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by jgeada 1y ago
The other hard lesson learned during the Covid shutdowns (actually, it is learned and promptly forgotten at every major crisis): maximizing efficiency also maximizes the number of single points of failure in your system. Anything that goe
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by jgeada 1y ago
Economics can't predict what should be one of the most important and fundamental property of markets: inflation (aka how prices move) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/inflation-economi...
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by jgeada 1y ago
Economics - the business of creating a cover story for whatever the rich want to do. All dressed up in mathematically rigorous fictions claiming to model reality so it cannot be questioned by the hoi polloi. Never matters whether the foreca
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by jgeada 1y ago
Only the the context of weak labor laws and no unions. There are more workers than CEOs and CEOs don't create the value, the workers do. What CEOs largely do is monetize and take credit for all the value creation. I don't think th
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by jgeada 1y ago
That used to be true, not so sure my trust in our institutions is high these days. Seems a few million $ donation to the right people can make all regulations just vanish.
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by jgeada 1y ago
Those useless devices cracked the Enigma machine and several other cyphers in the span of WWII. No, electronic based computers were not useless from the start and very very rapidly started making significant progress.
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by jgeada 1y ago
There is a reason QC factorization records haven't shifted much over the past years. Number of qubits by themselves isn't enough. You to be able to do computation on them and for long enough to run Shor's algorithm till it pr
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by jgeada 1y ago
Except that factorization is exactly what is needed to break encryption, and so knowing what QC can do in that realm of mathematics and computing is exactly the critical question that needs to be asked. And a reminder that in the world of
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by jgeada 1y ago
Because scams destroy trust in institutions, and trust in US institutions is already worryingly low. Without trust in institutions the system collapses.
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If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame?(theverge.com)
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by jgeada 1y ago
In New York court on May 20th, lawyers representing victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York argued that Meta, Amazon, Discord, Snap, 4chan, and other social media companies all bear responsibility for radicalizing the shooter. The c
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by jgeada 1y ago
And the perverse incentive of this direction of thinking is that when you elect people with this thought pattern they prove the point by sabotaging the service. Then they say "see, government is ineffective ", and either directly
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by jgeada 1y ago
Everything is simple at the highest levels of abstraction. It is the details of actually making it work that raise the complexity levels and/or kill you if you don't get them right. Remember: a decision that in the abstract with i
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by jgeada 1y ago
Any assumption that there is targeting or any sort of planning by the chaos goblins we currently have running this administration is long on hope and short on reality.
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by jgeada 1y ago
It is the incentives. Maybe you're moral and keep to the straight and narrow. However, the system hires all types and the ones that just follow the incentives will do better. They get promoted, have more power, hire more people like th
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by jgeada 1y ago
Like I said "Not saying this as a value judgement, just that this practice is ancient." Heck, downvotes here in HN are basically the same thing. If a statement doesn't comply with both the explicit rules and implicit assumpti
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by jgeada 1y ago
Oh, give me a break with all the whining about cancel culture! Cancel culture used to be called social exclusion/ostracism, and it has been how people police themselves against undesirable people in pre-internet communities where most
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by jgeada 2y ago
OK, now explain where management's salary comes from. They don't produce anything, at best they're taste arbiters and at worst parasitic middle men that happen to control the budget; funny how that always means they get more
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by jgeada 2y ago
SpaceX and, for a time, Tesla. PayPal was already a success when he conned his way in. What other successes has he had? Twitter imploded when he took over, Boring company was never real, FSD at Tesla will never be real. And SpaceX is succee
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by jgeada 2y ago
we're pretty much training these models on the entirety of human recorded information (good & bad); sure, we can run larger and larger models, but it seems that fundamentally we've hit a wall in that none of these models are i
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by jgeada 2y ago
I mean, this is literally the definition of insanity: doing the same thing you imbeciles did 8 years ago and expecting different results. Electing a felon that notoriously managed to bankrupt several casinos and pretty much every business t
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by jgeada 2y ago
Maybe because magical thinking, based entirely on early childhood brainwashing and cultural conditioning and peer-pressure, has no place here.
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by jgeada 2y ago
It was a very profitable idea, either in actual $$$ or in access to power, for some. That is all that usually matters around here.
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by jgeada 2y ago
I think Hyrum's law really depends on APIs not applying consequences to people that depend on non-guaranteed behavior. The world needs more consequences for poor behavior. Just randomly change the non-guaranteed stuff in every release
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by jgeada 2y ago
Large machinery, but typically very low ground pressure. After all, that same machinery is designed to operate on arable soil without sinking or bogging down. It is my understanding that it is ground pressure more than absolute weight that
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by jgeada 2y ago
Only since the current SC redefined money as speech, wasn't a problem for the first couple of hundred of years when saner justices prevailed.
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by jgeada 2y ago
Old nursery rhyme precedes them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swal...
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by jgeada 2y ago
For the love of god, stop pretending that there aren't large factions within our country that are clearly deeply attached to blatant lies. The following are all objective facts, that are disputed because they're inconvenient to so
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Isn't this just restating the Dunning-Kruger effect? Without sufficient domain knowledge you don't even know you don't have the right data, perspectives, or even know the apparent obvious paths that are actually blind alleys
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by jgeada 2y ago
Staff government with people that hate government and got elected on the principle that government is the problem. Those people sabotage government at every opportunity, thus it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Use the chaos and dysfunct

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