itsumoiru

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by itsumoiru 2y ago
I think most people equate "bicycles are dangerous" with "cycling is dangerous", which seems perfectly reasonable to me. What matters is whether you'll get hurt using a bicycle, not the pedantry of whether the bicyc
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by itsumoiru 2y ago
This isn't quite dumping. It was more about achieving the scale necessary to make it usable. If there are no drivers, there are no customers. With no customers, who would drive?
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The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley(ft.com)
3 points by itsumoiru 2y ago|1 comments
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by itsumoiru 2y ago
As you mentioned, the data processing inequality[1] applies here, but I imagine synthetic data could help training squeeze out more from the existing data. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_processing_inequality
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by itsumoiru 3y ago
"The people" are not one. It's entirely possible to have an oppressive democracy.
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Patdiff – colored patience diffs with word-level refinement(github.com)
2 points by itsumoiru 4y ago|0 comments
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by itsumoiru 4y ago
> I've seen people say that apartments that are being provided to the homeless for free should have granite countertops or GTFO This is a common problem in American policy. You're going to have the thing and it's going to
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by itsumoiru 4y ago
> those paying in to the system today acquiesced to the plan... No, they didn't acquiesce to anything. They were required to pay whether they wanted to or not.
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by itsumoiru 4y ago
I read the parent "except" as "the above is true, but..." not as "in all Englishes except American English"
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by itsumoiru 4y ago
There's a culture of forced retirement there too, so it's not at all surprising. Pay generally increases with age so Japanese companies want people to retire.
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by itsumoiru 5y ago
Whoever has the most USD cash. (In proportion to their total wealth) most certainly not the "rich".
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by itsumoiru 5y ago
Not original poster, but I presume that the answer would be "of course not".
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by itsumoiru 5y ago
> My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them) I see you've rediscovered Rothbard's law: "People tend to specialise in w
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by itsumoiru 6y ago
Doesn't seem very different from https://artofproblemsolving.com/texer which has been around for quite a while.
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by itsumoiru 6y ago
The most enthusiastic lockdown supporters are unlikely to be the ones that can't afford food now. Much more likely to be people reading HN or writing for the NYT.
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by itsumoiru 6y ago
I am currently in this class and can confirm that navigating the codebase is a nightmare. The specifications we are given in the relevant assignments are vague or wrong and the code itself is pretty questionable. I spend more time trying to
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by itsumoiru 6y ago
The law that applies/ought to apply is the one against fraud in the beef example.
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by itsumoiru 7y ago
If you still put your money down for the stock, the value isn't $0 anymore. It's whatever you value it.
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by itsumoiru 7y ago
I just read a related article the other day, claiming the same thing, but with a different analysis: https://mises.org/wire/world-looks-abandon-dollar-us-sanctio...
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by itsumoiru 7y ago
That's less than a tenth of the 4,161 employees in the company.