jMyles

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by jMyles 6mo ago
> When you pay taxes you have no say in the bombs acquired with that and where they are dropped. The latter though doesn't seem to provoke the same push back Indeed - paying "taxes" to a murderous entity is a horrible affr
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by jMyles 6mo ago
There is no such thing as ownership of a pattern of information. It has been an illusion, and that illusion is now fading.
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by jMyles 6mo ago
The README and website certainly seem polished, but I haven't used the utility yet. What's the main value prop over wormhole? That it works from the browser?
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> I want to hear how you equate "misery and death" with "unloading a passenger in the bike lane for 30 seconds". I didn't say that. I'm saying that the toll of traffic violence is unacceptable - tens of thou
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> Expecting bike riders to follow traffic laws is also unrealistic. This is why they often have a massively higher rate of fatalities, This is an unconscionable degree of victim-blaming. Psychotic-level.
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> Can't find a Waymo article about this, but Lyft and Uber (let alone trad taxis) also do this. I'm not sure that this is a particularly autonomous-car-shaped sin. It depends on expectations. If the pitch is (and, let's f
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Pasting my comment from the other article here - curious to understand the degree to which I'm understanding this. ---- The article itself is maddeningly vague on exactly what happened here. At first blush, it looks like the quantum co
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by jMyles 6mo ago
The article itself is maddeningly vague on exactly what happened here. At first blush, it looks like the quantum computer was just used to generate random noise? Which was then checked to see if it was the private key? Surely that can&#x2
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by jMyles 6mo ago
I imagine none of us had this on our bingo cards. If this is an acquihire, it doesn't compute for me (though I can't say I understand how things work in the world of the 60B level). LLMs are new enough that nobody has a big enoug
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Of course; that's the only reasonable conclusion from a straightforward reading of the risk profile for children after they age out of drowning and before they age into opioid overdose. The lion's share of loving a child is interv
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by jMyles 6mo ago
I don't think that was the crux of the inquiry / objection. It's wonderful to feel such a bond with one's _community_, but it's a different thing to bind oneself to such a dramatic statistical outlier and make deci
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by jMyles 6mo ago
I walked up to the flows on Fagradalsfjall when it was erupting a couple of years ago, and I found the cinereous, sulfurous air to be very medicinal and clearing. I'm not sure it'd have good for me for more than a few hours, but
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> Not everyone in jail got busted for benign stuff like selling a joint. There are lots and lots of incarcerated murderers, rapists, fraudsters, drunk drivers, etc. In US federal prisons, drug offenders make up over 40% of the total popu
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Thank you so much for quitting and putting the long-term needs of humanity over your short-term economic comfort. This is nothing short of a heroic move. I hope you are able to convince some of your colleagues to do likewise.
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Not sure if you're able to set your snark aside for a moment, but are we really just talking about fewer humans being economically needed? Perhaps biological human population decreasing? Is that... so bad? Do you think that horses are
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by jMyles 6mo ago
...are you suggesting that horses would prefer to endure the conditions under which they built much of the modern world on their backs? I hate cars way more than I hate AI, but relieving horses of the burden which they carried and the grues
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Is there an HN-like site for foreign policy and war news?
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Is there an HN-like site for foreign policy and war news?
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> the deal has been simple: you click a link, arbitrary code runs on your device, and a stack of sandboxes keeps that code from doing anything nasty. At most, Mythos has reminded us that this "deal" is subject to frequent cycle
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by jMyles 6mo ago
What is too bawdy, too immodest, too immoral to depict in a figment of film (assuming for the moment that the state even has legitimate authority in this area)? One of the greatest films ever made is a comedy depicting the combination of ps
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by jMyles 6mo ago
The problem is that, in the current environment of dishonest and corrupt states, "what actually happens in reality" isn't the same as what happens in court because of parallel construction.
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by jMyles 6mo ago
To the extent that this is about knowledge, I don't think it's fitting in this age to hold any person liable for what another person does with knowledge they've been furnished. On the other hand, to the (apparently zero, curr
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> Also, I really wouldn't suggest using aljazeera. Yeah, I agree - I have the same objections to ajazeera that I have to RT, CNN, Fox News, NYT, etc. - they are each overwhelming pressure from controlling corporations and states tha
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by jMyles 6mo ago
As best I can tell, the Iranian regime and Sharif both said that they ceasefire included a cease to strikes on Lebanon, Netanyahu explicitly said that it did not, and the Trump admin, Lebanon, and Hezbollah have not yet commented either way
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> It’s just Pax for those parts of the world that America and its allies are not invading Aren't you making the very point you purport to refute? What's so different about this than Rome circa 50 BC? They even invaded Persia!
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by jMyles 6mo ago
More than "a bit" - it's the entire premise of the film.
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> The primary point of idiocracy was to imagine a world where people were acting in increasingly stupid ways over time. ...and in doing so, it depicts a world that is not at all reminiscent of the one in which we live. The white house is
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by jMyles 6mo ago
> If he was living in an era of abundance like Trump, That's exactly the point: the world of the film is, in every way that matters, the opposite of the reality in which we live. So how are these strained comparisons useful? > t
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Yes, the opposite direction. I pointed out two examples, but I think you can watch the film front to back and find them in every scene. The doctor, lawyer, judge, the storyline about the plants/electrolytes (which has a big opportuni
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by jMyles 6mo ago
Interesting! I've become fascinated by existing webs-of-trust that we can observe in the world. The bluegrass ensemble in particular represents a very interesting prototype. I'd like to learn more about how you built this. One mi

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