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by hammock 4mo ago
Air was no longer escaping at the local point of repair.
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by hammock 4mo ago
I’m imagining a pool snail
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by hammock 4mo ago
I mean it’s what people have been doing for all of civilization. It’s that or war
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by hammock 4mo ago
> It's absolutely a slippery slope The slope has already slipped. This is IDENTITY verification, not “age verification.” You cannot verify your age without uploading your ID.
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by hammock 4mo ago
The thousands of viral ring videos, and flock itself, would beg to differ. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detecti...
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by hammock 4mo ago
You have options. Doctors and nurses clean up, better pay than in a city. Work at a factory (either in the plant or in the office). Lawyers and financial advisors to the farmers who sold out to developers/energy/data centers. Or
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by hammock 4mo ago
Everything has a tradeoff
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by hammock 4mo ago
The countryside. Near-zero public surveillance, near-zero violent crime, and conservative sheriffs and juries who work to keep it that way.
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by hammock 4mo ago
> tolerating vicious verbal attacks disguised by somewhat subdued body language (missing data/difficult to detect). Almost all of these cameras have microphones as well. Not as difficult to detect as you may believe
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by hammock 4mo ago
Don’t get me started on TSA policies.
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by hammock 4mo ago
> Are super-organized, highly-capable, fully-sane terrorists the only threat? Or does the threat model include mentally-ill / personality disorder people, who might make mistakes, or taunt those whose job it is to stop them? I want
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by hammock 4mo ago
We know what it looks like. We call it post industrial society. The rust belt, decrepit mill and mining towns, shrinking cities, etc.
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by hammock 4mo ago
Haven’t heard that meme, but it seems like you could replace “AI” with “civilizational striving/class struggle” and extend it across the whole of human history
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by hammock 4mo ago
So you’re saying banks (who can loan new money out of thin air) will end up being the winners of all this.
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by hammock 4mo ago
This comment was a good learning for me.
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by hammock 5mo ago
Your idea and its (perhaps unsatisfying to you) resolution can be summed up easily by John Quincy Adams’ quote: “Duty is ours. Results are God's”
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by hammock 5mo ago
Yes. I like WEF and Klaus Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism model here. We need governments to force companies to answer not just to shareholders but to employees and communities, and we need one world government to force individual governmen
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by hammock 5mo ago
Do you mean there’s a whole industry built around DEI? Or that there’s a whole industry built around countermessaging the DEI industry?
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by hammock 5mo ago
The textbook answer, not that I am agreeing with it, is that no women priests is not a choice that the Catholic Church makes, but rather a reflection of received wisdom and ground truth. The same way perhaps a man is understood to be unable
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by hammock 5mo ago
I think he is saying we need big cross-border government to force compliance and fight against Trump and his cronies, and more taxes / debt to fund this
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by hammock 5mo ago
It’s Stockholm syndrome. Japan really spanked the highly established U.S. auto and electronics industries in the 70s, and many people now look to kaizen, Kanban, etc as serious cope.
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by hammock 5mo ago
Yes to put the other comment into different words, vast maj the excess returns (alpha as opposed to beta ), or the “slack” in markets , however you want to think of it, are picked up by market makers. Difference between prediction markets a
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by hammock 5mo ago
Seems like a good argument against flat taxes
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by hammock 5mo ago
Not OP, but I guess he is saying these (elections, sports) are markets where the participants have their own ideas about how they want them to resolve, and aren’t just markets with neutral participants only.
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by hammock 5mo ago
This is true if the stock market as well. There is insider trading. But that vast, vast majority of profits are made by the market makers (citadel etc).
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by hammock 5mo ago
Books pay handicappers as well to make the guesses so that cuts into the vig
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by hammock 5mo ago
Recombining existing material is exactly right, and in this case LLMs were uniquely positioned to make the connection quicker than any group of humans. The proof relies on extremely deep algebraic number theory machinery applied to a combin
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by hammock 5mo ago
Yes. I didn’t bother to mention that part, only the polysemous connection to pope.
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by hammock 5mo ago
Pontificate in its original sense literally means to perform the duties of a pope or priest (a pontiff). The auto part I guess because it’s email? That part is shakier
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by hammock 5mo ago
Instead of protesting they are all getting together on Monday mornings in sf and hiking

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