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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Milton Friedman made a documentary about it https://youtu.be/xqh0zXSd4vc
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Roughly 1830-1890. I am referring to frontier territories before/during the westward expansion. There were mining/cattle towns (eg Deadwood). There was no official federal or state government yet. They operated under a free market
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Why would a state be needed for a free market? The old American west is a recent example of no formal state with a free market.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Probably current singapore or 80s Hong Kong
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
The model or the year?
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Well he is facing 20 years
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Don’t radio waves weaken proportionally to the square of the distance? No one would be able to detect them past a (relatively) small distance.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
If there is a better predictor than what is implied by the market then someone could make money on it. Hence the odds tend to be pretty accurate (with enough volume) because obvious edges like that tend to go to zero. A good example of that
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
- Anti abortion law possibly being implemented on a federal level Curious what do you base that on?
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
The EU is not a country and it doesnt set tax rates
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Facebook already stole the “Metaverse” branding from Neal Stephenson and now they are trying to set up a data haven. They should put their hub in a southeast Asia island and name it The Sultanate of Kinakuta.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Another alternative is https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed which is self-hosted for free on cloudflare workers/pages
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
He would win the election in Greece in a heartbeat
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
I want to buy one of these and run it headless as a plex server and a few other things. It can handle multiple transcodes without sweat. Is there a solution to log in to the OS GUI over wifi (like from an ipad or mac) if I need to use it as
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
The market looks excited, the stock is almost 40% up since a few weeks before the announcement in May
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
> They just found that the World Bank has poor financial controls and a lack of transparency in determining where funds are spent. You mean like a certain crypto exchange CEO that recently went to jail for it?
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Pretty obvious isn’t it? If you download the video from youtube/twitter/whatever and you watch it from your hard drive next time, they can’t serve you an ad.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Historical financial data is used for calculating correlations between assets, historical volatility, stress testing, VaR etc. All very useful if you follow any sort of risk management when constructing a portfolio.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
The first metro line in Thessaloniki, Greece, planned to open next month, started construction 20 years ago. It took so long because (among other things) they kept bumping onto archeological sites. They have uncovered 130000 archeological f
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
The booster was falling at 4500 Km/h 30 seconds before the catch with 2-3% fuel left. How is that amount of fuel remotely enough to stop the downward momentum?
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Every day we stray further from god
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
This $7B is enough to fund the US Federal government for about 8 hours
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Between 1) occasionally posted between midnight and 8 am and never posted from work (US based) 2) never post between midnight and 8am and post 80% of your posts during work hours (EU based) I think number 2 makes a lot more sense for someon
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
For what it’s worth, this is the histogram of Satoshi’s bitcointalk post times in GMT https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5... Assuming he didn’t post from work (for opsec reasons), this is most consi
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
My opinion after hearing him on multiple interviews is that he always just says various generalities, he can be talking for 5 minutes and never say anything, all noise. I don't know if he is under an NDA and can't say literally a
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
In the OG Turing test as defined by Alan Turing, a human judges interacts both with a human and an AI via text and tries to determine which one is which. The judge doesn’t just read some transcript of a conversation, he can ask whatever he
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
You’re a human, ChatGPT would give me a lecture
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
Sure, but that’s not a Turing test. You need to be able to “test” it.
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
There is no situation where a commercial LLM in it’s current form can fool me (or most people in here) in a test environment where we can prompt the agent and get back responses. Not even 1 time out of 100. So no, ChatGPT doesn’t pass the T
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by drexlspivey 2y ago
If your method of infecting your victim is having them paste and run a random command on their terminal, software developers is probably the worst group of people to be targeting.

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