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by josu 2y ago
They literally removed the term "moneda de curso legal", which translates as "legal tender", from Article 5. https://x.com/monicataher/status/1884971499129610322
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by josu 2y ago
While it is true that adoption remained relatively low, the reason why they abandoned it is that the IMF made it a condition for the Salvadorian government to be able to receive a 1.4B loan.
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by josu 2y ago
> captchas I suspect that AIs are already more effective than humans at passing captchas.
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by josu 2y ago
It has replaced ~50% of my Google searches.
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by josu 2y ago
The US was one of the few countries in the world where there were unlimited SMS plans. So by the time Whatsapp came around instant free messaging was already ubiquitous. This wasn't the case for most other regions, where Whatsapp actua
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by josu 2y ago
What about the gold? We use dollars to measure that too.
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by josu 2y ago
Let's revisit this in 10 years.
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by josu 2y ago
>Bitcoin's price is simply another symptom of this. Bitcoin is not the symptom, Bitcoin is the answer. People are not longing Bitcoin, people are exiting the dollar, the euro, the yuan...
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by josu 2y ago
Polymarket is crypto adjacent, and the current administration has been going against the whole crypto ecosystem. I don't think it's just about predicting that Trump would win. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print&#x2F
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by josu 2y ago
Yeah, and that's arguably the reason why there is no European Apple, or Facebook, or Google, or Microsoft...
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by josu 2y ago
What alternatives do you recommend?
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by josu 2y ago
I have a similar conspiracy theory for DDG, the rapper. I used to go to DuckDuckGo by typing "ddg" in Google. Now, it's all mentions to DDG the rapper.
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by josu 2y ago
>but which are subtly geared to concentrate wealth at the top. Wealth tends to concentrate. So any action that creates wealth will also increase wealth concentration (in most cases). So unless economists, or anyone for that matter, try t
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by josu 2y ago
Kind of? >We're hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog
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by josu 2y ago
>Why not use alphanumeric characters? Someone hardcoded that field 50 years ago and it's impossible to change the type. It would be easier to just abandon planes altogether, and set up a parallel transportation system.
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by josu 2y ago
Related information: In the US (maybe everywhere?) air travel is safer than railroad travel. The railroad experience is usually much better though, I agree (compared to economy class). https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-co
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by josu 2y ago
It's cool to back it up with data, but any parent who has looked after a newborn knows this.
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by josu 2y ago
Totally off topic, but I love that the external visualisations are hosted on windows.net! https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/sparse-autoencode...
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by josu 2y ago
I don't think this investment is like the rest, there was a clear conflict of interest in the OpenAI investment given that the CEO of YC was also the founder and one of the directors (?) of OpeanAI. And not only Sam, Jessica Livingston
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by josu 2y ago
I love that the research and recovery probably took longer than just rewriting the code; and I'm sure that I would have tried that route too.
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by josu 2y ago
>We have the data to show that mindfulness works Do we? (From "Has the science of mindfulness lost its mind?" (2016)) "A recent comprehensive meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials showed that mindfulness intervention
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by josu 2y ago
According to this article there are 30[1]. Another whistleblower allegedly committed suicide two months ago [2]. [1] "Aside from Mr Barnett and Mr Dean, there are some 30 Boeing whistleblowers, including Mr Salehpour." https:&#x2
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by josu 2y ago
Kind off. You don't need to spend the tax money helping the environment, you just need to restitute whatever utility those affected by the negative externality have lost. For example, people may be willing to accept an increase in CO2
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by josu 2y ago
In most European countries gasoline is taxed at more than 100% (or 50% of the price), so it seems that at least for passenger cars, the externalities are mostly mitigated.
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by josu 2y ago
>The sale will be for $30-50B (CI 50%), it won't include important ByteDance IP that will have to be recreated by a US-based company, likely Snap or X. Why replicate it? Can't ByteDance license the IP to the US company?
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by josu 2y ago
What about Hong Kong?
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by josu 2y ago
I tried with a few LLMs, and they seem to agree (sometimes) around 10^15 lumens. A light wouldn't work, but it seems that a nuclear explosion close to Little Boy's would do it. PS: The best way to get an answer on the internet is
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by josu 2y ago
It is crazy that if we were observing Voyager 1 through a telescope, and we remotely turned on a light on the spaceship, it would still take us 1 day to see the light turn on.
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by josu 3y ago
OP's article states: >A total of $12.5bn (£10bn) was embezzled, the equivalent of almost 3% of Vietnamese gross domestic product, but prosecutors said on Thursday the total damages caused by the scam now amounted to $27bn.
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by josu 3y ago
Some context for Europe. >Forest area has increased by 9% since 1990, although the rate of expansion is slowing down https://foresteurope.org/state-of-europes-forests/

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