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by maest 9mo ago
With credit, it's the merchant who loses out. They get bullied by the credit card provider to eat losses. Relatedly, the credit card system is truly a tragedy of the commons situation. It's a ~2% drag on the economy for what? For
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by maest 9mo ago
Mandatory adblock for children is something I could support.
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by maest 9mo ago
"It's not about X, it's about Y" is a very common (and tired) LinkedIn trope.
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by maest 9mo ago
> It is not about what you are doing, it is always about how you do it. It saddens me to see how the LinkedIn slop style is expanding to other platforms
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by maest 9mo ago
All the brand naming makes this read like something from American Psycho.
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by maest 9mo ago
> earned US "energy independence" In a very myopic way.
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by maest 9mo ago
It's not unlikely LLMs could gain more taste in the future. So I'm not sure how long this moat will stay standing
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by maest 9mo ago
That's a false dichotomy. "Since there are murderers out there, it is fine for me to murder/there is no point in trying to reduce murder rates."
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by maest 9mo ago
Trump still has plenty of support from large swathes of Americans despite his increasingly more overt actions. For many, he _is_ doing what he was elected to do. This _is_ what the American voter wants. The American voter wants illegal immi
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by maest 9mo ago
This argument is particularly pernicious as it can, in it's general form, always deflect from the issues of climate change and always focus on blaming local governments. This is what will happen in the future btw - climate change will
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by maest 9mo ago
It is, however, an excuse to shoot an unarmed, non-threatening person. (I don't necessarily mean the Minneapolis case - for example, consider the Shaver shooting)
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by maest 9mo ago
ICE officer. What a bizarre question to ask.
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by maest 9mo ago
> even if their recommendations on baby sleep are impossible If you put yourself in their shoes, you realise that you have to give advice for the 10-20th percentile parents (or worse) because you are giving the same advice to everyone. T
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by maest 9mo ago
> the "pun" in Veridis Quo I can't believe I've only just learned about this
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by maest 10mo ago
Adblock won't block the "subscribe for 2 free articles" popups.
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by maest 10mo ago
Yes, that is the correct statement.
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by maest 10mo ago
You understand it incorrectly
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by maest 10mo ago
You may find this a useful read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by maest 10mo ago
> Our product is designed to be refurbished, but not user-replaceable. Why?
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by maest 10mo ago
You can pay with money.
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by maest 10mo ago
While I get your frustration, the root cause of the issue is not shareholder value maximisation, it's the failure modes of the free market. Monopolies, lack of transparency, lack of competition, regulatory capture, failure to price in
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by maest 10mo ago
It's not an "either/or", as you seem to keep implying.
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by maest 10mo ago
I assume you forgot the /s. Otherwise this is a very weak argument. Using the Internet is approximately mandatory in our current society. "Don't use the Internet" is not useful advice.
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by maest 11mo ago
> the air pumps needed quarters I landed at JFK and was looking for a stroller to stack my suitcases on. The kind of stroller that is free in every single airport I've been to. I was shocked to see it costs $7. The guy who (I presum
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by maest 11mo ago
Related: You should expect to keep getting "no"s until you get a yes. That means, getting a "no" is actually normal, it's not failing.
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by maest 11mo ago
> Why aren't tables first class citizens in programming languages? They are in q/kdb and it's glorious. Sql expressions are also first class citizens and it makes it very pleasant to write code
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by maest 11mo ago
There are ways to inject biases in a model by applying weights at different transformer layers. https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude Edit: I misread the question, I thought you were asking about how OpenAI
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by maest 11mo ago
There may have been some external meddling from a certain international superpower.
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by maest 11mo ago
From what I can see, it's not about higher throughput (which stays the same) It's about reducing queue length (you use 2 lanes instead of one, so the queue length is halved) and smaller speed differences between cars on adjacent l
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by maest 11mo ago
> I try to grab an outside shopping cart to leave the world slightly less chaotic than when I entered; which is all we can do in life, perhaps I lived in several European countries for many years. I then moved to the US a few years ago.

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