eganist

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by eganist 5y ago
> Here's one: I don't believe that gender identity is a valid concept. Does that make for a hostile work environment or "deny the existence" of anyone? I submit to you that the answer is no, except for die-hard adher
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by eganist 5y ago
Two papers for your reading: * March 2022 - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 - "Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood" * October 2011 - https:
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by eganist 5y ago
For discussion's sake: - BFN reached out to A16Z, Worldcoin, Khosla Ventures largely declined to comment, which would mean that at least one person probably had a bit of runway from at least when the requests for comment were submitted
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by eganist 5y ago
Sam Altman is OpenAI's CEO. What I'm submitting for consideration is that the marketing page and associated press blasts (there's a live influencer reaction video airing right now about Dall-E 2, for instance) for Dall-E 2 we
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by eganist 5y ago
Another consideration, then: it was published to HN almost instantly after it was released to the world, 52 minutes after the HN post about Worldcoin was submitted and started showing traction. I don't see the publication of a marketin
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by eganist 5y ago
Yes, especially given there's no actual product release, only a waitlist. Easy to put together a marketing piece on short notice or potentially even push a pending marketing page out to production with a waitlist rather than links to p
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by eganist 5y ago
The timing of the Dall-E 2 launch an hour ago seems to correspond with a recent piece of investigative journalism by Buzzfeed News about one of Sam Altman's other ventures, published 15 hours ago and discussed elsewhere actively on HN
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by eganist 5y ago
> This is the second line in the linked filing, and something a number of people have not read. Not sure it's that it was left unread or if it just doesn't matter. As best as I can tell, it just means he won't overtly thre
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by eganist 5y ago
> I don't feel being misleaden. That doesn't mean you weren't. The rest of your comment almost reads like stockholm syndrome - or mostly just rationalizing being misled.
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm not sure the pandemic is solely or even largely responsible. Zoomers are the first generation with nearly unrestricted access to social media essentially from birth (access that probably should've been restricted early on, but
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by eganist 5y ago
Hm I mean, to a certain extent, running a startup often means convincing people of a problem they didn't know they had. I think a more accurate simplification of their post mortem is something like: "I had a problem and solved it
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by eganist 5y ago
What's the "something?"
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by eganist 5y ago
> So, should I really make an "EDIT" disclaimer all the time here on HN? no edit: yes if it's significant.
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by eganist 5y ago
Please give this a watch with an open mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0 I promise it's worth your time. Being honest, I fell in love with the score before I even knew it was Zimmer's, and once I fo
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by eganist 5y ago
That's a hot take. What didn't you like about it, specifically? Aside from the best score ever made by Hans Zimmer?
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by eganist 5y ago
> Where's the law that says that an American business must sell their product or service to a foreign company? As I understand it, it's covered by the various antitrust laws in the United States. And it's not so much a &q
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by eganist 5y ago
"foreign-owned" in this case is still the UK i.e the closest ally we have today. So I don't think you'll see the same sort of American protectionism you might see with e.g a Chinese competitor. Therefore... yeah, nothing
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by eganist 5y ago
> interesting to see SpaceX launching a direct competitor to Starlink. Interesting, but entirely expected. They'd be investigated in a heartbeat if they didn't.
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by eganist 5y ago
Wow, this actually makes getting a European plan tempting here in the US. Not sure how feasible it is or what I'd have to work around, but aside from that, it makes more sense than any plan I've used stateside.
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by eganist 5y ago
I feel like this could be easily dis/proven with just a handful of nature cams.
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by eganist 5y ago
I hope you're right, but the problem is that we don't (and can't) know the states of mind of everyone in charge, and one of the world powers has demonstrated abject belligerence.
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by eganist 5y ago
> Requiring an ASIC to mine centralizes mining. As compared to graphics cards where people are largely buying cards and dedicating them to the task, how does the use of ASICs centralize mining?
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by eganist 5y ago
If you're mining, buy ASICs that do the job. That way the capacity is available for people who want to game casually, game professionally, render, or compute.
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by eganist 5y ago
Chilblains: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chilblains/sy...
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by eganist 5y ago
In fairness, the difference would've been more pronounced to me if they'd actually given the numbers. "Typical" doesn't give me enough context, but 3-4x does: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/release
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by eganist 5y ago
> But these new patients were different. They were older, for a start—teenagers—and about half of them were girls. (◔_◔) It would've been more interesting if it was actually skewed in favor of a gender, but the framing of this (as
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by eganist 5y ago
> Collective punishment is against the laws of war and the UN charter. There's nuance that you're missing (e.g UN not empowered to sanction war crimes by a veto-power state), and your broad interpretation doesn't align wit
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by eganist 5y ago
> Why do you think that we all should feel pain of sanctions? Because we are not able to stand against gov? Well, we are not able. Every person can. That's why sanctions exist: to incentivize a government to focus on its people and
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by eganist 5y ago
This isn't an intelligence organization or unlabeled fighters. This is an actual, state-backed military and a declared invasion.
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by eganist 5y ago
> I once lost access to my Cloudflare account, and the only way to get support... wait for it.... required you to log into your account. cc jgrahamc

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