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by marvin 4y ago
My Skoda CityGo tries to run my car into the barrier every time I drive, and that's without me deliberately turning on any driver assist features. I just overpower it with the steering wheel. Occasionally it prevents the car from get
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by marvin 4y ago
I agree with you regarding dividends, returning money to investors, of course. I was thinking more of things like how e.g. Tesla was not even a decade ago priced at $2 billion dollars when it was pretty frickin' obvious they had a very
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by marvin 4y ago
Denotes!! He said he denotes his wealth in Mickey D!! Not invests!! Quarter Pounders are a terrible store of wealth!!
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That's good; means the good things they don't understand will be priced lower for those who do.
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by marvin 4y ago
He might mean glucose, which is known as grape sugar in some languages.
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The funny thing is we can eventually go back and check. Once we eventually figure out what it takes to implement human-level AI, you can bet there's a whole generation of programmers who do their best to figure out what kinds of weird
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by marvin 4y ago
And it's not even that clever just to deny the facts for the sake of being contrarian. There's definitely a pro-Ukranian bias in Western media and on twitter, but there's still more than enough signal in there to determine th
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by marvin 4y ago
What you've posted here is an excellent representative example of the form of social control in Norwegian society that I'm criticizing. It's a great contribution to the discussion. I sort of doubt we can find agreement, since
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by marvin 4y ago
Sibling comment's points about police- and judicial excesses in the case of drug-related crime, however, are very much relevant. It's hard to consider the darker parts of Norwegian culture and mindset from a Western perspective, a
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by marvin 4y ago
I mostly agree with your points, but it takes certain personality traits to be able/willing to take chances with your career when the bottom rung is "eat at soup kitchens and sleep in your car". After all, society doesn'
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by marvin 4y ago
I'm not touching my portfolio. I might rebalance it at some point. 50% global index funds, 16% emerging markets/global small cap/nordics. The whole point of passive investing is you make a philosophical decision not to get sp
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by marvin 4y ago
I postulate that it's practically equivalent to determine whether someone succeeds through luck or skill, and actually succeeding through skill. And also that succeeding through skill is possible.
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I'm fairly confident Nintendo posted some meta thoughts on Goldeneye at one point, where they stated that "screen cheating" is fair game.
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by marvin 4y ago
A close friend of mine with celiac disease says it was a whole different world after 2014 or so. Like being on an alien planet and being in a familiar place.
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by marvin 4y ago
Icarus was absolutely amazing. I expected a subversive feel-good investigation of doping in cycling, but got something even more fascinating and disturbing.
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by marvin 4y ago
A bank dev team I may or may not have worked in, accidentally deployed «allrighty, chap» on the confirmation button for fund purchases. Might have caused some consternation. I figure we should just have left it like that.
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by marvin 4y ago
You'd have to be pretty senior in Copenhagen to earn 90,000 euros, no? As in, staff/principal engineer level?
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by marvin 4y ago
> What makes building housing expensive is policy, not a lack of "cheap land". I am flummoxed every time the discussion of housing prices shows up. Seems like 95% of everyone who comments is completely clueless to the most basi
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by marvin 4y ago
Offer incentives for less desirable properties, eh? That sounds suspiciously like having different prices, just with extra steps.
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by marvin 4y ago
The very best sarcasm is so perfectly balanced and indistinguishable from the real deal, that it will leave its audience wondering but not missing the potential for sarcasm. Then the person that delivered it will promptly move on, before
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by marvin 4y ago
Heard from a friend they’ve had trouble recruiting, as they pay well below market rate. Anyone know of any updates on that front?
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I'll try to do that the next time I'm going to create a banking product combining the services of the reserve bank, the tax authority and the stock exchange in my country of 4 million people! Well, I suppose it's a bit of a c
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by marvin 4y ago
What does SWE mean in this context?
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by marvin 4y ago
Microsoft's SharePoint went through this exact same routine ten years ago. The salespeople loved it, the customers bought it and the tech folks trying to implement the customer's needs were tearing out their hair and delivering su
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by marvin 5y ago
I've always heard ringing at very high frequencies; 17-20kHz when it's quiet. Can't remember ever not hearing this. Sometimes the ringing has pulsating increases in loudness synchronized with my heartbeat. Also have a little
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by marvin 5y ago
I don’t disagree with your summary of the facts; part of the premise of my comment is that I disagree with that stated rationale for starting OpenAI. I rather think that always publicizing the bleeding-edge research would increase the risks
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by marvin 5y ago
They just chose a misleading name in the first place. It's pretty obvious that they couldn't properly pursue their core mission as a purely open research organization. The desired end result is too valuable. And if they end up get
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Reality Is Weird and You Need to Be Prepared for That(slimemoldtimemold.com)
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I really don't understand the hate. Honestly. This isn't merely disagreement.
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> There is no Szilard patent for AGI You don’t know that. But even worse, you probably won’t know if it happens. History is not as predictable in the present as it is in hindsight. Most physicists in 1935 would still have said that an at

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