krupan

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by krupan 1mo ago
I'm going to try and summarize. You said, essentially, "sure the US had freedom, but maybe the amount of land and resources it had is the real reason it has done so well." Walter countered with, "Taiwan is a tiny island
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by krupan 1mo ago
Prosperity is so much more than just GDP. But look, this discussion started with someone saying our corrupt government is bad, and then throwway120385 described something horrible and called it libertarian and I just had to correct that la
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by krupan 1mo ago
"The US is developed, so it’s automatically more centrally controlled than most nations." What?? Can you explain this better? The more developed a nation the more centrally controlled it is? The USSR was more developed than the
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by krupan 1mo ago
We're they more prosperous than Uganda? I don't know much about Uganda's history but the 21 million citizens of the USSR that Stalin murdered were as unpropserous as anyone could be. It was an incredibly uneven prosperity i
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by krupan 1mo ago
Ok, maybe I went too far. There are the total anarchist libertarians that don't want any form of government. Personally I'm not sure I want to go that route. So my libertarian government will need a police force of some sort.
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by krupan 1mo ago
Can't reply to tombert, we're too deeply nested for hacker news, but the Microsoft example is great. The government didn't have anything to do with them being a monopoly? Have you heard of copyright laws? Did you know that
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by krupan 1mo ago
Nothing is impossible, but it's really difficult. If some greedy entrepreneur is raking in the cash with some product or service then of course another greedy entrepreneur will see that and start competing with the first guy. The evi
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by krupan 1mo ago
If this isn't the complete anarchy form of libertarianism then the government can still enforce laws against air pollution. And there would be no way for a government official to make an underhanded executive branch "policy"
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by krupan 1mo ago
Government will not give any help to any corporation and we, the masses, will be empowered to stand up to corporations ourselves. And to be clear, when we talk about Power here we aren't talking about enforcing our will with violence
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by krupan 1mo ago
Yes. The fact is we have no idea what's in these models. People are afraid of mkultra-ed humans that turn into killing machines with a given trigger word, but here we've built machines that are exactly that, not even intentional
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by krupan 1mo ago
We in the US are so very far still from meeting the goals of libertarianism. Even farther than before with our current administration! The current US government helps big business through a combination of tax breaks, burdensome regulations
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by krupan 1mo ago
It is troublesome that libertarianism isn't super well defined, but no version of libertarianism has the government "doing business" with anyone. It only enforces laws, it doesn't buy and sell anything, and it certainly
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by krupan 1mo ago
The US stood alone and enacted socialist ideas? You have heard of the USSR, haven't you? If the US was enacting socialist ideas it definitely wasn't alone in doing so. Next I wonder what "a lot of socialist ideas" were
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by krupan 1mo ago
Not true. The major rallying cry in my home state is "no more surveillance data centers!"
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by krupan 1mo ago
You seem to be describing our current corrupt democracy that produces crony capitalism that gives favors to big businesses and enables the business owners to become one of the 6 people that own everything. A major point of libertarianism is
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by krupan 1mo ago
Does everyone in Japan wear slip-on shoes?
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by krupan 1mo ago
Good writers break grammar rules when it helps convey a point, emphasize an idea, or just makes the writing more interesting. You are completely missing out on that.
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by krupan 1mo ago
Not sending you anything before you make a purchase and providing the unsubscribe option are MAJOR changes from before. Some sites even give you an option at checkout to not have them email you. That is businesses being very careful. In
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by krupan 1mo ago
I don't know about Waymo specifically, but I worked for a competitor for a while and the AI driving the car is not a large language model. It isn't trained on stories or even words. It's whole flow is: given this sensor (ca
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by krupan 1mo ago
Are you saying LLMs are reproducible? I seem to get at least a slightly different answer every time I ask the same question
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by krupan 1mo ago
Open source does not apply to AI and we should discourage anyone from using that term. All the models are opaque and proprietary. You cannot go into any source code and fix bugs, or add features, or study it to learn more. It's no
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by krupan 1mo ago
I'm confused. Who made this benchmark and why? It is fascinating to me that people are putting this much work into trying to measure and evaluate LLMs when we've never gone to this level for humans. Sounds like they also built
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by krupan 1mo ago
Kind of kidding, but can we just put GLP-1s in the water supply already? So many benefits!
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by krupan 1mo ago
Using newpipe instead of YouTube helps a lot. It makes YouTube pretty boring. Plus you can just download the few useful videos that you use for reference over and over and only browse through those
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by krupan 1mo ago
One of the coolest things I've discovered with Immich is you can share an album link with a group of friends and they can all upload and download photos to/from that album without creating an account . It's way lower fricti
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by krupan 1mo ago
Why is a marketing press release for a propietary product number 1 on hacker news. Again.
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by krupan 1mo ago
How is this different from Kodi (which was XBMC, right?)? Why do I need both? Why would I want to futz around with a web browser on my TV? How am I going to type in my passwords?
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by krupan 1mo ago
Yes, I didn't realize it was you in both threads either
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by krupan 1mo ago
I self host a lot, including jellyfin, but I've never tried to do the Linux HTPC. Whenever I look into it everything has changed from a few years ago, it all sounds difficult to get working and keep working, and I give up. I didn&#x2
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by krupan 1mo ago
Competition enforces integrity? I can see how it might help, but I'm afraid it's a deeper moral problem

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