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by jmyeet 4mo ago
This is a well-trodden path. A few years ago crypto gambling really took off. The big fish here is Stake. Back when Twitch still allowed slots, there was a flood of slots streamers. Ultimately this led to Twitch banning gambling. This was s
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> Building nuclear doesn't stop you from building whatever else you want. If you build the solar and wind you don't need the nuclear. That's the point. > Also, you're predictably citing a couple of bad nuclear acci
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I don't understand the online obsession with nuclear power in spite of all the evidence that it's simply not economical. Canada needs new power now. Not 15-20 years from now, which is how long it takes to build a new nuclear power
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"Baseless logarithm" is not nonsencial. Given that: d(logₐx)/dx = 1/(x log(a)) a baseless logarithm is simply a family of functions with similar properties. Perhaps it might be clearer if the author said somet
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> Here's the problem: * If no one had to pay, no one would. * We've tried free housing before - it suffered tragedy of the commons Here's the actual problem. You've based your argument on a debunked economic theory ie
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The butteryfly ballot was an approved but confusing ballot that almost certainly cost Gore the election. But what is the remedy? There's no other choice but to have a better ballot next time. "The voters were confused by a legal a
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The first section details how the author thinks of "log N" with no base as an abstract object rather than a number. Or what are you referring to?
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I have what I think is a good analogy for this problem. In the Olden Days [tm], jobs were advertised through recruiters, physical media (eg the paper) and connections. You had to review applications and conduct interviews. The cost of apply
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All these systems are a reflection of the time that they were designed. IPv6 is 30 years old. At that time a lot of threats just didn't exist. One of my favorite is the decision to default to /64 blocks. There was a time when the
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Maybe I'm misreading this. Tone and particularly sarcasm can be lost in text. But I think that comment you're responding to was making fun of the administration. One thing this administration is not known for is taking accountabil
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It's a good question and there are three aspects to this: 1. The US Navy is designed for the Cold WAr. It's often called a "deep blue" Navy because it's designed to operate in the open ocean in deep water. Also, it&
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If this was obvious to some random guy like me at least two months ago [1][2] without access to intelligence community information and military assessments then this should surprise absolutely no one in the administration. I said then and h
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So the EFF and ACLU seem to support this bill. I'm skeptical given one of the sponsors is Ted Cruz who famously said [1]: > After earlier stating he first ran for Congress in 2012 “with the stated intention of being the leading defe
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So you've made my point in showing how complex this is because you're incorrect [1][2]: > By default, Java maintains a cache of Integer objects for values between -128 and +127. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/qu
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I wanted to comment on this as well. The article mentions it but if you've never used Java in anger (is there any other way?) then readers may not understand the true implications of this because it's a breaking change, something
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To take your analogy further, not only was it thrown in the garage, but it was used to sue for billions of dollars in child support (Google) so really it had just become a cash grab. Anyway, I wouldn't even call Java "stunted&quot
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The type erasure version of this would look a lot like Hack [1]. So generic arguments would simply have a ? if they allow nulls eg List<?Point>. The list itself couldn't be null unless it was ?List<?Point>. Now, one can arg
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Java made several mistakes. It also made some questionable (yet often defensible) decisions. It's understandable. Type erasure was one I believe was a mistake. It's talked about in the article. Yes, you kept binary compatibility b
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In 1968, Garrett Hardin wrote a paper called "The Tragedy of the Commons" [1]. Many people seem to think this term dates further back to Adam Smith or earlier it does not. Well, this became hugely influential in noeliberalism and
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The one and only product for AI is labor displacement and wage suppression. That's why companies love it. That's why people hate it. We don't live in a society where the benefits will be shared. We live in a society that woul
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The US government exists to defend capital interests. It's why we can't buy BYD cars. It's why we can't import any cars unless they're 25 years old. It's why a Tiktok sale was forced. It's why the US is se
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xAI built an unpermitted power plant in a residential area to power Grok [1]. No planning permission, no public comment, no environmental study, etc. Even worse, the gas turbines don't comply with Federal standards for air pollutants b
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> The media is actively instilling hate for AI. > Data centers are evil. Water is being destroyed. Eight whole rivers are drained to make a cat jpeg. > Rich people are stealing all the jobs. That would be a rare occurrence of the m
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And watch them get charged with terrorism. Anti-nuke protestors who did no real harm were charged under 18 USC 1361 and faced up to 25 years in prison [1]. “Sabotage” here means over $1.000 in damage. [1]: https://www.americamaga
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It's not "good". A more accurate description would be "sometimes useful and not far from being good". The author is using pretty small models. There have been a lot of improvements that scale in any case (eg MTP) bu
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Some time ago I was playing around with 10GbE using a Macbook Pro. At the time that meant a Thunderbolt adapter (and still does). Thing is, the one I got was essentially just a giant heatsink [1]. It was a beast and belied just how much of
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I believe that OpenAI (I'll get to SpaceX in a second) has a huge valuation risk because: 1. It's a bet that OpenAI will "win" AI and have a significant moat; and 2. Future hardware improvements won't massively deva
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In 1968, Garrett Hardin wrote The Tragedy of the Commons [1]. This was used as the justification for mass privatization of many government bodies (including utilities) in the 1980s and 1990s. PG&E was always private but it suffers fro
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I will never understand not respect migrants whose first instinct is to close the door behind them the second they get to wherever they're going. This is not a real problem. First we're assuming that migrants only marry foreigners
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Just speaking for the US: - Immediate relatives of US citizens have no quota. Immediate relatives include children under 21 (it's complicated), parents and spouses only; - Siblings of US citizens have a quota. the wait is almost 20 yea

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