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by ethbr0 4y ago
Japan also has a weirdly deflationary housing market because of some financing and cultural quirks. I.e. homes begin depreciating as soon as you buy them.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
A fair point. What would you say of requiring training data and hyperparameter archiving for subsequent legal review?
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There's also one big winner in an inflationary environment: the US federal government, who happens to owe a LOT of debt. Inflation shrinks the present value of that debt, without requiring the government to cut spending to pay it down,
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by ethbr0 4y ago
In the US at least, higher rates would seem to advantage owner-occupiers over SFH investors. It's harder for both to purchase, but investors are also heavily leveraged and fighting investment alternatives in a higher-rate environment.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The problem with black boxes is that they beg parallel construction theories. I.e. "We don't approve loans to {ethnic majority} on purpose. We only use our models, which only rely on historical data." -> No proof, no case,
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> to a high interest one We're at 4.50–4.75, no? That's not low, but it's not high either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate#Historica...
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The amount that Big Tech can afford to pay is correlated to their revenue. The amount that Big Tech is willing to pay is correlated to the market supply of employees. But I'm unconvinced that a very profitable company will decide t
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Yeah, I don't miss the old days. Like another poster though, I remember apt-get being decent while pre-yum RedHat was still pretty bad. But I also realize my perspective was that of a hobbyist, not an enterprise sysadmin who was probab
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Imho, A Few Good Men is a great movie because, especially for 1992, it spoke directly to those gray areas. About ten years later, after 9/11, the US established Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where in 2023 there are still people (32?
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If you're a California resident or a EU citizen, file a DSAR? https://www.osano.com/articles/data-subject-access-requests-...
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Isn't that the current definition of neuro-divergent tolerance?
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My Redhat experience always seemed to devolve into "this package that I want has a dependency that isn't listed yet..." (cue 2 hours of recursively and manually tracking down dependencies on the early web). But I was a lot yo
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This is the same problem Excel has. It's a horror show that you can run a major bank on it... but also not, because you can run it pretty well.
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Sales.
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The "invisible supply chain attack by intelligence agencies" angle is a plausible vector, but doing so pervasively and repeatedly in a democracy with open records is unlikely. Room 641A was leaked in 3 years. And that was one room
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OrmGPT!
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The danger of the Mechanical Turk is not its nature, but people's misunderstanding and misapplication of it. Most people can't understand vector math -- yet you're expecting a nuanced understanding of what AI can and can&#x27
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I do hear that ChatGPT is a big fan of managing its own memory...
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> Eh banks run securely because it’s very difficult to steal money. Banks run securely because they have serious and mandated change control processes, applied against a formal classification of the importance of systems. Something you
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Bao Fan: Missing Chinese billionaire assisting authorities, firm says(bbc.com)
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Related: many fewer people post failure or hard work over time on social media.
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Same as it's ever been though: grifters schilling get-rich-quick schemes. I'm sure in the mid-1800s there were classes you could buy to learn how to invest in future railroad property out West. Or later, how to become a millionair
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by ethbr0 4y ago
In my thinking, I probably should have said cooperative instead of marketplace -- a place where all parties have equal access and there's no tax to a third party. App stores, ad markets (as they exist today, namely Google/Facebook
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Point. I should have more accurately said "The problem is not that companies are attempting to increase prices and improve their margins..." Obviously the goal of a functioning system would be that they run into competition rest
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> next "Big New Thing" The internet was transformational because it (1) decreased communication friction by orders of magnitude & (2) enabled digital business operations, powered by computation instead of people. And spec
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by ethbr0 4y ago
This. The problem is not that companies are able to increase prices and improve their margins. That's good ! The problem is that our institutions (government, journalism, small business entrepreneurship) have reneged on their role o
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by ethbr0 4y ago
As a kid, I swam in our backyard pool during thunderstorms. I sunbathe. I drink alcohol. I do these things knowing the risk but knowing the happiness they give me outweighs that risk. Personally, I feel like the benefits to kids of greater
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I just can't see college-or-not influencing perceptions enough to be relevant. As someone who grew up in the suburbs, and has since lived in a rough part of the city, it also resonated with my personal experience. In the suburbs, nobod
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Did you use email ~2000? It was a nightmare in sheer spam volume. Zero cost of copying + zero cost of sending = send worldwide all by default, or as close to it as they could get. I'm sure the amount of email that isn't even seen
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Why would their opinions differ?

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