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by derbOac 1y ago
Pretty cool although I'm surprised the distance isn't longer, and was a little surprised by the location.
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by derbOac 1y ago
I think this is the thing these types of arguments miss. Regulations are the result of another type of market, the vote market. That's the whole point, to counteract hidden failures of the market with another feedback mechanism. For wh
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by derbOac 1y ago
> In California you can literally just claim a new highrise will block your sunlight and make you sad. That's enough to delay a construction So what's the problem? Land use should be regulated imho, just like air pollution and
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by derbOac 1y ago
> That barely warrants a comment on Hacker News, much less a town hall. I think that's maybe what I'm saying? Or the other side of the coin? I personally don't think there's some compelling harm being done by the gov
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by derbOac 1y ago
I have to admit this essay struck me as sort of strange. On the one hand, the EV charging station seems like something fairly straightforward, that should be approved and built fairly quickly. On the other hand, it's just an EV chargin
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by derbOac 1y ago
The paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09261-y Not an expert in this area, but the essay feels a bit like an oversimplification. Not only is this in flies, but I wasn't entirely convinced th
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by derbOac 1y ago
Understated comment of the article: "Mr. Trump, Dr. Shalala said, had a long record of 'transactional' bargaining with powerful institutions."
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by derbOac 1y ago
Not OP, but my impression from reading the literature is that the problem with rip currents is that people either exhaust themselves fighting the current, and/or get pulled out beyond their ability to swim back. The typical distance a
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by derbOac 1y ago
Thanks for posting the link. I had read that before and forgot. I think sometimes confusion about Section 230 maybe points to some legal soft spots. I think there's a trend — good or bad — for courts to see websites as accountable for
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by derbOac 1y ago
Based on some of the things I've seen in my professional and personal circles, I'd say there's much more than a chance, and the level of potential distortion is probably much greater, with more consequences, than some are ack
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by derbOac 1y ago
Why isn't there another counter group putting pressure on them to not pull this kind of thing?
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by derbOac 1y ago
> understand that systems are complex. For what it's worth, this is not my experience. My experience is that there's often an attempt to assign blame to a small component of the system. My sense is it is ultimately to reduce ef
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by derbOac 1y ago
I'm not sure I disagree with your general argument but it's worth noting that aerobic sport forums are replete with examples of people who were considered extremely fit, right up until the moment they were in an ambulance due to a
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by derbOac 1y ago
Survivorship bias is an important thing to consider, but the weird thing about it is that although sometimes (usually?) people have a blind spot for it, other times I think it gets used as a kind of "just so" explanation for degra
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by derbOac 1y ago
You can hypothesize something older too: that neoteny is about mammalian caretaking, not even human per se. I hypothesize if it's furry and small enough, with simple enough facial features, it will look cute.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Seemed to me they are just saying that typical LLMs are consistent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_estimator
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by derbOac 1y ago
> afraid of knowledge and don't want to look weak I've come to the conclusion this is basically it, aside from corruption. Intellectual weakness and cowardice, avoiding what you can't actually do or don't understand.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Each of the major strokes has a distinct functional example: front crawl is fastest, breaststroke lets you sight directly in front of you with each breath (which is useful in general open water), and backstroke allows you to breath uninterr
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by derbOac 1y ago
For one, clothes aren't a technique.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Several things: 1. In the offline world, the child and media provider are in the same physical location, subject to the same laws. On the internet, they're in different places. This is central, as the argument by SCOTUS seems to be tha
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by derbOac 1y ago
This ruling kind of assumes the opposite in some ways, that the strictest law anywhere applies everywhere. It's not digital borders, it's no borders but where the most draconian authoritarian law supercedes everything.
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by derbOac 1y ago
If I hire a plumber, I hire them to fix my pipes. I don't hire them to generate a profit for me. If me and my neighbors hire a library to lend us books, I don't expect them to generate a profit for me. The beneficiary is the citiz
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by derbOac 1y ago
It seems to assume flow fields never happen in the same place twice, for one. I admit I really enjoyed reading about the ideas though.
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by derbOac 1y ago
I'm starting to think the reason they wear masks all the time is projection, once again. They know what they're doing and it frames their perception.
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Maybe it's just because so much of my work for so long has focused on models with hidden states but this is a fairly classical feature of some statistical models. One of the widely used LLM textbooks even started with latent variable m
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by derbOac 1y ago
... So we're supposed to see ourselves as static objects, unable to change or without causes of our behavior? It won't be long before we see our genes as something that happened to us. At some point there will be questions about w
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by derbOac 1y ago
That post about the dishwasher hits home because I bought that same dishwasher recently and have had the same reaction. After reading it, I was parsing why I don't return it, and remembered that the other options in our area had their
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by derbOac 1y ago
Delia Derbyshire Laurie Spiegel It's a bit fuzzy in where the boundaries are for the category represented by the list.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Took me too long to catch the playful (or hinting?) word use in the title.
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by derbOac 1y ago
> "I unapologetically think people who use phrases like “un-American” are dumb as rocks, but if anything seems un-American, it’s that." I agree but have come to realize it's a rhetorical or reasoning strategy. When you cri

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