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by hammock 7mo ago
> it really just requires no "split brain" is possible. For example, "consensus" is achieved by making one server the leader, and giving other servers no say. Which is funny, because that actually describes political
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by hammock 7mo ago
Check out Eric weinsteins latest theory about how frontier physics has moved “dark” (with a grain of salt, some of the other things he says might tempt you to discount him completely)
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by hammock 7mo ago
Yeah all the names and terminology really do make it seem harder than it is. Took me a long time and I’m still learning. 2d Hilbert space is same as 2d Euclidean space but each dimension has 2 degrees of freedom (real + imaginary). Might ev
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by hammock 7mo ago
That comic is great I understand qubits a bit better now: it has 4 degrees of freedom but can be mapped onto the 2d surface of a sphere because of normalization (circle rule) and global phase symmetry which each take away one of the four DO
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by hammock 7mo ago
People are waking up and a lot is happening to counteract some of this. In the FY26 omnibus bill passed by Congress and signed last month by Trump is the most aggressive federal crackdown on PBMs in history. Starting in 2028 it bans PBMs fr
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by hammock 7mo ago
No, I mean I as a relatively junior employee literally got a daily email with nationwide same store sales (dollar amounts , aggregated region, and corporate, franchise, etc) vs prior day, week, month, year and if it was ever down on even da
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by hammock 7mo ago
I have worked in an industry (QSR) where it is commonplace that damn near the entire company is copied on a DAILY email of system-wide sales reports, and let me tell you you, it was NOT A GOOD THING.
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by hammock 7mo ago
Harder to attract talent though (not saying you’re wrong)
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by hammock 7mo ago
Is it accurate? Is there an meta analysis somewhere of past models and their accuracy?
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by hammock 7mo ago
Isn’t it the opposite? Salaries are sticky while asset prices rise freely with the liquidity of the market for them
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by hammock 7mo ago
I think you’re mistaken. We’ve been in a private credit bubble for a couple years at least, it’s in the finance/economic news every week and I’ve even started to hear regular NPR doing primers on it for normies. The term for “retail cr
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by hammock 7mo ago
The fractals idea is less about the common popsci “zoom in or out and it looks the same” property that most people are familiar with. What it’s really about is criticality(1), a point between chaos and order where all the interesting things
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by hammock 7mo ago
The submitted title is editorialized. The article headline goes “…, report says” There is a whistleblower report that says one thing and the SSA official that says another thing. Regardless of which you believe, the HN title is questionable
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by hammock 7mo ago
That’s a good takeaway and if anyone doubts you just think about how you set “goals” in the HR system every year during annual review time , vs. what your boss talks to you about
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by hammock 7mo ago
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by hammock 7mo ago
Same way you test regular weapons
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by hammock 7mo ago
North Korea isn’t the only country that got a nuke by not playing the rules…
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by hammock 7mo ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. There is not a country on earth without a nuke that has not been either attacked or pays a lot (whether it’s taking IMF loans, or assenting to coordinated central banking policy etc) I disagree with the
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by hammock 7mo ago
They are the same. If you don’t get it then I’m not sure I can help you further
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by hammock 7mo ago
> Considering how much more safety and driver assist features are in these cars compared to the same models from even only 10 years ago, the price being nearly the same in constant dollars is actually great remarkable. There is more tech
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by hammock 7mo ago
Missing kumquats (and calamondins and mandarinquats)
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by hammock 7mo ago
So the cutting edge things are happening in places where brand doesn’t matter. I could think of better examples but moldbot/clawdworld comes to mind. Or ASML, or national lab physics, or cheap attack drones, or.. idk can anyone think
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by hammock 7mo ago
Lutnick deal: if we pay you $X now, and then Y happens, you will make us the whole refund, even though that windfall may very well exceed $X. Insurance company deal: you pay us $X' now, and if Y' happens, we pay for everything whi
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by hammock 7mo ago
Source? I saw this claim going around but the one actual source supporting the claim was more like “we have the cash to buy them if folks are willing to sell them” and didn’t go any further than that. Via Newsweek, Cantor Fitzgerald has aff
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by hammock 8mo ago
Something like a Dutch baby (German pancake) qualifies as dark breakfast (4 eggs 1/2c flour 1/2 c milk
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by hammock 8mo ago
Wait they use this for parking meters?! Which cities?
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by hammock 8mo ago
Wow e-scooter wardriving is something I hadn’t thought of. Could be happening somewhere
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by hammock 8mo ago
Isn’t that the point? Our lawmakers keep track of how many constituents approve or disapprove of pending legislation so they can act accordingly
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by hammock 8mo ago
For the wealthy, or for high earners? I have never seen a proposal for an income tax that grades with your net worth. They only grade with your income.
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by hammock 8mo ago
The proven recipe for success is buy more, earn less

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