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by gizmo 4y ago
Britain after Thatcher got a rich financial center while the countryside impoverished. The market-friendly changes didn’t produce the promised tide that would lift all boats. I recognize that the UK produces more market-friendly rhetoric, b
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by gizmo 4y ago
> This future satellite constellation infrastructure will allow for synergies with private sector to develop commercial services and provide with high-speed internet and communication in all EU territory. Satellite internet isn’t great f
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by gizmo 4y ago
Many people, myself included, would prefer paywalled content didn’t get submitted to HN at all. The quality of paywalled articles is low compared to the other articles submitted and the discussions that follow are significantly worse on ave
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by gizmo 4y ago
The article totally understands this distinction of fictionality . That's why it defines personhood thusly: The what is easy. It’s personhood. By personhood I mean what it takes in an entity to get another person treat
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by gizmo 4y ago
The issue has never been that the adult industry balked at dispute fees. PSD2 enforced two-factor payment checks also make disputes much less of an issue. This is entirely about Visa/Mastercard simply refusing to work with some industr
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by gizmo 4y ago
Share buybacks when a company is overvalued are bad for shareholders. Share buybacks when a company is undervalued are good for shareholders. When you buy shares the price matters! This is still true when a company buys its own shares! Duri
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by gizmo 4y ago
It is --literally-- an inequality based on gender.
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by gizmo 4y ago
In practice company leaders can do pretty much whatever they like. The "best interest" test doesn't hold up in court, except in cases of shameless looting of a company by insiders. Take a leveraged buyout for instance. The co
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by gizmo 4y ago
It’s not intellectual dishonesty, but a simple matter of how the wage gap is defined. If you take the wage gap simply as the percentage of men’s earnings without correcting for anything, you can then take that measure and see how it changes
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by gizmo 4y ago
That's like saying "if you don't like your country, start your own". The goal isn't to abandon homebrew, but to have it not break things all the time.
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This is not at all how every package manager works. On debian if you install a package it will just install that package and it will warn you if dependencies will require upgrading first. It won't upgrade totally unrelated packages and
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by gizmo 4y ago
The first amendment doesn't protect literally all speech. Never has, never will. And your assertion that restrictions on speech (e.g. banning spammers) will inevitably lead to some kind of authoritarian dystopia is purely speculative.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This article is too long and says too little. The real debate about free speech is about finding the right balance between harms caused by speech and harms caused by censorship. It's about the distinction between highly protected forms
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by gizmo 4y ago
Don't be a cynic. Society is messed up. Tech is messed up. But it doesn't matter. You just have to make a positive contribution somehow, anyway.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The compute required will go through the roof for next generation AI models. This is an arms race and parties will spend billions in compute to get ahead of the pack. Open sourcing won't make a difference. Google's trillion dollar
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by gizmo 4y ago
The risks right now are roughly these: - AI poisons political discourse - AI produces massive wealth inequality - AI makes many white collar workers redundant These look totally manageable to me. And on the flipside we'll get AI assist
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by gizmo 4y ago
Having disgruntled customers show up at your office is not the same as them showing up at your home. It's not at all sketchy to want some privacy before you've gotten your office lease sorted. When starting a business you have all
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by gizmo 4y ago
> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement
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by gizmo 4y ago
See this chain of articles: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb The mongodb organization repeatedly poo-pooed the issues with data loss, and only after repeated public exposure of the issues did they do anything
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by gizmo 4y ago
The popular databases we use today such as Postgres and Mysql are pretty terrible. Backups are extremely complicated to set up, and restoring from backups is hard. Multimaster setups almost work, but not completely. You want a geo-distribut
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by gizmo 4y ago
At least is a simple announcement without all the BS. You hire some you fire some. It's not fun, but sometimes it's the right move.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The banks don't know how much money I have, because the different banks I use don't talk to each other. The bank knows I buy things from amazon, but they don't know what I buy. The government knows what I report in taxes, but
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by gizmo 4y ago
Because DEI efforts come from the Ivies that are vestiges of class privilege. It's hard for people to recognize they can be oppressed as well as oppressor, privileged and disadvantaged at the same time. Even though this is the entire p
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by gizmo 4y ago
I’m not persuaded this approach makes sense. When you don’t grandfather early adopters but instead migrate them to a new SKU with a discount you’ll inevitably make billing mistakes, but also, you’ll confuse people when their invoice changes
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They are smart which is why they are spending their lives working on something they love instead of worrying about tax optimization nonsense.
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No, technology falls into different categories. Aspirin is unambiguously a technological good. As is the bicycle. There are many technological advances which are exclusively (or almost exclusively) used for the benefit of mankind. Then ther
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by gizmo 4y ago
A common conceit in tech circles is that you could easily make the world a better place, just put technical people in charge and the rest will take care of itself. As this post so clearly illustrates, techies can be just as delusional and b
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by gizmo 4y ago
You don't want the LLM to be completely unsupervised. The goal is assistance, not the equivalent of full self-driving. It takes a few seconds for a support tech to approve a response that would take 15 minutes to compose by a human. Th
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by gizmo 4y ago
Today, the typical customer support experience involves waiting for hours/days to get a response that is useless and/or wrong. LLM powered customer support software can be transformational, and this is just one example.
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OpenAI has stated that their costs per query are a few cents. Not nothing, but nothing outrageous either. The cost will go down to < 1c within a couple of years I'm sure. The cost may be prohibitive to use LLMs for absolutely everyt

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