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by mandevil 7mo ago
TFA talked about the difficulty of division, and waved at the idea that farming was different from pastoral societies because of the ease of division: farming land is more valuable as it is concentrated (because of the well known dangers of
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Which goes back to the Pork-on-a-stick requirement that everything be about keeping the workers still employed.
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by mandevil 7mo ago
And even the Apollo 10 mission which went 99.99% of the way from the Earth to the moon, just 15km from the surface (but couldn't have landed on the moon- LM structure was too heavy) was incredibly important step. The sort of thing that
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by mandevil 7mo ago
The thing is, as an outsider to Twitter but with 20 years of experience doing software dev including some time at internet scale web and mobile, I don't think that the basic "fetch a timeline" backend plus two front end apps
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by mandevil 7mo ago
As someone who volunteered in a museum right near the Newseum, their biggest problem was the competition. The Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art being some of the best museums in the world, right across the street, with much better
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Not just that the establishment, but the entire educational complex, from the large research universities like JHU to the community colleges, were built around a 1950s-1970's American economy and the society that supported that. And no
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by mandevil 8mo ago
So I am far from an expert, but I saw that Capital Economics (a Macroeconomic analysis firm) put out a note saying that Trump still had power under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. But there are three catches for that. First, it only l
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by mandevil 8mo ago
There's something of a feedback loop here, in that the reason that transformers and attention won over all the other forms of AI/ML is that they worked very well on the architecture that NVIDIA had already built, so you could scal
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by mandevil 8mo ago
This whole fight is about something called the "bona fides news exception." Basically, in 2006 the FCC ruled that late night interviews were always bona fides news interviews (and therefore not subject to equal time), on January 2
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by mandevil 8mo ago
I think it's the rise of authoritarianism: we are losing trust in truth, in what is said, the day to day social trust is dissolving. It worries me an awful lot, but it seems like we're (1) destroying the basis for much of our soci
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by mandevil 8mo ago
The Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer was a satellite back in the 1990s that measured the Cosmic Microwave Background of the universe. This CMB is the afterimage of the Big Bang, about 400,000 years after the Big Bang when the universe s
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by mandevil 8mo ago
> There's a sentiment that the monthly numbers were purposely inflated for 2025. Jobs data (which comes from a survey of employers) is always subject to revisions, and the revisions have gotten worse. But it's not necessarily p
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by mandevil 8mo ago
The same way that anyone would: they conduct a statistical sample and report unemployment numbers based on that. Source: 15 years ago I was one of the people they contacted. As I recall, a letter came to our apartment, asking for the adult
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by mandevil 8mo ago
They separately report people who are on unemployment insurance, but the headline unemployment numbers come from a survey of potential workers, which will capture recent graduates. Source: 15 years ago I was one of the people they surveyed.
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by mandevil 8mo ago
Because then the companies that have been given legal license to monopolize this technology (through the legal technology known as "patents") could charge whatever price they wanted and insurance companies would have to pay for it
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by mandevil 8mo ago
But at least in some places in the US that's actually just a log of some kinds of transactions (sales and mortgages): you don't have a normalized field in a database somewhere that spits out "this person owns this spot"
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by mandevil 8mo ago
During the Free Banking era of US history (from when Andrew Jackson killed the 2nd National Bank until the Civil War, roughly 1837-1863) essentially every company that could get their state to give them a bank charter (very very poorly regu
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by mandevil 8mo ago
Academic dishonesty in dissertations (measured via better algorithms) predicts faster advancement, and worse, more biased judging. Honesty matters.
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Academic Dishonesty, Political Selection, and Institutional Performance in China(nber.org)
2 points by mandevil 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mandevil 8mo ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/323/ Note that Monroe's number for the peak (0.13%) is significantly higher than legal limit for driving, and than these guys recorded here.
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by mandevil 8mo ago
I don't think that Uber or Lyft are going to invest in self-driving taxis. The capital model is completely different: Uber and Lyft are by design capital light, they own nothing more than the software (1), and someone needs to buy all
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by mandevil 8mo ago
For anyone who is dealing with this, I've heard good things about: https://stopncii.org/ I've never used them myself because I'm a guy, and as the article says, 99% of this is targeting women.
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How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21 points by mandevil 8mo ago|9 comments
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by mandevil 8mo ago
Removing all of the fun bits (here is an IDE, let's make something) and some of the grind- but leaving only grind behind- is a worse QoL, at least for me.
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by mandevil 8mo ago
But how much of the Australian economy is extraction for the Chinese economy? My brief understanding of the Aussie economy is that a large part of it is iron, hydrocarbons, copper, etc. going abroad, largely going to feed the Chinese econom
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by mandevil 9mo ago
I will say that I'm not entirely clear on how the boring case- which I agree seems most likely- manages to pay for all this massive investment in datacenters, power plants, new frontier models, etc. OpenAI has already raised 60Gigabuck
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by mandevil 9mo ago
After they found the remains of the balloon from the first escape attempt, the Stasi put out a reward for information, I think everyone would take the story seriously at that point. It was why they decided they had to go through with the se
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by mandevil 9mo ago
I love the Nicolas Maduro image in particular. That feels like its a parody of this whole genre of ad?
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by mandevil 9mo ago
No government official spoke up to have Brandon Eich fired, or bullied him or anything like that. His defenestration wasn't driven by government. Brandon Eich said some things, and the community around him judged those things and react
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by mandevil 9mo ago
It is possible that the article has changed, but that is not in the article that I see right now, which is this: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-instituti... Looking at Google, I see this press

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