marvin

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by marvin 3y ago
It’s so fascinating to watch this play out live. Once again, an ambitious kid can implement software hacks that are very funny when used for a joke, but also have massive real-world implications.
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by marvin 3y ago
Breaking the sound barrier in your five-year-old’s bedroom seems like a dodgy business idea.
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by marvin 3y ago
There’s one major feature request that triggered the change: being able to see patient journal notes made by other branches of the public health service.
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by marvin 3y ago
Mandated to choose them due to cargo cult process. They were the only vendor capable of submitting the «objective» tender that is madated by law, and the decisionmakers are too stupid and chickenshit to consider that this process is in itse
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by marvin 3y ago
It's a term of art in finance; people who work with it daily don't think twice before using it. Computer science has a whole book full of these; comes with the subject.
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by marvin 3y ago
Hope Musk ever takes a company public again. The anti-Musk aura means there’s decent odds of a far-below-real valuation in the public markets.
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by marvin 3y ago
Well, you could buy it from him.
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by marvin 3y ago
Even written, where I live. In principle even the author only wrote it for themselves, and no one ever knows. That’s pretty close to thoughtcrime.
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by marvin 3y ago
This is in the context of fighting Russia, and current events demonstrate that the legitimacy of a target is moot. But of course highways, infrastructure, is a relevant thing to destroy in war.
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by marvin 3y ago
What if it was a lemur, though? Bet they don't have a code for that.
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by marvin 3y ago
A pretty influential and very well-financed subculture of AI philosophers are currently performing a comprehensive lobbying campaign for AI regulation. They generally go by Rationalists or Effective Altruism, and have a philosophy stemming
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by marvin 3y ago
Dividend companies don't have anything better to do with their profits than pay them back to investors. Sure, many successful companies will end up there at some point. But there's not much correlation with that and an investment
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by marvin 3y ago
You’re celebrating the possibility that EU regulation will remove Apple’s ability to enforce good user experience?
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by marvin 3y ago
I don't know what happened behind the scenes. But I thought it was amusing when one of our mutual fund customers tried purchasing one share of each of the ~1000 funds we offered in our catalog. It obviously broke things; there were var
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by marvin 3y ago
The main problem with the fediverse is that none of the people I want to read, post there. And they never will, because they are disparate sociopolitical demographics and the fediverse by design keeps them in separate instances that I at so
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by marvin 3y ago
Twitter feels more stable today, with less spam, than one year ago. There's of course parts that have been deliberately shut down, but that's not an argument about the core product.
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by marvin 3y ago
And the policy certainly is stupid, as its second-order effects increase the risk that most of the passengers will die in the explosive fireball-like conflagration that could quickly follow a fire during evacuation.
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by marvin 3y ago
It makes sense that one's privacy is a valuable asset one can sell.
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by marvin 3y ago
If you don't increase your standard of living, it will. (Or the other caveats of course; assuming you're not already close to retirement, impending economic catastrophe or whatever). Doubling salary post-tax will at the very least
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by marvin 3y ago
Welcome to the beautiful world of empty, overconfident political promises that are smashed against the rocks of reality 30 years later. This is why I plan to finance my own retirement and consider a minimum social security pension a happy b
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by marvin 3y ago
Make it seem to be profitable, obviously. France’s system is genius - supposedly, income can be shared between all household members regardless of age. So the marginal tax rate becomes very low if you have three kids. Even incentivizes one
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by marvin 3y ago
I'd call "may retire, or work on whatever you want for the rest of your life, after a few years of saving" life-changing.
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by marvin 3y ago
Instant global distribution, to anyone with a computing device who enters the name of your app in a text box. Developers all over the world are paying billions per year in lost productivity for that killer feature. It's so easily worth
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by marvin 3y ago
I have had well-educated French acquaintences telling me for a decade that France is ripe for a new system of government; the 6th in its history. Many current problems stem from the fact that post-war mechanisms written into the governmenta
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by marvin 3y ago
It’s more envy than surprise; if they’re capable leaders then they must certainly lack in some other ability to learn and understand.
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by marvin 3y ago
I wonder how many are willing tonpay that $5 per month. The community as a whole is worth disproportionally less if it becomes 90% smaller.
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by marvin 3y ago
I wish we got more substantial critique than ad hominems, but it is out there, and some of it’s really scathing. Essentially, it boils down to that the most pessimist AI doom arguments are built on a stack of mind experiment hypotheses
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by marvin 3y ago
For reference, Charm Industrial offers $0.6/kg. https://charmindustrial.com/plans?planName=consumer&budget=6... Charm's pricing is actually approaching reasonable to offset a single person's net CO2 emi
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by marvin 3y ago
For most people who say this, it’s just a rationalization. Acknowledging that kids are infeasible for economic reasons, like GP laid out, is just too painful and embarrassing. So the ‘environment’ fig leaf saves their dignity.
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by marvin 3y ago
That's interesting and relevant to know if you'd be doing this a few times. And it doesn't invalidate your point at all, but the time savings of having a machine tell you really fast how to do something simple is valuable.

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