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by kortilla 2y ago
> France also has majority ownership of the nuclear plants, something that would never fly in the US (because Socialism!). Socialism is a red herring. 3 mile island and Chernobyl showed that state owned and private owned can equally be f
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by kortilla 2y ago
The public likes the immediate access to healthcare, they just don’t like it when the bill comes due. That’s why you get complaints about healthcare wait times in Canada and the UK when people propose adopting fully nationalized systems lik
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by kortilla 2y ago
I can’t imagine you actually work in the US in software and expect candidates to pay to fly out for an interview. I would withdraw from the process immediately if I encountered a company so cheap
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by kortilla 2y ago
Sleeper cars in the US cost more than a hotel for a night. Saving the cost of a hotel is not really a selling point
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by kortilla 2y ago
Hierarchy doesn’t make sense if you care about multiple dimensions, which I often do with notes. Sometimes I want to look at all notes relating to c++, sometimes everything related to a personal project. Directories don’t support that witho
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by kortilla 2y ago
The federal reserve literally just got through a monetary tightening policy that paid zero regard to the stock market. The fed will juice to keep employment up and tighten to keep inflation down. They will not support stocks at the expense
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by kortilla 2y ago
The risk of a crash is why you stay out of single stock concentration and why you avoid day trading. Its not an argument to stay out of the market.
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by kortilla 2y ago
> That’s immoral. You’re gonna need to back this up with some reasoning. That’s exactly how every asset works when demand outpaces supply.
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by kortilla 2y ago
No, “holding it wrong” is the sarcastic version. “You’re using it wrong” is a super common way to tell people they are literally using something wrong.
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by kortilla 2y ago
SpaceX and NASA countdowns aren’t quite checklists in the same sense of the surgeon’s or pilot’s checklist. Those countdowns are verifying that a bunch of launch blocking gates have not been closed. The key difference is that it’s not a rem
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by kortilla 2y ago
Inflation adjusted gas prices have been on a slight downward trend for a long long time: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/gasoline-prices-adjust... With the increase in fuel economy, the cost of gas as an actual pain p
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by kortilla 2y ago
Non sequitur. It requires no technology to check an ID on a reservation
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by kortilla 2y ago
> Why should restaurant reservations be any different? Because they are absolutely constrained by supply. Restaurants have limited space and supplies to cook. What you are suggesting is prima facie ridiculous. Can you suggest how you cou
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by kortilla 2y ago
You’re saying “less legislation” in more words.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Things like this are similar to law firms. The shelf life of vulnerabilities means that there isn’t a lot of intellectual property owned by the company. The value is in the people’s skills. So once people get really good they quickly realiz
976.
by kortilla 2y ago
Millennials were the same for the ones born in the late 80s and early 90s.
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by kortilla 2y ago
> A fast food job might be $17/hr, but the cost of gas is >2x what it was when that same job paid $8/hr This is probably the worst example. In 2008 gas cost as much as it does now and fast food did only pay $8/hr. htt
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by kortilla 2y ago
They don’t continue with any useful context length though. Each time the job runs it would decide to create an ice cream stand in LA and not go further.
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by kortilla 2y ago
I don’t buy it. Alignment faking has very little overlap with the motivation to something with no prompt. Look at the hackernews comments on alignment faking on how “fake” of a problem that real is. It’s just more reacting to inputs and try
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by kortilla 2y ago
That’s ridiculous. Literally everything can be controlled by a computer by telling people what to do with emails, voice calls, etc. Yet GPT doesn’t even get past step 1 of doing something unprompted in the first place. I’ll become worried w
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by kortilla 2y ago
Don’t worry. This thing only knows how to answer well structured technical questions. 99% of engineering is distilling through bullshit and nonsense requirements. Whether that is appealing to you is a different story, but ChatGPT will happi
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by kortilla 2y ago
That’s a stupid comparison because country borders don’t have physical differences. The stomach is nothing like the lungs. Inhale a glass of water and let us know how fake that difference is.
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by kortilla 2y ago
This is meaningless without talking about the capabilities of the app. I’ve seen examples of this before where non-programmers come up with something using an LLM that could just be a webpage with camera access and some javascript
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by kortilla 2y ago
Military officers are not immune to believing crazy shit. The eye witness testimony amounts to “I don’t understand what I saw”, not “aliens”.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Yeah, I’m not saying they weren’t doing impressive things. I’m saying they were still severely limited and would not be capable of a “go around without touching the wheel/brakes test” like a Tesla can in the entire US now.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Because when a new technology is demonstrated with a really esoteric use-case, it comes off as being useless for anything more useful.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Confidence in the timeline is one read. Lack of confidence and finding partners to shoulder the financial burden at the cost of lower upside is another.
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by kortilla 2y ago
AVs already exceed the quite low bar for humans. The real crux is liability when they screw up.
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by kortilla 2y ago
> and even systems from 2016 would usually pass your "go there without touching the wheel or pedals" test This is complete bullshit. The systems in 2016 were restricted to pre-mapped areas with lots of training. (i.e. the waymo
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by kortilla 2y ago
There is literally zero incentive for a doctor not to over recommend procedures. That’s why no medical system in the world works that way.

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