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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’m totally fine saying newspapers, conceptually, are just net negative. They are a tool that can be used for good or evil but largely inevitably end up in the hands of selfish commercial or political interests.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
That sounds like an extremely unlikely claim
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
100% this. Setting the topic of conversation for millions of Americans is absolutely unacceptable to throw to the hands of foreign powers.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’ve slowly become aware, over time, that David Lynch and David Bowie seemed to be the social bridge that was secretly connecting all of the artists I like across seemingly every medium. Like an erdos number for these two davids that seemed
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Return was a phenomenal mix of things. It didn’t match the vibe of the original too often, and when it did it was probably weaker. But overall? Some of the best television. The Mitchum (sp?) brothers arc evokes so much joy it’s just hilario
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’m fairly certain I remember them suggesting that the original switch was capable of doing this but then they either never granted access to it in the dev kit or they just never had it end up getting used in any noteworthy games. Nintendol
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
And that portion of its existence is not relevant to what happened in this war This was a proxy war with Iran
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Hamas was built over a long period by Iran, through Syria. Iran is much weaker than before, Syria is no longer a route to send supplies, and Hezbollah has been gutted.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
It was 100% driven by the weakness in Hezbollah and Russia and Iran. There’s no doubt.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
This is the narrative that the extremists want to push, but it’s hardly the truth. Hamas was not some grassroots movement of frustrated Palestinians. It was an Iranian proxy force masterminded, funded, supplied, trained, and instructed by I
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Which is exactly what’s been going on in Ukraine. Russian hacking efforts have had negligible effects.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
The reserve requirement comment feels out of place. Banks don’t keep their reserve requirements in physical cash.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Sounds dubious. Most trees are not nearly 50% roots by biomass. The roots that remain will get broken down, but not into gases exclusively. A new tree that’s growing is actively capturing new carbon. Cutting down a tree won’t help much, but
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Wouldn’t mean much. Civilians from Syria are hardly a representative sample of “normal”. I wouldn’t count on the country being “normal” going forward either.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’ve never played this game but it reminds me of some railroad game I did play where you could put all of your money into a commodity, and that would raise the price of the commodity… which would start causing the overall value of your asse
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
The problem is that China is very weak right now. If they tank their economy and seize Taiwan… they’ll be much worse off. The threatened trump tariffs are bad but nearly as bad as what’s being done to Russia For example
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
That’s great. They’re still capable of doing other things
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
A war against Taiwan would be hugely costly in terms of sanctions. That would hardly unite the country.
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Xi could feasibly get overthrown if the economy continues to suck. It would not surprise me if the successor wants to suck up the US
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’d like it if we could trust agents to have agency but in practice they dont
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Humans are autonomous and not task specific
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Most “agents” are just starter prompts + a small set of tools that they can use to respond to things, like access to a database. They’re workflow automation
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
It is the difference between picking a random point along a line and picking a random number from a set. A dart throw will not land in the range of [9,10) more often than [1,9) simply because we are considering irrationals in the former. T
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
No, because a dart throw is not a uniform draw from set elements. Is a uniform draw of length which the inclusion of irrational numbers does not affect. You are 90% likely to throw something in the first 90% of the line. It doesn’t matter i
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
> This seems to be just you being confused over the concept of a uniform distribution. Try and follow the example again. The distribution is all rationals 1-9 and all numbers 9-10. Sampling uniformly such that each distance is equally li
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
I’m struggling to understand how a thrown dart could land on an irrational number. It seems definitionally that any physically realized outcome must pertain to a rational number because it is impossible to physically measure one at any leve
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
> If you pick a point along the number line at random, it’s almost guaranteed to be irrational. I’m having a hard time grasping this one. Feels like the coastline paradox on a straight line of a known length. Are irrational numbers even
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
By someone do you mean the women enduring childbirth still? Did we forget to tell them all was forgiven and the punishment was withdrawn?
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by jncfhnb 2y ago
Their market share has significantly declined

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