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I’m astounded and confused that you and a lot of other commenters are giving Reddit the benefit of the doubt. At a time when tensions between Reddit management and its users are at an all-time high, and both sides are maliciously striking b
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I’d be curious to see if the optimizer couldn’t detect in this instance that that code is, in fact, unreachable. It seems to me like it should detect it with ease. I will concede that the “you should never get here” type errors are tempting
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IMO (systems programming background), the litmus test for panic! vs. Result doesn’t exist. Don’t panic.
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There are people that aren’t working in order to pay their living expenses. Think young adults, students, or retired folks picking up a side gig to pass time.
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Consider the contrary idea from Thomas Sowell: “ Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated
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Or, it is a viable strategy because enough people are doing it. We’ve seen this with ESG funds for instance. More investors want to invest in ESG funds, because bigger firms decided to. That makes ESG funds go up, and those investors then
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Of course I’m only speculating on how someone who has lived their entire life primitively might feel - I haven’t done that myself. I’m looking at things from the perspective of if I were born into a tribal, primitive society. As you alluded
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In future discussions, you might have better luck eliciting useful responses from people when you don’t pit them to argue against an AI, IMO. It reads to me like “I didn’t want to put in the effort to generate my own thoughts, but I expect
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I had a different take on his writings than yours. Rather than thinking his solution was bad, he encouraged me to question why we “spend our days improving humanity”. What does “improving humanity” even mean? What’s the metric we are optimi
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This isn’t a totally fair comparison. When people buy shoes, their criteria isn’t normally as low as “covers my feet”. They have a specific style they want, a specific material, and will shop amongst shoes that fit that description. Crocs a
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This, along with recent Reddit goings-on has made me realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication. Take either Reddit or Stack Exchange as examples. They build a platform, and users contribute their time, thought,
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I see the vision you’ve laid out. The idea of “the information is just… there” sounds useful to me, too. Maybe it’s even the next step in computing. The hurdle to overcome in my opinion is the form factor. Everyone walking around wearing sk
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These “protests” strike me as strange. Ostensibly, everyone’s goal is for Reddit to reverse their decision. However, I can’t help but think many users want to quit Reddit, and this is the straw that is breaking the camel’s back.
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I’m not implying teachers are uneducated, but rather that it’s important to understand why what they are teaching is accepted. For instance, creationism used to be taught in public schools, we used to not believe germs to be the cause of il
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What you’ve said above is why Manjaro doesn’t notionally make much sense to me. Manjaro is the intersect on the Venn diagram of “wants to be able to build everything up themselves and customize everything, at great time cost to self, and un
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More generally, we should be skeptical of all new information we learn. What makes someone more trustworthy than an LLM? For science we need experiments, theories, mechanisms, etc. For history we need sources, ideally primary, and working f
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Really, the primary difference is that the US has covert god credentials, as where China has overt god credentials. “Functional constitutionally granted protections from government overreach” don’t apply against agencies with qualified immu
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Agreed that it’s great from a transparency perspective. At the moment it is very complicated to track the value/cost of welfare. That makes it very easy for both sides to argue that it is too much or little - very few know what it is.
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Regardless of which side of the political aisle one is on, this is one reason why UBI/a negative income tax should draw attention. I don’t know if it is the best solution, but it would empower those on welfare today by allowing them to
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Globalization over the last several decades has greatly reduced inflation and allowed the first world to “gain” far more wealth than would have actually happened otherwise. For instance, 70 years ago, more American cars were built in Americ
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This is really cool. I’ll be interested to see if the team can produce useful and provably hard cryptographic hash functions with this tech. The other interesting application that this inspires is use of this tech to optimize the optimizati
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> A new working paper finds that borrowers whose loan payments were paused actually had more debt at the end of 2021 than those whose loans were never paused. Yes, my student loans are the same as they were the day of the paid. Why on ea
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This begs the question: what is Apple’s real play with Apple Vision? It sounds like there’s a real possibility that, even at a $3500 price point for hardware, the consumer is still the product. What else can their system determine about som
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There are some industries that take advantage of FPGAs alongside CPU(s) to move some computations into hardware for speed gains while maintaining flexibility. Maybe something like that is possible. For examples, look at the Versal chip.
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As someone who recently started their first web app in Rust and is using Yew for the front-end, I wish they included benchmarks against other Rust frameworks. I also wish I had more experience and had looked harder; Yew is very verbose in m
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Please refer to the community guidelines [1]: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teac
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> I want to study more, read more, and finish my coding projects. Be honest with yourself: do you really want to do those things? Or do you want them to be done? I suspect it’s the latter, and you don’t actually want to do what you say y
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> what you have is a pyramid scheme. Yes, that is exactly what we have. Our social security and Medicare systems are nearing insolvency because they are Ponzi schemes that rely on growth. Growth that didn’t happen. That pyramid is built
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I’m not advocating for a “slap on the wrist”. Between “slap on the wrist” and “take every cent and nationalize the company” is a very large range of ways to handle the matter. What confuses me is why you seemingly do not believe companies’

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