georgeecollins

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by georgeecollins 19d ago
Why is the EU obligated to treat every country the same way? Canada presents different economic opportunities and challenges than the UK. Or, if you want to say it was due to politics, who was bashing who?
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by georgeecollins 20d ago
It's just the idea that vague terms get misused so much I demand the specific. "Anti" anything can just mean you aren't "pro" it enough, or not pro a particular version. So for restricting speech, you could sa
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by georgeecollins 25d ago
Silicon Valley started with companies doing defense contracting. Like many here, I disagree with a lot of current policies of the US. But I don't want the US to be weak or vulnerable. Tech is our strength. Silicon Valley should be
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by georgeecollins 25d ago
Yes the price keeps going up, but every purchase is 100% optional. Please explain to me the reason why anyone needs any of these. What kind of person has all of these subscriptions? If you have YouTube TV and Spotify that is $22.
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by georgeecollins 29d ago
Why would AI destroy humanity? People are cheap and useful.
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by georgeecollins 29d ago
Robots are gradually getting OK at navigating warehouse floors and paved streets. Flying drones are great but if they could really be counted on to pick out targets without human intervention you know the Russians and the Ukrainians would
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
I am not defending the US government but the reason why you hold treasuries is because if you want to buy something in two years, or ten years, etc. there is a good chance you will want to buy something with dollars. Oil, soy beans, New Yo
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
This all makes tons of sense. Recycling metal works, other recycling may not. Cloth bags make sense if you have a few of them and use them hundreds of times. Reduce still makes sense so why not focus on reduce.
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
It's possible to be very talented and a crank.
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
When I was working on early 3D video games in the 1990s, all these companies would give you prototype 3D cards to make sure what you made was compatible. This was pre-direct X. On Battlezone, many of us had different video cards to maint
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
Yep, they do some cognition in their arms. You also do some processing in your ears and your eyes. There is a lot of evidence that you learn to recognize certain stimulus in the neurons outside of the "brain".
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by georgeecollins 1mo ago
Children of Ruin is about advanced Octopi, not as good as Children of Time, but interesting. That series or Fire Upon the Deep are really good for conceptualizing truly alien intelligence.
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Wow I felt this post and trust me I am never asking the question! I work in a job where people make "creative" proposals (we say pitches or decks) to me almost every day. The length and word count has exploded. I can't sa
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Looking down the thread I am also thinking maybe this is a Europe thing? I am usa.
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Are you sure? This seems like a forum with a lot of early adopters and a lot of late adopters still use browsers, email, text messages. Like, let me guess that your credit cars isn't capitol one. Not that it should be, but that woul
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
My broker has a much more fully featured web app then it does on iOS or Android. You can do things in a browser that the phone apps will send you to a browser to do. BofA is just as good of a web app. Maybe people are just used to using
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Everything has some satisfied limit to demand, often depending on the price. If you assume there will never be any satisfied limit to demand for inference at any price you can justify any investment.
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
>> how about even a simpler question: why are almost all governments inefficient (except may be few like tax department) and are full of red-carpet paper pushers? That you can just assert that as though it is a fact universally known
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
This. I think people in California (like me) have trouble seeing the things Texas does well because of partisanship. It's bad for California not to see when another state does a thing better.
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
I think you could make a good case that it you broke meta into Instagram, What's App and FB, and Google into YouTube, Android + Cloud, Search + Advertising (or something like that)... you would have companies that would have competitio
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
I don't know about the future, but it used to be that sardines were a fish that was not over fished because they weren't that popular. Of course that could change. Anecdote, not data: I picked up the habit of eating sardines from
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Studies show tall people also earn more. https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing Also, physically attractive people earn more. https://wol.iza.org/press-releases/does-it-pay-to-be-be
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Entrepreneurs of hacker news: Media companies are experimenting with tools that try to detect if a work contains AI. I don't have the domain knowledge to know if that will work, but it seems like the alternative is to have a system to
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
>> If we replaced every neuron in your brain, one by one, with a silicon equivalent, would you stop being conscious? If we put your brain in a jar, would you be a person? Would you have normal consciousness? Honestly I don't k
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by georgeecollins 2mo ago
Serious investors look at balance sheets, less then what CEOs say. Elon Musk -- as an example-- says all kinds of things that don't really happen. Mark Zuckerberg is arguably less grandiose. When FB changed their name to Meta, said
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
I am so glad someone said this! I get really mad when a PR person writes the word content in the press release for my company. We don't create content. To me "content" means you don't know what you are making or you a
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
The most expensive appliances (particularly stoves) are the ones with no LCD screens. "Smart" TVs are often cheaper then dumb ones. People have learned that software does not always make things better. Anything that has code in
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Thanks, I subscribe. I am not saying drones are everything. My point is, where is the war in which steel is critical ?
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
They found a use for them but no reason to build anymore.
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
If machine guns were useful against drones Russia would be winning in Ukraine. Check out Russia's Black Sea fleet to learn the fate of your navy sitting by your shores.

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