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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I mean that was kind of my point, but judging by the responses I may have been too snarky. Both the traffic engineer and the author of this blogpost are well-qualified enough in their fields of expertise to be careful about the claims that
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
The title is a disservice to the author’s point of view, then, because the article also reads as a “look what agents can do to optimize a toy problem” blog post. Maybe the author should be a bit more careful about what titles they give thei
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Feel like this is the equivalent of a traffic engineer standing at the grand opening of the 5th lane for the highway saying there’s no reason for traffic to be slow anymore. That is, there’s a misunderstanding of why software (traffic) was
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Idk if you’re coming up with these on the spot but they’re linguistically fascinating.
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Thanks, this sequence of 33 words alone was enough to give me a searing migraine.
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
No no no. Harry Frankfurt wrote at length the difference between liars (who care about the truth, and twist it) and bullshitters (who don’t care about the truth, but just the way they’re received). This is some third category of untruth. Al
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Interesting. MAGA no longer being populist feels like a bit of a bleeding edge take. I don’t disagree necessarily, but I’m not going to put any eggs in that basket until there’s a massive swing at the voting booth both this November and in
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I also find it impossible to parse half the comments that Claude tries to sneak into our pull requests. I’ve never had an issue understanding code comments written by humans like this before. The structure of the information is like a water
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Could you elaborate? Specifically: > Look how the populist right has failed its primaries so hard. From my bubble (we’re all in bubbles), it seems that the populist right are in bed with the technocrat authoritarians, e.g. the Vance-Thie
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Ah, another delightful heuristic for my collection. Entry number 5,791: “tell LLM to treat me as moron when it’s excessively verbose”
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
If you have to ask, you’re too poor or powerless to properly profit.
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
> Code reviews are going away because agents handle it. Agents don't "handle" code review. With no human in the loop, there is no difference between "generating" code and "reviewing" code. Let's no
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Nit: it's not objective diversity that matters, but the perception of diversity. The distinction is important because I've been in many rooms that my father would have considered diverse, but I am not even remotely phased by it. O
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I make these arguments because privatization is not a panacea, as the subtext of many of these types of would imply, but not because I "worship the public sector as a God". For some reason, many critics of the public sector are wi
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
https://maps.deflock.org/timeline The number of cameras rolled out since 2025 is insane.
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
It's my view that, just like if we lived in a hunter-gatherer society, ideally everyone would strive to authentically contribute their fair share. Money flows in very complicated ways and "shareholder's choice" is a tech
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Think we're done here. I don't see a cohesive theme that deserves a response in between your responses to very specific pieces of my argument rooted in deflection and whataboutism. I feel I've expressed my viewpoint sufficien
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I'll keep you guys in mind if the lawsuit is successful and we're allowed to publicly speak about it. I believe it's a pretty compelling (and sympathetic) story that deserves to be told. But it's still far too soon for m
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
> Do you attribute Palestinian support for extremism to a similar root cause? Yes. But we typically don't call oppressed peoples "extremists". For example, I wouldn't call those who rebelled in the Warsaw Ghetto &quot
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
This framing is so incredibly speculative and imaginary that it's barely above the level of conversation one would hear at 11:00pm between drunkards at the tavern. > In non-government organizations, if you as a manager find out some
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
Idk man I think you're just going to argue point-by-point literally anything I write. I'm pointing out, as someone very familiar with Wisconsin, that coming onto this forum and making claims about the state that reduces its politi
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
> From my understanding Ben Gvir(who has very little overall support in Israel from the population at large) getting elected is more of a consequence of Israel having nationwide proportional representation which allows extremists to get
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
The issue seems to be what's defined as "work", given the amount of time he claimed to work, and not necessarily how much he is paid per hour. Sitting in a cruiser playing candy crush counting as "work" is funny whe
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
WRT "uninteresting", this phrasing I found reductive to the rather interesting political dynamics in Wisconsin: > Wisconsin is a "purple" state, but that's somewhat misleading, because the people aren't gene
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I don't view Ben Gvir's rise to a position of powers as a product of democracy, as much of a product of artificial states, neocolonialism, ethnostates, and apartheid. More directly, his rise to power is a direct result of the fina
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
The implication of “local” in “local police” is that the demand for flock has grown organically without a centralized strategy. I wouldn’t discount the role of the law enforcement industry , with prior greatest hits including Street Cop C
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
It’s not as uninteresting as you imply. There’s also a strong union-blue presence (also seen on the south side of Chicago), where there are swaths of blue collar union workers who vote blue due to financial progressivism rather than social
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
It would be interesting to me who you identify as “the state” in America in 2026, especially given the bureaucratic and executive upheaval of the past two years, and the newly-formed relationships between corporations and government agencie
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
I would like to live in a world where Flock is liable for providing unreliable insights to law enforcement, who then use it to infringe upon civil liberties. If they’re not liable in specific circumstances, then at least they’re liable on a
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by datsci_est_2015 2mo ago
They have not been in operation for quite some time now. The large network is not a product of a long and steady roll out, but instead significant financial investment - much of which coming from people who are on record saying that democ

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