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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, those people are dumb, however it doesn't really affect the main my point of my comment (which was a bit meander-y I admit), which was merely that "voting against your own self-interest" isn't necessarily a bad th
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by fastball 2y ago
I don't think those examples make any sense in the context of voting for self-interest. - gerrymandering: voting for someone that will gerrymander is once again voting for your own interests (this time at the expense of democratic valu
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by fastball 2y ago
I'd argue that rather than vote themselves money, they voted for sharing the exceedingly plentiful (relative to population) natural resources of their country. But yes, that does seem to be a version of "vote yourself money"
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by fastball 2y ago
Slightly tangential to the article itself, but quite relevant to the overall vibe of this comment section (and others like it): it seems like a large percentage of the HN community genuinely thinks that we should always do whatever is best
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by fastball 2y ago
For a quicker tie in than watching a whole podcast, the result of Hutter's stance takes the form of the Hutter prize[1], which in some ways has many of the same goals as ARC-AGI, but sees compression itself as the goalpost towards inte
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by fastball 2y ago
I think the parent commenter was actually saying that it is unlikely the US was ever going to help Taiwan in the case of a Chinese invasion, regardless of admin.
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by fastball 2y ago
China is "communist" in name only, but they are still a one-party totalitarian state, which is a big reason liberal democracies and "communist" countries weren't friends in the first place. In fact, if "the sta
728.
by fastball 2y ago
These are not fully autonomous systems and we live in a very litigious society. How do you propose these driverless / driver assist systems work?
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by fastball 2y ago
Do you think engineering managers are doing a ton of technical work day-to-day? Because a "Chief Engineer" is a level (or two or three) above that. Of course the Chief Engineer isn't doing a ton of low-level technical works,
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by fastball 2y ago
So you think he had no hand in the engineering decisions and work surrounding Starship? On what are you basing this? Because most sources I've seen seem to indicate he is very involved.
731.
by fastball 2y ago
That just sounds like shorting TSLA with extra steps.
732.
by fastball 2y ago
If grandpa understands how to use email, he can also just email his kindle an ebook and it will appear on his kindle.
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by fastball 2y ago
What is it grandpa is capable of doing, if not plugging the kindle in the computer and dragging and dropping a file onto the "kindle" device that is now mounted in his file explorer?
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by fastball 2y ago
> People aren't voting for what benefits them Is this actually desirable? I want informed people who vote for what they think is best for the country. I'd prefer it if everyone else abstained.
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by fastball 2y ago
How do you read it on your device if it is not downloaded?
736.
by fastball 2y ago
In response to what?
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by fastball 2y ago
Kindles support epub now. "Locked to Amazon unless you jailbreak" is overselling it imo. You've always been able to (very easily) sideload DRM-free ebooks and read them on your kindle. Since "reading ebooks" is oste
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by fastball 2y ago
It's not just frameworks – I noticed this recently when starting a new project and utilizing EdgeDB. They have their own Typescript query builder, and [insert LLM] cannot write correct constructions with that query builder to save its
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by fastball 2y ago
And this war won't end either, if neither side gives in.
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by fastball 2y ago
According to this section[1] of the website, the latest jailbreakable firmware for PW4 (10th gen) is 5.14.2. Not sure where the title of this HN post came from, but given the jailbreak came out on Jan 1st, I wouldn't be surprised if Am
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by fastball 2y ago
What is ingenuoua?
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by fastball 2y ago
Presumably in the SS database. Is your idea that he should give everyone on the internet access to this database? Because other than seeing it for yourself, I'm not sure what evidence he can provide that you will believe.
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by fastball 2y ago
Not giving out evidence in a press conference (how does he even do that?) does not mean that his assertions were made without evidence.
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by fastball 2y ago
> Which moral values might that be? Exactly my point. > Technology Relative number of technology unicorns headquartered in Europe would be a good start. Or number of bleeding edge tech industries you'd say "Europe" is l
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by fastball 2y ago
Indeed, sometimes de-escalation is followed by further escalation. By your implied metric, every ceasefire that wasn't permanent was a failure. Sudentenland is the exception that makes the rule. Throughout history, most peace agreement
746.
by fastball 2y ago
Well, it is useful for him, as (if it turns out to be mostly true) then it highlights how poorly operations in our government are. The only reason you have to believe that Musk's statements are not correct is the aforementioned inaccur
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by fastball 2y ago
I don't think it is useful to do that in a press conference.
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by fastball 2y ago
None of what I read sounded like escalation. The US' stance has long been that they don't want Iran to have access to nukes.
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by fastball 2y ago
Entirely possible that part of the system fails on whatever is causing there to be 150 year olds.
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by fastball 2y ago
Didn't they offer some sort of buyout severance deal?

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