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by marvin 4y ago
Someone mentioned the early-banking era wheelbarrow of gold travelling around from bank to bank just in time to make the audit.
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by marvin 4y ago
"Hi man, yeah, it's the FBI. Yeah, we see here you fished a small lobster. Yeah, that's a felony, but don't worry about it. So hey, that thing you said on your blog, we don't like that. Yeah. Yeah, good. Talk to you
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by marvin 4y ago
It’s not exactly a bold predction that someone will fail to solve a grand, millennia-old problem of philosophy and science.
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by marvin 4y ago
Would love to see the incidence of this by IQ. My intuition says it spikes in slightly smarter-than-average folks.
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by marvin 4y ago
It’s much more than that. EU policies stunt growth on a structural level. The tax system and other incentives lead people to not really work their hardest and best, and this propagates all the way to the stock indexes.
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by marvin 4y ago
We won't. Hopefully we'll soon fly sustainably though, by sequestering CO2 equivalent to the flight emissions.
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by marvin 4y ago
I aim to ignore this advice and spend the next year figuring out how to leverage LLMs to become a more productive software engineer. Unfortunately there's no books on it yet.
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by marvin 4y ago
You folks are so freakin’ cynical. This feels like magic . It obvioulsy heralds future developments in AI that will be genuinely world-changing in less than a decade. Why not just revel in that for a little moment?
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by marvin 4y ago
Hopefully it's built to be so scary it's never used at all.
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by marvin 4y ago
His PR team bought the New York Times. It's ludicrous to think that they're giving him this positive treatment without bribes. Well, not bribe-bribes, of course, but rather the kind of bribes that very rich and well-connected pe
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by marvin 4y ago
That is one potential outcome, but it’s really scary to bet our future on it being correct. I think economic incentives will lead us to making that experiment, but there is a risk that it fails. There’s obviously vehement disagreement on th
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by marvin 4y ago
I don’t think they have even that.
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by marvin 4y ago
That’s just a common disagreement then, about priorities and decisions made on uncertain information. No one gets to do a double-blind study on the measured probability of catastrophic AI accidents in worlds with and without safety research
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by marvin 4y ago
KYC & AML got a lot more thorough after 9/11, at the behest of the US government. A large part of the cost is extra guarantees against terrorist funding, and it's not obvious that this extra burden is worth the cost. It's
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by marvin 4y ago
Huh. That's interesting. I've wondered for over fifteen years why the parts of glasses appear to be so incredibly similar between brands, never really having stumbled across any quality stuff that's markedly different.
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by marvin 4y ago
Well, yeeeeees ... If management, whose job it is to swallow their pride when given a nasty surprise like this, isn't up to the task. I'm sure that OP could, with great political skill and subtlety, have had a very decent shot
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by marvin 4y ago
Twitter will do at least as well under Musk as it did under the previous leadership, in terms of user satisfaction, reach and retention. But it will have moderation policies that are noticeably different from those of the competition. My pr
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by marvin 4y ago
Interesting that OP had good experiences with Waveform lights, I've been looking at those but haven't bothered yet due to the price. My holy grail is both very high CRI (well, more accurately a spectrum that matches noon daylight)
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by marvin 4y ago
I wouldn't recommend it for seasonal depression specifically, all else being equal! We've got easy access to some wicked and lonely nature, though, so it's not a big hassle to arrange an interesting lifestyle that makes up fo
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by marvin 4y ago
Well, separating placebo effects from real physiological effects and tracing the latter to the source isn't something I've put much thought into. This feels like it works, and that's good enough for me. But there might be som
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by marvin 4y ago
No idea; the effect seems similar but I do prefer the real sunlight for some reason. The lamp has the advantage of being easier from a time-management perspective though; I don't actually have to stop working and so on to use it. But I
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by marvin 4y ago
Live in West Norway. 60 degrees north. Atrocious climate. 245 rainy days each year, and on average 8.5 feet (yes) of rainfall. Average time of direct sunlight per month November-February inclusive is 45 hours. Per month. Starting in mid-Oct
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by marvin 4y ago
The right Twitter feed will probably feed your curiosity the right way. That's where I am pulled these days. Maybe Musk's long-form promises might actually make it viable. HN is definitely not the place for aggressive independent-
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by marvin 4y ago
A service equivalent to Twitter does not cost billions per year to run. In principle, you could boot one up with pocket change and operate it with a small budget. The reason you can't do this in practice is that the network effects are
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by marvin 4y ago
I still think you didn't get my point, since you seem to be arguing a point I didn't make :) I'll boil it down to just a couple of sentences: It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto
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by marvin 4y ago
Judging by the downvotes, I don't think I'm getting my point across. Absolutely every fiddler that currently has an audience of non-negligible size is paid by a consortium of advertisers that have aligning interests. The strings,
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by marvin 4y ago
Hmmm, wonder if it’s a freedom of speech issue if a coalition of companies effectively prevent public discussion of issues that might significantly upset the status quo? Loud, blatant lies that are repeated by authority figures continuousl
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by marvin 4y ago
If I had planned and written those two characters, I would have appended a comment like yours and any sensible engineer would have praised the solution. It’s fairly obvious their metric isn’t «number of lines of code».
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by marvin 4y ago
He’s doing the reverse with SpaceX employees, so it’s a net win.
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by marvin 4y ago
Wouldn't it also work to just make everything cheaper for everyone? Housing has increased so much in cost that I wouldn't be surprised that just having housing back to 1980s price levels would give most families enough breathing r

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