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by hammock 11d ago
Your comment is so bizarre I don’t know quite how to respond and I’m left wondering what your news feed looks like. There is only one country in the Middle East with an aggressive expansionist mentality, and it’s not Iran. And what’s with t
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by hammock 12d ago
Isn’t that what they say the tariffs are?
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by hammock 12d ago
> Sanctions on Iran are justified For what?
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by hammock 12d ago
Two gallons per capita is all that is needed (assuming reclamation)… what do you mean, we can’t bring it up there ourselves?
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by hammock 12d ago
There are some important corollaries to McNamara that need to be articulated. Something like “If you can’t measure it, we still know it’s important, we’re not idiots, McNamara was imprecisely defined in its common form” Yet at the same time
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by hammock 12d ago
> Let the 'spreadsheet people' take over, every decision is now allegedly based on 'data' We’re about to see many more of the same thing except the “data” has been replaced with “ai output”
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by hammock 12d ago
It’s an arbitrary plane, chosen at each moment just so you can flatten it
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by hammock 12d ago
Yes thank you!
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by hammock 13d ago
There was an organization I came across that was working with private property owners to set up cameras outside/pointed at politicians, etc and sharing the footage. I can’t recall the name though
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by hammock 13d ago
> it's just some installer dude probably making $65k/year to climb poles and fasten cameras I find it hard to be persuaded by the salary idea. A hitman who works for $100 is just as bad as one who works for $10,000. In fact o
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by hammock 13d ago
The border guys are there are really aggressive too. I canoed the st croix up around there and you are warned not to paddle north of the halfway line in the middle of the river… agents will literally pop out of the woods and start reproachi
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by hammock 14d ago
You’re right. But I read between the lines in a different way. Language like this is intended to invest power and perceived need for more power in Western central governments, by design, because this is a campaign for national regulation
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by hammock 14d ago
Wasn’t trying to dick measure nvda vs fed. More thinking thru guarantees vs assets for the two institutions
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by hammock 14d ago
“Federal reserve note” You are taking this too literally anyway. I know they don’t backstop jack squat but in practice there is a fed put. Have a conversation with me, don’t be a pedant. If you are saying they will lend last resort against
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by hammock 14d ago
Ok how much did the fed sign up to backstop then? Surely it’s more than physical currency
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by hammock 14d ago
M2 is $21 trillion, which is what the fed signed up to backstop. How much did NVDA sign up to backstop?
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by hammock 15d ago
> to Hofstafer analogy making isn't some higher level cognitive process, certainly not a language based one, but basically is THE cognitive process This is so funny to me, because as many people know, sharing an analogy with another
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by hammock 18d ago
Here is maybe what he was remembering from HN: > Our Samsung fridge’s manual says it’ll automatically and silently mesh network with any Samsung TVs in range, use AI and hidden cameras to recognize what’s in the fridge and when we use i
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by hammock 20d ago
Great questions. In saying “accurate information” there is a hidden presumption that not all government information needs to be shared. Forget about whether it’s accurate or not and who decides what’s accurate, just be maximally open The fr
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by hammock 20d ago
I agree, eventually, but LLMs aren’t there quite yet. There are what, maybe 10 million distinct agents in the wild today? 100 million or a billion if we’re being charitable. At the time being, the vast vast majority of those agents are all
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by hammock 21d ago
Really only three or four things you ought to say during a stop “( Name and address, or license registration and insurance if in a vehicle)” -required by law pretty much everywhere. “I’m exercising my right to silence. I will not answer que
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by hammock 21d ago
Same thing with FISA abuse. Nothing materially changes
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by hammock 21d ago
> How was there ever any doubt that these cameras and this access would be used in this way? Strawman. I have never heard of one single ingenuous person that believed these would only be used appropriately. The main issue is that our gov
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by hammock 21d ago
> Surely access to footage can be gated behind some sort of expedited digital court warrant? These are police-owned cameras filming public areas. A better solution would be to require court approval to buy and vote these cameras, or wher
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by hammock 21d ago
There is a GREAT, accessible video about this experiment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjnTJos_no
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by hammock 22d ago
I was directly responding to a comment arguing that bus drivers were more adept at avoiding pedestrian killings than SUV drivers. Unfortunately extra training cannot change the physics of a 40,000 pound hunk of metal. If you look at passeng
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by hammock 22d ago
This is for SF, so 100% urban for both bus and vehicle data
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by hammock 22d ago
I provided the surface streets only metric, which eliminates freeways
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by hammock 23d ago
Per government data, San Francisco Muni bus pedestrian fatalities are roughly 2 per 100 million miles, while general motor vehicle pedestrian fatalities are a fraction of that, about 0.4 per 100 million miles. Even if you limit strictly to
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by hammock 23d ago
>Democracy works best as a diffuse institution and is more than just voting. People are supposed to have rights and power themselves People holding power themselves is called self-governance (in the Jeffersonian way). People voting for r

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