to an exciting place to work.
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by dash2 2y ago
Isn't this a machine for cheating?
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by dash2 2y ago
Isn't socio-economic status more heritable in the US than the UK? In the UK, inheritance tax is 40% and there's probably more redistributive taxation in general.
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by dash2 2y ago
OP is more likely to be referring to e.g. Green Belt planning restrictions.
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by dash2 2y ago
I loved this paper, it's full of new ideas. My main question/challenge would be: if the problems have been constant since the 1950s-1980s - e.g. planning and failure to build - then how come we were doing so well until 2008? Why d
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by dash2 2y ago
>I've been to my GP half a dozen times in the last year, always same day. Good for you, but I think that is absolutely not the typical UK experience.
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by dash2 2y ago
My favourite world was Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay of the 80s. It was explicitly early Renaissance, with analogues to France and the Empire, but also with the underlying darkness of the narrative that Chaos was sure to win in the end.
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by dash2 2y ago
I dunno though, surely the lowest common denominator would be a car ad? Or an advert for pizza? This seems -worse- than that.
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by dash2 2y ago
I have exactly this problem of gross online ads, sometimes featuring ways to clear my bowels by eating/not eating bananas. The graphics are, well, graphic. I never click ads and I turn off personalisation wherever possible. Could it be
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by dash2 2y ago
It says this is the company that produced, among other films, She? Did Megan Ellison have anything to do with it?
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by dash2 2y ago
By “choose not to be helpful”, do you mean that they don’t use AI to detect spam notifications and distinguish them from useful notifications? That seems like quite a difficult engineering problem, though I’m sure their new AI could help.
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by dash2 2y ago
I wrote a slightly different take on this here: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/parochialism-in-time-and-space
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by dash2 2y ago
Someone with $15bn is certainly going to take risks to get more, but running a pedo web ring does not offer that scale of money.
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by dash2 2y ago
> But Waymo’s biggest threat might be coming from China where several large robotaxi operators have been granted permits to operate in California. This includes AutoX which has a fleet of 1,000 robotaxis and WeRide which has a fleet of 6
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by dash2 2y ago
High definition video might actually really improve zoom calls: https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
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by dash2 2y ago
Centralization isn' a matter of pipe bandwidth alone but of other things - fault tolerance, replication, professional sysadmins, logging.... Not sure how easy it would be to reproduce all those in a distributed system.
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by dash2 2y ago
This is a textbook case where "zionism" can have no possible meaning other than "the evil jooooz".
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by dash2 2y ago
I think this is plausible but I'm not sure we will end up staring at screens less. Arguably the screen interface is so universal, not because it is efficient, but because people are addicted to it.
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by dash2 2y ago
I think the UK has some fairly tough terms along those lines. Google "green open access".
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by dash2 2y ago
Step back, big picture: Intel's hot new idea, in 2024, is connecting two computers. With a cable. Wow, these guys are really lost.
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by dash2 2y ago
It's much better to use vocabulary consistently with what everyone else does in the field. Then you don't need to add footnotes correcting yourself. And if you are not familiar with what everyone else means by correlation, you&#x2
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by dash2 2y ago
The Telegraph had an interesting interview with him after he was cleared in the Autonomy trial: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/07/how-mike-lyn... .
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by dash2 2y ago
Interestingly none of those numbers is enough to give a significant difference between failure rates in a chi-squared test with p < 0.05 - not even if you pool all the Soyuz variants. Though they do all hit p < 0.10.
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by dash2 2y ago
Surely, the answer to your question is right there in your comment.
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by dash2 2y ago
The standard mathematical definition of correlation means linear correlation. If you are talking about non-independence, it would be better to use that language. This early mistake made me think the author is not really an expert.
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by dash2 2y ago
I see the timeline: 18 Aug: Space dash released to gentle mockery from HN. 1 Sept: "we prompted a 3d shooter" 2025: "we remade Final Fantasy"

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