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by davorak 3y ago
> Dismissing this possibility as crazy (as it usually is) seems really ignorant. The most plausible explanation is that current levels likely do cause some small level of intellectual impairment in at least some portion people. If so it
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by davorak 3y ago
Comparing traffic, pre sale, of logged in twitter users vs traffic generated by those without accounts would give insight into what percentage of users have to take action to continue to use twitter normally. I spent a 1-2 minutes googling
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by davorak 3y ago
Maybe a serious math error? From your link[1] > It is estimated that the amount of gold present in the entire universe is about 50 billion tons, with about one ounce for every 150 billion tons of Earth. According to Alexander Budianto on
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by davorak 3y ago
> The difference is that I find this process enjoyable, so I don't mind spending the time. This is definitely the difference for at least some of the people out there, however... Imagine however that you do enjoy it at the start so
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by davorak 3y ago
> Mathematicians attempt to express ideas in the most readable and clear way possible. I buy this from the mathematicians and scientists that I know and have interacted with. I also think mathematicians spend more time trying to discover
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by davorak 3y ago
> We need to see folks demonstrate good faith before inviting them into a system of trade for mutual benefit. Starting form zero a society where everyone follows this to the letter can not get started since there is no record of actions
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by davorak 3y ago
> I do think it shouldn't be permissible to hide behind a shrink-wrap liability disclaimer when publishing software claimed to be of "commercial" or "enterprise" quality that doesn't even meet basic standard
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by davorak 3y ago
> They will seek feedback from industry experts to determine if their rules should be refined, which is what is happening. The details of any internal complexity of an industry is entirely delegated. We may be working with different defi
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by davorak 3y ago
> How does someone know that a particular application is something lives depend on? Either your lawyer, insurance company, or regulator explicitly tells you. To make an analogy to the physical world. We have a company, B, that makes bol
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by davorak 3y ago
> A regulator doesn't really care about the internal complexities Seems like you are over simplifying the process and goals of those creating new regulations and law makers often have to care about the internal complexities because
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by davorak 3y ago
> There is always the possibility to only offer the priced version, even if it is free software. Someone else could of course redistribute it and then it would be their responsibility. I thought the CRA would make the original distributo
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by davorak 3y ago
Does not seem like it would, the company would still be responsible for their choice of open source software, that is how I would assume it would work at least.
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by davorak 3y ago
> but, I mean, at the point that your business is subject to an FTC investigation in which they are issuing things that look like administrative subpoenas, you probably ought to be engaging counsel to guide you in that process for more r
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by davorak 3y ago
Ideally the law is written in language that can be understood by the people who are expected to follow it not just judges. Preferably without fuzzy boundaries where they are not necessary, like to avoid injustice. The complaint I see here i
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by davorak 3y ago
> Regardless, they made very stupid decisions now sabotaging interests and the company itself, brutally beheaded itself. The board in a real way decides what the interests of the company are since they are the majority owner. The interes
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by davorak 3y ago
> And now I expect that we see this "board" dissolved. The board has the power to dissolve itself, I am sure there(edit typo) are legal mechanisms for illegal acts, I think the IRS can revoke 501(c)(3) status but not dissolve,
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by davorak 3y ago
> The fact that MSFT didn’t have a board seat was unusual before this. Now it just makes MSFT look like fools. It is a 501(c)(3) even if they had all of the board members Open AI, Inc can not be run for MSFT benefit or for profit. A symp
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by davorak 3y ago
> Knowledge of a secret does not imply that you provide value. If it did not provide value to tell the employee the secret then it follows that company would/should not tell the employee the secret.
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by davorak 3y ago
Or the board is not entrenched in typical corporate cultural/lingo and did not know how their language would stand out.
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by davorak 3y ago
I read it as Ilya Sutskever thinking the move is good non-profit governance grounds and that does not match what coup often means, unlawful seizure of power or maybe unprincipled/unreasonable seizure of power. Ilya Sutskever seems to t
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by davorak 3y ago
> If it's truly about a power play then this will be undone pretty quick, along with the jobs of the people who made it happen. The board that made this decision to fire Altman and they are the captain of the ship. > if Satya doe
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by davorak 3y ago
The rule of thumb I have seen is that you should charge around double the hourly rate when contracting compared to what you would make on salary to account vagaries of contracting. So this would be closer to $200k given that rule of thumb.
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by davorak 3y ago
> Did you assume that challenging an assumption meant opposing it? I think the phrase 'challenging an assumption' leaves a bad taste in some people's mouth due to negative associations. I have definitely seen people use &#
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by davorak 3y ago
The comment I am responding to implied a link between difficulty to pay. What I quoted does not make sense otherwise. If you take that implication to be true and the difficulty of being a ceo has not change in portion to the wage change, w
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by davorak 3y ago
I did not make the claim that it was. I was only responding to: > The only time I see arguments against high CEO pay (speaking generally), it's from people that know absolutely nothing about what a CEO does or how exceptionally diff
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by davorak 3y ago
> Don't hate the player, hate the game (seriously, the system is screwed up horribly) I say it is fair to hare the player unless they are working to change/improve the "screwed up" game they are playing.
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by davorak 3y ago
> The only time I see arguments against high CEO pay (speaking generally), it's from people that know absolutely nothing about what a CEO does or how exceptionally difficult it is to operate a very big company. The most common argum
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by davorak 3y ago
Has Palmer Luckey written anything that acknowledges the and directly addresses the reasoning why NixCon or similar organizations do not want 'partnerships'/sponserships or similar with defense contractors or similar? I think
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by davorak 3y ago
> to structures that can be reduced to a summary value one element at a time. This is the key part in my mind. Or elsewhere in the documentation: > Class of data structures that can be folded to a summary value. https://ha
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by davorak 3y ago
> Not really, I'm just questioning whether the `Maybe` type should implement `length`. In this case no effort is made to make `Maybe` implement `length` specifically other than making it implement `Foldable`. ghci> :i Maybe

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