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by icandoit 3y ago
I prefer my car to having a horse. But the car did eliminate the horse. There is a speed at which people can train for new jobs X, and a speed at which new jobs displace old jobs Y. If Y is twice X then your talent pool is half what it coul
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by icandoit 3y ago
If high IQ jobs offered in-building day care as a perk this trend would completely reverse. Convert the parking garage in the basement into a day care and you'll have phd-level employees for life. Changing jobs for even double the pay
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by icandoit 3y ago
My latest newborn has to have two bracelets and never leave the room. I understand the concern, but would like to push back on the increase in cost and restrictions. Safety-maximalism will maximize expense, we agree on that? As a customer c
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by icandoit 3y ago
safe for you, not the cow
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by icandoit 3y ago
People are social animals. Besides, wireheading will soon be possible. Best to re-evaluate your pleasure from time-to-time, while you can.
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by icandoit 3y ago
Mixture of experts: Make each model world-class within a single domain. If adding one more common-sense QnA makes the calculus-bot even slightly worse at caculus, don't do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_
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by icandoit 3y ago
> Are you saying Linux is intrinsically better? Can we say that the market has spoken? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... I look forward to the day that windows is mostly a UI over WSL a
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by icandoit 3y ago
At some point your new ventures compete with your old successes. What would you and others have payed for a Unreal Tournament monthly subscription? Not much I assume. If you are a land lord you want the home-owner slice to shrink and the re
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by icandoit 3y ago
This aligns with their "do things that don't scale" message. Better to discover the widgets your customers actually want rathe than to build the ones that you know how to build, and then hope you can sell them.
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by icandoit 3y ago
> But it's not as obvious as you think. If a person or organization calls for violence or the destruction of property, they are a terrorist organization. If the reasons they give for this are based on identity they are additionally
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by icandoit 3y ago
Organizations that call for violence. Harming people or the destruction of property. Specific organization would include KKK and ISIS. I would also include organizations that use terrorism to further theier ends of environmentalism and anim
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by icandoit 3y ago
Would you accept a definition that includes the KKK and ISIS? If the majority of an organizations public rhetoric is hate for other groups would you agree that makes them a hate organization? What is the purpose of this line of argumentatio
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by icandoit 3y ago
The teacher writes the test to evaluate the students they just taught. Who else is better equipped to evaluate the students learning? Some other random teacher, unfamiliar with what has been taught?
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by icandoit 3y ago
As long as propagandists pay where is the problem? That's why 4chan has user-hostile captcha and a convenient payed API. Enshittification as a service. Are users demanding a bot-free social network? I don't see that.
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by icandoit 4y ago
I just did a search on "blind person using computer" most used keyboards, some also used voice tools built into the OS. Whats the throughput on existing B2C tools? I see research but not anything I can buy right now. Actualy, if y
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by icandoit 5y ago
Well they acquired musical.ly (buying it's very young audience). from the wiki: "TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide after merging
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by icandoit 5y ago
He can say FU some fraction of his time. The recipe is simple. If you spend 50% of what you make, then you only have to work 50% of your life. If you spend 10% of what you make, then you only have to work 10% of your life. Turn off all sour
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by icandoit 5y ago
This group Oxitec released some in Florida: https://www.oxitec.com/en/news/florida-keys-mosquito-control... They previously released some in Brazil: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?
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by icandoit 6y ago
You guys are doing great. Julia is really taking shape. Can't wait to jump ship from Python. It's also nice to see that you (personally) are sponsoring zig development. There is so much more room for improvement in the arena of pr
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by icandoit 6y ago
At least the added complexity will result in faster compile times. (jk in a sad way though)
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by icandoit 6y ago
If you want to do something about it look into UBSan. Turn vague concerns into bugs, and then into commits :). https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan) is a fast un
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by icandoit 6y ago
It is sufficient information. Replace processed food (candy bar) with less-processed (granola bar without added sugar) or non-processed (apple). People don't like ultra-processed in an partake-abstain framing (like many do with illegal
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by icandoit 6y ago
What if the processed-food percent of a persons diet predicts their health outcomes as well as questions like "do you exercise regularly?". Aren't we more interested in health outcomes associated with food rather than moralis
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by icandoit 6y ago
I like what this guy has to say about nutrition (take it with a grain of salt, he is an epistemologist) https://meaningness.com/nutrition-resigns "Your job is to wear white lab coats while saying that food ingredients
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by icandoit 6y ago
For me personally: if (foodItem.ingredientList.size()>9) {return false;} else if (foodItem.inventedYearsAgo()<100) {return false;} else{ return true;} So I can eat a baguette prepared traditionally, and a few brands of prepared bread
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by icandoit 6y ago
I have found that feeding my dogs a food high in fish has improved their allergies. This was plainly ethical, right? I was suggesting that people test on themselves. Which is we something we already don and can only avoid by outsourcing all
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by icandoit 6y ago
This is the same compound ISRIB as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273901
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by icandoit 6y ago
I found this link to Armstrong 2003 thesis: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s... found that link here: https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-o
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by icandoit 6y ago
Many people are happy to self-identify as German or Italian.
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by icandoit 6y ago
A positive spin on this is that everyday people are so wealthy, savvy, and time-rich that they spontaneously organize and campaign to shut down infrastructure projects they don't like. When it's keeping the "other" out i

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