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by gspetr 8mo ago
"They lost a large chunk of land" I've asked Gemini. Interestingly, they were offered over 2x as much territory in exchange for 1.5% of their land. Curiously, Wikipedia doesn't mention that in the Winter War article. The
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by gspetr 8mo ago
> genetic diversity? Partially, yes. I know a scientist in one of Denver's clinics specializing in reproductive health. They do not allow more than 25 descendants per man per country, and do not allow more than 100 globally. Yes, th
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by gspetr 8mo ago
Worked out pretty well for Finland, has it not?
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by gspetr 8mo ago
You should delete the spoilers. O'Hare's personal history is important, but the part of the comment about his chronological appearances in the show is not.
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by gspetr 8mo ago
B5 in a fantasy setting wouldn't make much sense, the key issue is the namesake. What would be the equivalent of B5 in a fantasy? A floating sky island? A neutral world in a multiverse? Both have been done, but I've never heard of
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by gspetr 8mo ago
Any estiimates on how much it cost you? In terms of total real world time, money, and time spent by the agents.
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by gspetr 8mo ago
Today's kids would never see it past the layer of AI. To them AI is the top level abstraction and that's it.
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by gspetr 8mo ago
The end of an era, but ultimately it's not that surprising. In its own FAQs[0], the CIA previously noted that many third-party companies that once provided free data now require expensive subscriptions or restrict use via licensing. Th
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by gspetr 8mo ago
This is the prime example of Law 1 of Robert Greene's "The 48 Laws of Power": "Never Outshine the Master." The core principle is to always make those above you - your bosses, mentors, or superiors feel comfortably s
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by gspetr 9mo ago
> Where's Malaysia? I can tell you where it's not. https://www.isis.org.my/2024/07/04/pew-study-finds-more-mala... https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-russia-vladim
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by gspetr 9mo ago
"The world"? I don't think I've ever heard the definition of the world defined as narrowly as "80% of Europe and the US with its military allies" before.
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by gspetr 9mo ago
> or are on a Malaysian or Azerbaijani airliner You're right, a democratic country would never do anything like that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/13... https:/
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by gspetr 10mo ago
Isn't the problem that of finding out a consistency heuristic? For example, test that the resulting state is consistent with your test suite. If it is a directory that gets deleted, then you can diff it with a previous state. If you do
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by gspetr 10mo ago
> it does not hurt women Why make assertions that even a cursory search can disprove? https://bettingladies.com/articles/super-bowl-2024
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by gspetr 10mo ago
Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com
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by gspetr 1y ago
Public...? Oh, you mean the ones meant to be left holding the bag. When there's real money to be made investing in YC is off limits to the public: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a...
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by gspetr 1y ago
>anyone can invest in software in the public market and through institutional investments like mutual funds, ETFs, ect. "Public" being the keyword. There is some irony in being on HN, a YC site, yet a random HN user cannot inve
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by gspetr 1y ago
These weren't "concessions", they were very eager: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/ukraine-nuclear-...
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by gspetr 1y ago
This Slate article debunked it with declassified documents: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/ukraine-nuclear-...
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by gspetr 1y ago
Just ask GPT, the awareness of being observed significantly impacts behavior even in rather primitive animals: Research has demonstrated these behavioral changes in various species, including: Primates: Monkeys and apes often alter th
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by gspetr 1y ago
Very nice. I believe this is the 1st time in history that lips have been augmented.
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by gspetr 1y ago
Not a fan of that analogy. There is no expectation (from a reasonable observer's POV) of a podcast host to be an expert at a very broad range of topics from science to business to art. But there is one from LLMs, even just from the fac
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by gspetr 1y ago
<From this we should conclude, obviously, I know of a software billionaire[0] who opened a pizzeria and failed. He said so himself. Should we conclude, obviously, that any break even pizzeria owner is a better businessman than tech billi
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by gspetr 1y ago
I'd say if you have a marketing problem do whatever the heck you can to get Rory Sutherland to take a look at your product, the man is a force of nature when it comes to unconventional marketing and from him I've learned the cruci
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by gspetr 1y ago
An early Terminator prototype is pretty much useless unless you can field an army of them all at once and use them as shock troops. As an infiltrator, it's worthless because it's not fooling anyone with its bizarre uncanny valley
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by gspetr 1y ago
A billion dollar company isn't invincible, you can still be zeroed out by an unfavorable market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Communications In 2025 dollars their peak would have been $59.5B. To wit, this
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by gspetr 1y ago
> Yeah you can Really? Can you name one developed country besides Israel that has succeeded? > Social programs don't mean shit if nobody can afford to buy urban real estate in the big cities where the jobs are The Government Pe
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by gspetr 1y ago
>that you can also solve via better polices and incentives if you want to Nobody can. And it's not like they don't want to. Neither the very traditional and religious Arabic countries like Saudi Arabia (2.14, barely above repla
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by gspetr 1y ago
Exactly. As a regular at a non-hardcore gym, I had never appreciated it until I saw the gym sell 12mo membership for the price of 4x 1mo, and then I tried to remember how many people sticked around for a meaningful period. Very few men. No
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by gspetr 1y ago
>20 years without visible problems. Even with the most charitable steelman interpretation of "visible problems", 2 out of 3 things you've listed have strong evidence for being responsible for weight gain, and even smoking

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