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541.
by gpm 9mo ago
You're asking why someone hiring a hitman would be willing to part with their money? Because that's what money is for, to purchase things, like hitmen (apparently).
542.
by gpm 9mo ago
Or if you're the military commander with the option to disobey the illegal order (to go to war without congressional authorization) or take the bribe and execute the order. "Unmarked cash" (which this is) has pretty different
543.
by gpm 9mo ago
The prediction markets aren't yet at sufficient scale to purchase a war, you mean. People start wars for money all the time though. If they become of sufficient scale, people will purchase wars on them. There's already lots of exa
544.
by gpm 9mo ago
If the prediction market is for a non-trivial amount, it's likely someone is going to kill you in exchange for the money the prediction market offered them . The prediction market isn't acting as a prophet here, it's acting
545.
by gpm 9mo ago
There's two forms of manipulation mentioned. One is changing the market to influence public perception, that does become harder as the market grows in size. The other is accepting the bribe, sorry, taking the other side of the bet, and
546.
by gpm 9mo ago
This subthread is not about prediction markets
547.
by gpm 9mo ago
Presumably it's a negative expected value game - the company running it has to make money after all... so likely not.
548.
by gpm 9mo ago
"If it has been mass maintained by some random person in Nebraska since 2003, that is battle-tested infrastructure." comes before that.
549.
by gpm 9mo ago
So is the comment you replied to...
550.
by gpm 9mo ago
2024 was the most recent data in the statscan (official government source) page I took that from - though that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't 2025 data somewhere.
551.
by gpm 9mo ago
Obviously I can only actually speak for myself and there's no opinion that all 40 million of us agrees with, but I'm representing views here that I think a significant majority of Canadians hold. Or for some of the more in the wee
552.
by gpm 9mo ago
We're generally against warmongering. We're definitely against invading another country with the purpose being to steal it's resources, and that's what explicitly what the attack was. We're weary of the military of
553.
by gpm 9mo ago
49,000 is less than 20% of 264,277... Besides which Canadian manufacturers have been extremely reluctant to make EVs, so I really don't see that there's a domestic "EV market" we should be protecting.
554.
by gpm 9mo ago
There are some theories of negotiation that say it's good to pick an overly specific number like that specifically to imply that you've given it thought and aren't willing to change it without getting something in return.
555.
by gpm 9mo ago
We do trade with plenty of people who we don't think are trustworthy (Trump's US, for instance). I don't see that this move implies that China is trustworthy at all.
556.
by gpm 9mo ago
While we (Canadians) certainly aren't happy with Trump's attack on Venezuela, Trump's threats against Canada, reneging on deals with Canada, threats against Greenland, and attacks on the US's domestic rule of law probabl
557.
by gpm 9mo ago
Up to 49,000 vehicles. To put that number in context, in 2024 Candians bought 1,918,861 vehicles of which 264,277 where zero-emissions.
558.
by gpm 9mo ago
The problem with atomic_read and atomic_write is that some people will interpret that as "atomic with a sequentially consistent ordering" and some as "atomic with a relaxed ordering" and everything in between. It's
559.
by gpm 10mo ago
The Claude subscription (i.e. the pro and max plans, not the API) is sold at what appears to be well below cost in what appears to be a blatant attempt to preserve/create market dominance for claude code, destroying competitors by maki
560.
by gpm 10mo ago
This is true... in the US (though there is still that 1%). Anthropic operates globally and the US isn't the only country who ever realized it might be an issue.
561.
by gpm 10mo ago
Predatory pricing is selling something below cost to acquire/maintain market dominance. The Claude subscription used for Claude Code is to all appearances being sold substantially below the cost to run it, and it certainly seems that
562.
by gpm 10mo ago
They may however be obligated to not give customers access to their services at a discounted rate either - predatory pricing is at least some of the time and in some jurisdictions illegal.
563.
by gpm 10mo ago
I actually read it as saying far UVC is probably carcinogenic for specific areas of your body (lips, maybe eyes). I don't know if that's true , but it's what GP suggests to me.
564.
by gpm 10mo ago
A ducted system seems like it kills a lot of the pros of this system compared to just putting an (effective, i.e. merv-13+) air filter in the ducted system to catch the viruses. And also other things that are bad for you like particles smal
565.
by gpm 10mo ago
I'm confused by the handwaving away of the ozone production. It's well established that ozone is toxic. If these are producing it - and it seems to be agreed upon that they are - that's an obvious issue. The suggestion that &
566.
by gpm 10mo ago
It seems like it was prior to 1.0.216?
567.
by gpm 10mo ago
Terrible for Anthropic I mean, not the user.
568.
by gpm 10mo ago
Then the competitors drop prices though. The current justification for claude code is just that it's an order of magnitude (or more) cheaper per token than comparable alternatives. That's a terrible business model to be stuck in.
569.
by gpm 10mo ago
I'd be curious to know what features need opencode.ai to be an allowed origin for the local server.
570.
by gpm 10mo ago
I responded in a similar way. More than that I preemptively canceled my claude subscription (which just cancels auto-renewal) to make sure it was an affirmative choice to continue with it next month, after I have some time to try out the al

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