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by davedx 7mo ago
There is no proof Iran has nuclear weapons. This has been covered extensively, and this kind of misinformation is exactly the same thing that drove the US and half of NATO into the Iraq war. Absolutely unbelievable this is happening again!
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by davedx 7mo ago
> This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West. He specifically said autonomous killing machines. You understand the difference right?
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by davedx 7mo ago
Hi, I work in edtech. There are hundreds of sectors and industries that don't have net negative effects on society and involve software development.
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by davedx 7mo ago
> They have both an active nuclear program and a means to deliver a nuclear weapon. No, they do not
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by davedx 7mo ago
When is war necessary , at the limit?
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by davedx 7mo ago
"Back then, it was just another type of bomb." To some of the military leaders, sure. To the scientists and politicians, it wasn't viewed through such a simplistic lens.
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by davedx 7mo ago
How about people?
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A Number with a Shadow(campedersen.com)
12 points by davedx 7mo ago|4 comments
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by davedx 7mo ago
> A hyper-conservative regime like this will probably fare (at least in the long run) about as well as you would if you decide to nope out of society and go live in a Hobbesian state of nature in your local park. Sounds more like the Tal
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by davedx 8mo ago
Who is "we"? In Banks' culture universe, humanity (us) were explicitly rejected and never became part of the Culture. (The State of the Art)
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Darwin Among the Machines (1863)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davedx 8mo ago|1 comments
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by davedx 8mo ago
Full text: https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e0da505d-200...
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by davedx 8mo ago
Multiple cases of market manipulation. It's a super shady operation
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by davedx 8mo ago
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by davedx 8mo ago
Some very interesting data in here. The way stock picks are screened isn't normally how I work (ranking by PEG and "revenue thesis purity"), but the supply chain analysis itself is definitely worth a read through. Edit: I def
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Investment Supply Chain Analysis(investment.binhph.am)
1 points by davedx 8mo ago|1 comments
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by davedx 8mo ago
Yeah, one of the suggestions I encountered along the way was "run the Claw on the VPS but then have it tunnel to my laptop to run browser sessions". I think there are a myriad of ways to set this up.
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by davedx 8mo ago
Thanks for the candid feedback! Regarding mechanisms to deal with bad actors, being a gatekeeper, and the community being able to disagree with me: I think that's implicitly built-in to the site being vote based? I don't remove or
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Show HN: A Hacker News–style site focused on European tech(techposts.eu)
5 points by davedx 8mo ago|2 comments
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by davedx 8mo ago
Some slightly more structural-technical critique I thought of too-- Assumptions that I think warrant closer inspection: - agents will always win vs antibot firewalls: highly doubtful given my experience with openclaw. Antibot measures are e
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Ancient Faces(ancientfaces.com)
1 points by davedx 8mo ago|0 comments
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by davedx 8mo ago
> but found it way too wasteful on tokens/expensive I fear this is intrinsic to its architecture. Even if you use smaller models for regular operational tasks (checking heartbeat), you'll inevitably need to promote back to bigg
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by davedx 8mo ago
I spent a few days running openclaw on a VPS, and it was painful and frustrating: - no graphics subsystem makes things harder - VPS IP subnets are often blocked by default by numerous websites and WAFs - can't easily see what it's
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by davedx 8mo ago
I run a Discord where we've had a custom coded bot I created since before LLM's became useful. When they did, I integrated the bot into LLMs so you could ask it questions in free text form. I've gradually added AI-type featur
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by davedx 8mo ago
If you're looking it through the lens of "agentic coding", then sure, Anthropic might be better than Gemini. But I use Gemini heavily for batch processing / web scraping workloads, and it's the only show in town the
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by davedx 8mo ago
Happy to have donated! Amazing work.
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When Germany Seized the Future: Lessons from CAD for the AI Era(andrulis.de)
7 points by davedx 8mo ago|1 comments
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by davedx 8mo ago
But wait... That's a real phenomenon in markets, called volatility skew! Volatility Skew: An uneven curve indicating directional bias. Commonly, equity markets show negative skew (higher implied volatility for OTM puts), signaling conc
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by davedx 8mo ago
"the orange iPhone was pretty" Yeah well...
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by davedx 8mo ago
I'm a recovering alcoholic. One thing I learned from therapists etc. along the way is that there are certain personality types with high intelligence, and also higher sensitivity to other things, like noise, emotional challenges, and a

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