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by estearum 1mo ago
That is interesting! Yeah I suspect that would help a ton. Do you do this for the purpose of calibrating your brain? Or more just some morbid curiosity of yours? :D
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by estearum 1mo ago
Which are already being used to transit the Suez Canal.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Someone hasn't been paying attention to the Pentagon or State Department purges, both of which would lead precisely to this type of mistake. We had a retard in the Oval Office 2017-2021 surrounded by "the deep state" (i.e. ca
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by estearum 1mo ago
QAnon for nerds
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by estearum 1mo ago
Correct, and by the time an out of distribution event happens in a car, you are milliseconds from collision (if that). Most car accidents are effectively instantaneous. The fact your brain perks up as a bumper is coming through your side wi
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by estearum 1mo ago
Not sure what you're arguing. Your brain gets used to in-distribution events. Car accidents (and the conditions that cause them) are out-of-distribution events. It's that simple.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Right but you don't get in car accidents or near-accidents often. Ergo your brain becomes wired for the 99.9999999% of driving that is completely uneventful. Hunters are a self-selecting group of people who enjoy the activity you des
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by estearum 1mo ago
In many places in the US they effectively do not.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Unfortunately no, though I'm sure they exist. AFAIK the go-to book on this history is "The Man Who Broke Capitalism" about Jack Welch. I haven't read it though so can't sign my name to it! A few other threads that m
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by estearum 1mo ago
I certainly didn't argue that tech companies don't add value.
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by estearum 1mo ago
If you don't think underwriting and lending (and extended universe of financial services) are legitimate forms of value creation, I'm afraid that a hackernews comment thread won't be up to the task of demonstrating otherwise.
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by estearum 1mo ago
If you think Rockefeller (especially) is an example of unalloyed greed, you unfortunately land in category (1) mentioned above. The problem is not wealth. The problem is not producing massive value and capturing a portion of it. The problem
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by estearum 1mo ago
There are several business philosophies a person (or a culture) can pick from. The dominant philosophy in the US today is "shareholder primacy" where business leaders believe their only dictum is to maximize shareholder value. T
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by estearum 1mo ago
Aspect ratios are very important for UI design.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Nah, this is a really dangerous narrative. Shareholder primacy is a pretty recent concept (a fundamentally anti-American one) that has recently gone metastatic and is now completely self-referential. We've Goodharted the entire premise
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by estearum 1mo ago
This is just rent. Land Value Tax fixes this.
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by estearum 1mo ago
I would bet that approximately 100% of people advocating for funded childcare programs++ would want to avoid the "putting infants in daycare for 8-10hrs/day" scenario.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Oh, well sure, but I don't care about your preferences for what you'd like to read. You can use a Ouija board to decide whether something is worth reading for all I care, just don't use it to accuse other people of plagiarism
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by estearum 1mo ago
Did you not write the quoted text?
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by estearum 1mo ago
You should read P&P! It's a really incredible book, and I think you may be surprised the elegance with which it still "handles" a modern economy. I think George's view on state-sponsored charity/welfare is more
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by estearum 1mo ago
Yes, we do agree on that. Georgism actually does not argue against Pigouvian taxes or use taxes per se. His view is more that you should expect to get less of whatever you tax. In this case, our shared view is that you actually want to tax
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by estearum 1mo ago
> I never found a piece of text that pangram claims is 100% AI that to me seems like purely human written text. That's another claim you made, which is quite silly. You've never found something that Pangram marks as 0% human an
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by estearum 1mo ago
I'd argue this is a baseline error. The efficient baseline policy for roads is to have a consumption tax attached. It is therefore deviations from this efficient baseline that are distortionary, which is actually the absence of a c
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by estearum 1mo ago
As stated, it's work product. Not a toy "adversarial prompt," so I won't be posting it here. And as stated, even Pangram's own marketing material claims at least a 0.4% false negative rate on their own contrived cor
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by estearum 1mo ago
Which political ideology wants taxation generally to create market distortions? Virtually every political persuasion favors some types of Pigouvian taxes, which are deliberately designed to do this, but which believe that it's genera
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by estearum 1mo ago
I can predict virtually every single opinion a self-labeled "libertarian" has about the world. Now granted, among the people who are actually free-thinkers and have their own opinions, you will find many libertarian-adjacent views
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by estearum 1mo ago
Yes basically you should expect to see significant densification with significant competition in how appealing to the market you can make that level of density (since you as the developer keep all the upside).
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by estearum 1mo ago
You seem to think the point of a taxation scheme is to tax everything. It's not. It's to 1) fund services while 2) minimizing distortions. If someone can consume land of no value and produce huge amounts of value from it, that&#x
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by estearum 1mo ago
Is your understanding that they found "the person responsible" for this "error" (of people not self-reporting to Census workers?) and then fired them? That seems to be what you believe happened, but it's not.
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by estearum 1mo ago
Ya bro it's totally not possible to defeat a detection system that, in its own marketing on contrived, game-able benchmarks that they created , claims only a 99.6% true negative rate. It has literally never been done. What a hilario

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