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by imgabe 1y ago
Do you think you could deliberately become poorer if you wanted to? If you do, why do you think you couldn't deliberately become richer?
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by imgabe 1y ago
> people living in them should just try not being to poor to have real housing Yes, unironically, they should. And most would be trying to do exactly that. I don’t know why some people treat economic status as some immutable property out
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by imgabe 1y ago
I seem to have this problem a lot with Apple’s docs. So much of it is like Nargflargler: Flargles the narg You need to do something besides repeat the name in the definition.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Skill issue. Hosting a product manual doesn't need to be some whizbang React SPA with the framework of the month. It can be plain HTML that will work for 30 years.
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by imgabe 1y ago
The sticker will get lost, peel off, get scratched until it's unreadable and then the user has no way to get that information. Maybe if they are really on top of things they will take a picture of the sticker when they first get the ma
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by imgabe 1y ago
A ship in the harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are for.
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by imgabe 1y ago
A complex system that works is always found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. You can keep on doing the simplest thing possible and arrive at something very complex, but the key is that each step should be simple. Then you a
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by imgabe 1y ago
I'm not saying an 18 year couldn't easily live on $100k / year. They certainly can, but you do have expenses besides rent and groceries you know.
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by imgabe 1y ago
If there are more buildings than people who want to live in them, then the owners have no leverage. They have to compete for renters. You make that happen by building more housing.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Why would you borrow money and use it to buy a house and leave it vacant? Now you're paying interest on top of everything else. Do you think wealthy people just light money on fire for no reason?
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by imgabe 1y ago
Renting it still increases the housing supply, someone can live there. I doubt there is any significant amount of housing that is just bought and left vacant. Why would you do that? It’s a stupid and expensive place to park money. You have
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by imgabe 1y ago
That is about .01% of the US land area, and I’m guessing it’s not downtown in major cities or other places that people want to live. It’s probably mostly undeveloped wilderness for conservation, right? That has zero effect on home prices. T
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by imgabe 1y ago
This doesn't make sense. Each wealthy family can only live in one house at a time. Yes, they might have multiple homes, but a billionaire having a luxury vacation home in Lake Tahoe or a penthouse in Manhattan are not the reason housin
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by imgabe 1y ago
For years in Washington DC there was one single crank who went to every community engagement meeting and prevented hundreds of units of housing from getting built.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Higher supply still means lower prices. Even if "the wealthy" buy it all and rent it, they are still competing with all the other wealthy who are doing the same thing and that will limit how much they can charge for rent, and will
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How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should(raptitude.com)
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by imgabe 1y ago
I have a bookmarks folder called "check later" for all the things I'll never get around to reading.
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by imgabe 1y ago
FWIW I though Rebirth was pretty good. At least, it was a step up from the nadir of Dominion, which was an awful mess. Rebirth got back to the basics of Jurassic movies - people go to a place with dinosaurs and everything goes wrong. It&#x2
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by imgabe 1y ago
I’m seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying this today. Is this real? Surely Google is not storing passwords in plaintext?
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by imgabe 1y ago
If you prompt the LLM to output a book verbatim, then you violated the copyright, not the LLM. Just like if you take a book to a copier and make a copy of it, you are violating the copyright, not Xerox.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Millions? No, but my brain certainly consumed thousands of books, movies, TV shows, pieces of music, artworks, and other copyrighted material. Where is the cutoff? Can I only consume 999,999 copyrighted works before I'm not longer allo
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by imgabe 1y ago
Who said anything about freedom of speech? Nobody is claiming the LLM has free speech rights, which don't even apply to infringing copyright anyway. Freedom of speech doesn't give me the right to make copies of copyrighted works.
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by imgabe 1y ago
No, the second point does not concede the argument. You were talking about the model output infringing the copyright, the second point is talking about the model input infringing the copyright, e.g. if they made unauthorized copies in t
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by imgabe 1y ago
Hosting model weights is not hosting / distributing the content.
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by imgabe 1y ago
It is zero sum. How is it not? This is not an investment. It is not going to create future tax revenue for the US. It is just keeping people barely alive in crippling poverty for a little bit longer than they would otherwise.
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by imgabe 1y ago
If it’s not a significant amount then why is it such a catastrophe if it stops?
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by imgabe 1y ago
> You're right. Hopefully those impoverished kids (many of whom are dead now) take some personal responsibility for themselves in the afterlife. To think we'd even entertain pulling their food and medicine on their schedule and
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by imgabe 1y ago
At what speed should it be disassembled? I don't see how dragging things out will help. No matter how slow you go, people who want it to continue are going to say it's too fast. May as well rip the band aid off quickly. I mean, yo
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by imgabe 1y ago
If it is globally useful then the burden should be spread equally among all the countries on the globe. If the US is providing this service, other countries should compensate us for it.
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by imgabe 1y ago
How about we lower taxes and give money back to the people who earned it? If you want to use your money to save dying children on the other side of the world, you are welcome to do that. If other people have more pressing needs for their mo

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