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by davidw 7mo ago
Economists have a term for these kinds of things where the demand rises as prices rise: Veblen goods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by davidw 7mo ago
Grabar's book that I linked below is probably more accessible to most people, but Shoup is of course the OG.
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by davidw 7mo ago
( https://xcancel.com/mikehostetler/status/2025970863237972319 for people who don't like supporting the white supremacist site ) I was curious about the actual BEAM processes though, that you see via the obse
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by davidw 7mo ago
It'd be cool to see a screenshot of what 'observer' shows as the process tree with a few agents active. Edit: for those not familiar with the BEAM ecosystem, observer shows all the running Erlang 'processes' (inter
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by davidw 7mo ago
In the US, people bend over backwards to ensure that there is free storage for automobiles. And that housing and businesses are forced to include that expensive (parking spots can run into the 10's of thousands of dollars for some kind
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by davidw 7mo ago
> Did democrats offer primaries in the last elections? Uh, yeah? I voted for Biden/Harris. And in any case, focusing almost exclusively on one race is part of the problem. Where I live, we also had a Dem primary for the house distri
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by davidw 7mo ago
And parking is abundant!
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by davidw 7mo ago
This is my Senator: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/issues/domestic-surveillance-re... He may not be perfect on everything, but elect more people like him and it starts moving the needle. Or elect some more that are even
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by davidw 7mo ago
These people are evil, but also bumbling idiots, so sometimes there is no evil plan, just incompetence.
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by davidw 7mo ago
By voting.
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by davidw 7mo ago
A bicycle continues to be the most efficient means of transportation: https://bsky.app/profile/davidho.bsky.social/post/3mga7uhxnd... Even an eBike is way, way more efficient than a gas-powered car, and cause
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by davidw 7mo ago
Can you use Claude to figure out how to elect people who will bring back the free filing program?
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by davidw 7mo ago
> *US resident requirements: If you are in the US, we will accept candidates residing in Texas, Florida, Alaska, Pennsylvania or Colorado, as we are registered for payroll in these states. Otherwise, US candidates should plan to live abr
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by davidw 7mo ago
> If you want the ability to start your work day earlier and end it earlier, that seems like a worker protection bill that needs to be passed. I don't think that's very realistic though is it? School times are fixed and that an
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by davidw 7mo ago
You moved the goalposts, but that also brings up another problem in the US: land use that forcibly segregates different things - like making corner stores illegal in newer suburban developments.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Their goal is to destroy science in the US because it comes up with results that are inconvenient for them.
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by davidw 8mo ago
You don't think a family of four buys 'food' ? I also get beer occasionally, although sometimes I get it from the corner store a few blocks away. I do get kitty litter with the car on the occasional trip to Costco because I&#
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by davidw 8mo ago
It started off nicely but before long you get "The MLP (multilayer perceptron) is a two-layer feed-forward network: project up to 64 dimensions, apply ReLU (zero out negatives), project back to 16" Which starts to feel pretty owly
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by davidw 8mo ago
eBikes are such a game changer. I do most of our family of four's grocery shopping with ours. Because of the assist, I find myself more comfortable in a wider range of weather conditions: * If it's hot, I use more assist and ther
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by davidw 8mo ago
More and more of the press is owned by oligarchs who are putting their thumbs on the scales, so that could be a factor.
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by davidw 8mo ago
It'd probably be kind of "big tent" and a bit fuzzy at the edges like most big movements are.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I don't know if there is one. There are models people can run on fairly expensive hardware at home, but will those be 'good enough' compared to the heavier duty resources that a big, well-funded corporation can deploy? Like..
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by davidw 8mo ago
They seem moderately competent at doing blatant corruption ( https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/ , Qatari jet, etc...). See jeffbee's comment below.
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by davidw 8mo ago
We need some kind of group like "tech people with morals". I'm done with these people and their corruption and garbage.
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by davidw 8mo ago
> I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn. This is the thing I hate most about AI. It is a huge shift in power towards big companies that have the capital to throw at it. An
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by davidw 8mo ago
"We hope our leaders will..." I realize things are moving quickly, and the stakes are high here, but thinking about what happens if the hopes are not met might be a next step.
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by davidw 8mo ago
> You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it without human approval and also do mass surveillance. > Anthropic said no,
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by davidw 8mo ago
Because Google are bootlickers.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I saw this the other day: > Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all f
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by davidw 8mo ago
> A big part of that is also knowing when NOT to pull the trigger "In a press conference, Musk promised that the Optimus Warbots would actually, definitely, for real, be fully autonomous in two years, in 2031. He also extended his c

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