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by evklein 1y ago
Our cars are also a lot bigger. Getting slammed by a suped up Denali is not quite the same as being hit by a little sports car.
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by evklein 1y ago
Yeah it's a tough spot he's found himself in. How do you convince people who know more about this stuff than anybody that you're barreling towards something that's an improbability? It seems that most of them have made t
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by evklein 1y ago
Additionally, renewables have their own drawbacks - their volatility makes reliability more challenging and thus brings energy prices higher. Nuclear has the benefit of providing consistent base load, something that's needed more now t
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by evklein 1y ago
Camus's 'The Plague' had me laughing when I read it last year - he basically nailed the feeling completely. Though I think where his diverges from reality is that in the Covid-verse we never really got back to any sense of no
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by evklein 1y ago
> Some lawyers bristle at clients setting strategic direction. They believe there’s a “correct way” to do things, they know it, and they’ll fight you if you disagree. In that case, get different lawyers. Ultimately I was able to find goo
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by evklein 1y ago
I have no empirical evidence of this to present, but if you view every transaction as existing on some scale of scam-iness, where one side is you lose your house and wife and kids and the other is an amazing deal for you, the average positi
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by evklein 1y ago
Learning isn't really a virtue of the culture. Most people go to school to get ahead of others. As such, there's two prongs that determine the worth of an education: is the institution accredited, and how prestigious is the instit
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by evklein 1y ago
Yeesh. I understand that this kind of thing might have some healing effect on hurt people, but I can't get over the ramifications of treating an AI like a real person in a court setting. For instance, imagine a suspect skips out on a h
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by evklein 1y ago
> We're talking elderly folks we'd rather not care for ourselves and that we don't want to watch declining and dying, and we're dumping them into a large-scale... well, death facility. This is pretty cynical. Not ever
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by evklein 2y ago
ALL STORY POINTS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME STORY POINTS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS https://evklein.com/posts/agile-farm
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by evklein 2y ago
A little feedback: I would use this but I don't really want to open a website with that domain on on my corporate network. Maybe a second domain?
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by evklein 2y ago
I'm not gonna make a statement about why you didn't take the C19 vax but that kinda feels like something you should be able to remember...
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by evklein 2y ago
This is a sidestep imo. People _can_ be held accountable, though they will not always be. Machines add a layer of complexity - money is lost or a life is lost because AI made the call, who bears the burden? Machines _can't_ be held acc
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Effective, Enforced Documentation Control with LLMs(evklein.com)
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by evklein 2y ago
> We are creating a curriculum based on the idea that kids should minimize having to do things they don’t want to do or might be difficult, and are now seeing a generation of children who are incapable of doing anything they don’t want t
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by evklein 2y ago
What good is flowery prose or outdated, verbose subject matter like Parisian sewer systems, if it actively discourages kids from reading it? Horses to water.
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by evklein 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the other items, but "A Long Way Gone" is plenty sophisticated enough from a thematic point of view. Violent, gritty, complicated, it portrays an ugly piece of the world and has some serious perspective.