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by jsbg 1y ago
try reducing a sauce and you'll see how much energy it takes to actually evaporate "not a trivial amount"
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by jsbg 1y ago
No it doesn't. According to chatgpt about 9x as many people have lived since 1825 as there were then and the world gdp is 157x as much as it was then.
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by jsbg 1y ago
no they didn't
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Value is limited to the total possible energy expenditure of the human population and says who?
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by jsbg 1y ago
> (and proportional) again, no one is arguing that people who wear too much perfume are not obnoxious > a chemical attack what chemical?
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by jsbg 1y ago
this all contradicts this part > not because someone wears to much or smell to intensely a normal perfume/cologne wearer is not going to smell 10 feet away also > Fresh rain primarily eliminates free-floating chemical attacks and
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by jsbg 1y ago
no, how is that relevant? someone has something to sell for $1 that you value more than the $1 in your pocket so you buy it; doesn't matter if someone a block away is selling it for $0.50
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by jsbg 1y ago
arguably we would have better standards because it would mean less spent on wars, which are pure destruction of value
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by jsbg 1y ago
You are conflating money and value. Value is infinite, e.g. compare the world today to 200 years ago. Even relatively poor people live better today than kings did then. Creating value is not the same as printing money.
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by jsbg 1y ago
in fact value is created in every transaction: someone sells something for more money than it's worth to them and someone buys the thing for less money than the thing is worth to them (otherwise the transaction would not occur)
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by jsbg 1y ago
> We found files shown earlier in a PR to receive more comments than files shown later I often stop reviewing a PR if I have too many comments on it already that need to be addressed so I wouldn't say this is necessarily what it sou
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by jsbg 1y ago
> And it is not because someone wears to much or smell to intensely either. Sometimes I barely smell it but it feels equally violently bad. I don't understand how this is distinguishable from random smells going about life, like tra
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by jsbg 1y ago
> the LLM tries too hard to satisfy the critic The LLM doesn't have to know about the critic though. It can just output things and the critic is a second process that filters the output for the end user.
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by jsbg 1y ago
are movies like Evil Does Not Exist as popular in Japan as the examples in the article though? there must be a lot of similar niche movies made in the US
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by jsbg 1y ago
As an ESL person I do wish English used accents the way Spanish does to indicate what syllable has the primary emphasis.
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by jsbg 1y ago
What I find cringeworthy is @Suhail saying they thought he was in the US but actually was in India—outing his company as not checking employment eligibility [0]. If he was actually allowed to work in the US—which doesn't seem to be the
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by jsbg 1y ago
I invest about 40% of my income and other than necessities I spend an inordinate amount of money on travel, alcohol, and food. If I had more money I would travel more and spend more on alcohol and food.
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by jsbg 1y ago
But this is exactly what happens in a democracy: majority rule. You can't separate religion from state in this sense.
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by jsbg 1y ago
It's a good point about confirmation and survivorship biases. However, the Skype example is really an example of what happens when your codebase has coupling where there shouldn't be. Encapsulation is a foundational concept in sof
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by jsbg 1y ago
if you want other people to give you money you have to offer something they want, not something that interests you
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by jsbg 1y ago
> If you don't have an appropriate work visa, permanent residency or citizenship Well, TN is none of those, and here I am authorized to work legally. If I apply for another job elsewhere, the honest answer to this question is yes, d
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by jsbg 1y ago
Can you expand on that? TN does not require sponsorship even though most companies do agree to pay an immigration firm to help the applicant.
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Answering "Yes" to 1 when you don't have a green card or US citizenship would be a way to guarantee that I would rescind your offer and make a mental note to never trust you. I wouldn't trust you either. The questio
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by jsbg 1y ago
Not a lawyer but have been working in the US on a TN status for multiple employers and I would answer yes and discuss further with the recruiter or hiring manager. TN status is conceivably something you could get without help from the emplo
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by jsbg 1y ago
> If I could legally hypothecate my entire tax payment to science funding That is literally the opposite of how taxes work though. Other people decide how your money is spent. If your financial situation was that of the US govt [0] I als
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by jsbg 1y ago
assuming the government is already maximizing tax revenue on the laffer curve, what would you be willing to give up so that it could spend more on theoretical science research?
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by jsbg 1y ago
> but it’s really not how things work in a democracy The US is very purposefully not a democracy. > Using an inaccurate phrase like “central planning” calls your motives into question. My motives are transparently not to have the mon
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by jsbg 1y ago
> The whole reason to collect taxes is for good of the society. There are infinitely many things that are marginally good for society and finitely many resources to accomplish them. Spending on irreplicable research has an opportunity co
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by jsbg 1y ago
> it's almost entirely applied, [...] you need both halves there to sustain our current progress why do we need to subsidize "half" of these pharma companies' research? if they can't get it for free then they&#x2
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by jsbg 1y ago
> why must something be profitable in order to justify it? Are there no valid outcomes other than profit? Because if it isn't profitable then it needs to be subsidized to continue. Given the replication crisis I don't think it&

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