ethbr1

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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Sun microsystems was mainly selling to startups, who could go bankrupt. Nvidia is selling to Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, Xai and to some extent Google. Excuse my ignorance, but who are Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, Xai, Meta,
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Let's be honest: because some developer forgot to send a message somewhere
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Agreed. Most of the time, customer support finds out about things product did from customers. "Why didn't you put that in the patch notes?"
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by ethbr1 1y ago
It's borne out in numbers. [0] All of inflation-adjusted US spending growth has come from those in the top 20% income bracket ($175k+) and especially the top 3.3%. So not Boomer spending, but wealthy spending. (Which overlaps but isn
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Cash in the bank so you can buy equities at the bottom. JFC, this is the dumbest possible advice given this thread. If someone thinks equities are overpriced and one thinks the value of USD is decreasing, then 'cash in the b
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I'm still not sure why anyone is surprised by a devaluing of the dollar -- that's literally what the monetary kooks in the current US administration are on record as wanting to cause.* Thought process goes: (1) devalue dollar, (2a
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The other way to think about it is that the price of many other things may have gotten cheaper (in terms of labor/capital) at the same time as fiat inflation. But how can you untangle an objective production price from the fiat /
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by ethbr1 1y ago
See how those numbers go when premiums spike due to expiring ACA funding & Medicaid cuts.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
How about 'intentionally engineering inputs to produce desired outputs'?
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The more esoteric the question, the greater relative representation of human training data from crazy people. How many average humans write treatises on chemtrails? Versus how much of the total content on chemtrails is written by conspiracy
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by ethbr1 1y ago
AGI is hiding its compute in diff(timeWithoutSeahorse, timeWithSeahorse)
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by ethbr1 1y ago
E.g. Can you completely parse HTML with regex?
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> I have an unread copy sitting on my desk sigh You should really attend to your beeping phone alarm. offers hexagonal green pill [0] [0] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/we-need-to-talk-about-fifty-fiv...
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I think modern Walmart understands the problem better than modern Amazon. Walmart just needs the volume to be able to compete with Amazon's logistics, so is getting volume where it can.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> OpenAI is always sneakier than most people give them credit for. There's usually more useful information in what Sam Altman specifically doesn't say than what he does.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Ask yourself if most older people reliably update their beliefs as the world changes. If the answer is "No, they don't," then it follows that part of progress is newer generations moving into positions of authority and bringi
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by ethbr1 1y ago
There's literally a link to an explanation.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Is there?
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Russia doesn't have the demographics to win, and they're throwing what young workers they have into a Ukranian meat grinder. (Or a war-focused economy that's going to leave them uncompetitive in any other industry) https:&#x
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by ethbr1 1y ago
By your logic, there's no way to measure popularity between elections. Ergo: Trump can only be said to be heisen/un/popular until the wave function collapses in the next election. Which means your original statement >>
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by ethbr1 1y ago
unpaid air traffic controllers calling in "sick" have entered the chat
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I would say there seems to be a hole in some legislature systems (Israel, Germany, India?) where the thresholds required for various functions seem unlikely to be attainable with certain vote total splits between multiple parties. And in th
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> but the people wanted Trump 49.9% of the voting "people" I know Trump likes to play fast and loose with conflating the electoral college and popular vote, but it's accurate to say he barely won his electoral college la
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot. As anyone in the US healthcare insurance claims-adjacent spaces can tell you: yes, in about 2 years.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> When you “insulate” the civil service from politics, what you end up doing is privileging the ideology and political goals of civil servants over those of voters. No. You end up balancing the current political desires of voters with
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Endless scrolling is a big indicator that you're a consumer not a customer. Someone recently highlighted the shift from social networks to social media in a way I'd never thought about: >> The shift from social netwo
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by ethbr1 1y ago
It's also important to highlight the origins of modern US civil service (read: the Wilson+ era you're referencing) in the anti-Conkling/spoils Congressional factions and presidents of the late 19th century. https:/&#x2F
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> If you don’t agree with what a service or product provider does simply don’t buy their product find an alternative This implies antitrust has been sufficiently enforced such that there are viable alternatives in all markets. That&#x2
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by ethbr1 1y ago
That's a great way of framing it! And was basically driven by social network companies saturating organic friend content volume (and viewer eyeball time). So they turned into social media companies driven by infinite synthetic (in the
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Exactly. It makes little sense to fund development that few players will ever see. A developer/publisher could instead cut that content and keep the money as profit. That's why I think novelty and 'old AAA game' richness

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