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by fwungy 3y ago
Climate Change is the essence of "Intractable Problems". There is tremendous wealth in oil reserves that is outside the control of the G7 countries: Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia. There is also demand for this oil from non-G7 nations
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by fwungy 3y ago
Carole King isn't a technically outstanding singer, but her voice is compelling. She's a bit of an outlier, and someone whose songs have been regularly covered by men. But how many men could cover a Kate Bush song without it being
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by fwungy 3y ago
If you look at net worth as a measure of success women singers absolutely dominate men, especially when you consider that the high achieving men tend to be well past their prime or dead.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Modern songwriting is like a factory. There are multiple technicians adding an editing parts to give it marketable attributes. The days of Joni Mitchell holing up in a Paris estate with Steinway grand to pour out her soul, and make it up th
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by fwungy 3y ago
s/think/click/. FTFY.
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by fwungy 3y ago
As a male singer/songwriter I can tell you that women songwriters tend to, for unknown reasons, write their songs around female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's in terms of range and fluidity. Women cove
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by fwungy 3y ago
My first real software job, I asked how much do we charge for this thing? Sales guy told me it was $50k. I was like, what? This thing isn't worth 50k. Sales man replied "It's not what it's worth, it's what they&#x27
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by fwungy 3y ago
Asians outscore all other ethnic groups in school. The schools are under government order to equalize educational outcomes, but because Asians dominate in educational performance the only feasible way to get outcomes is to crush the top, i.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Perhaps it wasn't free speech they cared about, but their own, and once they achieved a place where their ideas were dominant the emphasis shifted accordingly?
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by fwungy 3y ago
State oil companies are much bigger the international oil companies we call Big Oil. If Exxon cuts back or stops there is plenty of surplus in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran to make up the shortfall. There are trillions of dollars in state o
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's all so tiresome.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Yeah, and those tests are $5-$10/per. So I'm supposed to spend $20 to find out I'm asymptomatic or not even infected so I can isolate myself? People get sick. People die. It's not fair, but it also is fair because we all
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by fwungy 3y ago
I watched the university I was in for graduate school add all sorts of campus buildings, luxury apartments, and new administrative titles and hierarchies. Handing out massive contracts is a good job, but it's all borne on the students
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by fwungy 3y ago
There are no white people. There are Italians, Germans, Slavs, Nords, and so on. They are different groups of people with different cultures and languages. Grouping all light skinned people into one made up ethnic group is completely disreg
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by fwungy 3y ago
There are cultures that never invented the wheel, written language or permanent buildings. They are highly intelligent in their own ways, but they are as unlikely to fit into elite academic as elite academics are to survive in a jungle on t
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by fwungy 3y ago
You can't improve that much on the SAT. Anyone can buy the online test prep courses and study them. They aren't going to turn a knuckle dragger into a genius, they're just going to maximize an individual within their band and
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by fwungy 3y ago
Ever notice how it's a small set of phenotypes among dogs that are chosen as high level working dogs, e.g. police dogs? Some dogs are highly intelligent and readily trained and some dogs aren't. You can guess by looking at their p
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Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] [video](youtube.com)
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's all so tiresome.
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by fwungy 3y ago
There are always ways to trade precision for speed in computer statistics models.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Reduce the parameter count. Increase the acceptable error. The more parameters on a curve fit the better the fit will be, but the compute power increases too.
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by fwungy 3y ago
latency = f(fit_quality, fit_algorithm) An LLM can be thought of as a curve fitting function where the query is a set of points and the output is the curve that runs through those points with the minimum of error. You can increase a fit by
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by fwungy 3y ago
Batteries are a mature technology that must work under the constraints of a)safety , b) cost, and c) energy density. With all the money and time put into battery research it is highly unlikely that a radical new battery technology that is c
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by fwungy 3y ago
When Hunter S. Thompson wrote about the drugs our politicians were on, he wasn't completely fabricating. DC is high on prescription pharmaceuticals and the actual legislation is coming from lobbyists hired by people who are also highly
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by fwungy 3y ago
>make agreement with company in developing world >how do we get the payment? > a) accept their local currency? where? what then? what will it be worth by the time we exchange it? > b) take btc. transaction registers publicly on
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by fwungy 3y ago
It doesn't need to handle much to be a large market because international trade and foreign exchange are so huge. If btc replaces 1% of fx it's doing $50B/day of transactions. Market cap of btc is only about $600M, so 100x bt
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by fwungy 3y ago
There are plenty of developing countries where people don't trust the government currency and use alternatives. It's quite common in Africa where many transactions were done in USD.
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by fwungy 3y ago
I'm able to make legal purchases that payment processors will deny pr otherwise aggravate with btc. The fact that a third party isn't involved with with transactions is important and serves as a reminder to payment processors to n
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by fwungy 3y ago
Btc is a genuine intranational and international currency in the developing world. It is more trustworthy than many sovereign currencies. The fx applications of btc alone are enough to grant it legitimacy and fx is a the biggest of all the
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by fwungy 3y ago
I haven't read anything beyond True Grit, but that is one of the funniest books I've seen. I should check out the rest of his work.

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