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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
50% of all consumer spending now is done by the top 10% and this keeps shifting up. We've got a horribly K-shaped economy even before AGI.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Crypto, including Bitcoin, is bad. And doesn't really solve any of the problems it claims to solve. If it did solve any of those problems in a real and practical way, it wouldn't need an increasingly powerful lobby spending hu
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> I turned off when he said that Bitcoin is issued by corporations. The interviewer calls him out on it and he doubles down. That's blatantly false, and indicates poor research and / or poor understanding. He knows how bitcoin
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> It's going to be the shareholders of the first companies to crack AGI, and make human brains fully irrelevant economically. What makes you think if one or two AI labs can do this that the rest (including open model providers) won&
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Blogs like the one that is linked are almost entirely an entertainment medium disguised as an informational learning lesson. We already know LLMs are pretty good at security exploits, just like we already know they are pretty good at writi
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Also American and I love to see other countries stand up to Trump and give us the collective middle finger in a meaningful way. Sorry we failed you all, world. I hope we are able to elect competent leaders in the future that can mend relati
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> One convenient fiction that many wealthy people (in the US) tell themselves, is that poor people are "lazy"; and that's why they're poor. I've noticed the same thing over my life (I'm almost 53) and by and
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> If you're doing what every one else is doing, but only you are being prosecuted, that's reeks of political motivated prosecution. Not necessarily. Even government resources are finite. If you are doing what everyone else is
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> I think what is confusing some people is that those novels and authors are all American and they can’t seem to believe another country beat us to it. Gibson's novels predicted Asian ascendency (insomuch as you can have ascendency
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> The aim of the Founders, then, was not to avoid all concentration of power, but too much of it, by checking power against power, and ambition against ambition. > Similarly, the answer to the structural challenge posed by advanced ma
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> I do worry that jake paul or mr beast or someone like that will become president. Not that I'm happy about it or want it to continue, but we're already there, have been since 2016.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Seems like a completely bullshit politically motivated hitjob on this guy for making a common procedural error (using a personal email address for something official). If the actual contents of his email were damning, they'd be publish
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Not having to plan my life around traffic patterns is the biggest advantage for me. I enjoy working in the office at my current place of employment... nice office space, small company, everyone who works there is great and the office is onl
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> Can't a lot happen within ~60 minutes? 60 minutes is a long time for a human attacker to do damage. With an LLM attacker it is an eternity.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
The difference between 2002 and now is that it is so much easier to follow each other's leads on pricing without explicitly communicating about it and leaving a paper trail. But they never stopped acting indistinguishable from a carte
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> There are only 3 manufacturers (about to be 4 soon) total. ...3 manufacturers with a long history of price fixing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately. You don't have to do it all in one go. It isn't like you have to move everything all at once like you're moving to a new apartment. I started moving away fr
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> Not an American here, but doesn’t Congress pass budgets? In theory. In reality the US Congress hasn't passed a full real budget since 1996 (for the 1997 fiscal year). Our system of government is hopelessly broken.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> But from the inside observed by oneself, it feels quite similar Having been under general anesthesia once the feeling of just completely not existing for the time period I was under felt very different than sleep does to me.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> improve the legibility of my work. Nitpicking here in a way that I would usually avoid, but it is relevant to the conversation being had and it seems like you might appreciate the information... "Readability" would be the mor
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> are we about to get attacked? Nah. Not because we aren't relatively weak right now (because we are), but because there isn't another world power that has the motive and desire to attack us at this time despite our being weak.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
I remember really enjoying the first season and then feeling like the series went entirely off the rails after that... but still a really good first season IMO, especially by 2006 standards (there were some great TV series out by then, but
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
For context (since this reply seems to be getting downvoted into faded-text status at the time I am seeing it, perhaps in part because these days people might be seeing this as a political viewpoint for...reasons): In Carl Sagan's &quo
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Still hiding behind an anonymous throwaway account, coward?
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> It's amazing how incompetent the U.S. has become. Amazing and yet not at all surprising... entirely predictable given what lead up to it. If someone wrote a story 10+ years ago about how a draft-dodging nepo baby reality TV actor
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> Would you rather them have: As an American... I suspect that regardless of what I want they will have virtually unlimited access to both now that the tech industry understands how the lobbying game works.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
> 30 hours of battery life is a deal breaker. Also quite funny considering they are highlighting the sleep features of the watch quite a bit: "When it's time to recharge, Pixel Watch 5 and Google Health Coach elevate sleep tra
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
The Republicans don't just control the executive, they also control both chambers of Congress (and, lets be real, the Supreme Court as well). The fact that they don't act like it and just allow the executive to do whatever it want
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Wait, so all that Republican talk of support for state's rights was really just all about the racism this whole time? Shocker.
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
As someone who lived in NYC for a while circa 1999 the process at the time as I recall it was using a newspaper classified ad to find a broker to find an apartment. The vast majority of actual apartment listings were all gatekept within the

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