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by marcinzm 2y ago
> * I find it hard to trust data like this because of the immense pressure against side effects being attributed to the shots: pressure both on those impacted (for shame or disbelief or difficulty in knowing), on those doing the reportin
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No it doesn't. The study was the outcome of the vaccine irrespective of what happens after you get the vaccine. Get a full covid infection? Still counted. Get no infection? Still counted. Still lower in the end.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Except of course it hits those who would not have had any problem with COVID in the first place: young people. Children also get much higher myocarditis rates from COVID than without COVID. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Given that study you'd expect over an extra 10 years somewhere around 10k excess deaths from the vaccine in the US. That's probably very generous. That's tiny versus mortality rates from COVID.
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Following that logic, I suspect 90% of congress should be executed for one law or another that they voted for.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Looking at that study for Pfizer and Moderna it's a slightly increased risk of myocarditis and shoulder injury at the site of injection. That's it. All other side effects they either didn't have enough evidence for or found t
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by marcinzm 2y ago
I think revenue or any other KPIs makes sense when it's easier to drive the KPI the "right" way versus the "wrong" way. As a business grows the low hanging fruit are used up and things start to shift to the "wr
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by marcinzm 2y ago
I'm not sure if you're being serious or ironic given the recent press attention about Google Search being crap to ensure that Google Ads makes more revenue. So, yes, they definitely can game it by focusing on short term unsustaina
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The median household income in the US is $76k ($57k post taxes). Germany is $54k ($34k post taxes). China is $13k. Even compared to Europe the amount of money for spending a US household gets is almost twice as much. There's more expen
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Here's the thing I learned, tying it to revenue gets the company more revenue, tying it to BS gets middle managers promoted faster. Why? Because money may not materialize while BS doesn't require anything except itself to be a suc
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It's not their core business model and so far LLMs aren't very profitable. Investing a ton of money into a whole new business area with heavy competition that may be profitable eventually while not swimming in cash is often how co
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by marcinzm 2y ago
In my experience the overhead bins are never large enough to accommodate everyone having the allowed sized carry on luggage. Which leads to bags getting gate checked fairly often.
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It still costs fuel to carry the weight and slows down the boarding/un-boarding process. Especially if overhead bins fill up and bags need to be, chaotically, checked in at the gate since then you also need more gate attendants. Some p
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Ah yes, the no true scotsman argument, classic. In reality Apple products overall have very good build quality, long software support timelines and very good software-hardware integration. OSX is more user friendly than Linux and a lot less
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Whenever an app like this is sold to some unknown company there's people who say to give the new owners a chance. This is proof of why that's inherently the wrong approach. Migrate the second you can.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Why, then, we barely see any non-transformer production-ready LLM these days? Because having a 5% better non-transformer model doesn't help you if as a result you can't use the 10% improvements people publish that only apply
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by marcinzm 2y ago
These seems very tiny models and as I understand it LLMs behave fairly differently at different scales. The speed performance gain seems to only be on an M2 chip and I wonder if there's already much better non-GPU optimized attention a
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Do people get access to these things without sending you money? edit: You can request to get paid EXTRA for a good or service you provide (a tip). You cannot request to get paid (in any way) while not providing a specific good or service in
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> They are not the founder, they are not even technical OpenAI can't have it both ways. Either it's not a company owned by it's founders (as Sam claims) or it is. A board that does nothing ever is equivalent to the former.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
It's the same as all the revolutionaries and cult leaders that turned into dictators once in power. Those seeking a greater meaning to their lives get drawn to the sweet nectar of lies that tells them their life will have meaning as lo
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> What answer do the engineers at google working on this have for this violation of privacy? The same answer you probably have for the millions of questions about what the things you do that some other people find offensive to their pers
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by marcinzm 2y ago
I don't see why this is unique to a divergent diamond as it only applies to non-light controlled points of conflict of which there are at most two in both designs...
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None of those are innovations. They've existed in legit marketplaces for decades.
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Etsy already does all that. Funds are held for some time. There's also a way to dispute a sale to get a refund and so on. Plus credit card charge backs if you're really pissed. Paypal basically exists because it's included ht
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That's not true. https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014483627-What-ar...
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> I am not entirely sure of this claim. My own experience with artisnal craftspersons is that they will tolerate higher levels of inefficiencies precisely because they are not operating at scale, and being artisnal makes their cost of re
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Plus VCs don't beat the market in general. A few of their companies do and the vast majority fail. Their value used to be in being less correlated with the broader market which made them a good diversified investment.
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> To be successful, they need a large consumer base, and a small seller base, who sell high quality goods (which is subjective, but mass drop shipping is certainly not what those consumers are expecting). The only way a small seller base
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That's like saying people can fly by flapping their arms because birds can. Auction houses store items for a limited period of time before liquidating them. The time in storage is fixed and the fees are fairly high. It's a fundame
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Your desires (and mine) will require a reorganization of society as we know it. So far every attempt to do this has done the exact opposite.

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