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by locallost 2mo ago
I don't know why you're giving me the pillow example, when it's the exact thing I discuss. You know you are not supposed to drive drunk. You know a drug you get from the doctor has side effects, the doctor will warn you. Thos
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by locallost 2mo ago
The counterargument I heard recently is that what if doing something with your body ends up causing harm to others. E.g. you suddenly lose the ability to drive coherently. I agree everyone should do whatever they want, but if you drive drun
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by locallost 2mo ago
This is only going to get worse with AI and not just for food recommendations. Think "where do I go for a vacation" and then the recommendation is pretty much the same for everyone, and you end up in overcrowded places because eve
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by locallost 2mo ago
The same amount of people maybe that will not have quit and would go on to thrive. Two sides of the same coin. If you want to go to the bottom of it, it's wrong answers only.
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by locallost 2mo ago
As for paying people to stay out of the market: there are examples of this already, for instance it might be more beneficial for countries to pay coal miners not to work and spend money on shifting to clean energy sources. But since miners
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by locallost 2mo ago
Sure it is, as already explained multiple times.
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by locallost 2mo ago
Because they already have a cash cow in the Champions League. European teams on both the club and national team level dominate world football, they're not about to let a fox into the chicken coop. UEFA is just as corrupt as FIFA.
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by locallost 3mo ago
It will be difficult since they acquired it for less than a billion 10 years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/20/spacex-fundi...
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by locallost 3mo ago
It's still an interesting parallel, but that might be not be of interest if you're trying hard to be the middle guy from the bell curve meme.
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by locallost 3mo ago
But I think there's anyway a point there. I watched a talk once and it was humorously said that the amount of time spent discussing whether solution A is better than B is more than implementing both A and B and seeing in practice. It&#
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by locallost 3mo ago
You try to speed up work by parallelizing, either by adding more machines or more humans. Seems pretty similar.
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by locallost 3mo ago
Amdahl's law states diminishing returns are because some processes cannot be parallelized, thus eventually they become the bottleneck. For Brooks the communication between people starts to dominate the time spent the more people you ad
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by locallost 3mo ago
"Explains" why people "call" it genocide. It's obvious baloney and beating around the bush because it was trained on media that does the same, and it was likely instructed to do so in the same way the media is instr
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by locallost 3mo ago
Amdahl's law says something similar, adding more processors to a problem eventually gives almost no speedup because parts of the problem cannot be parallelized and need to be done sequentially. To the people wondering the meaning of th
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by locallost 3mo ago
Use it or lose it, but the problem is very old. The introduction of the alphabet/literacy almost certainly made people's memories worse -- up to that point they had to hold a lot more in their heads. At the same time it enabled a
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by locallost 3mo ago
I disagree with the analogy, where the fish can develop eyes again and see, if placed in another environment because the genes are still there. I don't think that companies that went blind have genes anymore. It's debatable if the
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by locallost 4mo ago
To be honest, Apple's pricing has been up to a point pretty user friendly the last few years. Two years ago I bought an iPad for around 400 because everyone thought they'll announce a new one. That didn't happen until last ye
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by locallost 4mo ago
I'm not sure that's true, although I don't know which SUVs you mean. I don't know all regulations in all countries in Europe, but think in principle they're all the same. So with the B permit, which is for basically
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by locallost 4mo ago
They're not building anything. The French are building it and doing a terrible job for the third time straight. Flamanville at home, Olkiluoto in Finland and now Hinkley.
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by locallost 4mo ago
Germany was a net importer of around 20TWh of electricity in 2025. If you want to tack that on be my guest, but coal use is still 2/3 down since 2000. It was in the 300TWh range then and it's now in the 90TWh range. The only farce
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by locallost 4mo ago
Germany replaced 2/3 of its coal use in 25 years while simultaneously inventing a whole new industry and a new way of thinking (some people still fail to understand it). This way of thinking has led to hundreds of gigawatts of new clea
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by locallost 4mo ago
I think you need to stop overthinking. Yes it can make you sick, but the only thing you can do is be on the lookout for it and be smart about avoiding it. I've had around 4-5 ticks in the last years, my kids and family probably around
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by locallost 4mo ago
I have a better list: * every dollar spent on building new nuclear will be put to use so late it effectively increases CO2 emissions * A country like Poland is the biggest emissions perpetrator in Europe, and the fact they are building nucl
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by locallost 4mo ago
Did someone mention Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy yet? It's not one organization, but there's just so much money in tech and it's so mainstream, that it just attracts more people that want to be successful not as a
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by locallost 4mo ago
I imagine it could be done like thus, but it is not, there's no infrastructure like this, so it's a moot point. Balcony solar was allowed so it's a hassle free DIY solution. You also don't get any money for feeding into
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by locallost 4mo ago
It can't be more or much more than the 800W as currently done in Germany because it would not be safe with the way electricity is delivered to a home. The reason is: when you pull electricity from the grid, the fuse would blow if you t
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by locallost 4mo ago
I don't want to pretend I can explain LLMs, but the same "math" can be applied for visual and non visual things. The dot product of two vectors gives you the angle between them. This is true in 2 or 3 dimensions. But it'
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by locallost 4mo ago
"Understanding"
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by locallost 5mo ago
There could be many alternatives, but not valid. Polymarket and Kalshi have banned insider betting.
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by locallost 5mo ago
This still doesn't mean they are good at it. For them it's like flipping a coin with two identical sides. It's just cheating.

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