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by fsckboy 4mo ago
There is economic inefficiency in many aspects of real world markets, so while a perfect world might be better, we don't have access to that. The problem with "restricted" float is that all the demand for investment (in that
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> S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic S&P 500 rejects MPT when it decides not to issue a waiver from its ordinary rules which require at least a year long track record, a rule that is clearly a t
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oooh, i wouldn't dream of installing the app, i use browser only
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you know how in third grade you have these confusing feelings about a girl and it's upsetting and you pretend you hate her and tease her etc? people here are in love with AI, it's that simple. can't stop talking about it. go
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where do you turn that off?
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switching banks and govt accounts is easy. getting people's address books to switch is hard
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> Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. double pane with tabs would be handy so you could inspect or move files between two tabs. also, i'd really love two pane:
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while Ni'ihau is privately owned, wikipedia says it is occupied by native Hawaiians who speak only Hawaiian, the only island unsullied by English.
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unix was the reason i switched to linux
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hn has much less traffic than reddit
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it's not the case that the pilot has to think like you, it's that every passenger on the plane would need to. The pilot has unlimited discretion and every interest to keep the passengers on the plane calm, or act preemptively and
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> Before covid, you'd sit next to them, get asked questions every so often, do some pair programming, and discuss ideas over lunch the real glory days were the 70's when we all had to share a single multitasked computer, and t
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https://cpu-collection.de/?l0=co&l1=Eastern%20Bloc&l2=DEC%20... quote: There were several PDP-11 clones made in Zelenograd near Moscow. Both multi-chip and, later, single chip versions. Most quantities were 1801V
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the bash "scripting language" mimics the bash cli, it "scripts" what you can do in bash by hand and it does it by being bash. I just think that's a nice way to use the word "scripting" instead of calling t
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> probably fingerprinting is the way to go - completely destroying the privacy of everyone involved your doctor seeing you naked does not destroy your privacy, it's your doctor sharing the photos with everybody that does. i.e. it p
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that's not a cp difference, cp is the granddaddy here I think trailing / could be a nice way to indicate some meaningful difference, but since autocomplete always sticks it in, just feels like a bad idea to me. I might like it if
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with a "pond sized" hole, I have read that fish eggs arrive on the feet of ducks and other waterfowl attracted to the new pond. (I have never looked up whether this is a myth)
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> How much pontificating needs to be done before people acknowledge nobody has any idea what to do with AI on an individual level? if nobody has any idea what to do, talking about it is the right approach
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> I don't see where any of these things you're talking about appear on this thread. yes! including you providing citations to your beloved science
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again you dodge providing citations for your "I wish" fever dreams about science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4 -- tptacek
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
saying things doesn't make them true, but studying them informs what you should think and say. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5985927/ Intelligence — the ability to learn, reason and solve problems
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the principle of comparative advantage does not ever fall flat on it's face. An entire country can be worse at manufacturing/growing everything compared to the US, but they can still manufacture and grow things, and engage in trad
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> Providing a hearing aid to someone hard of hearing so they can learn is equity. Their outcomes aren't guaranteed from your cited wikipedia page: "Equity is equality of outcome" https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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the SAT is an IQ test, btw. who would have thought that could lead to better results in cognitive fields? shocked. shocked! Now that there is some grudgin recognition of this idea, it might do to remind people that high SAT scores on Verbal
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this is from 2010 but says that microsoft was not going to pay bug bounties https://www.computerworld.com/article/1510124/microsoft-no-m... did they start to do that at some point, or is this a pressure (blackmail
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> I wanted to try making a DIY wireless keyboard after having made a few wired ones if anybody is interested, I want both a "both keyboard" and a "both mouse": plug them both in, they're wired, unplug them, they
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Etsy is a successful business, and the people who engage with it come back and reengage, and separately read up on Schumpeterian creative destruction when you learn physics (e.g. Newtonian mechanics) you idealize concepts like "frictio
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I said "but people don't do that because there are better alternatives". I also said "with monograms" for example, i.e. there are irl handmade sweaters made today because people don't necessarily want a factory
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> The flipside is that there must be other work to be done or people starve to death false. people are not helpless and jobs are not fixed in number nor social welfare gifts. Human creativity and industriousness can be put to task to pr
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> The industrial revolution was enabled by more efficient agriculture feeing labour to do other work you're not wrong, but that's not exactly what happened. Agriculture itself was mechanized by the industrial revolution, affor

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