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by ls612 8mo ago
??? How are AI and GLP medications in the same category as Kalshi or sports betting? One is (economically at any rate) a tool to produce code and the other is a weight loss drug that actually works. Neither are a “casino” in any meaningful
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by ls612 8mo ago
YouTube pays something like 55% of its revenue to creators which is effectively its cost of content.
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by ls612 8mo ago
Every law in the sense of cumulatively, the ‘rule of law’ system has the same property of “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” that Beria’s system did.
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by ls612 8mo ago
My statement has nothing to do with contemporary politics and is not unique in the slightest to the US. For an example you are likely sympathetic to, consider the experience of Pavel Durov since late 2024.
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by ls612 8mo ago
What portion of BigCo use RHEL or other paid solutions vs using a standard distro and thus not counting as “revenue” for anyone?
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by ls612 8mo ago
I think that they definitely wanted to iOSify Windows but the colossal failure of Windows 8 and Windows RT led them to take a different approach.
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by ls612 8mo ago
Every law is like this. Only fools and schoolchildren believe that the rule of law means anything other than selective punishment of those who displease the ruling class.
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by ls612 8mo ago
The particular people patio11 is referencing are in jail and charged but not yet convicted. The emails have been entered into evidence and thus made public as part of the trial.
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by ls612 8mo ago
He literally writes about how the claims of racism and profiling were in bad faith, intended to frighten the state investigators, and that this is known from email communications revealed in discovery on some of these prosecutions where the
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by ls612 8mo ago
It’s driven by a fundamental shift in political economy. Technology centralizing power and making computation and communication (and thus control) cheap means that politics becomes a winner take all industry, in the parlance of the valley.
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by ls612 8mo ago
This will be used to take down yt-dlp (again) so it is not at all an outcome to be glad for.
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by ls612 8mo ago
What conceptually makes it hard to make an AI system with a concept of a "control plane"?
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by ls612 8mo ago
Nit: Ukraine invaded and occupied hundreds of square miles of Russian territory in 2024 and Russia is nuclear capable.
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by ls612 8mo ago
You're right that absent some colossal screwup you could never prove one way or another that it was legit vs planted, but stuff like that changes my priors on what I believe can happen. The fact that it is completely deniable also incr
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by ls612 8mo ago
Living through all of the events of 2020 in Minneapolis of all places led me to the conclusion that when push comes to shove there is no law, only hard power and the will to use it. If you want examples of events that could be reasonably in
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by ls612 8mo ago
When the FBI comes to you, an executive at a printer manufacturer, and says “implement tracking dots or we will discover criminal images on your son’s laptop” or some similar situation the existence or lack thereof of any legal requirement
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by ls612 8mo ago
We don't go after Adobe for doing that. We go after the person who did it.
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by ls612 8mo ago
Obviously this means the Bash developers went to his island. (/s because this is the internet and it’s sadly necessary)
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by ls612 8mo ago
Because there is no reason to believe that any artificial system has the sorts of human frailties that people are implicitly afraid of it having like greed or wrath. ChatGPT has no more ability to covet our resources than Windows does, it&#
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by ls612 9mo ago
Obesity reduction if seen through in the long run will have comparable benefits to smoking cessation. The scale of the win here is hard to overstate.
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by ls612 9mo ago
Everyone wants to shit on this news but I think it’s amazing. You can’t go back and change the past but if you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before there’s reason to celebrate even if it would have been nicer if it happened in 2016.
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by ls612 9mo ago
People who take the idea of “AI takeoff” seriously have read way too much science fiction.
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by ls612 9mo ago
Gold fell over 10 percent yesterday and silver almost 20 percent because Trump announced that the economist friendly choice would be nominated for the Fed. A lot of the precious metals market activity was based on fears about US monetary po
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by ls612 9mo ago
This is the classic commodities cycle, and it happens everywhere in an economy where aggregate supply is inelastic in the short term but aggregate demand can fluctuate quickly. The reason it’s coming for DRAM first is that memory is the clo
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by ls612 9mo ago
It’s probably illegal for a state law enforcement official (presumably) to share it with randos on the internet though.
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by ls612 9mo ago
Some of the signal messages I've seen screenshotted (granted screenshots can be altered) make it seem like the participants have access to some sort of ALPR data to track vehicles that they think are ICE. That would probably be an ille
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by ls612 9mo ago
Given that models seem to be converging to similar capabilities and that there are plenty of open weights models out there market competition should drive prices towards the marginal cost of inference.
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by ls612 9mo ago
I saw a similar inflection point to this guy personally, in 2024 the models weren’t good enough for me to use them for coding much, but around the time of o1/o3/Gemini 2.5 was when things changed and I haven’t looked back since.
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by ls612 9mo ago
It’s certainly doing the first, not so sure about the second.
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by ls612 9mo ago
I just checked on my personal desktop, which has Windows 11 installed using a local user account and is signed into my MS account for OneDrive and my account is listed as having no recovery codes in the cloud. I don’t recall editing anythi

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