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by dleary 1y ago
> ...except Chrome was not and is not an illegal enterprise. > The charges were against search and ads. The textbook definition of “monopolistic behavior” is “using your monopoly in one sector to extend your power in another sector”.
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by dleary 1y ago
"Violet" is a spectral color, which means that it is a color formed by a single wavelength of light. And it is a member of the rainbow (the spectrum). "Purple" is a mixture of red and blue.
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by dleary 2y ago
He's making a claim about 1700s America. Not modern day countries. It was a violent time. Just one 'dataset': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_No...
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by dleary 2y ago
No, 300 murders total. The population reached ~300k in 1750. A murder rate of 2 per 100k times 300k people equals 6 murders. Multiply that by 50 years to get 300 murders.
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by dleary 2y ago
If the population grew from 100k in 1700 to 300k in 1750, and if the homicide rate was right around 2 per 100k, then that would mean that the total number of homicides in New England, over the 50 years span was less than 300. Do you really
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by dleary 2y ago
Where did you get that figure from? There are many sources online that agree, so I won’t bother to link them, that the population of New England was ~100k in 1700 and ~300k in 1750. The claim that that actual rate of murder in all of New En
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by dleary 2y ago
> But wasn't Honey paying them? Yes, but Honey was also stealing from them. Most youtubers make a significant portion of their income via affiliate links. So, consider the following scenario. I made up these numbers, I don't
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by dleary 2y ago
> there's literally nothing to support your belief that there's anything resembling understanding of the world, having a world model, neurons, thinking, or reasoning in LLMs. The link mentions "a feature that triggers on t
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by dleary 2y ago
> It literally is "in our training data similar concepts were clustered with some other similar concepts, and manipulating these clusters lead to different outcomes". Recognizing concepts, grouping and manipulating similar conc
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by dleary 2y ago
If it’s not too privacy-invading, would you mind sharing the chatgpt transcripts for these prompts?
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by dleary 2y ago
> and would have been spent in perfectly ordinary ways no different from the average person of modest means, if it weren't for the scams. That is a pretty big leap. There are plenty of ways, plenty of “unviable financial beliefs”,
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by dleary 2y ago
It’s overly simplistic to say that if a person has reproduced, then they have ‘succeeded’ in the natural selection game. There is a whole (potential) downstream genealogical tree branching off from each individual Certainly, any person who
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by dleary 2y ago
> If you think a language that has just one tool is better, then it just means your use-cases are very narrow. Counterpoint from “The Zen of Python”: > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. https:&
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by dleary 2y ago
You’ll get some eye rolls from people when you bring that up for Sally. But there are several names that used to be considered male but are now female, like Leslie and Marion. I don’t think I’ve ever met a man name Marion, but you still oc
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by dleary 2y ago
That is a pretty cynical take. FSF good, OSI bad. > ”Open Source" was created to be corporate-friendly as it was predated by Free software, which is rigidly committed to users freedom. Rigidly committed to a certain interpretati
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by dleary 2y ago
It proves that they could have made bread this way. It doesn’t necessarily prove that they did. Although the article presents pretty convincing evidence that they did. (Ceramic formation on the clay trays that matches the temperature and c
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by dleary 2y ago
Great point, I wasn't thinking of that. So, especially in the northern cities, maybe the lettuce:nails ratio held true. That makes it feel like a trick question, though. I wonder what the situation looked like for hardy vegetables lik
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by dleary 2y ago
> c) I've heard that the ratio between the cost of nails and the price of lettuce is still more or less the same as it was in the 1770s. This feels like it can’t be correct. Nails were expensive and difficult to obtain in the Ame
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by dleary 2y ago
This laser mosquito killer is, and always has been, a PR whitewashing campaign for Intellectual Venture's reputation. This device has never been built, never been purchasable, and it is ALWAYS brought up whenever IV wants to talk about
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by dleary 2y ago
If their duty is to deliver education, why are they sitting on a $20B hoard? Presumably they could spend a little bit of that to deliver some more education, couldn’t they?
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by dleary 2y ago
> Children aren't as good at information processing, but they are even more capable of suffering. That is too strong a statement to just toss out there like that. And I don’t even think it’s true. I think children probably feel pain
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by dleary 2y ago
This is true, but also, keep in mind that the JWST was insanely hard and almost cancelled a few times :) The SGL would be much, much harder than the JWST would be, and the JWST was already stretching our capabilities. The SGL needs to be 65
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by dleary 2y ago
Disclaimer: I am a layman, not trained at all. But I am interested in this stuff. Our most powerful telescopes can see "back in time", by looking at stuff far enough away that it took nearly the entire age of the universe for th
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by dleary 2y ago
You disagree with GP, and then to “back up” your disagreement you quote a passage that directly confirms GPs statement. What’s going on?
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by dleary 2y ago
> I'm well aware of the prices increases over the summer. But in october, I noticed the price drop to the $2 range. And then all of a sudden, the price increased to $4 the past week. Which would have NOTHING to do with your links. I
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by dleary 2y ago
It's simple supply and demand. You can't lose 100M out of the total 310M chickens in the USA and not have economic shocks. Were you unaware of the bird flu outbreak killing 1/3 of the chickens in the US? This information is e
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by dleary 2y ago
You’re missing the entire point of their argument. How could they signal that they’re the victim if they only discussed the issues?
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by dleary 2y ago
This is a strawman. I didn't say that ALL Republicans supported it in hive-mind lockstep. I said "this bill was championed and lauded by the Republicans". You linked to a video where 6 of the 49 Republican senators hold a mi
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by dleary 2y ago
GP already said that it won’t happen via repealing the amendment. So pointing out how difficult that is/should be isn’t a strong point. > But I don't see the Court interpreting "No person shall be elected to the office of
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by dleary 2y ago
The problem with your argument is that this was only 8 months or so ago, and so we all remember how this bill was championed and lauded by the Republicans until Trump said “vote against it because I don’t want the Democrats to have a win”.

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