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by gizmo 2y ago
What they have falls short of a defense pact. The "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness" contains language that the countries shall immediately discuss military options when under attack, but an agreement to talk is not an agreement to j
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Blessedly we're citizens of good and noble western countries that are supremely trustworthy and that would never ever renege on a deal or fight unjust wars.
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China trades with pretty much everybody, don't read too much into that. China is not allied with Russia and China is unlikely to engage in sabotage like this because they stand nothing to gain from it.
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Do I understand correctly that the data gets decrypted at your Regatta AWS instances, before the data ends up in the customer's S3 bucket? It sounds like the SSL pipe used for NFS is terminated at Regatta servers. Can customers run the
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Gwern lives this way because he wants to. He has chosen this ascetic lifestyle. He could easily raise money if he ever needs it (he doesn't need it right now). He could easily do tech work in SF and set himself up for life. He also has
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by gizmo 2y ago
The billion dollar mistake refers to pointers being nullable. Old school type systems not supporting the equivalent of Maybe<T>, basically. It's not specific to columns in sql. Async/Await is a relatively recent development
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The complexity this article talks about (discounts, tiers, billing periods, dunning, chargeback disputes) has nothing to do with compliance. It's all about maximizing revenue.
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> You’d want to future-proof your platform to accommodate for unknowns in pricing, packaging, and feature gating. You don't have to do this. You don't need tons of complexity. You can make any system infinitely complex, but thi
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I suspect that the primary challenge social networks face going forward is adversarial AIs. This can take the form of spam bots: astroturfing, trolling, abuse. And of AI spies: bots that programmatically analyze and extract information from
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With investing you can make 1000x your money if you bet right. Your returns are determined by your best bets. You can be spewy and it doesn't matter much. Or you can wait for aces and then bet big. It's up to you. With poker it&#x
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I'm not making an argument about fairness. It's clearly unfair. I also don't dispute that wealthy people benefit from exploitation, just like we all benefit from labor in low wage countries. However, I do dispute that wealth
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Stimulus spending can cause inflation, but doesn't do so necessarily. A cursory look at deficits and inflation charts will tell you as much. Biden got inflation under control and got the economy to bounce back very quickly -- a feat ve
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Not by all metrics. She did very well in the debate against Trump. She drew huge crowds with her rallies.
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Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers and yet plenty still voted for him. By word and deed it's very clear how little Trump thinks of women, and yet white women as a bloc elected Trump. Hillary Clinton used the
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by gizmo 2y ago
You can -- to some extent -- combat right wing populism with left wing economic populism, but there are two key problems with this strategy: 1) the Democrat party hates economic populism. Bernie would have to hijack the party like Trump did
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by gizmo 2y ago
High prices are a big problem, but the primary thing you can do to compensate for that is push wages up through stimulus spending, which Biden also did very aggressively. When people have a wrong perception (i.e. that Biden did poorly on th
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by gizmo 2y ago
Back pain is in many cases psychosomatic, but that doesn't make the pain any less real. Your brain is just another organ and it can attack your body, just like your immune system does when you suffer from an auto-immune disease.
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Our society can only exist because people don't push the boundaries of what is technical legal but still harmful to others. There are also many laws you can break without any risk of getting caught. It has to be that way because we can
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It's about as ingenious as littering to save yourself a 20 second walk to a trash can.
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That's not a hack. Customer support just doesn't want to argue with people who are likely to get belligerent. You can get a lot of stuff for free just by throwing a tantrum, but is that really who you want to be?
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by gizmo 2y ago
I think we all know that HW3 cars can't do self driving. Elon knew this from the beginning. The idea has always been -- implicitly -- that when they solve FSD Tesla will have so much money they can just upgrade the old cars with new ha
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Amazon was the exception actually. That's why it's the poster child for being perpetually break-even. The surge in AI capex spending of the last couple of years is partially because big tech has finally found something to shovel t
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by gizmo 2y ago
Javascript somehow manages to grow without breaking backwards compatibility. So does C++. Breaking countless packages (and forks of packages) in the pursuit of something as nebulous as language purity is a big mistake. I happen to like expl
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Sam was already a billionaire years ago. He is one of SV most prolific investors, with equity in hundreds of startups. He writes big checks as well from time to time, Helion for instance he gave 375 million.
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If OpenAI starts making a lot of money on each subscription -- implied by your assumption that revenues will 4.4x while expenses stay constant -- the competition will aggressively undercut OpenAI in price. Everybody wants to take market sha
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by gizmo 2y ago
My email inbox is already 99% spam (urine) and I don't see any of it. The bottom line is that if a human can easily recognize AI spam then so can another AI. This has always been an arms race with spammers on one side and curators on t
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My point is that writing a good book is vastly more difficult than writing a mediocre book. The distance between incoherent babble and a mediocre book is smaller than the distance between a mediocre book and a great book. Most people can wr
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I think you overestimate the value of things looking professional. The overwhelming majority of books published every year are trash, despite all the effort that went into research, writing, and editing them. Most news is trash. Most of wha
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A toddler's crayon art doesn't end up in the Louvre, nor does AI slop. Most art is bad art and it's been this way since the dawn of humanity. For as long as we can distinguish good art from bad art we can curate and there is
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AI writing is pretty bad, AI code is pretty bad, AI art is pretty bad. We all know this. But it's easy to forget how many new opportunities open up when something becomes 100x or 10000x cheaper. Things that are 10x worse but 100x cheap

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