marcusverus

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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Sublime. Thank you for sharing.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Is there anything more loathsome than an interviewee who fails to do the journalist's job for them?
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
The question is about one AWS facility. The headline refers to facilities . The guy's answer may well be an honest and truthful one.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
All the Russia conspiracism in here reminds me of the claims that they blew up their own pipeline. The cost/benefit analysis of that situation was so obviously out of whack that no serious person should could have considered it to be a
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
I for one am disappointed that it took 500 years for people to acknowledge that the most important consideration when choosing a map is its emotional impact on the people of Africa.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
> As the resolution itself states: "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." Beyond parody.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Let's reformulate it as a railroad problem. In the proposed hypothetical, if you effectively ban self driving cars until they're literally flawless, 50 people per day will be killed by human drivers every day. If you pull the leve
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
You can't compare autonomous systems that drive hundreds of thousands of vehicles to a single person. You have to compare it to hundreds of thousands of people. American drivers kill ~100 people every day behind the wheel of a car. If
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
If the base universe is postulated to have always existed, why not do away with this theory altogether and simply postulate that our universe has always existed? Sure, our universes physics are conveniently balanced, which Occam's Razo
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
https://archive.is/7kTXF
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Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange(nytimes.com)
7 points by marcusverus 2mo ago|2 comments
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Occam's razor suggests that a coincidence is just a teensy bit more likely than a story surviving unchanged for a thousand generations.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
"The tragedy of the commons" isn't a claim that "the commons universally leads to worse outcomes", but rather "the commons universally leads to worse incentives". The existence of a separate set of contrad
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
The constitution says it is written to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity", actually.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Brought to you by the guys who said Obamacare would lower premiums.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
This is nonsensical. Debt-to-GDP over the course of an entire term is what matters. Debt was 77% of GDP when Obama took office and >102% when he left. The "change in deficit" is a useless measure. https://fred.stloui
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Wow, are AI companies using mark to market accounting to claim decades worth of future earnings as though they were already realized? Are they recalculating past deals to meet quarterly earnings targets? Are they using SPEs to hide off bala
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Sounds like it, yeah.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
> the average person is economically much worse off than all the European countries you just mentioned. Where on earth did you get this idea? US Households have much higher disposable income (~50% higher than the Western European average
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Please flag. The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists. The stochastic harm caused by sharing such articles is significant, IMO, and the public interest is low (nobody is going to stop
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Is there anything more disingenuous that advocating for the involuntary destruction of all equity wealth by decrying occasional losses by consenting adults? I'm sure this kills on Reddit, though.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
It's hard to imagine a political solution to this problem. Both parties are playing chicken, each daring the other to fall on their sword for the good of the country, with neither willing to commit political suicide. Republicans don&#x
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
> Well apparently they don't really have a choice The notion that poor circumstances somehow justify poor choices is extremely counterproductive, as the context of this thread should make abundantly clear.
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
> We could provide food for the poor and disabled who lack or are not using family support with a tiny fraction of our industrial output. I absolutely agree. We spend $30K/year per person (not per household, per person!) under the p
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
Me: I like your solution, but could you unpack all those dense one-liners to make the code easier to follow? Cursor: Do you wanna mess me up? Do you wanna screw up the works? You wanna blow my token sales in Europe?
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
Everyone has their own priorities, I guess. I'm not willing to drive down Americans' wages to save a buck on strawberries.
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
We both know you haven't lifted a finger to help these people. You're not interested in actually saving lives, just that sweet righteous indignation (after all, it's free!)
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
There's no such thing as "jobs natives don't want", only "wages natives don't want". > Maybe, or maybe they just employ less people and less things get built. The foreign born population residing in the
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
Motte: We all share the land! Bailey: The state owns all land!

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