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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
Semaglutide was invented in the early 2000s. Weight loss is an extremely complicated and societally mediated problem that we didn't have a 'cheat code' like this for until recently.
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
For those who use uBlock Origin Lite, have you noticed any issues/deficiencies in what ads are blocked? I haven't.
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
This guy is the Regular Car Reviews of botany - no punches pulled, heart of gold. I love his work, especially his parody of the depraved landscapers of today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be5ZnQiZslE&t=74s
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
There are websites which will sell you a license key which is real and valid but is not sold directly by Microsoft or an authorized OEM. These keys could be volume license keys that are being "misued" by reselling them, they could
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
From one recycler to another, thanks for the work you do! Personally, I typically use gray market Windows keys. I have a hard time moving machines with Linux on them. But I think you are doing a really good thing!
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
Play this for a few minutes and you start to realize why sequencing and published flight paths are so important! Really fun, thank you!
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
Or you could just buy a manual transmission car? You can have as much fun in a car that costs a tenth of the price and where the gears actually do what you think they do.
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
It doesn't check out, you were one Google away from correct information (which I cited above), and relying on ChatGPT to confirm your priors for you and then parroting what it (incorrectly) says is an insulting way to engage in this co
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
That's not true, and you were foolish to trust ChatGPT on this instead of researching it yourself. Also, if you are spending even 20% of a budget on things that are useless or net negative for the effort you are engaged in, you are was
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
The spend is on private health insurance going to for-profit middlemen. It's not mostly on the government. People love to crow about Medicare and Medicaid (safety net government-run insurance) waste but the vast majority of "waste
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
Not quite "open to the public," but very visible from public areas and close enough for you to get a good luck. Also, some offer tours or have attached museums. It used to be that the Davis Monthan AFB offered tours, but sadly, th
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
Something I have never understood about the "big pharma makes fake/unnecessary/harmful vaccines" narrative is how folks who believe in it (including those in this comment section) understand these companies' incenti
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
I really like this breakdown of what one has to do. For my little laptop-selling side business, I have the install-and-setup process pretty heavily streamlined, and it still takes time to do things like get all the relevant driver updates i
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
In fairness, I think this might be a case where the pure id represented by this administration happens to align with the correct and logical choice. You could be right, but for this instance, the outcome is the same.
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
I completely agree with you. I think the problem is that Anthropic believes their own BS, and thinks it IS a Doomsday device which only THEY can control. I think that's what's produced this outcome.
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
> So if you take these risks seriously, which the median commentor on HN obviously doesn't, what is the right thing to do? Easy. You oppose it. You dedicate all your resources to stopping not just OpenAI, but anybody trying to make
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
> A CEO's blog post is not an official company statement or any sort of binding agreement. Uh, then what is it? We should not take the words of the leader of the company published on the company's website to be the official sta
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
Maybe this will be simpler for Anthropic to understand if they take their own high-minded philosophical nonsense and ego out of it and consider it the way a neutral party would. Suppose a company calls themselves The Doomsday Device Company
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
I think the key is that they also can't let Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals use it (e. g. overseas remote employees, people on H1-B visas or green cards, etc.) That would probably make it very difficult to maintain and de
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by ivraatiems 4mo ago
When you spend a lot of time telling people how dangerous your products are, people who have the power to keep dangerous products off the market might listen. Especially if those people aren't presently very bright, and are already mad
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
Whether or not Anthropic is right about what AI can accomplish, whether these performance gains are real or not, their moral stance here is absolutely hideous to me. "We must blast forwards into making this dangerous thing because if w
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
I'm writing this from a Macbook Neo. It's goddam fantastic. The best product Apple has put out in years. There simply is not a Windows laptop out there that can compete on speed, price, and build quality all at the same time. The
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
The message they're trying to send is not "we think you're stupid" so much as "we know you hate this, let us make it easier." The problem is that they don't offer a way for you to say "no, thank you,
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
Why does saying "humans have intrinsic value" put an obligation on a person to entirely fix society's problems? It's a really walrus-y "so you critique society yet participate in it, huh, curious" way to engage
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
Do you consider dogs to have more, less, or the same amount of consciousness as humans?
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
Is it your contention that the vast majority of people only value others in terms of their economic value?
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
I think Dropbox is great, but I got about 10GB of storage via affiliate links ten years ago and I've never upgraded or paid a cent since. I'm sure I'm a huge loss for them. And even despite enjoying their service, if Google D
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
It's fair to say that EV owners need to pay their share of road taxes. I don't think even most EV owners would necessarily disapprove of that in principle; I am one and I don't at all. I do think that this bill is clearly str
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
"We should tax EVs because I think they are ugly" is a take I genuinely would never have imagined I'd hear.
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by ivraatiems 5mo ago
"Primarily" is the other key there. I'll use it from time to time with sources. But it's not first-line acceptable.

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