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by jjk166 11mo ago
The feeling when you know you need to power through and just do something isn't frustration. Cleaning a dirty toilet isn't frustrating - it's unpleasant and unrewarding work that just needs to be done, but there is no feeling
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by jjk166 11mo ago
It's very reasonable to take a step back and reassess at the first indication of unexpected resistance. When you decide to do something, you're making that decision based on how you expect things to go; if they aren't going t
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by jjk166 11mo ago
The addition of ingredients is the processing. The different levels of processing refer to what types and quantities of ingredients are added. It's like complaining that people are labelling food as poisoned when they should really be
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by jjk166 11mo ago
People will pay for DLC what the DLC is worth, which should in theory be directly proportional to how much effort it makes to produce the DLC. 4 small $20 expansions could be much more lucrative than an $80 new game which needs to not only
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by jjk166 11mo ago
If you redistributed this water to a million people suffering from lack of water, they'ed get about 2 shot glasses worth per day.
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by jjk166 11mo ago
The question is not "do all quants make money modelling human behavior?" It's "do any quants make money modelling human behavior?"
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by jjk166 11mo ago
There's going to be ground fighting somewhere, and those nations that are in similar situations to Ukraine right now should be taking a lot of notes from the Ukraine conflict. Taiwan should be setting up the infrastructure to mass prod
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by jjk166 11mo ago
The Senate has been nothing but a non-population-proportional version of the House since the 17th amendment. The House was supposed to give voice to the people while the Senate saw to the needs of the nation. The requirement for the house a
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by jjk166 1y ago
So you are saying that if there exist quant traders making lots of money off their models, then that would be evidence that human behavior can be accurately mathematically modeled?
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by jjk166 1y ago
Ukraine is using drones as a substitute for many military capabilities it doesn't have, and is fighting a war where it is in desperate need of whatever munitions it can get to be used over a relatively short distance. Drones have undou
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by jjk166 1y ago
Presumably they would do so anyways without Canada adding 300,000 reservists.
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by jjk166 1y ago
If you are in a civil war and a war with a foreign power at the same time, you're already suffering the worst possible consequences of cancelling elections.
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by jjk166 1y ago
There is some nuance. Wikipedia is a tertiary source for the subjects of its articles. However, it is a primary source for what is on wikipedia. You can cite an encyclopedia the same way you would cite the dictionary (which is also a tertia
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Given your earlier claim, surely you must believe that if they defied your wisdom and chose this course of action, they wouldn't be able to do this because they would have to devote a substantial fraction of their military capacit
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by jjk166 1y ago
> You’d take up arms against the U.S. because it invaded Canada? In a heartbeat. I oppose violence in general, but if forced to choose between fighting an innocent Canadian and fighting someone who has betrayed America's ideals and
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by jjk166 1y ago
The US invading Canada isn't a realistic possibility. Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US, to say nothing of obliterating the geopolitical system. Attempting to annex in any way shape or form is currently nothi
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by jjk166 1y ago
That's not at all the reason. Encyclopedias are tertiary sources, compilations of information generated by others. They are neither sources of first hand information (primary sources) nor original analysis (secondary sources). You can&
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by jjk166 1y ago
Seems like a generally good idea for creating a large reserve force. It definitely beats general conscription. I don't see why Canada in particular needs such a large reserve force. This would jump Canada from number 127 to number 52 i
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by jjk166 1y ago
Change is inevitable, doesn't mean either the transition or the new normal will be pleasant. The internal combustion engine eliminated a lot of need for equine toil, but horses have not generally reaped the benefits of automation.
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by jjk166 1y ago
The difference is that while they can restrict the what, they can't restrict the how. Yeah they could make training LLMs illegal, but they can't for example put a quota on how much training you can do. Passing a law to ban somethi
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by jjk166 1y ago
The combine harvester and the automated telephone switchboard were tools. If a tool allows for tasks to be done with much less labor, and the quantity of those tasks that need doing don't increase by a commensurate amount, then it does
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by jjk166 1y ago
> So either their business is a dead end, the inefficiency is at the management layer, or AI isn’t actually making workers more efficient. I'd bet on all three being generally true.
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by jjk166 1y ago
> The approach we have adopted in this study also has limitations. While MRIO analysis is a powerful method for estimating the paid labour and resource use associated with different consumption profiles, it functions at the sectoral leve
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by jjk166 1y ago
> that changes nothing. Yeah, turns out that only a very small fraction of drugs entering the US transit the Caribbean, so no amount of effort interdicting drug boats there is going to lead to meaningful improvement over the previous sta
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by jjk166 1y ago
Please share the evidence that the boats being targeted cost $500K, that they took off from an origin point of known drug trafficking, that they were on a one way trip, or that they were surveilled with advanced military tech.
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by jjk166 1y ago
The lower resolution geostationary satellites transmit every 10 to 15 minutes and the data is made available within 30 minutes of transmission. There are polar orbit satellites which can potentially make detections faster but they only over
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by jjk166 1y ago
> demanding citations is the favorite trick of people who want to waste your time precisely because they disagree with you and no matter what you come up with, they'll never give in. therefore, one should never give in to it. That&#
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by jjk166 1y ago
Or for style points you can hop it.
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by jjk166 1y ago
> It implies enough capacity to store everything. But what you describe is not storing everything. I am describing what GP is describing. The original comment does not imply storage any more than mine. The comment didn't say anythin
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by jjk166 1y ago
Republicans (or a former republican running as an independent) have won 5 of the last 9 NYC Mayoral elections. Mamdani will be the third democratic mayor elected since the 80s.

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