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by dools 2y ago
Ronald Reagan... the actor?!
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by dools 2y ago
Max headroom used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. I think they used him in an ad campaign, and I just remember people talking about the show but not understanding it and then seeing it occassionally and being totally freaked o
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by dools 2y ago
When LLMs hallucinate and I point it out they usually get it right the second go. I guess if you could get it to use its own output as input that would be similar, but I think that it’s the additional information in the follow up that makes
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by dools 2y ago
I dunno it doesn’t sound like a problem that like, needs a solution. I made an app that is basically an API and I just stuck stripe on it and bill people per second used up to a quota.
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by dools 2y ago
How is monetising an API different from any other online business? Surely you still just need a place where people create an account, get their API key, and setup payment details.
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by dools 2y ago
Ha, I recently wrote a system that does more or less the exact same thing for pushing updates to IoT devices. I can tell the system to update particular nodes to a given git commit, then I can roll it out to a handful of devices, then I can
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by dools 2y ago
I dunno, none? Which country lets you pay taxes in sofa cushions? How is it relevant?
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by dools 2y ago
> My plan is to give beginners a rock-solid base, then funnel them into Exercism Shouldn't you be doing this the other way? If you have 2 million users, then just make something that you can sell to them. Whenever you have a bunch o
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by dools 2y ago
> No, taxes are not the only reason anyone ever uses USD It literally is the only reason. Taxation is the only reason the USD even exists. I can’t parse the rest of your comment.
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by dools 2y ago
> It seems to me that you are conflating two issues: fungibility of currency with pegging that currency to a commodity. Nope. > The US government is not the only entity that sees value in USD The US government doesn't see value i
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by dools 2y ago
Crypto "currency" is a very successful libertarian propaganda project.
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by dools 2y ago
And also issues the money so "paying taxes" in a currency you issue is meaningless.
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by dools 2y ago
Not quite. The government imposes a tax, the tax is due in the state's unit of account. The government can then spend its unit of account into circulation, and later accepts it back in payment of taxes. > Contrast with a time when c
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by dools 2y ago
> Many of my Bedouin neighbors pay no taxes, but they use the same money I do - both accepting it and paying in it. The demand for that currency traces back to the willingness of the issuer to accept it back in payment of taxes. People u
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by dools 2y ago
Nope, it's not. Accounting is the first writing, and the earliest form of "taxation" as an obligation to the group was fines imposed upon people as penance.
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by dools 2y ago
> I asked what about Bitcoin and all those other cryptos. They're not money, they're a hybrid of commodity and payment system.
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by dools 2y ago
“Money is an agreement between a government and its society in terms of national unity. But on the other side of the medallion, if everyone leaves the fiat—if everyone leaves the social agreement of their nation—it could derail the world.”
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by dools 2y ago
I needed some scripts to run a little “factory” for flashing an operating system onto some IoT devices. Lots of the work was running various shell commands but it is nonetheless something I would have traditionally written in PHP or Python
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by dools 2y ago
Disagree that it's the equivalent of SO. Unlike SO, I can ask it why it is doing something and as a result I can better understand what it writes, I can create little test cases, and make sure it's not going to do anything destruc
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by dools 2y ago
I can report that I have learned more about bash scripting in the past couple of years using ChatGPT to write all manner of scripts, than I did in the previous 20 years of copying and pasting things off StackOverflow.
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by dools 2y ago
I think perhaps one of the issues might be that price hikes would be more readily co-ordinated across regions. As such, a system that knows it is putting up prices in an area from which people will likely move, can simultaneously recommend
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by dools 2y ago
I can imagine AI not actually mattering so much as it's just a case of cartel behaviour with AI as an operational veil. You could probably just have software without any AI that says to everyone who uses it "raise prices by 10% th
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by dools 2y ago
If the seller is able to unilaterally hike rents beyond the level which people are willing to pay but they pay it anyway because the alternative is total life failure, then it's obviously not a functioning market.
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by dools 2y ago
Yes I agree, the types of experts I had in mind when writing this are technical reviews by subject matter experts such as fractional CTO/CFO type things, or security consultants to do penetration testing, design style guides by a highl
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by dools 2y ago
I agree, that's more or less the thrust of the article (I have no idea why this comment was downvoted, too ... it's on topic and substantive! Downvotes aren't for "disagree" right?)
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by dools 2y ago
Is it? Because what I'm saying is that going up against huge competitors in the quest to find talent is a losing proposition for almost everyone. I think 2014 Netflix is, in the context of this article, on par with an Apple or a Facebo
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by dools 2y ago
No hiring for you.
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by dools 2y ago
> Data backing that claim? There’s a ton of very talented people who don’t want to start their own business, don’t want to be a peon in a large corp and join solid startups instead. Come on Well, the entire thing is anecdotal because I h
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"Hire People Smarter Than You" is bad advice (2018)(benkophone.com)
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by dools 2y ago
> for one, I've never been required to get anesthesia as a condition of employment You've been required to get anaesthesia as a condition of getting dental work done, or any number of routine day procedures, or more serious ope

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